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We get it. You’re not the homebody type. We aren’t either. Your passion, needs, and desires have shaped our business. Destination experts hand-craft transformative experiences designed specifically with you – our fellow traveler – at heart. We wouldn't trust your experience with anyone else.

Guided Touring Reimagined

We know you want to explore and also dive in. We’re curious travelers, just like you, so rest assured, you’ll experience must-sees and connect with the people and culture that define the destination. You’ll eat in locals’ homes, take cooking classes, travel by trains and tuk tuks, explore cities with food tours, and stay in igloos, castles, and chateaus.

Value Beyond Price

Your time is one of your most precious commodities, so you should spend more of it in the destination, not driving between places. We design tours that spend the fewest hours on the coach. One-night stays are a rarity. This is your trip, and you shouldn’t feel rushed. With choice, flexibility, and free time, take it all in – this is your tour.

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Travel with trust. Because this is your trip - something you've planned for and dreamed about. You should feel confident in your journey every step of the way.

Industry-Leading Travel Protection

Cancel for any reason (bad hair day applies) up to 24 hours before your tour leaves and get a full money-back refund. Collette issued a record-breaking $185 million cash back to travelers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Experience & Expertise

We've been doing this for a long time. Since 1918, in fact. Collette is the most experienced and longest-running tour operator in North America. You choose...

Traveling Well

Our team is on the pulse of world events and protocols, so you are kept fully aware and feel well-prepared for your trip.

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Why Guided Travel

You're a traveler with places to go. We'll take care of the details. You embrace the journey.

Social Connections

Meet a group of people who share your love of travel. Learn from locals. Forge friendships in the coolest places.

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There's plenty of time built into our itineraries, plus optional tours, Choice on Tour excursions, and more. It's your trip, your way.

Expertly Planned

You know what you want to see and do - let a team of experts handle all the details from the must-sees to centrally-located accommodations and local lessons.

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Don’t rush – this is your time to see the world. Get more time in the destination, and enjoy an ideal balance of included excursions and free time.

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When you go, capture all those incredible moments, and use the hashtag #GoCollette so that we can share your joy!

Featured Tours

Collette travelers choose from 160 tours across all 7 continents, as well as 5 travel styles including small group touring and destination spotlights. Check out some trending tours for inspiration on your next adventure.

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A Taste of the Balkans featuring Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina & Slovenia

Majestic Cities of Central & Eastern Europe featuring Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest & Krakow

Painted Canyons of the West featuring Utah’s Five National Parks

Flavors of Portugal & Spain: featuring Barcelona

Colors of Morocco

Essence of France Paris, Provence & the French Riviera

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America's Music Cities featuring New Orleans, Memphis & Nashville

Discover Croatia, Slovenia and the Adriatic Coast

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Wilderness of Southern Africa: Safari by Land & Water

Historical greenbrier featuring washington d.c. & williamsburg, old world sicily & malta.

Spain's Costa del Sol & Madrid

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Joint modeling of mode choice and travel distance with intra-household interactions

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Travel mode and distance choices are not independent decisions, and individual choices are usually made in the knowledge of the preference and needs of other household members. To represent the dependency between mode choice and travel distance and the role of intra-household interactions in travel behavior, we develop a joint discrete–continuous model with intra-household interactions. In this model, we use joint household tour as the unit of analysis and characterize the dependency between mode choice and travel distance using flexible copula functions. Then, we apply the proposed model to analyze tour-based mode choice and travel distance in Beijing, China. The results indicate that unobserved factors contribute to positive dependency between mode choice and travel distance. The choice of walk is more dependent on travel distance than other travel modes, and the choice of travel modes except public transit shows a higher correlation with travel distance in complex individual tours than in simple individual and joint household tours. Further, a comparison between the proposed model, the independent model, and the model without intra-household interactions reveals that ignoring the dependency between mode choice and travel distance, or not considering intra-household interactions, could lead to over- or under-estimation of the effects of changes in exogenous variables.

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Americans are spending more on travel and live entertainment. But their personal saving rate has taken a dip.

• Americans are spending more on experiences, which they were largely deprived of during the pandemic.
• Consumer spending on foreign trips and live entertainment rose by nearly 30% in 2023, WaPo reported.
• Meanwhile, the personal saving rate in the US has declined, falling to 3.6% in February.

During the earliest stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans reminisced about the things that used to bring them joy. They never stopped thinking about that last big trip with their families or that last in-person concert they enjoyed with friends.

Four years later, American consumers have mostly moved on from the pandemic and are spending more on experiences than ever before.

Prioritizing experiences, however, has led to a major shift in their financial lives: The personal saving rate in the US has declined considerably.

The Washington Post recently reported on how consumers in the US have embraced a sort of YOLO — or "you only live once" — mindset. In 2023, consumer spending on foreign trips and live entertainment rose by nearly 30 percent, according to the newspaper.

Spending levels have so far continued to rise in 2024, too. In February, personal consumption expenditures increased by $145.5 billion compared to January, with $111.8 billion spent on services, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

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At the same time, perhaps predictably, the US personal saving rate has declined , according to the bureau.

In February, the personal saving rate was 3.6 percent, a drop from 4.1 percent the month before. (The rate sat at 4 percent last November and 3.9 percent in December.)

Once consumers were able to spend freely on their wish list trips and attend concerts and festivals without onerous health restrictions, they started booking flights and hotel rooms and purchasing tickets to see the artists that they love.

So instead of continuing to put away money for the future, which is what many people tried to do in recent years, many consumers now want to make up for the time they lost during the pandemic.

"When you live through a crisis, it gets ingrained in your brain," University of California at Berkeley behavioral finance professor Ulrike Malmendier told The Washington Post. "The official economic reports might say everything is coming back to normal, but we are different people than we were before the pandemic."

Malmendier told the Post that after the Great Recession, many Americans overhauled their financial habits; many consumers started to save more of their money.

But the angst of Americans during the pandemic unleashed a different sort of sentiment, Malmendier said.

"The adverse effects of Covid weren't necessarily financial; people got jobs quickly and the government stepped in with support," he told the newspaper. "Instead, it's about all of the things we were starved for: human interaction, socializing, travel. People are spending money on the things they missed most."

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Eat up at the 10 best specialty food festivals in the US

Best Specialty Food Festival (2024) March 27, 2024

These food festivals — selected by an expert panel and voted by readers as the best across the United States — celebrate specific foods, often local specialties grown or produced in the region. And these themed events promise attendees good food, good times, and plenty of opportunities to indulge. 

No. 10: Windy City Smokeout - Chicago, Illinois

This four-day event in Chicago combines two beloved things: live music and great BBQ. Over 20 of the world’s best pitmasters serve up their smoked morsels, while top country music talent takes the stage. Bands, beer, BBQ — what could be better?

No. 9: Kauai Poke Festival - Koloa, Hawaii

With easy access to fresh fish along its miles of unspoiled coastline, poke has deep roots across the Hawaiian Islands. Poke means "cut into pieces," which is how this raw fish dish is served. The Kauai Poke Festival features some 20 amazing chefs and cooks creating poke dishes for attendees to enjoy. A highlight of the event is a poke demonstration with celebrity chef and godfather of poke, Sam Choy.

No. 8: Easton Garlic Fest - Easton, Pennsylvania

Easton proudly markets their Garlic Fest with the tagline "Eat, Drink, Stink," and this fun-tastic tribute to garlic is truly an event-packed festival. There's a best garlic dish contest, a garlic dessert contest, a garlic cook-off between local mayors, several stages of live music, and there's even a "Little Stinkers' Row" with a train and an obstacle course for kids, plus clowns, jugglers, and more. Local businesses all get supported as well, as there is plenty of festival merchandise and gift baskets from Easton vendors, as well as bags and bulbs of garlic from local farms to go with all the entertainment.

No. 7: Waikiki Spam Jam - Honolulu, Hawaii

Spam is as ingrained in Hawaii's food culture as pineapples and poi. This tinned luncheon meat was first brought to Hawaii by GIs during World War II and was quickly embraced. Shelf-stable and inexpensive, residents of the Hawaiian Islands consume millions of tins annually. The Waikiki Spam Jam is a one-day festival that acknowledges the state's love story with this porky product, where attendees can sample inventive Spam recipes for a good cause, as proceeds benefit a local food bank. 

No. 6: National Fried Chicken Festival - New Orleans, Louisiana

Fried chicken is an iconic Southern staple, and New Orleans is the perfect venue for a festival to honor it, with its annual National Fried Chicken Festival. Over 50 restaurants from a selection of states showcase their most unique fried chicken dishes, and there are four stages of nonstop entertainment, ranging from live music to cooking demonstrations with top celebrity chefs. This is a great place to sample diversity in cooking, as you'll find dishes like Korean chicken baos, chicken birria tacos, jambalaya, and even ice cream chicken legs. With over 120,000 attendees, it's one of the Big Easy's best parties.

No. 5: Maine Lobster Festival - Rockland, Maine

Rockland is the self-proclaimed lobster capital of the world, and its annual Maine Lobster Festival salutes the state’s favorite crustacean. It takes place over five days each summer and includes feasting on fresh seafood, a parade, and live music. The Maine Lobster Festival Delegate Coronation and the International Great Crate Race, where contestants jump from crate to crate and risk falling into the chilly Atlantic Ocean, are must-see events. 

No. 4: National Buffalo Wing Festival - Buffalo, New York

The National Buffalo Wing Festival celebrates the chicken wing, America's number one appetizer. This Labor Day weekend event lets you get out on an NFL field, with the festivities being held at Highmark Stadium, home of the Buffalo Bills. There's nonstop live music, wing-eating championships, bobbing for wings in a pool of blue cheese dressing, and even a buffet bowl where contestants have 10 minutes to eat as many wings, pizza, and roast beef as possible. 

No. 3: Cheese Curd Festival - Ellsworth, Wisconsin

They don't call Wisconsin the Dairy State for nothing. It's the number one cheese-making state in America, producing everything from Muenster to prized farmhouse cheeses. Cheese curds are a byproduct of the cheesemaking process, and these springy, squeaky little bites are the stars of the show at the Cheese Curd Festival. Thousands of pounds of curds made by the local Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery are served at the occasion each June. Events include a craft beer and curd pairing, live music, and a craft market. It's a celebration of all dairy products, with ice cream tastings being especially popular.

No. 2: Picklesburgh - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Picklesburgh bills itself as “the destination for all things pickled.” For one weekend each July, downtown Pittsburgh transforms into Picklesburgh, complete with a giant flying Heinz pickle balloon. Attendees can expect an assortment of foods and cocktails that feature pickled ingredients, as well as a pickle juice drinking contest, live entertainment, pickle merchandise, and a "Li’l Gherkins" play area for the kids.

No. 1: Delta Hot Tamale Festival - Greenville, Mississippi

Greenville, Mississippi, has an actual U.S. Patent and Trademark certificate for being the hot tamale capital of the world, with historians claiming that the Delta hot tamale dates back hundreds of years or more. At this festive ode to the tamale, you can take part in tamale eating contests, cooking contests, art and T-shirt design contests, and even a Miss Hot Tamale pageant. The weekend starts with a welcome dinner and dance party, and the following day sees panel discussions, food trucks, and live entertainment on the main stage, making for one big party.

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Did you know your car could be a political statement? Biden and Trump views clash on EVs

ST. LOUIS – SUV driver Darlene Wilson unexpectedly found herself behind the steering wheel of a Tesla electric car after someone crashed into her family's Chevrolet Traverse.

Driving hundreds of miles a week, with two kids to haul around while also managing an Airbnb, Wilson appreciated the Traverse's space. But filling up every other day had gotten old ‒ and expensive.

And now, after a few weeks of driving the insurance-paid rental Tesla, Wilson, 41, is a convert to electric vehicles, or at least this specific one .

"We love it. And I didn’t think we were going to," said Wilson as her two kids watched videos and played games on the car's large display screen, the Tesla charging behind a Target store.

While many Tesla owners have installed chargers at their homes, Wilson has to use company-branded chargers that take about 30 minutes to refill the car's batteries. Still, she said, even having to sit parked a few times a week is far cheaper than filling her SUV's 20-gallon tank, and she's now considering buying an EV herself.

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“I would drive it because it’s more economical," she said. "For what we spent on gas compared to what it costs to charge, it’s not even close."

For Wilson, driving an electric car isn't a political decision, just straight-up economics. But increasingly for Americans, President Joe Biden and rival Donald Trump are putting EV drivers and their haters squarely in the political spotlight.

EVs could reshape American travel, economy

And as they move closer to the mainstream, EVs have become the latest culture war flashpoint between Republicans and Democrats, with Biden pushing heavily for their adoption and Trump promising a “bloodbath” of regulatory restrictions to block imports and protect American auto workers, many of whom are based in the swing state of Michigan. Because EVs have fewer parts, they require less work to build and maintain.

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The battle over EV adoption has high stakes, with experts warning the U.S. needs to move rapidly away from gas-burning vehicles to meet goals set by the Paris Climate Accords and help blunt the impacts of an already-changing climate.

Today, there are about 4.5 million plug-in hybrids and EVs on American roads, representing about 10% of all vehicles. About one-third of all EVs are in California.

Although electric vehicles have been adopted more rapidly around the world ‒ including in Norway, China and the European Union ‒ Americans have been slow to shift their purchases. Last year, the top three vehicle models sold in the U.S. were pickups, followed by the Toyota RAV4. But the fifth-bestselling vehicle, according to estimates by Motor1, was the battery-powered Tesla Model Y SUV.

The Biden administration on Wednesday issued new rules aimed at shifting drivers away from buying gasoline cars and SUVs.

The new rules, based on tailpipe emission standards, are intended to ensure that within eight years, the majority of consumer vehicles sold are either all-electric or gas-electric hybrids. The rules don't require manufacturers to make EVs, but the emission standards are so tough that automakers will have a hard time complying unless they do. Last year, about 16% of new vehicles sold were EVs or hybrids, according to federal officials.

While Biden and other EV fans say electric cars are widely beneficial for both drivers and the climate, critics complain that EVs are more expensive, slow to recharge, have smaller ranges, especially in cold weather, and that the charging infrastructure is spotty.

To help lower costs, the Biden administration offers tax breaks to buy American-made EVs and is spending more than $7.5 billion to build rapid-charging stations across the country, especially along heavily traveled interstate corridors.

In a statement distributed by the Biden administration , an industry group that represents most of the major auto manufacturers ‒ including Ford, GM, Honda and Stellantis, the parent company that makes Dodge, Chrysler and Jeep vehicles ‒ said the push toward EVs is both necessary and challenging. The group thanked Biden for delaying the start of the emission standards for several years, allowing charging infrastructure and supply chains to develop.

"The future is electric," said John Bozzella, the president and CEO of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation. "Consumers have tons of choices. But pace matters."

While some EV critics say they don't want to be forced into driving a battery-powered car, others have a far more visceral reaction. Across the country, there have been news reports of gas-vehicle drivers deliberately blocking off EV charging stations in what's known as "ICEing," a reference to their internal combustion engine.

Electric vehicles help fight climate change, reduce greenhouse gas

The transportation sector is the single-largest producer of climate-changing carbon dioxide emissions, largely because the vast majority of vehicles are powered either directly or indirectly by burning coal, natural gas, or gasoline. Wind, solar and hydro make up about 20% of the nation's electricity generation, although that number is rising rapidly each year, according to federal officials.

A 2023 study published by the journal Transportation Research found that about 25% of EV purchasers ultimately replaced them with a gas-powered vehicle, while another 10% bought a plug-in hybrid because they typically have a longer range. The study noted, however, that Tesla purchasers almost invariably bought another Tesla. Experts say "range anxiety" is one of the biggest stumbling blocks for widespread EV adoption, which is driving the Biden administration's push for more charging stations.

Tesla driver Topher Clark, 54, doesn't understand how trying to protect the Earth became so political. He sees his Tesla, along with the solar panels on the roof of his Portland, Oregon, home, as one part of a reasonable effort to reduce pollution and fight climate change.

“This was the realization of a lifelong dream to not be spewing exhaust," said Clark, a software engineering manager, gesturing at his Tesla SUV charging near the junction of Interstate 64 and Interstate 170.

Clark was driving across the country ‒ he'd already put 2,000 miles behind him ‒ and said charging was easy and convenient. Clark said after buying the Tesla, he practiced driving it increasingly long distances from Portland to ensure the SUV's miles-left estimates were accurate. He was especially worried about losing capacity in cold weather but said the SUV's computer made it "brain-dead easy" to travel from charger to charger.

He also said he's frustrated that caring for the Earth is somehow a partisan issue.

"There’s nothing political about keeping your house clean," he said. "I can't look my nieces and nephews in their eyes, tell them I love them and then piss on the planet. And that's effectively what people are doing."

Matthew Fisher, CEO of Gridspot, said he was shocked by the comments he got after advertising his company's app, which allows people with EV chargers to rent them out to drivers in the neighborhood. Fisher said he paid for 10,000 Facebook advertising impressions and got 10 comments back ‒ nine of which were negative.

"That was not what I expected," said Fisher. "The arguments get really bizarre."

Fisher said the Facebook advertising stats showed him that most of the people who saw his ads were older white men, who tend to be more conservative than the overall U.S. population. Still, he said, he was surprised at how vitriolic the comments got. That suggests to him that objections to EVs are inherently illogical.

"It was just this sentiment that 'you take my emissions, you take my freedom,'" he said. "It’s mind-boggling."

Electric cars, trucks and SUVs represent a new front in the culture wars

In December 2023, Trump posted a social media message that, in part, said supporters of an "all electric car lunacy" should "rot in Hell." He previously warned that foreign competitors would ruin the U.S. auto manufacturing industry, costing tens of thousands of jobs. Other EV critics point out that the vast majority of EV batteries are sourced from China, and the batteries are filled with rare-earth minerals extracted at great environmental cost.

The Trump-affiliated America First Policy Institute contends the new emissions standards issued Wednesday would cost the country about 117,000 jobs because EVs require less work to assemble, with the losses particularly acute in Michigan. But the United Auto Workers union endorsed Biden over Trump in January, after Biden visited union workers picketing automakers last year.

Those union workers were striking, in part, at Ford, GM and Stellantis plants over the fact that some new workers in EV-focused plants were being paid less than longtime union workers on the gasoline-vehicle production lines. Many EVs, especially those made by Tesla, are built by nonunion workers. More than 1 million Americans work in the auto manufacturing industry, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Although the new emissions standards don't specifically force auto manufacturers to start making EVs, they have that practical effect.

In a statement, companies representing truck stops and travel centers, convenience stores and gas stations said they support efforts to lower emissions caused by vehicles. But it said consumer choice, not government mandate, should drive change. The groups said it wants the Biden administration to create an environment where retailers like them can be assured of earning profits by installing charging stations.

"The fastest, most efficient way to lower carbon emissions remains through technology-neutral, market-oriented, consumer-focused policies that encourage all fueling technologies to improve their respective emissions," said the groups, which sell about 90% of the country's gasoline. "This rule does not do that. Instead, it functions as an effective mandate for a single technology that, at this point, has not proven itself to be more viable than other compelling solutions."

And the National Automobile Dealers Association, which declared that "dealers are all-in on EVs," said dealerships are worried the new Biden EPA rules go too far, too fast, opening the door for Chinese companies to leapfrog ahead of U.S.-based manufacturers. Many American-built EVs qualify for a $7,500 tax credit, but many Chinese EVs are significantly cheaper. One of the bestselling Chinese-made EVs sells for about $17,000 but is not available in the United States, in part, due to a 25% tariff on Chinese-made EVs Trump implemented and Biden has maintained.

"Consumers will dictate the pace of EV adoption, not lawmakers, regulators or (automakers)," the automobile dealers association said. "Public policy should be focused on turning over the combustion fleet, getting consumers used to charging and getting cleaner vehicles on the road – including plug-in hybrids."

Many automakers have scaled back predictions for EV sales in the past several months due to slowing demand, including Ford, which in January announced it would halt one of two production lines for its F150 Lightning EV pickup, and move some of the workers to lines making gas-powered pickups.

At the charging station in St. Louis, Wilson, the accidental Tesla driver, said she didn't think the politicization of EVs was necessarily helpful to the country. She said people should buy what works for them. And she encouraged other skeptics to try out Teslas, which start at about $40,000.

"We want to buy one now," she said, laughing. "It's smooth. And it’s fast. Really fast."

Moscow to Rostov on Don

Best options, other options, moscow to rostov on don schedule, transportation from moscow to rostov on don.

• Trains RUB 2,553
• Buses RUB 851
• Flights RUB 2,708
• Ferries are not available
• Taxis are not available
• Vans are not available

Facts about the transport from Moscow to Rostov on Don

Popular routes, from moscow.

• Moscow → Saint Petersburg
• Moscow → Minsk
• Moscow → Bangkok
• Moscow → Vladivostok
• Moscow → Kazan
• Minsk → Moscow
• Kyiv → Moscow
• Bangkok → Moscow
• Saint Petersburg → Moscow
• Kaliningrad → Moscow

From Rostov on Don

• Rostov on Don → Moscow
• Rostov on Don → Tbilisi
• Rostov on Don → Istanbul
• Rostov on Don → Yerevan
• Rostov on Don → Saint Petersburg

To Rostov on Don

• Yerevan → Rostov on Don
• Tbilisi → Rostov on Don
• Gomel → Rostov on Don
• Minsk → Rostov on Don
• Donetsk → Rostov on Don

How to get from Moscow to Rostov on Don

When you want to get from Moscow to Rostov on Don, you have a few options to consider. Traveling between these destinations is possible by different means of transport:

If you’re looking for a quick trip, it’s recommended that you use Flight. However, if you’d rather take your time with a slower, more affordable travel option, you can book a Train ticket.

The cost of travel will depend on the means of transport you choose for your trip. A flight ticket is the most expensive option - it will cost you about RUB 28,469 . If you want to save on transportation, it’s better to take a bus as a bus ticket costs as low as RUB 851 .

How far is Moscow from Rostov on Don?

If you’re traveling by land, it’s important to know the distance from Moscow to Rostov on Don. Your trip will be a total of 646 miles (1038 km). The flying distance is 593 miles (954 km).

How long does it take to get from Moscow to Rostov on Don?

The travel time from Moscow to Rostov on Don can vary depending on the mode of transportation you choose. All things considered, the whole journey should take from 2 to 30 hours.

How much does it cost to get from Moscow to Rostov on Don?

The cost of the trip from Moscow to Rostov on Don varies according to what means of transport you choose for your journey. The most affordable operator is Local Carrier: travelling by bus expect to pay as low as RUB 851 for your ticket.

However, if you’re after more upscale travel . The most expensive variant is to opt for a flight - a one-way flight ticket can cost as much as RUB 28,469 .

Here is a chart of the average ticket prices and transportation options available from Moscow to Rostov on Don:

• Bus tickets - RUB 851 to RUB 851 ;
• Train tickets - RUB 2,553 to RUB 12,610 ;
• Plane tickets - RUB 2,708 to RUB 28,469 ;

How many trips per day are there between Moscow and Rostov on Don?

Depending on your choice of transportation, the number of daily trips varies.

• Flights from Moscow to Rostov on Don depart during the day - there are approximately 2 departures a day.
• Buses start plying the route from 13:30 - you can also take a bus as late as 21:15. There are 2 available bus trips every day.
• Trains always run on a set schedule - there are 1 trains per day.

Which means of transport is the best for the route?

How to choose the most convenient way of travel from Moscow to Rostov on Don? In order to make your choice of transportation easier, we asked 1000 users to range their preferences for this route. Here are the results of the poll:

• 100% decided to go for a bus.
• Rostov on Don
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