Kiev Apartment Rental

Kiev Apartment Rentals will happily advise you on the best ways to get around Kiev whether you are on business or on holiday.

Kiev Apartment Rentals can offer you a car and driver to take you around the city and surrounding suburbs. The costs for this are:
* Luxury Car : $100 / 6 hours
* Standard car : $80 / day

Kiev City Transport

There are three metro lanes in Kiev, trams, buses, trolleybuses and our favourite minibuses - marshrutkas. Traffic gets bad between 16.00 - 19.00 on workdays so it's better to use the metro.

Metro fare is 50 kopecks, changing lines is free. There are prepaid monthly cards available for either just one kind of transport (e.g. metro) or for all kinds (metro+bus+tram+trolleybus).
The yellow minibuses racing all over Kiev are called Marshrutkas (Marshutnie taxi). They can be stopped pretty much anywhere and they have a good network covering all areas of the city. The fare is between 75 kopecks to 2 UAH.
Trams, buses and trolleybuses work just like everywhere else. It is good to always have some small change and notes as well, given the prices, you can't possibly want to pay with a hundred UAH bill. Public transport in Ukraine operates from 6 a.m till 1 a.m.

Taxis

In Kiev you don't need to rely only on official taxis. Just stretch your hand out at any car as lots of drivers will give you a ride if it's on their way.
Most taxis don't use taxameter and they will try to rip you off especially at night, in the city centre and of course because you're a foreigner.
If you need a decent car and a receipt, call Autosvit. They use the meter, give you a receipt and send new vehicles.  Order in advance, it often happens that they say they don't have a car available in your area if you call at the last moment.
Prices differ, in the city center pay from 10 to 15 UAH for a ride, 20 UAH at night. For longer journeys call a cab, they're cheaper.
To get to Borispol Airport expect to pay from 70 to 100 UAH

Autosvit : 234 4444
Bonus-Taxi : 233-1103
Delta Taxi : 238-8284
Elite Taxi : 238-8238
Euro Taxi : 249-4040
Express Taxi : 239-1515
Grand Taxi : 237-3000
Lux Taxi : 243-9394
Lux Taxi : SV 237-3999

Partner Taxi : 247-0000
Radio Taxi : 249-6249
Super Taxi : 248-0606
Swift Taxi : 459-0439
Taxi (State): 059, 054
Taxi : 237-2525
Taxi Blues : 295-1444
Taxis : 295-9508
Tvoye Taxi : 237-2575

The Kiev Metro is a typical ex-Soviet three line system (total length 54.8 km ~ 37 mi) with all lines meeting in the city center (Maidan Nezalezhnosti or Freedom Square) forming a triangle. Older stations in the city center were built in the underground palace style similar to Moscow's metro. The network is almost entirely underground although the river Dniper is crossed twice on a bridge.

 

The Kiev Metro runs from 06:00 until 24:00.  First trains leave at 05:50 from the terminus of the line, and last trains leave the city center at 00:20.  It's convenient, fast, inexpensive and reliable and has some of the deepest underground stations in the world.  No trip to Kiev is complete without a ride on the Kiev Metro