Rimini is serviced by one international airport and by two other airports located further from the city, though Federico Fellini Airport is the one located the closest to Rimini. All in all, tourists can rest assured: regardless of the airport they choose in order to get to Rimini, the airport transfers available from each of these are fairly reliable.
Federico Fellini Airport is located only some 8 kilometers south of Rimini, and one might say it stands out as the most important airport servicing the Adriatic Riviera, since it can be used as a landing platform for tourist heading, for instance, for Riccione (south) or Cesenatico (north). Alitalia, Airberlin, Finnair, Luxair, Lufthansa, Thomas Cook, as well as Ryanair and Transavia are some of the airline companies operating at Federico Fellini Airport, and their flights provide connections with both European and non-European destinations: Moscow, Frankfurt, Rome, Sharm el-Sheikh.
In terms of facilities and services, it should be noted six car rental companies operate at the airport, and they refer to Avis, Hertz, Europcar, Maggiore, Travel Car and Sixt.
The airport is easily reachable by bus or by taxi.
Tourists can easily get to the airport by resorting to bus number 9, which departs from or arrives at the Rimini Train Station (located in Piazzale Cesare Battisti). For this ride, passengers must pay 1 euro, and given the distance is fairly short, one might conclude buses do stand as a reliable alternative in terms of airport transfers.
Tourists can also resort to taxi rides, given both the short distance from the airport to Rimini and the reasonably rated services.
Located some 30 kilometers northwest from Rimini, Luigi Ridolfi Airport is a practicable option for tourists who intend to get to the jewel of the Adriatic Riviera. The main drawback of flying to Rimini and landing at Forli Airport is the airport transfer means are rather scarce as to their diversity, chiefly because of the distance and by force of the fact Federico Fellini Airport is the one airport dedicated, as it were, to servicing the tourist platform of Rimini, which defeats the purpose of focusing on airport transfers to a destination already covered from this point of view.
Yet, visitors traveling from Berlin, Paris, Bucharest, Sofia, Moscow, Cluj and Prague, for instance, might find landing at Forli is one solution they cannot and should not disregard if, for one reason or another, Rimini Airport does not count as an option for them.
13 car rental companies operate at Luigi Ridolfi Airport, which adds to the list of means of getting from the airport to Rimini.
Tourists should keep in mind that by force of the somewhat considerable distance between Forli and Rimini, the most reliable means of airport transfer refers to traveling by train. It’s true the airport is serviced by two bus companies and lines dedicated to making connections between Forli Airport and the Adriatic Riviera, but these two lines only tick off Cesenatico (Cesanatico Transfer) and Cervia (Taximinibus).
Getting from Forli Airport to Rimini by train is much more straightforward, despite the fact in order to get to the Forli Train Station one must first take the bus, a bus operating on a very precise schedule. However, after getting in the train, the sky’s the limit. Taking into account more than 40 trains travel from Forli to Rimini each day, one can easily imagine this alternative is quite appealing.
Taxis can also be resorted to, but tourists traveling on an average budget might find this alternative is out of their range not necessarily because of the rates, but by force of the distance.
Guglielmo Marconi Bologna Airport is the remotest solution for tourists flying to Rimini. The airport is located some 100 kilometers northwest from Rimini, and it represents a less practicable entrance gate on the Adriatic Riviera, Rimini included, but an entrance all the same.
The airport welcomes tourists coming from major European cities like Amsterdam, Rome, Casablanca, London, Munich, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Brussels and Paris. Non-European destinations are also at hand if taking off at Bologna Airport, such as Marrakech, Casablanca, Fez, Djerba, Marsa Alam, Tel Aviv and Cairo. As a particular feature, the airport has fine connections with the main tourist islands of the Canary Archipelago, such as Tenerife, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote.
This state of affairs is owed to the some 30 airline companies operating at the airport, of which Air Arabia, Airfrance, Alitalia, Austrian Airlines, Royal Air Maroc and Ryanair are the most notable.
9 car rental companies operate at Bologna Airport, which is always reassuring for people who want to get from the airport to the destination of their choice without resorting to public means of transport.
Renting a car is one solution one can think of in order to get from Bologna to Rimini, an increasingly appealing idea given the airport and Rimini are connected by Autostrada Adriatica A14, the main motorway which crosses the east side of the peninsula.
Taxis are less of a solution, at least as far as average tourists are concerned. But trains, on the other hand, stand out as the chief manner of getting from Bologna to Rimini. 35 trains leave each day from Bologna to the ultimate destination on the Adriatic Riviera, which is reassuring enough for people who land at Guglielmo Marconi Airport, regardless of the time when they actually set foot on Bologna.
The Bologna Train Station is located only some six kilometers from the airport, and the simplest way to cover the distance is to take an ATC operated aerobus vehicle.
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