You’re about to go to the Phoenix airport to kick off your trip, however don’t need to pay $14 a day for parking in an airport storage.
Or you is perhaps on the town on trip or enterprise and getting round without a rental automobile.
No worries. You’ve acquired choices for getting to and from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport without utilizing your individual automobile.
Depending in your mode of transport, your flight schedule and the place you might be in the Valley, a taxi, Uber, Lyft, prepare or bus trip might be extra economical than self-parking. And there’s an surprising choice that is free. But it is not for everybody.
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Taxi cabs
Sky Harbor contracts with three taxi firms: AAA/Yellow Cab, Mayflower Cab and VIP Taxi.
Rates for the three firms are the identical no matter variety of passengers and variety of luggage: $5 for the first mile and $2.30 for every further mile, with a minimal fare of $15. Each hour of a visitors delay is $23.
Taxis provide a $17 flat charge to downtown Phoenix inside the boundaries of Roosevelt Street to the north, Lincoln Street to the south, Seventh Avenue to the west and Seventh Street to the east.
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Uber and Lyft
Uber and Lyft can typically be a higher worth than a taxi, relying on the place and while you’re going.
But rideshare fares differ extensively based mostly on time of day and different circumstances. A fare verify on a Wednesday afternoon confirmed a vary of $20.72 to $51.15 for a trip from Sky Harbor to downtown Phoenix at 3:30 p.m.
The vary was $19.68 to $69.63 for rides from downtown Phoenix to Sky Harbor round that very same time.
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Valley Metro mild rail and bus
The airport’s PHX Sky Train intersects with Valley Metro’s mild rail station at forty fourth and Washington streets in Phoenix. People who reside alongside the mild rail can use that as a substitute to driving or getting a trip to the airport.
To make the connection to the airport, get off the mild rail at the forty fourth and Washington station after which board the Sky Train shuttle for the temporary trip to Terminals 3 and 4.
You may have somebody drop you off and/or choose you up at the station as a substitute of the terminals, so they do not have to cope with airport visitors.
Be conscious that Valley Metro park-and-rides don’t permit parking longer than 24 hours, and violators are topic to ticketing and/or towing.
Valley Metro additionally has two bus routes that serve Sky Harbor: Route 13, which stops close to the operations constructing west of Terminal 3; and Route 44, which connects with the airport through the PHX Sky Train station.
Fares for the mild rail and bus are $2 for a single trip and $4 for a day move. You can purchase them at the station. Multiday passes might be bought at the station or on-line at valleymetro.org.
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Hotel airport shuttles
If you are staying in a resort shut to Sky Harbor, it most likely has an airport shuttle. Shuttles are sometimes complimentary and provide rides from the resort to the airport. Some additionally provide transport from the airport to the resort.
A sampling of Phoenix accommodations with airport shuttles embrace:
- Hilton Garden Inn Phoenix North.
- Fairfield Inn and Suites by Marriott Phoenix/Tempe Airport.
- Homewood Suites by Hilton Phoenix Airport South.
- Residence Inn Phoenix Airport.
- Hyatt Place Tempe/Phoenix Airport.
- Drury Inn & Suites Phoenix Airport.
One resort with an airport shuttle, Crowne Plaza Phoenix Airport, can also be throughout the avenue from Valley Metro’s forty fourth Street/Washington mild rail station.
Contact your resort for specifics on its shuttle service.
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Bicycling to the Sky Train station
Yes, you possibly can trip your bike to Sky Harbor.
In truth, the PHX Sky Train station at forty fourth Street has racks and lockers the place cyclists can retailer their bikes earlier than boarding the Sky Train to the terminals.
If you are touring with a lot of baggage, bicycling to the airport just isn’t sensible.
But for those who journey mild and reside close by, it could possibly be a low cost choice. Make certain you are assured you can trip your bike safely with no matter luggage you will want. Some sorts of bicycles, like cargo bikes, can deal with small luggage.
Bike storage at the forty fourth Street station is first come, first served. There’s no cost to use a rack or locker. Per Sky Harbor’s web site, “locks left on the rack will be removed and disposed of after five days. Locks on the bike lockers must be securing a bike or they will be removed.”
Reach the reporter at Michael.Salerno@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter @salerno_phx.
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