Bicycle transport and intercity buses in Estonia
While travelling within Estonia, you might sometimes need transport and bring along your bike. Here is useful information and our experience for the 2024 season using coaches.
As you might have discovered already, Estonia is not a very big country, 45 335 square kilometres, a bit bigger than Belgium or Denmark or Netherlands! The longest possible road across the country is 460 km (Sääre at Saaremaa to Narva). Good news is that coach prices are reasonable – usually 100 km around 10 EUR (express costs a bit more and slow ones a bit less).
In general local buses are not fit for bicycle transport. Buses between bigger cities mostly fit for the transport. To look for the connections and schedules, prices and book, you can find all that directly from https://www.tpilet.ee/en/
Google maps alternative is also available, local planning and transportation web: https://web.peatus.ee/?locale=en (click on a map and plan your route), not much use if you need to transport the bicycle.
Detailed information about Bus companies in Estonia, operating scheduled routes.
Lux Express
Our favourite. Most comfortable. They promise to take 4 bicycles between bigger cities with every coach and it is FREE.
From our experience, it is also very comfortable. And free coffee machine, toilet, Wifi.
Here is list of places/stops you can transport your bike with Luxexpress: Fra Mare, Haapsalu Bus Station, Heltermaa, Iisaku, Jõhvi Bus Station, Kaitseväe (Võru), Kanepi, Kilingi-Nõmme, Kose-Risti 2, Kuivastu (port area), Kuressaare Bus Station, Mustvee, Narva Bus Station, Otepää, Paide Bus Station, Palivere, Põlva Bus Station , Pärnu Coach Station, Rakvere Bus Station, Sillamäe Bus Station, Taebla, Tallinn Coach Station, Tartu Coach Station, Tindimäe parking lot, Valga Bus Station, Viljandi Bus Station, Virtsu Port, Võru Bus Station.
NB! Virtsu-Kuivastu and Heltermaa are stops for Saaremaa and Hiiumaa islands!
Good to know!
- Arrive 15 minutes before the departure time to store your bicycle (bus drivers have some cords to secure your bike and also cover (if it is needed)
- Make sure your bike is more or less clean, and remove panniers. Sometimes the front wheel needs to be removed and the handlebars turned.
- You can also transport your bicycle to-from: Riga, Vilnius, Warsaw
To secure your bike place you have to book the ticket in advance, online.
The bicycle ticket booking comes after you have filled in all the rest of your ticket data https://luxexpress.eu/en/
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- Choose destinations, date and time – you will see options and prices
- Choose your seat
- Fill in your personal details – name, e-mail, phone number
- Choose the FREE bicycle place
- Proceed to payment (you will get electronic ticket and no need to print out anything)
All the details in more details from here: https://luxexpress.eu/en/faq/360003971079-Travelling-with/360013514559-How-to-travel-with-a-bicycle/
In case you need to change or cancel your booking:
- your Economy or Standard class tickets can be changed more than 1 hour before the Original departure with paying the price difference between the economy class ticket and the new travel ticket.
- more than 24 hours before the Original departure, the Carrier refunds 100% of the Standard or Comfort class ticket fare (Economy ticket is with discount/campaign price and can not be refunded).
- Get detailed rules from here – https://luxexpress.eu/en/ticket-sales-rules/
