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DIRECTORY
Airlines
American Airlines
Tel 1-800-433 7300 (from USA);
0771-200 666.
∑ aa.com
British Airways
Tel 0770 11 00 20.
∑ britishairways.com
Delta Air Lines
Tel 08-519 922 16.
Scandlines passenger ferries connect Helsingør to Helsingborg ∑ delta.com
Finnair
Arrival by Ferry and between Riga in Latvia Tel 0771-78 11 00.
There are a number of ferry and Stockholm. ∑ finnair.com
companies operating direct Polferries has the routes Lufthansa
services across the North Świnoujście–Ystad and Gdansk– Tel 0770-111 010.
Sea and the Baltic to Sweden. Nynäshamn. Stena Line operates ∑ lufthansa.com
The large car ferries used on the Gdynia–Karlskrona route. Ryanair
most routes offer plenty of Trelleborg is the major port Tel 0900-100 0550.
passenger comforts, including for traffic from Germany. ∑ ryanair.com
good food, entertainment TT-Line goes from Rostock
options and shopping facilities. and Travemünde, while SAS
Although the Öresund Bridge Scandlines goes from Rostock Tel 0770-727 727.
∑ sas.se
has reduced ferry traffic from and Sassnitz, as does Stena
Denmark, the short Helsingør– Line, which also sails the Kiel– Getting from and
Helsingborg hop still has several Gothenburg route. to the Airport
ferries an hour operated by
Scandlines. Stena Line covers Arlanda Express
the routes Grenå–Varberg and Arrival by Train or ∑ arlandaexpress.se
Express Bus
Fredrikshavn–Gothenburg. Flygbussarna
The busiest route in terms There are excellent train links ∑ flygbussarna.se
of passenger numbers is from from continental Europe and
Finland with regular crossings Norway and a large network Ferry Companies
from Helsinki, Turku and of express bus routes. To find Polferries
Mariehamn to Stockholm and out the best connections by Tel 040-12 17 00.
Kapellskär. Both Viking Line coach or train to Sweden ∑ polferries.se
and Tallink Silja Line have from Copenhagen, Oslo and
terminals in Stockholm – Sassnitz (Germany), visit the Scandlines
at Stadsgården and Värtahamnen ResRobot website. Tel 042-18 61 00.
∑ scandlines.se
respectively. The crossing
takes about 15.5 hours from Arrival by Car Stena Line
Helsinki and 11 hours from Tel 0770-57 57 00.
Turku. Vasabåtarna operates Motorists arriving from Denmark ∑ stenaline.se
ferries between Vaasa in can use the spectacular Tallink Silja Line
Finland and Umeå in northern Öresund Bridge between Tel 08-22 21 40.
Sweden. From Estonia, Tallink Copenhagen and Malmö (see ∑ tallinksilja.se
Silja Line operates the routes p185). On the Swedish side, TT-Line
between Tallinn and Stockholm the toll bridge connects with Tel 0410-562 00.
the E6 motorway to the ∑ ttline.se
north. Alternatively, there are
car ferries. Vasabåtarna
Tel 0207-71 68 10.
Car ferries are also the most ∑ wasaline.com
practical option from Finland
and the Baltic States, since Viking Line
driving around the Baltic Sea Tel 08-452 40 00.
can take two days. ∑ vikingline.se
The borders with Finland and Train or Express Bus
Norway have customs posts
which are often unmanned. ResRobot
The Öresund Bridge, which connects However, the entry regulations ∑ resrobot.se
Denmark and Sweden still apply (see p318).

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