How to get from St. Petersburg to Kotka and back

🐦🚁 Distance between Kotka and St. Petersburg are 196 kilometers in a straight line.

🚗 By car from St. Petersburg 268 kilometers to Kotka, if you go through Torfyanovka.

The journey will take about 3 hours and 18 minutes. But this is without taking into account the border.

You can also go through Brusnichnoe, especially if there is a big queue at Torfyanovka. If there is no queue, I would go through Torfyanovka.

Next, you will learn about all the ways to get from St. Petersburg to Kotka in more detail.

If you are driving some new route, I am ready to add it to the site.

By Allegro Train

🚆 The Allegro train does not travel through Kotka, but makes a stop at Kouvola from which Kotka is about an hour away by bus. Buses don't run very often and the last one will leave before the evening Allegro arrives.

Trains run much more often, but also only until the evening.

🎫💰Tickets to Kouvola are much cheaper than to Helsinki, so even adding the cost of a train or bus is not too expensive.

You can buy tickets on the website poezd.ru

You can also find out about the rules of baggage transportation and customs declaration in the articles

Baggage rules on the Allegro train

From Kotka to St. Petersburg everything is about the same as in the opposite direction. I have not met any pitfalls.

Transfer from address to address

By minibus to Kotka, from address to address. In Yandex, you can drive

Трансфер из СПб в Котку - Transfer from St. Petersburg to Kotka

And find yourself a minibus.

The price of the question is 1500 rubles. They may offer to pay in euros, for example, 40 euros, but it's not profitable.

The main disadvantage of the transfer is the time spent on collecting and transporting passengers to the addresses, it can take a total of 5 hours or even more, i.e. transfer Kotka - Petersburg from 7 hours is quite real, say, in Vsevolozhsk or Lomonosov.

It should be borne in mind that the vast majority of transfers are at the border it stands in line with ordinary cars, which also increases the travel time.

The main advantage of this way to get to Kotka is the absence of transfers and, as a result, the need to move things.

In the opposite direction, a transfer from address to address is ordered similarly. In Yandex, you can drive

Трансфер из Котки в СПб

Keep in mind that carriers are often tied to aircraft flights (for example from < from Helsinki Airport , therefore, if you were first told that they would come at 20:00 and you need to at 18:00 and you will tell me about it, I can promise you arrive at 18 or 19, but with a high probability they won't be able to do that.

The buses

Luxexpress и Ecolines they go to Helsinki through the Kotki Karhula area and do there stop .

Hotels in Kotka

As in Finland as a whole, hotels in Kotka are expensive. If I had to look for a place to spend the night, I would use the Hotellok service

However, recently the prices are about the same everywhere, you can look at Booking.com

Or on some Agoda.com

Остановка Lux Express в Котке

What to take on the road. Lifehacks

It often happens that many things are very necessary on a trip, but they are not. You have to buy at the nearest store without looking at the price. We once forgot to take a selfie stick in Italy, and Rome paid as much as 10 euros for the simplest.

We advise you to think in advance what you want to use on the road and buy everything at home.

Neck Pillow

It will be useful for those who have a long flight or a planned bus trip.

If you often travel by LuxExpress then after 40 trips you will get VIP status and drivers will offer you a free pillow and blanket before every trip.

Until you have received this status, or if you are going to Ecolines or another bus we advise you to purchase pillows for travel. They can be as usual.

And inflatable. Inflatable ones are less comfortable, but they take up almost no space.

We also advise you to take a closer look at the sleeping sets

Hot drinks

Lux Express, Ecolines and other good carriers have vending machines with free hot drinks. You can use disposable cups, but our experience has shown that it is more convenient to take a thermos cup or a thermos cup with you.

Travel mugs must have a lid so that you don't spill hot drinks on your neighbors while walking down the aisle from the vending machine.

Headphones

Often on the road there is a desire to listen to music or an audiobook.

Sometimes I want to distract myself from extraneous sounds, but almost nowhere else LuxExpress they do not give out headphones, we advise you to purchase them in advance.

I've been using headphones from Philips , Philips and Sony .

MP3 player

For many years, music can be listened to on a smartphone, so there is no trace of the former popularity of mp3 players .

However, on a long trip, the extra load on the phone's battery is especially noticeable. You can solve this problem is solved using external battery, but sometimes it is more convenient to take on the road, a compact mp3 player on which you can listen to music for up to 24 hours in a row.

The choice is not the best right now. Sony produces great little players , which work all day but are cheap at only 4 GB, which is not too much for audiobooks, to put it mildly

We already have a mini-collection of such players. For ten years, the battery has sat down and holds everything five o'clock. We ordered a new model - without a wheel. It is more successful, easier navigation and fewer unnecessary squeaks when switching - relevant at night.

But the sound is worse - more noise.

The rest of the models are quite expensive, you can see for yourself on their website.

We can't figure out how player it may be more expensive, we can understand how player may cost more than smartphone probably there are some supernatural functions.

If you only listen to music, you can take any player. But if you listen to books or long podcasts pay attention to the speed at which you can rewind.

Now I use a push-button mobile phone as a player Philips E168 - visited several stores, most of the phones they can't even play music anymore files in a row.

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External battery

During a long flight or a bus ride to your devices it may require recharging, and sockets are not everywhere.

An external battery can be a good solution to this problem.

You can study the prices here

Where to store money

In order not to lose money, but at the same time to have them always at hand, you need to use special wallets

Nice suitcase

It often happens that the handle or wheel falls off the suitcase, and at the most inopportune moment. A new suitcase bought at the resort in a hurry it may not be better than the one who let you down.

In order to protect yourself as much as possible from possible breakdowns, we advise you to purchase a good suitcase.

Backpack

We recommend buying a backpack with back support. With such a backpack , especially if you wear good insoles sightseeing tours and the road to the airport will bring only joy.

We like Everest backpacks that you can buy in Stadium stores and all backpacks that are similar to them in quality.

You can find a large selection of backpacks on the website Planet Sport the best prices are usually available when buying online.


Go to the Planet Sport website

Insoles

In order not to get tired of rest, you need comfortable shoes. We advise you to pay attention to online sneaker store Ecco

Comfortable shoes can be made more it is better to pick up a good insole. We advise you to make individual insoles. For example, in Intersport, this service costs 60 euros. If there is no time or free funds for this - - choose insoles online.