Dec 10, 2015, 6:53 pm
Last edit by: frb98mf
Note: in many cases there are shorter walks available to either nearby public transport that may be cheaper than the more expensive trains to the airport, or to nearby attractions. If you edit this wiki, please post those as well.
Airport - Notes (include time and a link to a google map route)
AGP - approx. 40 minutes from Holiday Inn Express, which is the nearest airport hotel
ANC - downtown 1h 20'
BOM - from domestic terminal to Ville Parle railway station (crowded on week-days, OK on week-ends) (20 mn)
BRE - center (45 min)
BRU - from Zaventem train station
CNX (Chiang Mai, Thailand) - 48 minutes from the far side of old town, less to near side
CPH - city center(1h30 min)
DAD (Da Nang, Vietnam) - one hour to the beach, 40 minutes to the center
DAL - downtown(2h) or take bus 524 for free to Inwood Station and then walk. Costs $2.50 TO DAL.
DCA - 15 minutes. Crystal City, Arlington.
EDI - short walk to the nearby Hilton. Airport bus also stops across the street from Hilton and goes to centre of town
ETH - AIRPORT CLOSED
FUK - 45 minutes to Hakata Station
GIB - at the north end of Gibraltar. Walkable to La Linea or to Gibraltar
GVA - center (1hr), CERN (1h4),
IEV - City center(1h30 min)
ITM - to Hotarugaike station (Hankyu network) avoiding Monorail (18 mn)
JFK - Lefferts Blvd airtrain station to subway (to avoid airtrain fee) (20 min)
LCA - about 1h to center seafront
LCY - to Canary Wharf (1 hr)
LIS - Oriente (40 mins), city center (1h20m)
LIN - center (1h30m)
LYR - center (1hr) - watch out for the polar bears! (gun required, or make sure you are traveling with someone you can outrun)
MAA - to Tirusulam station across the elevated highway (10 mn)
MAD - T123Barajas metro station (to save on airport surcharge) (30 min)
MEX - T2 to Pantitlan Metro (10 min)
NCE - Arrivals level to the city center's Gare-de-Ville station (75 min)
PEK - Buy a metro card at the metro station but don't take the extremely expensive CNY 25 train there. Walk outside and take 850快 via expressway to the city, CNY 2 only after discount.
PRG - center This map is somewhat deceptive - if you try to walk along the road, there is no room (3h)
SAN - downtown along the coast (40 mins), sidewalks
SDU - downtown Rio (30 min)
SDV - AIRPORT CLOSED
SJC - downtown (1hr)
SJJ - to the nearest trolley bus line (15 min), to the center (2 hrs)
SYD - int'l terminal to Wolli Creek Station (to avoid the airport surcharge) (20 min)
domestic terminal to Mascot station (to avoid the airport surcharge) (20 min)
TLS - to the center (1h40m)
TOS - center (1hr)
TSA - to center (40 mn to 1 hr)
WAW - center (1h40m)
WIC - to the centre (15 min)
WLG - center (1h30m)
YTZ - tunnel to the island is now open.
Airport - Notes (include time and a link to a google map route)
AGP - approx. 40 minutes from Holiday Inn Express, which is the nearest airport hotel
ANC - downtown 1h 20'
BOM - from domestic terminal to Ville Parle railway station (crowded on week-days, OK on week-ends) (20 mn)
BRE - center (45 min)
BRU - from Zaventem train station
CNX (Chiang Mai, Thailand) - 48 minutes from the far side of old town, less to near side
CPH - city center(1h30 min)
DAD (Da Nang, Vietnam) - one hour to the beach, 40 minutes to the center
DAL - downtown(2h) or take bus 524 for free to Inwood Station and then walk. Costs $2.50 TO DAL.
DCA - 15 minutes. Crystal City, Arlington.
EDI - short walk to the nearby Hilton. Airport bus also stops across the street from Hilton and goes to centre of town
ETH - AIRPORT CLOSED
FUK - 45 minutes to Hakata Station
GIB - at the north end of Gibraltar. Walkable to La Linea or to Gibraltar
GVA - center (1hr), CERN (1h4),
IEV - City center(1h30 min)
ITM - to Hotarugaike station (Hankyu network) avoiding Monorail (18 mn)
JFK - Lefferts Blvd airtrain station to subway (to avoid airtrain fee) (20 min)
LCA - about 1h to center seafront
LCY - to Canary Wharf (1 hr)
LIS - Oriente (40 mins), city center (1h20m)
LIN - center (1h30m)
LYR - center (1hr) - watch out for the polar bears! (gun required, or make sure you are traveling with someone you can outrun)
MAA - to Tirusulam station across the elevated highway (10 mn)
MAD - T123Barajas metro station (to save on airport surcharge) (30 min)
MEX - T2 to Pantitlan Metro (10 min)
NCE - Arrivals level to the city center's Gare-de-Ville station (75 min)
PEK - Buy a metro card at the metro station but don't take the extremely expensive CNY 25 train there. Walk outside and take 850快 via expressway to the city, CNY 2 only after discount.
PRG - center This map is somewhat deceptive - if you try to walk along the road, there is no room (3h)
SAN - downtown along the coast (40 mins), sidewalks
SDU - downtown Rio (30 min)
SDV - AIRPORT CLOSED
SJC - downtown (1hr)
SJJ - to the nearest trolley bus line (15 min), to the center (2 hrs)
SYD - int'l terminal to Wolli Creek Station (to avoid the airport surcharge) (20 min)
domestic terminal to Mascot station (to avoid the airport surcharge) (20 min)
TLS - to the center (1h40m)
TOS - center (1hr)
TSA - to center (40 mn to 1 hr)
WAW - center (1h40m)
WIC - to the centre (15 min)
WLG - center (1h30m)
YTZ - tunnel to the island is now open.
Walk to/from the Airport to save money
Sep 14, 2010, 10:12 pm
#76
Join Date: Sep 2008
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Distance-wise, it'd be doable, but I don't think there are pedestrian walkways straight to the airport 
One can take a free shuttle bus across to the Budget Terminal from Changi T2, and then there's a bus stop on the side of the highway (after the Budget Terminal carpark) from which there are buses that cost maybe S$0.80 to the Hawker Centre further down.
If one is willing to try walking on the side of the road, the Changi Sailing Club will be the first major landmark after the Budget Terminal, and that is not far away at all - it's walkable on the service road all the way to the Hawker Centre after that.
One can take a free shuttle bus across to the Budget Terminal from Changi T2, and then there's a bus stop on the side of the highway (after the Budget Terminal carpark) from which there are buses that cost maybe S$0.80 to the Hawker Centre further down.
If one is willing to try walking on the side of the road, the Changi Sailing Club will be the first major landmark after the Budget Terminal, and that is not far away at all - it's walkable on the service road all the way to the Hawker Centre after that.
Sep 21, 2010, 7:52 pm
#78
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: San Diego/LAX
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Adding San Diego (again) won't provide much additional info, but I've done so multiple times.
Also, it's not walking to an airport, but to save you the time of trying, I'll point out that you can NOT walk to Asia from Europe while in Istanbul (at least not on the bridge I tried - no pedestrians allowed). Maybe someone else has accomplished it - if so, which bridge did you use?
Also, it's not walking to an airport, but to save you the time of trying, I'll point out that you can NOT walk to Asia from Europe while in Istanbul (at least not on the bridge I tried - no pedestrians allowed). Maybe someone else has accomplished it - if so, which bridge did you use?
Oct 3, 2010, 8:40 am
#79
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 3
It is upon the country that you traveled already... If the airport is near or only a few steps at any hotel there... In that way you will really save money... In that case before you travel better search the place that your going thru... Make an itinerary so that you save money a lot....
Oct 7, 2010, 10:54 pm
#80
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: NYC
Posts: 419
The airport in Eilat, Israel, is only a few minutes' walk from town, and it's a fun, pretty town (but on ever-reliable Wikipedia it states the airport is to be relocated).
I've walked from LAS to a hotel at the south end of the Strip. It took about a half-hour and I found someone's passport in the roadway; it was nice to be able to return it to its owner.
On a nice day I walked the hour and 45 minutes from my midtown-Manhattan apartment to LGA.
Seth
I've walked from LAS to a hotel at the south end of the Strip. It took about a half-hour and I found someone's passport in the roadway; it was nice to be able to return it to its owner.
On a nice day I walked the hour and 45 minutes from my midtown-Manhattan apartment to LGA.
Seth
Oct 8, 2010, 10:13 pm
#81
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Denver, CO
Posts: 326
MCO / Orlando: Last time down I flew in very late and met a relative at a nearby airport hotel and was sleeping
A cab, even if just two miles, usually has airport fees and such tacked onto the rate. I've rented and Hertz before and knew their lot was a few blocks from the hotel so I jumped in the Hertz shuttle and walked off their rental lot, down a few long blocks to the hotel.
Not sure of that's ethical - but it was free.
A cab, even if just two miles, usually has airport fees and such tacked onto the rate. I've rented and Hertz before and knew their lot was a few blocks from the hotel so I jumped in the Hertz shuttle and walked off their rental lot, down a few long blocks to the hotel.
Not sure of that's ethical - but it was free.
Oct 9, 2010, 3:08 pm
#82
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Location: YYZ
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Posts: 230
This has been mentioned before, but I'm just back from St. Maarten. Exit the terminal, turn left, and walk about 600 metres along the roadway to Maho Beach. Lots to keep you happy there.
I'm also impressed by Seth and his walk to LGA. I never would have thought about that!
I'm also impressed by Seth and his walk to LGA. I never would have thought about that!
Nov 2, 2010, 4:55 am
#84
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 805
I've walked to ADL (Adelaide, South Australia). I was at a nearby private tertiary library for a conference and afterwards just walked to the airport - it became an even shorter distance once the new terminal opened.
Very easy with good footpaths.
Very easy with good footpaths.
Nov 2, 2010, 2:05 pm
#85
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 661
Adding San Diego (again) won't provide much additional info, but I've done so multiple times.
Also, it's not walking to an airport, but to save you the time of trying, I'll point out that you can NOT walk to Asia from Europe while in Istanbul (at least not on the bridge I tried - no pedestrians allowed). Maybe someone else has accomplished it - if so, which bridge did you use?
Also, it's not walking to an airport, but to save you the time of trying, I'll point out that you can NOT walk to Asia from Europe while in Istanbul (at least not on the bridge I tried - no pedestrians allowed). Maybe someone else has accomplished it - if so, which bridge did you use?
Nov 7, 2010, 8:51 pm
#88
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Location: BWI
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Posts: 244
ACCRA
When you are in Accra Airport,Ghana you just walk about 15 minutes to the 37 station, 10 minutes to the Accra mall or 12 minutes to the Tetteh Quarshie round about to get public transportation to any part of the city.
Nov 24, 2010, 7:48 am
#90
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Location: NW OH
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Yes you can walk from the Airport to Las Vegas Strip through Tropicana Av. I did this from MGM hotel at night in the middle of september without a problem and all the way to the airport. It is just a matter of going around the airport starting from the Motel 6 all the way to the gas station (Tropicana Av.) and then you turn right and walk all the way until you get to the bridge where you can walk all the way around the parking lots until you get to the small terminal where Aeromexico depararts from. There, you can take the airport shuttle or keep walking to the main termina (I took the shuttle). The opposite way, just start from the international terminal, walk straight following the parking lots street and turn left after the bridge, walk straigh all the way until the Tropicana Av Gas Stations, then you turn left and walk straight all the way until the MGM and you are at the Strip.