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Q: What's the difference in buses?
A: Price, comfort, travel time and bathrooms. All classes of bus are clean, free of livestock and have a/c - bring a sweater. |
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| Luxury or Executive Class buses like ETN have separate bathrooms for Men and Ladies, extra wide, 3 across, almost fully reclining seats with full leg rests -- only 24 seats per full size bus. In the case of ETN the buses only stop at major terminals. ETN stops only in Barra not in Melaque. |
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| First Class buses like Flecha Amarilla's Primera Plus, Cihuatlan Plus and Elite have bathrooms, some have partial leg rests and theoretically they make less stops than do the second class buses. Some Flecha Amarilla schedules only stop in Melaque so check with the terminal prior to departure. |
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| Second Class buses like Flecha Amarilla's Servicios Coordinatos and the Cihuatlan / Autobuses del Pacifico buses are essentially the same as first class except that they do not have bathrooms and only have foot rests. They can make more stops than the first class buses and sometimes they are older and more run down. If you are not sure about a second class bus wait until it comes into the terminal and take a look at it. You can then purchase your ticket from the driver's assistant or the driver instead of the ticket counter if you want to ride the bus. |
| I do my best to keep this page current but things do change so if you notice errors or omissions please click on my name and drop me a line and let me know so I can update this page. Thanks, Nan |
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| Bus Travel - Available Service |
| Connecting Barra de Navidad, Melaque, Manzanillo, Puerto Vallarta, Colima, Guadalajara and points in between. |
| Barra de Navidad & Melaque: |
| Both towns are served by first-class bus lines, Flecha Amarilla Primera Plus, Cihuatlán Plus (no-web site) as well as second-class lines, Flecha Amarilla Servicios Coordinatos and Transportes Cihuatlán / Autobuses del Pacifico. There is a terminal for both lines in each town. Barra de Navidad has a third terminal for Executive Class ETN. First Class line Elite offer once a day service from Melaque only. Heading north on highway 200 they travel as far as Tijuana and heading south on highway 200 as far as Acapulco. |
| All of the above lines, including ETN as of December 23/07, run north to Puerto Vallarta and all lines run south to Manzanillo on Highway 200. Flecha Amarilla and Cihuatlán run to Guadalajara on highway 80. Flecha Amarilla and ETN run to Colima and Guadalajara on Highways 200 and 54. |
| La Manzanilla and Tenacatita: |
| None of the bus lines listed above offer service that leaves Highway 200 to enter these places. Second-class buses, Transportes Cihuatlan and Servicios Coordinatos, will drop of at and can be flagged down on Highway 200, 3km from La Manzanilla and 9km from Tenacatita. |
| Manzanillo: |
| All bus lines listed above run schedules between Barra de Navidad or Melaque and Manzanillo. |
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| Puerto Vallarta and Chamela: |
| All bus lines listed above run schedules between Barra de Navidad or Melaque and Chamela and Puerto Vallarta. |
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| Colima: |
| ETN and Flecha Amarilla have schedules between Barra de Navidad or Melaque and Colima. |
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| Guadalajara: |
| All listed bus lines with the exception of Elite have schedules between Barra de Navidad or Melaque and Guadalajara. |
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| La Huerta, Autlán & Hwy 80 |
| Flecha Amarilla and Cihuatlán lines have schedules between Barra de Navdidad or Melaque and towns on highway 80 to Guadalajara. |
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| Bus Schedules |
| Puerto Vallarta to Melaque, Barra de Navidad and Manzanillo |
Buses leave the Main Terminal (Central Camionera) in Puerto Vallarta at the listed times and all except ETN stop in Vallarta Old Town (Romantic Zone), corner of Aguacate and Carranza, about 20 - 30+ minutes later.
Map and Hotel links Romantic Zone You can buy a ticket at the old town stop from the driver but to be sure of a seat Kevin from my home town says "Multi-Boletos de Autobus at 276 Insurgentes is the place to go for tickets. It's next to Scorpian Sports across from the big Farmacia Guadalajara. They are open until 8pm except Sundays, so you can buy in advance and for a small tip they will call the main depot and reserve your seat for the next morning."
All buses are south to Manzanillo on highway 200 with stops in Melaque and Barra de Navidad unless otherwise noted. First Class $168 pesos to Melaque and $173 to Barra. We do our best keep this information accurate but Sea to Sierra take no responsibilty for errors or inaccuracies in the posted schedules. |
ETN Counter - Executive Class Service
4:00 pm, arrives Chamela 18:50, Barra de Navidad 20:10 and Manzanillo 21:30. |
Flecha Amarilla Counter - Primera Plus (First Class Service)
7:45 am - Express, no stop in Tomatlán.
12:15 pm - south to Melaque and Barra, then on to La Huerta and Autlán, NOT Express, this bus stops in Tomatlán. |
Pacifico/Cihuatlán Counter - Cihuatlán Plus (First Class Service)
4:00 pm, 11:30 pm - The 4:00 pm is an express, no stop in Tomatlán. |
Flecha Amarilla Counter - Servicios Coordinatos (Second Class Service)
7:00 am, 10:30 am, 1:30 pm, 4:30 pm, 6:00 pm, 10:00 pm - the 1:30 pm ends in Colima. |
Pacifico/Cihuatlán Counter - Transportes Cihuatlán (Second Class Service)
5:00 am, 6:00 am, 8:30 am, 11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm, 5:30 pm |
| Barra de Navidad to Guadalajara and GDL Airport and return |
| ETN run 5 schedules per day from Barra de Navidad to Guadalajara; 7:20 am, 12:20 pm, 15:30 pm, 16:40 pm, 00:45 am. The 7:20 am, 12:20 pm and the 00:45 am go to the airport in Guadalajara before ending the trip at the main Guadalajara bus terminal (called el Central Camionero) in Tlaquepaque. They have 11 schedules per day with departures between 2:45 am and 7:00 pm to Manzanillo. |
| They run 6 schedules per day from Guadalajara to Barra; 02:45 am, 8:00 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 noon, 14:20 pm, 17:00 pm. These stop at Colima and Manzanillo bus stations and also now stop in Cihuatlan before Barra. I have seen the ETN stopped at their office in Santiago a couple of times now too. |
| Most recent update January 6, 2008 by Nan. |
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