Getting from Yerevan Airport
There are two bus routes to the airport, classic taxis and mobile app taxis are available.
The city centre is approximately 12 km from the airport.
Buses and minibuses
The bus stop is located in front of the terminal. There are no timetables posted on site, but you can find connections between specific points, for example on the website t-armenia.com (often the departures of line 100 are not shown).
You can also use mobile apps: A2B Transport, Transit.am.
Tickets
The fares differ for both airport lines and are 300 amd for line 201 and 500 amd for line 100. Payment options vary per line, see details below.
Other bus, trolleybus and minibus routes around the city, as well as the metro, cost 150 amd / 1 ride, 300 amd / 180 minutes or 900 amd / all day.
Lines and timetables
There are two Yerevan public transport lines to the airport from the centre.
- Line 100 - goes to French Square (near the Opera House) or to the central long-distance bus station. Only classic modern buses run on line 100.
- Price - 500 amd, pay only with your own contactless card inside the bus or you can buy a paper ticket with a QR code at the orange TelCell machine
- Operating hours - 5:30 am to 11:00 pm
- Travel time - 30 minutes
- Frequency - 40 minutes
- Route 201 - semi-circular route starts at the airport and goes past the central bus station and the Opera House to the metro station "Yeritasardakan". After that it goes back to the airport via Republic Square. Line 201 is mainly operated by minibuses.
- Price - 300 amd, pay only in cash inside the minibus
- Frequency - 30 minutes
- Travel time - 30 to 40 minutes
- Hours of operation - 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Timetables are indicative and it often happens that both lines run significantly late or ahead of schedule. Generally, however, at least 2-3 services per hour will run between the airport and the centre.
Taxi
A more convenient and relatively inexpensive mode of transport is the ubiquitous taxis.
There is absolutely no problem getting a taxi at the airport and downtown at any time of the day or night.
There are no official taxis at the airport, so be prepared to see many taxi drivers offering you a ride as you exit the arrivals hall. The price is negotiable. Usually taxi drivers start with a quote around 20 000 amd and rarely manage to negotiate a price lower than 10 000 amd.
These are very high amounts by local standards and we recommend using the Armenian equivalent of Uber - the GG mobile app (available on: App Store / Google Play).
The price with GG taxi ranges between 2 900 amd and 3 800 amd depending on the current demand.
Rent a car
Well-known multinational car rental companies such as Europcar, Alamo, Sixt and Enterprise also operate at the airport.
Weekly rental prices start at 190 eur.
Rent a car if you want to explore the Armenian countryside. Outside the main routes, however, expect broken roads and wild traffic with no enforcement.
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Public transport is frequent and cheap. BUT....Since the stops are not marked at all with the numbers that run from there, google maps don't show the names of the stops at all, and t-armenia.com shows the often misplaced stops on the maps, you'd better give yourself time to spare.
In Yandex, public transport is quite
see my previous comments that yandex go failed to register at all (no confirmation code by SMS)
Yandex Maps, not Go.
I've been struggling a bit with that too, well. But it finally came. I had two e-SIMs (CZ + ARM) and I don't know which one but it always worked out in the end. But yes exactly Yandex Maps vs Yandex Go.
Yandex Maps is probably better but public transport is also in Yandex Go.
Shuttle 201 (airport direction) runs from Yeritasardakan Metro. It is about 150 meters from the metro exit. Abovyan street (opposite SAS supermarket across the road).
As it passed in front of me (earlier than it should have) so I used the GG app and the journey e.g. letiste became 1960 AMD -paradise👍
So public transport and buying tickets for non-residents who don't own an Armenian phone number is a horror.
1) The machines say that paper tickets with QR codes are no longer available. Tokens were already last year-we all know that. Now you just have to have a TelCell wallet paired with an Armenian phone number (the second time I come here I won't make the mistake of taking an eSIM from the net). With the wallet, you can buy QR chips at kiosks that are stored in the wallet.
I've solved this by having live human cashiers at the turnstiles in the city center and at the main subway stations around town. And he is able to sell you an unregistered Transcard and top up your number of rides.
If you run out of rides somewhere outside of those ticket offices, you're screwed.
I don't get the foreign Armenian number thing when it said paper passes with QR codes have been discontinued.
Otherwise, I still haven't received an SMS with a confirmation code on my yandex go (tried 3 times)
And I couldn't find a guide to Yerevan anywhere on cestujlevne.
Because no one wrote it. The snippets are just in the comments here: https://www.cestujlevne.com/pruv...e/aktivity
I recommend Yandex, great price-performance ratio.
For example, a ride at 5:50 in the morning from the airport to Vernisage - 1700 drams - 96 kč - classic economy Opel Astra.
ride to the airport from Armenian Market at 00:15 am - 170 kč, but we paid extra and drove a better car, I think it was some Dodge SUV.
After all, the traffic revolution in Yerevan is not so glorious when it comes to paying for it. The terminals on the buses usually had problems with the Czech credit card and often with the revolutka. It is therefore more secure to buy paper QR tickets.
I've only seen the option to pay by card at the TelCell machine maybe twice, otherwise only cash. If you want to buy tickets from it, the machine asks you to insert your Armenian phone number. The exception is the ticket for line 100, where although the message about the phone number appears, there is a small SKIP button on the bottom right of the display, after pressing it you can buy the ticket without the phone number. This option is not available for other types of tickets. I solved it (I hope I won't be criticized like Katerina O.) by using phone numbers I saw around me on the signs or cars, and the machine accepted the second one right away. I didn't rip anyone off, I just needed to travel on public transport. You just need to pay the exact amount, the machine doesn't give change and transfers the excess money to the phone number you used.
There has also been a change in fares, which are now the same for all modes of public transport:
AMD 150 per ride
180 minute ticket AMD 300
All day ticket 900 AMD
Seven-day ticket AMD 5000
The exceptions are lines 100 (AMD 500) and 201 (AMD 300).
Only single tickets can be paid by card, other types at terminals or TelCell sales points.
Thanks so much for the update, I'll edit!
Otherwise, shuttles on city lines are already a thing of the past, replaced by smaller Chinese Zhong Tong buses and on several lines by larger vehicles from the German company Man. Nowhere do drivers take cash, the easiest way is to pay with a contactless card at the boarding (front) door, the reader is always located near the driver.
You can buy paper tickets with a QR code at the orange TelCell terminals scattered variously around the city (rather in the centre) - see previous post.
A third option for ticket payment is the TelCell card (also available from the machine) or the TelCell Wallet app, which offer slightly lower fares. Both require a local phone number to activate, however, so they are rather useless for tourists.
I didn't ride the trolley, but I noticed that they also have readers at the front door.
Bus 100 now costs 500 AMD and cannot be paid for in cash at all. It is possible to buy a paper ticket with a QR code at the TelCell machine (it also takes cards) in the terminal and attach it to the reader located at the driver, but it is easier to pay with a contactless card at the aforementioned reader directly on the bus.
The 201 line (shuttle) still costs AMD 300, and as stated, is cash only.
One final tip. I didn't know how to say at the window that I wanted to charge the transcard. I kept saying that I wanted to put e.g. 1000 AMD in there, and the babushkas kept saying in Armenian that I couldn't. Then I only understood that you need to say how many runs you want to charge, not how many AMD 🤣
Once, even in the center at the cash register, one of them could speak English.