From Curitiba to Joinville: The Ultimate Guide to a pleasant 2h Bus Journey
Our next step on our journey southward is to reach Joinville, the largest city in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. After exploring Curitiba and enjoying its beautiful sights, we’re excited to head further south. Joinville is not only a city rich in culture but also where we’ll be catching up with some good friends, making this leg of the trip even more special.
To get from Curitiba to Joinville, the most convenient and comfortable option is to take a bus. The bus ride is straightforward, offering a relaxed and scenic journey through the Brazilian countryside. It’s an affordable and easy way to travel between these two cities, and with multiple bus companies available, you’ll have no trouble finding a suitable time to go. Plus, it’s a great way to see more of the southern part of Brazil while making your way to your next destination!
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Curitiba to Joinville Bus
Where to Stay in Curitiba
For us, one of the most important aspects of our travels is choosing the right place to stay. With that in mind, here are our top recommendations:
- (€): Johnscher by SJ – San Juan Curitiba
- (€€): Novotel Curitiba Batel
- (€€€): Nomaa Hotel
Curitiba Bus 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.
Curitiba to Joinville Bus Ticket
We had bought our bus ticket from Curitiba to Joinville 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 from Curitiba to Joinville 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 from Curitiba to Joinville 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 from Curitiba to Joinville with the right company on it arrived.
When it arrived, we lined up, went to the rear of the bus from Curitiba to Joinville 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 in Joinville
For us, one of the most important aspects of our travels is choosing the right place to stay. With that in mind, here are our top recommendations:
- (€): Hotel Dois H
- (€€): Naalt Hotel Joinville
- (€€€): Mercure Joinville Prinz
“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett
