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Getting there
The only direct flight from the UK is
Ryanair from Stansted. There are scheduled flights from Heathrow, changing at Milan or Rome
- see
Expedia.co.uk. To avoid having to trek down south you could always fly from
Leeds-Bradford to Bergamo or Rome with
Jet2, and then fly from there to Palermo.
The airport is a good 20 miles from
Palermo.
A shuttle train operates between the airport and the Central Station
every hour between 5.40 and 21.40, with the odd additional service in between (full
timetable). Journey time is approximately
55 minutes, and tickets cost €4.50. There are a few
intermediate stops which could suit you better than the Central Station
depending on where your hotel is. There's also a bus (no 29) every half an hour;
it costs €5,and you buy your ticket
on board. A taxi will set you back around €50.
Guides & info
Palermo tourism site
(good site)
Rough Guides (select Italy then Palermo)
SideStep (American site, but good)
Palermo2000
Palermo airport
Airport rail service (unofficial site, in English)
Hotels
Rather than staying in Palermo itself (which let's face it has a bit of
a dodgy reputation, particularly since West Ham's visit), you might instead
prefer the seaside resort of Mondello. It's about 5 miles north, but there's a
good bus service from Palermo and it looks really nice (click
here for some pics). A good value hotel is the
Addaura Hotel Residence Congressi, which can be booked via the Venere.com
link below. There's a bus from outside the door (no 603) direct to the ground!
LateRooms.com
Venere.com (enter a discount code of BP93PTS on the Booking Details
screen to get 4% off)
Palermo tourism list
Getting around
The bus service is operated by
AMAT.
There's a flat fare of €1.00 for any number of journeys made within ninety
minutes (including out as far as Mondello), or you can buy an all-day ticket for
€3.50. Tickets for the minibus service around the historical part of the city
cost €0.52 for a day. All tickets are available from the AMAT glass booths
outside Stazione Centrale, or at the southern end of Viale della Libertà, in
tabacchi (tobacconists - look out for the big T on the sign outside), or
wherever else you see the AMAT sign. Validate tickets in the machine at the back
of the bus the first time you use them. People
getting caught without tickets by inspectors is apparently a major source of
income for the bus company; you've been warned!
Interactive bus route map
Club and ground
Palermo play at the Stadio Renzo Barbera. The ground is a couple of miles out of
the centre (map).
You catch the number 101 bus.
Palermo official site (in Italian, but with a link to a cut-down version in
English)
www.stadiumguide.com (some good pictures of the ground)
Stadionwelt.de (German
site, but with loads of good pictures of the ground)
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