How to Travel from Nairobi to Mombasa

How to Travel from Nairobi to Mombasa  : Travelling from Nairobi to Mombasa is recommended in various ways during a safari, the tourists are always advised to adopt the train transport, road transport, and air transport to get away from the Nairobi city to Mombasa. That is there are two direct trains from Nairobi to Mombasa per day and 14 trains per week. Where the journey takes approximately 5 hours and costs from 78 USD. Though the flight means tend to be the quickest means of transport from Nairobi to Mombasa, that is you can directly take a flight from Nairobi Wilson to Ukunda that approximately takes you about 1 hour and costs from 50 USD. There are 132 direct flights per day and 924 flights per week, operated by the airlines such as the De Havilland Canada.

By using a bus from Nairobi to Mombasa.

The distance that is supposed to be covered is 301 miles separate from Nairobi to Mombasa, so the tourists must choose the most convenient bus route to save on the money, the bus takes you about 10 hours to reach Mombasa, the payment ticket for the journey can be at an average of 9 USD. There are 2 stopovers separate that separates you from your Kenya safari  destination city,  though there are 7 top different bus companies that operate this route such as Simba coach, Tahmeed coaches, Coast Bus, Dreamline buses, Mash Est Africa, Modern coast and Spanish coaches.

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If you’re not in rush travelling from Nairobi to Mombasa I would recommend you to use the bus, as these have different timings that is the morning time (8:00am) Afternoon (2:00pm) and during the night (10:00pm), some the buses have got the charging ports for your phone, laptop, as well they can be having air conditioners, free Wi-Fi, snacks on board and Television keeps entertaining you.

By using a train from Nairobi to Mombasa.

The tourists who may wish to travel by train to Mombasa from Nairobi, this is also among the comfortable and pleasant experience, you can hurry and get buy your ticket from Nairobi to Mombasa and you enjoy the best of the best Kenya safari tour of your times, the railroad that connects the two cities is about 306 miles, travelling with the train is also recommended as among the fast options which takes a traveler around 5 hours. The price of the ticket using a train from Nairobi to Mombasa is 116 USD, and as well the train ticket prices can fluctuate considerably, so the best way to book for your train ticket is better in advance as possible with the fare starting from 78 USD. While using the train it is known that it stops 2 times on the whole trip.

By using the flight/Air from Nairobi to Mombasa.

To get from the Nairobi to the city of Mombasa, you choose and book the flight the fastest and most suitable, comfortable way of travelling from Nairobi to Mombasa. 263-mile distance separates the two destinations. The flight takes you up to around 50 minutes to 1 hour, also here the tickets do regularly decrease and increase, but the average price for the destination takes you around 100 USD. But it is said that if you book in advance you pick up the best prices starting from 40USD, and that is you flight number will be 441 to your destination.

The cheapest month to fly from Nairobi to Mombasa is July while the most expensive one is in December, because it can be the festival season. It is said that the earliest flight from Nairobi to Mombasa is 6: ooam which lands in Mombasa at around 7:10am.

How to Travel from Nairobi to Mombasa
Kenya Airways

Self-driving from Nairobi to Mombasa.

The distance that you will cover while driving from Nairobi to Mombasa is around 301 miles, and the travel distance which is approximately 7 hours, and the standard cost of the fuel is 53 USD.This is one of the expensive ways after Air means to travel from Nairobi to Mombasa destination, as this needs when your car is proper and in good mechanical conditions because if not, the 500km is such a long trip for not every car, here you need to first check on your budget very well because if not you may get stuck on the way because of the shortage of fuel during your Kenya safari.

Note, the cheapest way to get from Nairobi destination to Mombasa is through using a bus, and the tickets to which cost on the average of 9 USD and travel time is 10 hours.

The quickest/fast way to get from the Nairobi city to Mombasa destination is through using the plane to which it costs on an average 176 USD and the travel time is approximately 50 minutes to 1 hour.

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