Ecolines

The main stations covered by Ecolines’s buses include:

• Kyiv Akademmistechko Bus Stop
• Poltava Bus Station
• Prague UAN Florenc
• Munich Central Bus Station
• Kharkiv Bus Station
• Berlin Central Bus Station
• Hradec Kralove Bus Station
• Vinnytsia Kyivska St
• Frankfurt Central Train Station
• Kyiv Vydubychi Bus Station
• Katowice Sadowa
• Warsaw West Bus Station
• Wroclaw Sucha
• Dortmund Bus Station
• Rivne Bus Station
• Zhytomyr Nezalezhnosti Avenue
• Lviv Zaliznychnyi Station
• Lublin
• Ratslaukums Bus Station
• Vilnius Bus Station
• Nuremberg Central Bus Station
• Tallinn Bus Terminal
• Uman Bus Station
• Suwalki Central Bus Station
• Essen Bus Station Freiheit
• Parnu
• Amsterdam Bus Station
• Poznan
• Stuttgart Airport
• Katowice
• Ivano Frankivsk
• Chernivtsi
• Bayreuth Bahnhofstrasse
• Dresden
• Bydgoszcz Bus Station
• Torun City Bus Stop
• Zaporizhia Central Bus Station
• Ulm Long distance
• Prague UAN Florenc
• Amsterdam P R Sloterdijk
• Opole
• Kremenchuk Central Bus Station
• Riga Bus Station
• Frankfurt Bus Stop 2
• Marijampole Bus Station
• Kaliningrad
• Minsk Central Bus Station
• Gdansk Bus Station
• Opole Jerzego i Ryszarda Kowalczykow
• Bauska
• Parnu
• Szczecin plac Grodnicki
• Poltava
• Rotterdam CS Bus Station
• Oldenburg Central
• Kovel
• Szczecin
• Giessen Licher Strasse
• Braunschweig Berliner Platz
• Dnipro Bus Station
• Gomel
• Zvonarka Bus Station
• Pskov
• Warsaw Chopin Airport
• Alytus Bus Station
• Panevezys
• Warsaw Central Bus Station
• Warsaw Central Bus Station
• Lutsk Central Bus Station
• Krakow Railway Station
• Wroclaw Bus Station
• Panevezys Bus Station
• Bohaterow Monte Cassino
• Lodz Pl Weglowa
• Augsburg P R Oberhausen Nord
• Brest Bus Station
• Kyiv
• Dortmund
• Krakow Bus Station
• Lida Bus Station
• Zhytomyr Bus Station
• Brest
• Kherson Bus Station
• Lviv Zaliznychnyi Station
• Lutsk
• Lviv
• Arnhem Amsterdamseweg
• Magdeburg Bus Station
• Duisburg Mercatorstrasse
• Karlsruhe Bus Station South
• Mannheim Central Bus Station
• Baranovichi Frolenkova St
• Ostrava Central Bus Station
• Ternopil Bus Station
• Kryvyi Rih Dnipropetrovske
• Hamburg Central Bus Station
• Kolomyia Bus Station
• Torun
• Odesa Central Bus Station
• Saint Petersburg
• Poznan
• Olomouc Bus Station
• Kaunas Central Bus Station
• Leipzig Hbf Fernbus Terminal
• Hanover Central Bus Station
• Lodz Kaliska Bus Station
• Baranovichi Bus Terminal
• Suwalki
• Duesseldorf Bus Station
• Mogilev
• Kharkiv Bus Station
• Smila Bus Station
• Kovel Bus Station
• Utrecht
• Osnabruck Eisenbahnstrasse
• Riga Center Bus Station
• Bonn Bus Station
• Kutno
• Warsaw
• Munster Frie Vendt Strasse
• Kamianske Bus Station
• Daugavpils
• Moscow Bus Station
• Vitebsk Bus Station
• Warsaw East Bus Station
• Bialystok Bus Station
• Augustow
• Grodno Railway Station
• Tallinn
• Vilnius Airport
• Utena Bus Station
• Zarasai Bus Station
• Bielefeld Brackwede Train
• Khmelnytskyi Central Bus Station
• Voru
• Bremen Main Train Station
• Kassel
• Dworzec Poludniowy PKS
• Odesa As Starostinna
• Lviv Bus Station
• Dresden Ammonstrasse
• Salcininkai Bus Station
• Chernihiv Victory Ave
• Cherkasy Volodymyra Lozheshnikova St
• Kyiv Teremky Metro Station
• Ivano Frankivsk Horbachevskoho St
• Augustow Brzostowskiego Bus Stop
• Gdansk PKS Bus Stop
• Kutno Jozefow
• Ostrow Mazowiecka Bus Station
• Groningen Stationsweg Stop B
• Apeldoorn Bus Stop
• Zwolle Hanzelaan
• Rezekne Stacijas iela
• Chemnitz Bus Station
• Cologne Gummersbacher
• Darmstadt Zweifalltorweg
• Fulda Ochsenwiese
• Gottingen Berliner Strasse Bus Stop
• Hamm Westf
• Ingolstadt Central Bus Station
• Chernihiv 77th Guards Division
• Kropyvnytskyi Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Square
• Kropyvnytskyi Bus Station
• Vilnius International Airport
• Rezeknes AO

Ecolines buses ply a number of routes and here is the list of some of the most popular ones:

• Odesa - Kyiv
• Kyiv - Lviv
• Kyiv - Odesa
• Lviv - Kyiv
• Tallinn - Riga
• Riga - Tallinn
• Kyiv - Warsaw
• Riga - Vilnius
• Kyiv - Prague
• Vilnius - Riga
• Lviv - Odesa
• Odesa - Lviv
• Lviv - Krakow
• Lviv - Warsaw
• Kyiv - Krakow
• Lviv - Prague
• Kyiv - Wroclaw
• Tallinn - Vilnius
• Lviv - Wroclaw
• Vilnius - Tallinn
• Tallinn - Parnu
• Warsaw - Vilnius
• Vilnius - Warsaw
• Odesa - Uman
• Zhytomyr - Kyiv
• Kyiv - Poznan
• Warsaw - Prague
• Odesa - Warsaw
• Kaunas - Riga
• Wroclaw - Prague
• Prague - Warsaw
• Kyiv - Gdansk
• Uman - Odesa
• Kyiv - Katowice
• Riga - Kaunas
• Kyiv - Zhytomyr
• Riga - Warsaw
• Warsaw - Riga
• Zhytomyr - Lviv
• Prague - Wroclaw
• Krakow - Lviv
• Kyiv - Lutsk
• Lutsk - Kyiv
• Rivne - Lviv
• Tallinn - Warsaw
• Kyiv - Rivne
• Lviv - Rivne
• Lviv - Katowice
• Odesa - Krakow
• Kaunas - Warsaw
• Lviv - Poznan
• Lviv - Lutsk
• Warsaw - Tallinn
• Kyiv - Dortmund
• Warsaw - Kaunas
• Lviv - Zhytomyr
• Kyiv - Lublin
• Riga - Prague
• Kyiv - Lodz
• Lutsk - Lviv
• Warsaw - Lviv
• Vilnius - Prague
• Berlin - Riga
• Daugavpils - Vilnius
• Zhytomyr - Warsaw
• Berlin - Vilnius
• Vilnius - Daugavpils
• Rivne - Kyiv
• Tallinn - Prague
• Lviv - Lublin
• Prague - Riga
• Zhytomyr - Rivne
• Rivne - Lutsk
• Riga - Berlin
• Prague - Vilnius
• Vilnius - Berlin
• Riga - Parnu
• Kaunas - Tallinn
• Lviv - Uman
• Berlin - Tallinn
• Prague - Lviv
• Rivne - Zhytomyr
• Tallinn - Kaunas
• Tallinn - Berlin
• Prague - Tallinn
• Vilnius - Lviv
• Lutsk - Rivne
• Uman - Lviv
• Lublin - Lviv
• Riga - Lviv
• Parnu - Riga
• Riga - Panevezys
• Lviv - Vilnius
• Wroclaw - Vilnius
• Lviv - Ivano Frankivsk
• Hamburg - Riga
• Riga - Wroclaw
• Wroclaw - Lviv
• Berlin - Kaunas
• Kaunas - Bialystok

One of the best things about bus travel is that you can almost tailor-make your trip adjusting it to your requirements for privacy and comfort. Different classes and types of buses cater to the different needs of travellers. The cheapest trips are normally offered by standard-class buses. They may be called local, express or ordinary. These are a good choice for shorter trips. Sleepers or VIP coaches are good both for longer and overnight trips. They may offer berths or wide soft reclining seats, sometimes with built-in massage options, blankets, soft drinks, and snacks, or more substantial meals on board or during toilet or refuelling stops. Travelling by night buses allows you to save on a hotel room, but to ensure the most comfortable ride do choose the class of your bus wisely. Prices always depend on the distance you ride and the type of coach. For some, even shorter trips, it is worth investing some extra money and buying a seat on a VIP bus as it can save you twice as much time as you spend travelling by an ordinary bus.

Pros of Bus Travel

• Bus is the best choice to get to destinations that are not connected by rail or planes. The network of buses often covers almost the whole country, and their routes are well and long-established.
• Opposite to air travel and sometimes rail travel, taking a bus does not require arriving at the bus station much in advance. Check-in, even on international routes, does not take much time. Luggage allowances are usually very traveller-friendly, and the fee for extra luggage, if limits are set, is normally not very high.
• Bus tickets can be more affordable compared to air or fast train tickets. There is always a choice of ticket classes for all pockets. Cheaper standard options may be a bit slow and do not offer top comfort, but anyway acceptable and bring you to your destination. On longer routes, toilets or toilet stops as well as snacks, water, and sometimes toiletries and blankets are almost always included in the price.
• If you are ready to spend more, some VIP coaches offer seating comparable to business class on a plane with wide soft reclining seats, blankets, fewer passengers, and many other perks to make your trip a pleasant journey.

Cons of Bus Travel

• Newer intercity bus terminals are very often located out of the city close to bigger highways to allow buses to avoid city congestion. Unfortunately, it may create extra challenges for travellers, too. Getting to such a terminal may be a problem as in some destinations there are restrictions on vehicles allowed to enter the terminal, and you will have to use special carriers to get there. This results in higher costs as prices may be inflated. Also do calculate extra time if you are travelling during rush hours, especially if you are not familiar with the traffic situation at your starting point.
• Buses are probably the means of transport which runs out of schedule more often than trains or planes. They are heavily dependent on the road situation which sometimes can be unpredictable – accidents, road construction works, detours, etc. This is especially true for travels during weekends, high season, or national holidays. Do keep this in mind and do not plan tight connections.
• Travelling on certain routes or during the most popular periods may require advanced booking. Bear in mind that it is not always possible to show up at the bus station and hop on the next bus – tickets may well be all sold out, so organize your trip accordingly.