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Public Transport
Brno has a wide variety of public transport across the entire City collectively known as šalinkarta. Students (after registration) will have the ability to get a three monthly pass at discount prices (so don’t get it before registration as you won’t get the discount) which enables you to get on any type of public transport day or night as much as you want or need meaning that you have no excuse to be late for your classes.
The passes can be bought at the ticket offices in the City and during the orientation week your group leader will show you where to get this from and how to fill it out.
Please see our “links” section at the top of this page for the link to the public transport website or follow the this link here
How to get to Brno
Brno is the second largest city in Czech republic and has its own airport which has flights from England and Italy as well as Prague if you choose to fly (which is not very cost effective). Brno is accessible from four surrounding airports of Bratislava, Prague, Vienna and Brno itself. Please refer to the respective websites to see if you have direct flights from where you are located.
Buses from Prague/Vienna airports to Brno
Student Agency (www.studentagency.eu)
This company offers long distance coaches, to many different Czech and Europeancities (e.g. Olomouc, Hradec Kralove, Plzen, Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Paris,Amsterdam etc.). Advantages of this company are high standards of the on-boardservices such as steward, free drinks, free Wi-Fi, free magazines and newspapers,watching movies and listening to the radio.
For buses to Prague or Vienna Airport,you must change at the Main Bus Stations, Florenc and Praterstern respectively.
The bus stop in Brno is called “Grand Hotel bus station”.
You can reserve any journey online, pay electronically, and then you just need to print the ticket orremember your ticket number.·
Journey Brno – Prague (Florenc) takes approximately 2H 30 Min, price is 200CZK or 250 CZK to Ruzyně airport (200 km) .·
Journey Brno – Vienna (Center) takes approximately 2H, price is 190 CZK from Praterstern bus station (downtown) or 310 CZK from Schwechat airport (150km).·
Journey Brno – Bratislava takes approximately 2H, price is 220 CZK and you must take a separate bus to the Airport (100 km).Megabus (www.megabus.cz)Megabus is another company offering connections to Czech and European cities aswell.
You can also book your journey via the internet.
Eurolines (www.eurolines.cz) Another company with similar offers to almost the whole of Europe like the companiesmentioned above.
ČSAD (www.jizdnirady.cz) This bus company goes to almost every place in the Czech Republic. You can visit many places with them – castles, villages, town, cities etc. Normally you can buytickets from the drivers.
Tourbus (www.tourbus.cz)Tourbus offers one of the cheapest connections between Prague and Brno.
Please check the relevant airport via these links to see if you have a direct flight from your Country:
Trains:
České dráhy (ČD) (www.cd.cz): In the Czech Republic, unfortunately we have only one major rail company called České dráhy (ČD). Travelling by rail, for a single person is more expensive than travelling by bus, but it is cheaper if there is a group of people travelling (third and every other pays only 50% of the price). Trains depart from Hlavní nádraží (Main Railway Station).
How to get to Registration
Please refer to the appropriate documents on www.med.muni.cz and your specific registration day.
From the centre of the city you can take the number 60 or 61 buses from Nove Sady stop (opposite Chicago bar) to the University Campus.
From Slingrovo Nam. you can take the number 5 or 6 Tram to Mendlovo Nam. and there you switch to the number 25 bus which takes you to University Campus stop.
Upon arriving at the Kampus in bohunice you should see a Red building with Masaryk University written on the top, head into that building and up the flight of stairs in there- From here proceed down the hall until you reach Pavillion 16- follow the signs to registration.
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