private driver to SMA

[DonJuane]

Aside from traveling all the way to the bus station to buy your ticket, realize you can also buy a paper ticket for Primera Plus bus at the P.P. ticket counter at the Atrio (passageway between Plaza Baratillo and Union Jardin), any Oxxo cashier, or buy one online paying with Paypal and optionally later showing print out or ticket on smartphone face.

There are bathrooms on the bus. The central bus station in any city can be found by telling a taxi driver "central de autobuses". Always ask the price of where you plan to go when you get in a taxi. If they overcharge you can sometimes summon the police and they will come down to the normal rate, but why create a disturbance by not working out the price beforehand. Ask "cuanto cuesta al central" to get the price to the bus station. Expect to pay around 60-80 pesos for a taxi from downtown GTO to the bus station or 7 pesos for the light brown and tan "lantern top" bus from central GTO to the bus station and allocate a good hour to get from a downtown stop to the station. Part of the long time for the city bus is due to the in-route 10-15 minute stop and wait at the large parking area next to the Mercado Hidalgo and near the La Comercial market downtown.

If you plan to travel on a Sun, Mon, Friday in/out of GTO, buy your tickets well in advance due to traveling students on weekends.