Valparaíso Transportation Tips by globetrott Top 5 Page for this destination

by bus from Santiago to Valparaiso

According to my guidebook there is an efficient and fast public bus-service from Valparaiso to Santiago de Chile and vice versa. the ride takes just about 90 minutes and the buses are quite comfortable as well. 6 $ / 5 euros is the fare for one way. The buses are leaving in Santiago next to the subway-station Universidad.
Compared with the transportation by private taxi (126 euros one way), the buses are really cheap !

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Type: Bus

Ascensores / Lifts / funiculars

The Ascensores / Lifts / funiculars of Valparaiso recently became part of the "UNESCO World-Heritage" and the best about them is that they are a really cheap and efficient way of transport. A single ride is mostly just 100 local$ (= 0,20 euros or 25 US$cents)
The only reason why I did not take any of them was that I did not have a lot of time and was not able to ask, how often the funiculars will go up and down and I did not want to miss my ship.

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walking from the cruise-ship to the citycentre

Walking from the cruise-ship to the citycentre is impossible without beeing first taken by bus to the end of the pier, in a distance of 2 km from the city-centre. There you can take the bus or walk back to the city.
When you have enough time : walk and you will pass by lots of lovely building that are worth a closer look or a photograph. All of the way there is a shady allee of palmtrees, where you can walk in the fine sand, see the monuments of some local heros and lots of lovely buildings like the mercado, the french embassy and the art-nouveau-buildings next to it, the arc de triumph...
Walkingtime from the place where you leave the port to Plaza Sotomayor is about 30 minutes one way.

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by taxi from Santiago to Valparaiso

To go by organized transfer from Santiago de Chile to Valparaiso is quite expensive : I payed 126 euros one way for a van with a driver and a german-speaking guide.That was the only offer that was made by the tour-agency in Germany that had organized my cruise from Valparaiso and I accepted it in order to be on the safe side and spare some time to get to the cruise without a lot of hassle and stress.
Driving-time is 1,5 hours, almost all of the way you will drive on the highway and the best is that they will take you directely from your hotel to the cruise-port, make sure your luggage is taken over by the right people etc---
I asked about other possibilities of such a transfer and also at the hotel-reception of Hotel Majestic in Santiago the price of 126 euros would have been the same.

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Type: Car/Motor Home