A1 bus schedule in Belgrade. Belgrade Airport - what to do during a long layover? Where to stay in Belgrade

international Airport Belgrade, Serbia's largest and busiest airport, receives flights from all over Europe, Russia and some Asian countries. Therefore, we decided to study in detail all the ways to get from Belgrade airport to the city center.

(international code BEG) is located between the districts of Surcin and Bezhaniska Kosa, 12 km from the city border and 18 km from its center. The airport is named after the famous scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla. The national carrier of Serbia is also based here - airline Air Serbia.

Belgrade International Airport is the largest and busiest airport in Serbia

The Belgrade airport terminal complex is small, but cozy and quite modern. The airport has two terminals connected by a common area.

Terminal No. 1 serves domestic and charter flights, as well as low-cost carriers; Terminal 2 receives scheduled flights and accounts for the majority of passenger traffic. There are several cafes, shops, a currency exchange office and other amenities familiar to large airports.

Available in Belgrade airport and free Wi-Fi for passengers, as well as numerous outlets for charging gadgets.

Cheap flights to Belgrade

You can buy tickets to Belgrade quite cheaply: the local carrier Air Serbia holds sales with enviable regularity, reducing ticket prices to a minimum. If the promotion doesn’t work out, then the easiest way to fly to Belgrade cheaply is with a transfer at one of European capitals. You can find a cheap connection using the calendar low prices below.

In addition to direct flights to Serbia, Belgrade Air Terminal is also often used by travelers for convenient connections when traveling to and from airports.

Airport map

Belgrade airport is not very big, you can figure out the layout on the spot - it won’t take much time. However, Top-trips found the terminal diagram:

Arrival and departure board

Regularly updated Belgrade airport board with up-to-date information about departures and arrivals:

Airport on the map

Taxi from Belgrade airport

From Belgrade Airport you can easily reach any point in the city and its immediate surroundings by taxi. You can try to catch a car at the exit of the airport terminal building or order it in advance for your flight via the Internet.

The second method often turns out to be cheaper, since it is rare that a taxi driver will resist the temptation to inflate the price for a tourist. When ordering online, the possibility of manipulating tariffs is reduced to zero: the service calculates the cost of the trip even before the actual payment, and “add on the spot” will no longer be possible.

If necessary, you can order a car with pre-installed seats for children, and if you have a lot of things with you, a car with a spacious trunk. The driver meets his passengers at the exit from the arrivals area with a sign indicating their names.

Another advantage of ordering a taxi online is taking into account possible flight delays or cancellations. The taxi service independently monitors the airport board and sends the car exactly when the plane arrives.

Check current prices by taxi and order a car for your arrival on this page.

Buses from the airport to the city

From the airport to the center of Belgrade you can take buses A1 and No. 72.

The Shuttle minibus A1 stop is located at the airport terminal. The bus goes to Slavia Square with an intermediate stop at the railway station. From 8.00 to 19.00 the bus runs every 20 minutes, then the interval between trips increases to 60 minutes. Travel time to final stop takes about 30 minutes. The ticket can be purchased from the driver and costs 300 Serbian dinars.

Belgrade Airport is named after the world famous scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla

City bus route No. 72 runs from the airport terminal to the Zeleni Venac bus station. The journey takes about 40 minutes, and the journey will cost 89 dinars (about 0.7 €). Tickets can be purchased at the box office or directly from the driver. In the second case, the ticket will be slightly more expensive - 150 dinars (1.2 €).

Car rental at Belgrade airport

There are several car rental companies located in the airport terminal building, and, if desired, you can register a car directly in the arrivals area. However, you should be careful here.

Renting car at Belgrade airport, it is worth considering the so-called additional payments, which are often missing from rental companies' brochures. Most often this concerns insurance.

To avoid surprises, it makes sense to book a car through a specialized car rental price comparison service. One of the most popular in Europe is Rentalcars, the brainchild of the same holding company as the famous hotel portal Booking.com.

The system is built in such a way that all local rental conditions are brought to a “single denominator”, which allows you to select the most advantageous offer in a matter of seconds and leaves no room for price manipulation.

In 95% of situations, this approach allows for significant savings. Find out the cost car rental at Belgrade airport for the dates you need and clarify rental conditions

In this article I will tell you how to get to the city from Belgrade airport. I will share all the methods, of which there are few. There are three in total: public transport, taxi or car (own/rented). I’ll tell you about the nuances of buses, the cost of taxis and parking at the airport, and also tell you how to get from the airport to the hotel for less than 1 euro. Are you going to or from Nikola Tesla International Airport Belgrade? Then you are at the right place.

If you decide to get from Nikola Tesla Airport to the center of Belgrade by public transport, then you have two options.

• Express A1.
• Bus number 72.

Travel on the A1 bus costs 300 dinars per person one way (the BusPlus card is not valid on it). The ticket is purchased from the driver. Travel time is 30 minutes. The bus travels in the direction Belgrade Airport - Slavija Square (Serbian Trg Slavija) almost without stops. I know for sure that it stops at the Railway Station (the bus station is also located there). Perhaps the driver can stop somewhere at your request, but I’m not sure.

From 08:00 to 18:00 the bus departs from the airport every 20 minutes, at other times – once or twice an hour. It runs from early morning until late at night (the break in movement is two hours - from 03:00 to 05:00).

At the airport, the A1 bus stop is very easy to find. It is located almost at the exit from the arrivals area.

Bus number 72 is a regular city bus departing from Belgrade from the Zeleni Venac market nearby and going to Nikola Tesla Airport. Travel time is 40-50 minutes. The fare is 89 dinars with a BusPlus card (zone 2), 150 dinars if you buy a ticket from the driver. In the fall of 2018, public transport in Belgrade introduced the possibility of paying directly by bank card(no need to take Bus Plus). But I was unable to pay using a card (Alfa-Bank, Russia).

The bus takes longer, but its advantage is that, having a BusPlus card, you can transfer to another type of public transport within 90 minutes after validation. For example, I lived for . I arrived by plane, boarded bus No. 72, and drove to Zeleni Venac. I got off the bus, went up to Terazii Square, took bus number 26 and went home. And I paid 89 dinars for everything.

In detail about public transport in Belgrade, about BusPlus and payment for travel.

At Belgrade Airport, bus number 72 stops on the upper tier.

From Belgrade airport by taxi

The Nikola Tesla Airport website provides official taxi prices. The price is fixed, divided into zones. For example, in Novi Beograd a taxi from the airport will cost 1,400 dinars (14 euros), and to the center of Belgrade - 1,800 dinars (18 euros). If they quote higher prices, don't agree. Better yet, book your transfer in advance online. It costs a little higher, but the driver will meet you at the airport with a sign, the meeting guarantee is 100%.

From Belgrade Airport by car

The distance between Belgrade Airport and the city center is 18 kilometers. The two points are connected by a wide modern highway, there are all the necessary signs, it’s difficult to get lost even without a navigator.

There are counters of international rental offices at Belgrade Airport, but I recommend not looking for an offer on their websites, but comparing prices in one place. Just keep in mind that in Serbia there are very few cars with automatic transmission, and their rent is usually almost twice as high.

There is a large parking lot at the airport. Parking directly at the terminal costs 100 dinars per hour. Paid at a special kiosk that operates in the parking lot.

If you are flying to Belgrade from Moscow and driving to the airport in your own car, then about parking in capital airports the information will also be up to date. For example, using the link you can book parking in Domodedovo. The same resource allows you to book a parking space at other Moscow airports.

If you are flying from Belgrade for several days and need to leave your car in the airport parking lot, then there is another parking lot for this. It is located 300 meters from the terminal. 1 day parking costs 800 dinars.

From Slovenia to Moscow I flew through Belgrade (or, in Serbian, Beograd). In the Serbian capital, I had a long layover between flights, which I took advantage of to explore the sights of Belgrade.

There are two types of buses from Nikola Tesla Airport to the city center: express A1 and city bus No. 72. The stop is opposite the exit from the airport building. The distance from the airport to the center of Belgrade is 18 km.

Tickets can be purchased from the driver. At the airport I exchanged 10 euros for Serbian dinars and paid with them. A ticket for the 72nd bus cost 90 dinars, for the shuttle - 300 (100 dinars ~ 60 rubles).

During daylight hours, both the express and the 72nd run almost every 20 minutes. I went there by 72, and back by express. They wrote in reviews that the 72nd makes a lot of stops. According to the time on the 72nd, it was about 10 minutes longer.

A1 makes 3 stops along the way: one in Novi Beograd (Fontana-Paris commune) and two in the Old Town (at the railway station and at Trg Slavija). From Trg Slavija, the final stop of A1, close to the Church of St. Sava, the Nikola Tesla Museum, the Parliament.

The 72nd bus has a terminus “Zeleni Venac” ( vegetable market), from which it takes 5-10 minutes to Terazije Square and to the beginning of Prince Michael Street. I would advise starting the route from Prince Michael Street and the Kalemegdan Fortress, to which this street leads directly.

The official website of Belgrade Airport is https://www.beg.aero/. There you can see the schedule, traffic patterns and check current ticket prices.

Map of Belgrade with landmarks

First impressions of Belgrade

So, at the airport I took the bus and went to the city.

Before the trip, I read reviews about Belgrade, how beautiful and interesting it is, but the urban development floating before my eyes outside the bus windows did not confirm this in any way. On the contrary, after the cozy Ljubljana (the capital of Slovenia), after the perky, dashing (the capital of Croatia), Belgrade looked unkempt and neglected. From a prosperous Euro-society I moved to a half-Asian, half-Gypsy city. But not so long ago all these cities belonged to one country - Yugoslavia.

A different standard of living was felt both by the appearance of the streets and by the clothes of the residents. The uniform of young girls is skinny jeans, sneakers and T-shirts. Many of the men were dressed in tracksuits.

First the bus drove through Novi Belgrade, then crossed the Sava River along the Brankov Bridge - we moved to Old city. But outside the windows, little has changed.

Sitting next to me was my grandfather, who spoke Russian well. He suggested which stop to get off at (“Zeleni Venac”).

Came out. The bus stop is dirty and the underground passage is scary.

I reached Terazije, a wide central street, the main decoration of which is the Moscow Hotel, a building in the Secession style.

Next to the Moscow Hotel there is the Teraziyskaya Chesma fountain, built by the Italians in 1860.

Other houses on Terazije look gloomy.

Prince Mikhail Street

Knez Mihail Street began from Terazije - a wide pedestrian street with respectable houses. The picture has changed dramatically. I was inspired and prepared to admire.

Indeed, on Knez Michael Street there are many architecturally remarkable buildings built in the 70-80s of the 19th century (the same “secession”, the influence of Vienna and Budapest).

There are benches in the middle of the street.

Wires intertwined into a web

The street, more strict and official at the beginning, closer to Kalemegdan Park is filled with tables of summer cafes.

As a result, Knez Mikhail Street became the most remarkable and beautiful place Belgrade.

By the way, the city itself originated in this place: here was the center of the Roman settlement of Singidunum.

Belgrade fortress Kalemegdan

Kneza Mihaila Street led me to the main attraction of Belgrade - Kalemegdan Park and Belgrade Fortress. It was a Sunday, and a lot of people were walking in the park and around the fortress.

In Turkish, Kalemegdan means the field between the fortress and the city (another interpretation is a battlefield). Kale is a fortress, Megdan (Maidan) is a field.

A high cliff (125 m) at the confluence of the Sava River and the Danube and a wide plateau at the top - perfect place to build a fortress, and the first fortress was built on this site by the Romans in the 1st century AD. Then the fortress grew, strengthened, and was rebuilt by each new owner. And the owners changed very often.

The whole history of these places is an endless series of battles, destruction and rebirth. Romans, Huns, Byzantium, Avars, Slavs, Hungarians, Bulgarians. 1284 - the city is ruled for the first time by the Serbs (shortly and alternating with the Hungarians). Since 1521 - either the Turks or the Austrians. 1867 – Belgrade finally became Serbian. First World War was occupied by Austria-Hungary. 1918 - Belgrade is declared the capital of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

1941 – Germans bombed. 1944 - Allied bombing. 1999 – Americans bombed. Just some kind of rock.

Now Kalemegdan is called both the park in front of the fortress and the Belgrade Fortress itself. The fortress consists of two parts: the upper part is located on the plateau, then there is a sharp descent to the bottom of the hill, and there, near the Danube, is the lower part of the fortress. The fortress was built from bricks. Although the diagram shows it with white stone walls.

For the Serbs, this place is significant because it was here that in 1867 the Turks admitted their final defeat and handed the city over to the Serbs. The Turkish Sultan handed over the keys to the fortress to Prince Mikhail Obrenovic, and now in this place stands the monument to the Delivery of the Keys to the Belgrade Fortress. Prince Michael is a key figure in the history of Serbia.

There is also such an expressive monument in front of the fortress, erected as a sign of gratitude to France for its help in the First World War.

To get to the fortress from the park, you need to go through three gates.

First, we cross the bridge to the ravelin - a triangular fortification in front of the main gate.

The ravelin moat now houses tennis courts.

From the ravelin we move to the Istanbul Gate. But that's not all.

The space between the second and third walls is filled military equipment. The fortress houses the Military Museum, and some of the equipment is displayed in the moat under the fortress walls.

Inside the wall is a cash register. You can walk around the fortress for free, but on the territory of Kalemegdan there are several objects to visit which you need to buy a ticket. These are the Sahat and Nebojsa towers, a Roman well and a gunpowder warehouse. Costs single ticket 400 dinars (~240 rubles).

The first paid object is located immediately at the entrance to the fortress - this is Sakhat Kula, or the Clock Tower.

You need to climb the fortress wall, and then climb the tower. However, Sakhat kula is not tall.

From here you can clearly see the section of the wall near the main gate.

This is how brutal the Military Museum looks:

View of the Military Museum

Inside the fortress the park continues. Walking along it, you constantly come across the remains of foundations and fragments of buildings.

The upper part of the fortress ends with a parapet along the edge of the cliff, from where the lower part of the fortress, the Sava and Danube rivers and the Great Ratny Island lying opposite the fortress are clearly visible.

The Danube in Belgrade is viscous, full-flowing, imposing. That summer, my travels took me to the banks of the Danube several times - from here to here. Near Vienna the river is young and agile, in Budapest the Danube is gaining solidity, in Belgrade it is powerful and majestic.

If you walk along the edge of the cliff to the right, you will come to the Despot's Gate.

Despot's Gate

The gate is named after the despot Stefan Lazarevich.

For us, the word “despot” is akin to “tyrant,” but among the ancient Greeks it meant “lord, master.” The Serbian state in the 16th-17th centuries was called “Serbian Despotism”. Stefan Lazarevich became the first despot of this state.

The intersection of our languages ​​allows us to understand the inscriptions and sometimes even find out something. But to our ears, the Serbian language seems simple and a little naive. Here, for example, are the names on the city map: “monument to Vasya Charapich”, “Captain Mishino building”, “pawn zone”.

Behind the Despot's Gate there is a moat across which a long wooden bridge is thrown.

The bridge leads to the most powerful gate of the Belgrade Fortress - the Zindan Gate, built in 1450.

From them begins a passage paved with cobblestones, sandwiched between two fortress walls, leading to a low corner tower.

Having passed this fortified corner with three towers, we come out to a picturesque area of ​​the park.

To the right of the wall is the Belgrade Zoo.

On the left, just below the fortress walls, on a small platform in the middle of the slope, stand the Ruzhitsa Church and the Chapel of St. Paraskeva Pyatnitsa (Svete Petke). This is a whole complex, albeit a very compact one, which includes, in addition to the church and chapel, a gallery and a covered colonnade.

Perhaps this is the most crowded place in the fortress. In the Ruzhitsa church, people stood close to each other. However, it is also small in size.

Paintings and mosaics - in a manner unusual for us. Reminiscent of illustrations in children's fairy tales.

This is Jesus: snub-nosed, rustic, with huge eyes.

From the church complex, a path descends to the lower part of the fortress.

We pass by the former Turkish hammam,

past the gate of Charles VI,

past the guardhouse - to the Nebojsa Tower, the second museum object included in the ticket.

I approached this tower just in time, because in an instant the weather turned bad: the heavens opened up and rain poured down.

There is a museum in the Nebojsa Tower; it has several levels and floors and is dedicated to the Turkish period of the fortress.

Once upon a time, the Nebojsa Tower had customs functions and regulated the passage of ships to the city - the end of a chain was attached to the tower, blocking the passage through the river. It was also used as a prison.

The downpour continued for so long that for some time I myself felt like a prisoner of Nebojsha.

Finally, tired of hanging around the tower, I went out into the rain and went to the other end of the lower fortifications. The uphill climb began, and soon I was already entering the vaults of the Powder Magazine - the third object of the museum ticket. The powder warehouse resembled a catacomb and was filled mainly with sarcophagi and tombstones.

From the Powder Store, a cobblestone path led up to the upper level of the fortress.

I found myself upstairs again, already in the southern part of the fortress. Here the area was dominated by a monument in the form of a naked man on a high pedestal. This composition was called “Winner”. Installed in 1928 in honor of the victory at Thessaloniki in 1918.

Pobednik had a wide view of New Belgrade and Sava.

Next to observation deck, almost rooted into the ground, a dome was visible - and this turned out to be the fourth museum object: the Roman well, which simply amazed me with its power.

For some time you approach it as if in a spiral.

There is a dome above the well (a similar dome was above the Turkish one).

The well trunk goes deep into the hill.

Overall, the well is impressive. “What Romans!” - I was delighted. And then I read that the well was rebuilt by the Austrians in 1717 during the reconstruction of the fortress. The well is 60 meters deep. Two spiral staircases around it descend to a depth of 35 meters.

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We plan most trips carefully and in advance, but some travel ideas arise spontaneously. That's exactly what happened weekend trip from Moscow to Belgrade. Early on Saturday morning we flew to the capital of Serbia and we had exactly two days to walk and see the main attractions.

We wanted to visit Serbia for a long time, but somehow it didn’t work out, either we didn’t have enough time, or it wasn’t convenient to combine the route with another flight. And then the day came when we set foot on Serbian soil.

How to get from the airport to the center of Belgrade?

Immediately upon exiting the airport, to the left of the entrance there is an express bus number "A1". It will take you to the city center, but it is not cheap. It is much cheaper to get there by regular city bus, but you need to go to the upper level, there is also a public transport stop near the entrance to the airport. The bus routes are approximately the same, both will take you to the center, from where you can immediately start sightseeing.

We started our walk around the city center from the railway station. The A1 express bus has a stop right next to the station. When getting off the bus, do not forget to ask the driver about the departure time. Most likely he will give you a piece of paper with a schedule. The stop for departure towards the airport is located around the corner of the railway station building.

Central Train Station(Glavna Zheleznichka Stanitsa) is a beautiful old building. Despite the lack of modern renovation, it looks neat. Every day trains depart from the station to Budapest, Bratislava, Ljubljana, Sofia, Vienna, Zagreb, Podgorica, Zurich, and very often tourists buy train tickets to go to Prague in the fall. If you enter through the main entrance and immediately look to the left, you will see a newsstand. Here you can get it for free tourist map Belgrade, indicating the main attractions, museums, restaurants. The map is very convenient; we used it to navigate all weekend.

Having bought chips and mineral water, we set off on foot towards the main street.

Our road passed through poor streets with painted walls. On the sidewalks here and there there were merchants who brought out various old things for sale: books, shoes, irons, cameras, badges, wallets, etc. I haven't seen this for a very long time.

Prince Michael Street (Knez Mihailova) is the main pedestrian street of Belgrade. This is the very heart of the city, very reminiscent of Arbat in Moscow. On the left and right sides there are retail outlets with souvenirs, national clothing and dishes, numerous cafes and restaurants. On the pedestrian part, street musicians play, local artists exhibit their paintings. There were few tourists, because... During our walk it was about 8 am.

On this street we saw a small metal pyramid - Belgrade's "zero kilometer". On each side the latitude, longitude and altitude above sea level are indicated.

Don’t forget to buy colorful souvenirs to give to your friends and acquaintances upon arrival.

In the city center, the buildings are mostly high-rise, built in the 80s - 90s. The building of the Hotel "Moscow" stands out very much from the background of other houses. The hotel is very beautiful, built in 1906.

Near modern buildings churches and cathedrals are located.

Street food in Serbia.

After walking the streets for several hours, we got hungry and decided to find something to eat. You didn’t have to search for long; the city has a great variety of cafes, street tents and mobile refrigerators with various buns, pies, sweets, etc. Street food in Serbia is very varied and delicious. We especially liked the local “shawarma” - meat in pita bread, with vegetables and French fries. There are several types of juicy meat, different sauces and fresh vegetables to choose from. Serbian shawarma turned out to be tastier than in Moscow, larger in volume and cheaper.

Park and fortress Kalemegdan.

Having turned the corner and walked forward a little, a view of a large forest area opened up in front of us. This is Kalemegdan Park, and in its center is ancient fortress. The Kalemegdan fortress was built more than 2,300 years ago at the confluence of the two rivers Sava and Danube.

Over the years of its existence, it was destroyed and then restored - 44 times. Serbs are very proud of this place. Every year tens of thousands of tourists from all over the world come here to admire beautiful views surroundings from this hill and plunge into the atmosphere of antiquity.

Families with children walk in the park on weekends. Due to the fact that the park is located on a hill 125 meters above sea level, even in hot weather there is always a slight pleasant wind blowing. For those who like to play chess, the equipment is very comfortable spot under the crowns of old trees.

Where to exchange money and what is better to take with you?

After the museum, we walked a little more around the park and the fortress, took a photo for memory, and then decided to go into the city in search of a cafe. Before going to dinner it was necessary to exchange some money. There are no problems with this. There are a lot in the city exchange offices, are called: “Menachnitsy”. Here you can easily exchange your cash for Serbian dinars, JUST KEEP IN MIND that Russian rubles are not very popular here. At least two exchange points on the pedestrian street refused to exchange us as soon as they saw that we were taking out rubles. Since we have extensive experience traveling around different countries, there are always some American bills in stock. Dollars are readily accepted for exchange, so it is better to take them with you as cash. Or you can pay with a bank card; almost all shops, cafes and restaurants accept them for payment.

Where to eat national Serbian food?

In every country we try to eat using as much as possible only national food. This was the case in Thailand when we ate seafood, and while traveling in Armenia we tried Sevan whitefish. Here we also found a restaurant with national Serbian cuisine - “Kolarac”, all on the same Knez Mikhail Street. The prices on the menu were reasonable and the food was very tasty. Veal soup, delicious grilled meat cutlet, Shopska salad with Serbian cheese, grapefruit beer. A full lunch of three courses and drinks for two cost us 1,500 rubles. If you are wondering: "Where to eat deliciously and inexpensively in Belgrade?" We recommend going to the restaurant on Prince Mikhail Street, building 46. We really liked the atmosphere, service, delicious food and drinks.

Having arrived in the Serbian capital, Rus may become confused and needlessly pay taxi drivers a tidy sum. I'll tell you how to reduce the damage to your wallet by understanding a little how it works. And also about why it is necessary make friends with fur seals. But first things first.

Belgrade has been promised a full-fledged metro since 1950, but so far construction ambitions have been embodied in just one underground station. So the city family of transportation services is still represented only by buses, trams, trolleybuses and the Beovoz electric train.

You can ride them by paying the fare:

— BusPlus card (for 1, 3, 5 days or refillable);
— from the driver (2 times more expensive);
- by using mobile phone with the tariff of a specific operator.

Excellent maps will help you figure out how to get to the right place. belgrademaps.com. At first glance, the diagrams of day and night transport lines seem frightening, as if web of a spider that has eaten too much dye. However, once you take a closer look and get used to it, you will appreciate the intention of their creator.

A scary “spider” of transport lines. Once you figure it out, it becomes convenient. Screenshot: belgrademaps.com

I personally downloaded the “web” in pdf format and now, when I have to go somewhere far away, I just look out for nearby lines. Some people prefer to use a smart site planplus.rs, which offers a ready-made route, but it seems to me that sometimes it creates entities unnecessarily and greatly complicates the task. In short, it's a matter of taste.

Another option is an app. Moovit for the phone, surprisingly well “understands” public transport in Belgrade. Just enter the starting and ending points of your trip and follow the instructions of the artificial logistics intelligence.

Travel zones

In order to streamline the collection of money from riders, Belgrade was conditionally divided into 4 zones with corresponding tariffs. If you are not going far to the suburbs, it is enough to pay for travel in the first and second zones(center and residential areas).

On the BusPlus website you can see in which zone the place you are interested in is located and estimate how much it will cost to get there by public transport in Belgrade: https://www2.busplus.rs/lt/zone-tarifnog-sistema

How to pay for transport fares

1) At the driver's

150 dinars(zones 1+2), 300 dinars (zones 1+2+3), 400 dinars (1+2+3+4).

An option suitable if this is your first time standing with your mouth open at the exit from Belgrade airport. Or if you suddenly ran out of the house in your pajamas, jumped on an approaching bus, and exactly 150 dinars were lying in the folds of your pants.

Only in these cases is such wastefulness justified. In all others there is BusPlus travel card, according to which one trip can cost only 89 dinars (more details below).

If the driver suddenly doesn’t have a ticket, we sit down with a clear conscience and drive off - the controller does not have the right to issue a fine.

From airport to city There are buses No. 72 (last stop – Zeleni venac) and A1 (to Slavia Square). And this is where you can and should buy a travel card.

2) Temporary pass for 1, 3 or 5 days - “day card”

For all types of BusPlus travel passes, the following applies: you can buy it at any kiosk, and use it on any type of transport from 4 am to 24 pm. Exactly at midnight, he will turn into a pumpkin, and you will be charged a double fare on the tram (150 dinars for the first two zones, 300 for the remaining ones). In addition, you will have to pay separately for rides in a minibus with the letter “E” on the windshield - an analogue of our minibus.

An energetic tourist or a poor fellow who has to run through various bureaucratic authorities is recommended to purchase unlimited travel Noah, real 1, 3 or 5 days(no more options). To do this, you need to stick your head through the window and ask:

- One-day/three-day/pet-day Busplus card, we pray to you.

The seller will be captivated by your knowledge of Serbian and will give you a blue paper rectangle, which you will pay for 40 dinars(the card itself) plus:

As you probably already understood, with this rectangle you can ride around the city as much as you like, without restrictions on transfers (don’t forget - except at night and on minibuses). The validity of the card in public transport in Belgrade begins from the moment of purchase. Despite the fact that everything is “paid” for, it should be applied to the validator upon entry.

3) A refillable travel card without a name – “the card is not personalized”

Plastic BusPlus, which works on the principle of an electronic wallet - as much money as there are songs. The card itself is in the kiosk 250 dinars, lives 3 years, and you can top it up with any amount (no more than 2500 at a time and, maximum, 5000 dinars in total on the card).

Come in, put your card on the validator, it will be debited from it 89 dinars for 1 trip. Moreover, after the validator beeps, you will have exactly 90 minutes for all kinds of transfers and rides. True, each time you need to “beep” the card again when entering the transport.

LIFE HACK: if you top up your card with at least 1000 dinars at once, you will receive another 100 as a bonus on your travel card. In general, 900 dinars should be enough for such a bonus, but for me the last 3 times nothing worked with them, but with a thousand there were never misfires.

89 dinars is most likely enough for your regular trips, but for forays into the suburbs there are different tariffs:

By the way, with this pass you can pay for several people at once by clicking on the inscription on the validator “Grupna karta” and selecting the quantity (maximum 5).

4) Personalized travel card - “personalized card”

A magical piece of plastic with a photograph, which can be obtained by both Serbs and foreigners with a temporary or permanent residence permit. You need to regularly deposit a fixed amount onto this card, paying your loved one a daily “unlimited” allowance.

Marching with money to the kiosk is officially allowed from the 25th to the 30th/31st of the month (to pay for the next whole month) or from the 1st to the 24th (to pay for travel for the current month). If you decide to go for a walk and pay for the whole year in advance, you will receive another bonus from BusPlus - discount equal to the monthly cost of the travel card. That is, as a result, you will pay not for 12, but for 11 months.

Here are the costs of personalized passes for public transport in Belgrade in 2019:

And people over 65 years old pay for unlimited travel in all zones 407 dinars per year. It’s lovely, beautiful, and gratifying to see.

In order for a foreigner to issue a personalized travel card, you need:

• come to the office of the SHG organization with your passport and its copy,
• say: “sy-y-yr” into the camera of a local employee;
• fill out a standard application and sign consent to the processing of personal data.

5) Using a mobile phone

If you purchased a SIM card from an MTS operator (not Russian, but local - Mobile telephony Srbije), your phone runs on Android no older than version 4.4 and supports NFC technology, download the application mts centar. When you need to pay for your bus fare in Belgrade, select the Bus Plus option and buy a ticket.

Moreover, this can be done even before the bus arrives. But at the entrance, be sure to lean the back of your mobile phone against the validator. When the ticket inspector approaches you, give him your phone and show him your phone so that he can make sure that you are an honest citizen and have bought a ticket.

How to find out when the bus is coming

While waiting for a bus (tram, trolleybus), look around - somewhere nearby on a pole there is a small red, white and blue sign covered with mysterious Serbian letters. They will reveal to the savvy traveler the name of the stop and the numbers of the Belgrade public transport lines passing by.

A digital code sent from a mobile phone will tell you how soon this same transport will arrive (about 3 dinars will be deducted from the account, a nightmare). The beginning and end of the code are always the same, but the changing part is serial number stops:

*011*523# stop number – 523

Upon request, you will receive an SMS, which will indicate how much time is left for which transport to reach you. For example, 23 – 2;12 means that two buses number 23 are approaching, one is two stops away, and the second is twelve stops away.

The fly in the ointment: sometimes buses in Belgrade begin to take on a life of their own and deceive the electronic announcement system.

Punching the ticket

In order for the fare to be considered paid, you need to touch the Busplus card to the validator at the entrance to the transport and make sure that it happily blinks green. Some devices look a little different, and the travel card is applied not to the screen, but to the black field below it.

If suddenly you forgot to put money on the card, the artificial intelligence living in the validator will flash angrily red, will loudly and contemptuously notify the entire bus about your poverty ( nemate quite a loan- srb), and machine guns will stick out from under the seats and shoot you on the spot, you will only have to go out and replenish BusPlus at the kiosk or wonder if the controller will catch you.

The validator also has a bright, caring side: a tiny diagram hangs in the upper right corner of the screen. When touched, a list of all stops along the route opens in the correct order, and the one where the bus is currently located will be highlighted. Healthy.

Crouching controller, hidden hare

In Russia, a controller is usually monumental aunty, an orange vest, dimensions, a stern expression on her face - reigning in the salon with her entire appearance. She does not leave him until the end of her shift, and greets incoming passengers with a majestic wave of her hand, without rising from the throne. It is impossible not to notice it, it is impossible to avoid it, you just need to submit to it and pay tribute with a sigh.

Completely different - Serbian controllers, who probably borrowed their strategy from "fur seals". They operate in groups of 2-3 people; they are not always on the bus, but selectively organize raids on popular lines.

An ordinary Belgrade ticket inspector is indistinguishable from an ordinary city dweller: if earlier they waved hand-held ticket checking machines as a force, now they have become more insidious and hide these machines in their bosoms. Passengers are packed into the cabin, and the controllers are the last to enter under cover - into the head, tail and middle of the bus.

The doors close, the controllers barely noticeably nod to each other, the word “CONTROL” lights up on the malicious validator - that’s it, the trap has slammed shut, not a single pass can be punched anymore, and people rush, some into the windows, some into the chimney in all directions. Particularly lucky ones stall for time until the next stop, where they urgently run out, as if that’s how it should have been.

The rest are discharged fine (from 2000 dinars) or they try to take him to the municipal police to establish his identity. Many Serbs consider the fare to be unfairly high (89 dinars = 3 loaves of bread), so there are entire websites on the Internet dedicated to the fight against controllers and boycotting BusPlus. You can speculate on this topic, but you should not forget:

Public transport in Belgrade is not free. Paid travel = gasoline, driver salaries, repairs and maintenance of buses.

Additional discounts and bonuses on BusPlus card

Holders of personalized travel cards can receive discounts from 5 to 10% from BusPlus partners - for example, in supermarkets, furniture and sports stores, clinics, etc.

You can see the list of partners and bonuses on the BusPlus website in the “Partneri i popusti” section.

Summary – public transport in Belgrade

So, let's summarize. If this is your first time arriving at Nikola Tesla Airport, buy a ticket to the city from the driver for 150 dinars.

If you are a tourist and want to have a good look around Belgrade, grab some from the kiosk 1, 3 or 5 day pass.

If you are going to frequently travel to the Serbian capital or even live in it, buy refillable non-name card and spend what you put in.

Well, since you’ve already firmly settled here and plan to ride around the city a lot and often, register personalized unlimited travel pass with a fixed monthly cost.

Don’t anger the fur seals and pay for your rides in a disciplined manner. Have a good trip!