How and by what to get to Krasnaya Polyana from Sochi and Adler

Krasnaya Polyana resorts are located in the mountainous part of Sochi at a distance of more than 40 kilometers from the coast and almost 70 kilometers from the city center (Krasnaya Polyana on the map). There is a highway and a railway leading here, respectively, you can get from the center of Sochi, Adler, the village of Sirius or the airport by taxi, bus or train. All routes from the center of Sochi to Krasnaya Polyana lead through Adler, so the ways to get here will be similar.

Well, if you want to visit Krasnaya Polyana for one day in the form of attractions from beach resorts, we advise you to pay attention to ready-made excursions, because in most cases they will be the most profitable option. You can also consider a combined visit option: take the train, and at the railway station on arrival buy a sightseeing tour of all three resorts "Krasnaya Polyana", "Gazprom" and "Rosa Khutor" with a lift on one of the cable cars.

Next, we tell you in more detail about all the ways and how to get to Krasnaya Polyana and its resorts from Sochi and Adler with the schedule and cost of transport:

Excursions

• 🕐 Travel time: full daylight.
• 💵 Cost: from 1000 rubles from Sochi, from 800 rubles from Adler and Sirius.

The easiest way for most tourists to visit this mountain resort is group or individual excursions, which are sold at coastal resorts almost at every turn.

Prices for such day trips are sometimes simply ridiculous - from 300 rubles, which is even cheaper than a trip by city bus. But we do not advise you to rush to such "profitable" offers, because it is a typical tourist trap. The fact is that most of the time you will be taken to all kinds of cafes and tourist shops selling honey, homemade wine, etc., so you will see almost nothing. It is better to choose more expensive excursions, and in which the cost of lifting on cable cars is already included and the excursion program is clearly spelled out. For a guide, excursions with a more or less normal program cost from 800 rubles from Adler and from 1000 rubles from the center without the cost of lifting on a cable car.

You can also pick up excursions with reviews online on these trusted sites:

• 📷 Search for excursions in Krasnaya Polyana on Sputnik8.com
• 📷 Excursions in Krasnaya Polyana from the tour operator TEZ Tour
• 📷 Search for excursions in Krasnaya Polyana on Tripster.ru

Taxi

• 🕐 Travel time: 40-120 minutes.
• 💵 Cost: from Sochi from 2500 rubles, from Adler from 1800 rubles.

Taxi or tourist transfer is obviously the most convenient way to get to Krasnaya Polyana from Sochi. Although a taxi ride is inferior to commuter trains in terms of travel time due to traffic jams, in fact you will spend less time, since you will not have to adjust to the train schedule and get to /from railway stations to the right place.

It is most profitable to order a car through the applications of aggregators Yandex, citymobil, Uber, etc., or by phone:

• Red Taxi +7 (862) 290-00-00
• Maxim +7 (862) 222-22-22
• Yandex +7 (862) 444-44-42
• Lucky +7 (862) 244-44-44
• Citymobil +7 (862) 300-00-00
• Tap Taxi +7 (862) 448-48-48

Please note that the fares of aggregators are floating, and may increase 2-3 times during bad weather conditions and during peak hours. You can guarantee a trip at a pre-set price if you order a ready-made tourist transfer with a car delivery by a certain time on the websites kiwitaxi.ru, intui.travel, or through this search form from kiwitaxi.

Private minibus taxis

• 🕐 Travel time: from 60 minutes.
• 💵 Cost: from 250 rubles.

Private minibus taxis are a ride in a private car, not necessarily officially a taxi, at a negotiated price. There are traditional places at resorts in Sochi, usually near major transport hubs and important bus stops, where drivers are on duty, ready to take long distances between resorts at a better price than taxi meters. For example, in the center of Sochi it is the area of the railway and bus station (they are located nearby), and in Adler it is the area of Adler market. But there is one feature: drivers collect several people for a trip to share the cost of the trip, so you will have to go in a car with other people, and you may have to wait for the start of the trip.

For example, here is the cost of a fixed-price trip in the low season of 2021:

• Sochi Center- Krasnaya Polyana – 500 rubles/person.
• Adler-Krasnaya Polyana – 250 rubles/person.

Car rental and carsharing

• 🕐 Travel time: from 60 minutes.
• 💵 Cost: from 360 rubles (carsharing), from 1300 rubles (daily).

If you do not plan to move around Sochi a lot during your vacation, and you will only go to the lifts, then there is no point in taking a car for a long time. The fact is that it will not work to park it for free at ski resorts near the lifts, you will have to pay an average of 700 rubles per day of parking. Therefore, it is actually more profitable to order a taxi every time than to have a rented car.

But Belkacar carsharing can be quite used to move between resorts or to get to a place of rest and back. Using the minute-by-minute Belkacar rental, you can start your trip in the parking lot in Sochi or Adler, and finish it in Krasnaya Polyana, for which free parking is provided for the beginning and end of the trip. Parking is available at all three resorts "Rosa Khutor", "Krasnaya Polyana" and "Gazprom", as well as in the village of Krasnaya Polyana. Read more about carsharing in Sochi here.

If you still decide to take a car for a long time, we recommend using these proven car search and booking sites:

Trains and commuter trains

• 🕐 Travel time: 45-75 minutes.
• 💵 Cost: 400-470 rubles.

Several high-speed electric trains "Lastochka" run daily from the center of Sochi through Adler railway station and back. You can get there in 45-75 minutes, which is even faster than by taxi, but without taking into account the need to get to and from the railway station.

The fare varies depending on the specific train and ranges from 400 to 470 rubles. Cheaper tickets are sold on suburban trains of the Kuban Express-Prigorod carrier, expensive ones on trains No. 815C/816C "Lastochka" of the Russian Railways company. The difference between them is that there is no dedicated seat on cheap tickets and sometimes you have to go standing, and on more expensive ones you will be assigned a seat with a number, and you can even choose it yourself. If possible, we recommend choosing flights with a seat, because at the height of the season, the cars can be very crowded. You can buy train tickets with a designated seat on the Russian Railways website or at the ticket offices and automatic terminals at stations, and for suburban ones without a seat at the ticket offices and automatic terminals at stations or through the Russian Railways Passengers application.

Electric trains arrive at two stations in Krasnaya Polyana:

• Esto-Sadok station (station on the map).
• Rosa Khutor terminal station (station on the map).

If you need to get to one of the resorts "Rosa Khutor", "Krasnaya Polyana" or "Gazprom", then it is better to go to the station "Rosa Khutor", and to the village of Krasnaya Polyana it is better to go to "Esto-Sadok".

City buses

• 🕐 Travel time: from 40 minutes.
• 💵 Cost: from Sochi - 250 rubles, from Adler - 160 rubles.

This is not the best way to get there, but it is the cheapest. It's bad because you have to drive for a long time along a winding road with many stops, where you can easily get seasick from unaccustomed. There are several routes:

• No.105 from Sochi via Khosta, Adler, airport. The cost is 250 rubles.
• No.105c (high-speed) and No. 105e (express) from Sochi via Khosta, Adler, airport. The cost is 260 rubles.
• No.535 and No.535e from the village of Sirius via the airport. The cost is 190 rubles.
• No.219 (65) from Adler railway station via the airport. The cost is 190 rubles.

Payment is made at the entrance to the driver in cash or by bank card. The fare is charged by zones and starts from 28 rubles for a short trip within one district, and reaches 260 rubles on express trains along the entire route.

In Krasnaya Polyana, these buses make many stops with a stop in the center of the village and at each of the resorts, so you can get to any place. To search for the closest stops and route planning you can use the map application, Google, Yandex, 2GIS. There is also an official application of the Department of Transport "Transport.Sochi" and the site transport.sochi.ru.