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Winnipeg
airport
is some 7km west of the city centre. There's a
tourist information desk
inside the airport concourse at the north end of the main level (daily 8am-9.45pm; tel 774-0031 or 1-800/665-0204, fax 788-0245), which has a good range of leaflets on the city and its principal attractions, along with accommodation listings. Close by, a display board advertising the city's grander hotels is attached to a free phone for on-the-spot hotel reservations. From outside the terminal building, Winnipeg Transit
bus
#15 (daily: every 20-30min 6.15am-12.45am; flat fare $1.60) runs downtown, dropping passengers at or near most of the larger hotels; tickets are bought from the driver.
Taxis
charge around $10-14 for the same journey, but are cheaper if you're prepared to share;
limos
cost $20-30 per person, $11 shared.
The
Mall Centre bus station
is on the west side of the downtown area at Portage Avenue and Memorial Boulevard (daily 6.30am-midnight).
Union Station
, the city's
train station
, is on Main Street, just south of Portage, and has connecting trains to Churchill, Toronto and Saskatoon for Vancouver.
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