Erasmus ın Guimarães: Fırst day detaıls and phone lıne

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You won the Erasmus and found yourself at the Porto Airport.

After landing, you have two different options to switch to Guimarães: Train or bus. I will not give information about the train here because it would be unnecessary to talk about the difficult option on the first day. On the right side of the exit door of Porto Airport, you will see the branch of the company GetBus. GetBus will pick you up from the airport and take you to the center of Guimarães. (In February 2019, the price was 8 Euros.) What you need to learn from the GetBus branch is the departure time. they will get the money in the bus. Those who go to Braga with GetBus can also benefit. When asking for the time, it would be enough to indicate only Braga.

Guimarães shopping center is where you will get off in Guimarães. Since it is the last stop, you will not need any confusion. There is a nice thing about getting down at the Shopping Center, one of the first questions that come to your mind will be the phone line and you will solve the line problem here. Line prices are extremely affordable according to their tariffs. You will descend on the bottom floor of the Shopping Center, the bottom floor is kind of like a bus terminal. The shopping center consists of three floors: Ground floor, first and second floor. You will see the stands to get a line on the second floor. The phone line you will receive is WTF. These stands are set up for students, but since many students come to Minho University from outside, everyone at the stands can speak English. Tariffs are divided into W, T, F. The price difference and tariffs between them will cause you to get the most comprehensive package without thinking. Note that you will not receive W and T. You will receive an F package. (I do not explain it because you find it unnecessary to explain the alternatives where it is illogical and unnecessary in the article.) When you receive the F package, this tariff will be renewed every month and will continue for 3 months. So let me explain as follows. The fee you paid while buying this line was 10 Euros. You will benefit from this tariff for 3 months, which corresponds to 3.33 Euros per month. It will be more sensible to buy a new line after three months, because if you continue on this line, the prices will change and become expensive. For example, you will do Erasmus for 6 months, it will be enough to take 2 lines in this process. With a total of 20 Euros, you will meet your line needs for 6 months. If you state that you are an Erasmus student while buying it, you will prevent them from offering you alternative things. I do not want to go into the tariff details, because when you receive it, you will have information. These lines will also be very helpful in other country trips.

Before you go, look at the visuals of the places I said, if necessary, stroll through the streets of Guimarães, at least you have an idea.

Now let's go to the place you stay with the easiest method with suitcases in your hand. This method will definitely be taxis. You can take a taxi in front of the Guimarães Shopping Center. Since the taxi drivers are old, I cannot say that they are very reliable in English, so take a screenshot of your accommodation on the maps. The reason for the screenshot is that if you cannot agree with the taxi driver in the place of your accommodation, you have it with you. However, as I said before, because there are so many foreign students, taxi drivers generally know where to go, so it is not something to worry about. For example, you will stay in the dormitory of the school, if necessary, you can show a similar image to the taxi driver.

In addition:

I suggest you take something like sandwiches with you for the first day and the next day. When I went the first day, I was extremely tired and I had no energy to go out and eat.

I will share detailed information about Shopping and Dormitory in the next article.

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