Travel Guides, Airport Transfer Tips & Taxi Prices

Milan Malpensa spent years being awkward to reach from anywhere except Milan. A new stretch of track opened on 23 January 2026 has changed that for anyone approaching from the north.

Since 1 July 2026 the rental-car platforms operating in Munich have had to price against the taxi meter rather than under it. The discount that made them attractive for airport runs is gone by law.

The gap between landing and walking out of a European terminal used to be predictable. Since 10 April 2026 it is not, and the reason is a border system most travellers had not heard of.

Platform 24 at Roma Termini, 07:40 on a Tuesday.

The view from level 124 is genuinely impressive. The view from level 148 is the same view, roughly 80 metres higher, with fewer people standing in front of your camera.

Uber operates in Barcelona, but not the way it works in London or New York.

CDG handles over 60 million passengers a year across three terminal zones.

66 miles. In light traffic, about 75 minutes. That's the straightforward version of this journey.

A typical first-time visitor to Beijing can spend 20 minutes trying to explain a hotel name to a taxi driver, in English, then slowly, then louder. The driver wasn't being difficult.

European Christmas markets have a fixed problem: the best ones last three to four weeks, they're spread across different cities, and the combination of early departures, unfamiliar routes, and evening browsing is genuine

Most people rent a car when they reach Orlando. You don't always need one. Three choices handle what most visitors want to do: Lynx buses, SunRail, and on-demand shuttles.

Zermatt is car-free. That's not a marketing detail, it's a legal restriction. No private petrol or diesel vehicles enter the village.

Frankfurt handled just over 63 million passengers in 2025, which places it sixth in Europe by traffic. Fraport puts the transfer share at just under half of all passengers.

Sydney sits 280 kilometres from Canberra. Most drivers cover that in two hours forty-five minutes to three hours fifteen minutes.

Finland changed its taxi rules in 2018. Fixed prices and licence limits ended after decades of tight control.

On a Tuesday evening in October, a visitor leaving the Oktoberfest grounds opened Uber and saw a fare of €47 to Schwabing.

The route looks straightforward on a map, 330 kilometres along the Riviera coast and through Tuscany.

A family from London touched down at Geneva Airport on the 23rd of December. They collected their bags and found out the booked driver had cancelled two hours earlier.

Somewhere along the way, "limo" became shorthand for one very specific image, a white stretch pulling up to prom, a door swinging open, someone in a tuxedo stepping out.

About 115 miles by road, roughly 50 across the water. That gap is the whole story of this route, and it decides which way you should travel.