Introduction: CURITIBA to Joinville BUS
Our plan is to keep going South to reach Uruguay, so our next destination after Curitiba will be Joinville where we will also meet some Friends.
To reach Joinville from Curitiba, the easiest way is by bus.
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Mapping the day
Terminal
There is only one bus terminal is Curitiba, so there are no possibilities to get it wrong.
To get there, as always for us in Brazil, we used an Uber. It was a 15min ride from our guesthouse in the city center.
Bus Ticket
We had bought our ticket from Clickbus. As always it worked easily with google translate. Both tickets cost us 80,48 Real (17,9 euro).
Only this time, we didn’t receive e-tickets. But as we had the bus that leave at 10am, we had plenty of time to eat our breakfast at 8am and leave at 9am to the bus terminal.
When we arrived, we went for the ticket offices that are located on the second floor of the terminal. There we located our bus operator office catarinense and saw that we could either line up and go to the counter or used automated terminal. We went for the terminal, especially that someone was there to assist in case of need. We simply enter our bus ticket number (you can get if on the clickbus confirmation email under “localizator” or from the website if you click on your reservation).
We enter the first ticket reference and printed it out and did the same for the other one.
Then, we simply went down, past the check-in area through automated gateway and waited our bus at the terminal.
There are many terminals with gates. We were in the terminal A as written on our ticket. Then to know the gate, we just waited to see the bus with the right company on it arrived.
When it arrived, we lined up, went to the rear of the bus to drop ours bag and boarded the bus.
Bus
Double decker bus with conventional class on the upper deck and a better one on the lower deck. We had the seat 36 and 34, so we were seating next to another but with a corridor between us, but for 2h, that’s fine. When we went on the upper deck, we realized that someone was already seating in our seat and that the numbering of the bus was off. A young local girl that spoke English told us that we had to add 20 to our seat number. So, we were seat 56 and 54.
We found the right place and even had the chance that no-one was next to me, so we nicely sat together.
Conventional class was already great, plenty of space, reclinable seat, armrest and footrest. Not sure but there may even have toilet on the lower deck.
Everything went fine on that bus. The duration was 1h50 but it took around 2h20. We don’t know why cuz we didn’t make any stops but no big deals.
Where to Stay Curitiba
We would recommend staying at:
- Hostel: Garibaldi Hostel e Café
- Hotel: Novotel Curitiba Batel
“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett
