Popular Airport | Vilo Acuna Airport |
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Approximate Flight Duration | 7 hour 40 min |
Approximate Travel Distance | 6229 Km |
A Merino Benitez Airport, 16 kilometers west of Santiago city center, can be quickly reached by taxi or metro. Passengers can also go to the airport with special vehicles that can be rented from car rental companies.
Taxis that can take you from Santiago to Merino Benitez Airport in about 20 minutes, are applying a high tariff on weekends, holidays and night time.
With the metro that you can take from the Los Heroes metro station in Santiago you can reach the Barrancas stop which is just 10 minutes away from the airport. To use the metro you can buy tickets from the counters around the station. From Barrancas stop you have to take an 8 minute taxi ride to the airport.
Avis, Budget, Enterprise and Alamo car hire companies provide you the option to rent a car with or without a driver. You can rent a car from these companies at any time, or arrange a private vehicle to pick you up from wherever you are and take you to the airport.
There is a four-storey terminal building at A Merino Benitez Airport, which covers a large area. The terminal building, which is undergoing renovations, is planned to be opened in 2020 with much wider features. The current terminal building has duty free shops, luggage space and parking space on the ground floor. On the first floor there are rest rooms reserved for VIP companies, on the second floor, shops, restaurants and entrance doors are located. On the third floor of the building, there is also a check-in area reserved for the customers of restaurants and VIP passengers.
You can find bank ATMs, telephone operator shops, pharmacies, travel agency shops, health care room and insurance offices spread over different floors of the building. In the terminal there is a reserved area for those who are VIP passengers. In this section you can access VIP lounges of Latam, Pacific Club, Voyage, Delta Sky Club, American Airlines and Avianca companies.
There are many restaurants, cafes and bars in the airport for travelers to meet their eating and drinking needs. These are La Pausa, Cybo Bistro, Fritz, Gatsby, Ruby Tuesday, Subway, Telepizza, Johnny Rockets, Pronto Copec, McDonald's, Cafe Danes, Bakery & Co, Cafe On Time, Cinnabon, Dunkin Donuts, Starbucks, Tamarugo, Patagonia Cafe, Espression Lavazza , Vinum and Heineken Star Lounge.
Among the places you can shop at the airport are stores ranging from cosmetics to clothing, technology and music to jewelry. Among these are Bath & Body Works, MAC Cosmetics, Punto Musical, Samsung, MacOnline Express, Garmin, Gizmobies, Fotokina, MOW, La Cava del Vino, Kubox, Jugueteria Alemana, BirttShop Chile, Licantai, Toc's, Rumbo Sur, Piedra Linda, Sol y Mar , Piedras Australes, Jewelery Me, Swarovski and Hugo Boss.
Cayo Largo Del Sur Airport is only 10 kilometres to the city centre, which is famous for its various hotels. After the passengers have landed at Cayo Largo Del Sur Airport, they can go to the city centre by taxis or shuttles waiting for the visitors outside the terminal building of the airport.
You can pay your taxi fare in CUC, which is the currency used by the tourists. Taxi fare is not so high for the journey close to the neighbourhoods of Cayo Largo Del Sur Airport. If you would like to know how much you will have to pay more or less in advance, you can first ask the taxi drivers and then head to the city centre.
Other than taxi, hotel shuttles are provided as an alternative to the passengers of Cayo Largo Del Sur Airport by some hotels in the city either either free of charge or at a reasonable price. If you consider using these shuttles, you should contact your hotel you will stay in Cayo Largo Del Sur and make your reservation by indicating the number of persons that will use this service.
Taxis are generally the first choice of the passengers that land at Cayo Largo Del Sur Airport to get to the city centre from the terminal of the airport. You can pay the taxi fare in CUC, which is the currency used by the foreign visitors that come to the country. It generally takes less than 10 minutes to arrive city centre from Cayo Largo Del Sur Airport. You can easily load your luggages in the taxi boot and arrive your hotel very fast. It generally costs around 5-6 CUC to get to the hotels’ area from the airport by taxi. Do not forget to agree on the price with the taxi driver before taking a taxi.
The hotel you will stay in Cayo Largo Del Sur might have the shuttle service for its customers’ transportation from the airport either free of charge or as a paid service. You can either call or email your hotel in advance to ask for this service to get to the city centre and your hotel by shuttles.