Blast Off! Festival in Nottingham, UK

Nottingham is an easily accessible city, close to several airports and with excellent road and rail links. You can get here by:

East Midlands Airport,served by low-cost international airlines, makes the city easily accessible from other parts of the world providing daily services to many principal European destinations such as Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin, Dublin, Oslo and Amsterdam, internal flights to Edinburgh and Belfast and limited services outside Europe.

For more information on destinations and airlines, click here.

You can easily get to the city centre from East Midlands Airport on Skylink busses, just outside arrivals; or on train from the new East Midlands Parkway station. Or check the taxi companies bellow on the page, for reasonable fares from and to the EMA airport.

Birmingham International Airport is about one hour's drive away and about 2 hours on the train, providing flights to almost all principal European cities, New York, Boston, Toronto, and Montreal. For more information on destinations and airlines, click here.

Nottingham has fast direct train services to London, Leeds, Birmingham, Leicester, Lincoln, Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool and Norwich as well as many other towns and cities.

For cheap fares try Megatrain, or for other alternative fares check National Rail.

NOTTINGHAM RAILWAY STATION

Carrington Street
Nottingham
NG2 3AQ
Tel: 0845 712 5678

Nottingham's Broadmarsh Bus Station is the central bus station that links the city to the world and you can get a seat on National Express for £3 if you book with plenty of advance, look for funfares tickets!

If you are travelling by car from M1 (North or South) just follow the Nottingham signs! Dead easy!

It’s not hard to get around town while you are here; there is a good tram and bus service that run all night, although you can walk almost everywhere!

If you are feeling lazy, you can hail a black cab on the street, get a taxi at a taxi rank, or call one of the following taxi companies:

www.central-cars.net

www.nottingham-taxis.co.uk

www.dgcars.co.uk

For more local travel info, check Nottingham City Transport.