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On 16 May, Lux Express Group opened its first Simple Express customer service office. The Simple Express customer service office locates in Poland, in the heart of Warsaw, where a high-quality transport service will be provided and directed towards the citizens of Warsaw and Poznan as well as the surrounding areas.

In addition to the opening of the customer service office, a completely new route Vilnius-Warsaw-Berlin will be launched from 1 June.

From 1 of July there will be an additional Simple Express journey on route Tallinn – Riga. The Simple Express coach will depart from Tallinn coach station at 12:00 and from Riga coach station at 17:30.

Further information about the new journey will be available in our ticket system.

Lux Express

On 4th of May night there will be server maintenance work and because of that our Lux Express Ticket sales system work will be interrupted form 00:00am till 02:00am Estonian time. We recommend you to plan your ticket purchases before or after that time. If there is any questions or problems, please do not hesitate to contact our 24h Service Centre.
24h Service Centre service is available to all passengers in English and Russian languages and info telephone numbers are as following:

Dear customer!

From May 2nd we will start with renovation in Tallinn customer service office to provide you more comfort and modern our service office design. An estimated duration of customer service office renovation is about 2 weeks.

From 14 of May Lux Express stops selling tickets on-board the coaches, which departures from St. Petersburg coach station. It means that passengers can not purchase the tickets anymore on-board of the coaches, which departure from St. Petersburg to Tallinn or Riga. 

The change was forced by the low demand of passengers in Russian territory.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Lux Express

From 20.06.2012 new Lux Express coaches will start to operate Tallinn- Riga, Riga – Vilnius and Tallinn – Vilnius route.

These coaches contain new features, such as an individual touch screen media system for each passenger, also all tables will be removed from the lounge area and seats are placed individually. There are 28 seats for sale in the first Lux part of coach and 10 seats for sale in the Lounge part.

From 20.06.2012 our route Riga - Kaliningrad will be in operation by Lux Express coaches. Lux Express departures from Riga are on every second day at 22.10 and from Kaliningrad on every second day at 21.00.

In the Lux Express coach there are 42 seats for sale.

New prices are shown in the sales system.

Lux Express

As passengers are the most valuable asset for Lux Express, the company wished to improve its services more convenient and customer centric, and has started to provide its passengers 24h customer service in all countries, where Lux Express operates and has its customer service offices.

Lux Express will open a 3rd journey from Riga to St. Petersburgh on 24.05.2012.

Lux Express coaches will start departing on 24th of May from Riga at 23:55 o’clock and on 25th of May from St. Petersburg at 21:00 o’clock. Detailed information about timetables, stops and prices are all shown in the below mentioned table 1.

From 20.06.2012 Lux Express will open a totally new route:  Riga-Panevežys-Minsk.

The first departure from Riga coach station will be on June 20th at 22:50 and from Minsk coach station on on June 21th at 12:15. The stops between Riga and Minsk are only in Panevežys and Vilnius  „PLC Panorama“.

The price between Riga and Minsk is about 27 EUR.

This weekend youth brand Simple Express will turn two years old.

On its birthday Simple Express is offering every moustache wearer a FREE trip.  That means this Saturday on the 14th of April all people wearing moustaches can step on to any Simple Express coach and travel for free anywhere the coach is going. You can travel to Riga, Vilnius or even to Warsaw or why not to St. Petersburg, but remember that you need a Russian visa to cross the border.

By the end of June all Lux Express Lounge coaches will be replaced with new style coaches. These coaches contain new features, such as an individual touch screen media system for each passenger also all tables will be removed from the lounge area and each passenger will sit individually. There are 28 seats for sale in the first Lux part of coach and 10 seats for sale in the Lounge part.

All Lux Express coaches, which need to cross borders for reaching to different destinations, are not making any duty free stops in borders. It includes all Lux Express coaches like Lux Express, Lux Express Lounge, Lux Express Special and Lux Express Minibus.

Lux Express values its standards and rules, appreciates passengers time for reaching in the destination cities on time and is not making unscheduled stops in border for duty free.

Lux Express
 

From 2 of April Lux Express is starting to provide more affordable ticket prices for travelling with Simple Express.

We wish to inform you that in the 8th of April 2012 on Easter Sunday, our Lithuanian ticket office opening hours are:

• Panorama salesoffice (: Str. 9, Vilnius) will be closed.
• Sodų g. 20 B-1, near Vilnius Bus Station will be open from 09:00 am. - 16:00 pm.

Lux Express

Due to the transition to summer time at night on the 24 of March, there is no departure from Tallinn to St. Petersburg at 03:50. The bus departures for a ride to St. Petersburg from the Tallinn coach station at 04:05 in early morning.

Lux Express

Lux Express is going to shorten the Riga customer service office opening hours from 1 of April. Clients are daily served in the customer service office from 06:40 until 20:00.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Lux Express
 

From 12. March there are back in schedule additional routes Tallinn – Riga and Tallinn – St Petersburg.

Lux Express begins to operate again in route Tallinn – Riga, where the bus departures from Tallinn coach station at 08.30 and from Riga at 16.00.
Simple Express starts to operate the route Tallinn – St Petersburg, where the bus departures from Tallinn coach station at 03.50 and from St Petersburg at 18.00.

Wishing the pleasant trips

Lux Express
 

As of from 01.06.2012 we are opening a new journey on Tallinn – Vilnius route. The departure time from Tallinn will be at 6.00 and from Vilnius at 16.00.
 

Prices for that departure will be:
Riga – Vilnius/Vilnius - Riga (20 EUR; 10 EUR*;18 EUR**)
Tallinn – Riga/Riga – Tallinn  (23 EUR; 11,5 EUR*; 20,7 EUR**)
Tallinn – Vilnius/Vilnius - Tallinn (40 EUR; 20 EUR*; 36 EUR**)

Due the summer season all prices will change on all Tallinn-St.Petersburg routes, new prices will be valid for departures from 1. June 2012.

All new prices are shown on Excel table below.

Lux Express

From 1st of June 2012 Lux Express will open a new Simple Express route Vilnius-Warsaw-Berlin. Although the passengers can travel to Germany from June, there are tickets for sale from NOW.

Simple Express departure times are as followed:
1)    From Vilnius bus station at 14:45 and at 22:30
2)    From Berlin (ZOB am Funkturm) at 14:30 and at 21:30

2011 was a financially successful year for Lux Express Group, because the group companies earned over 514 000 Euros of profit. In comparison with 2010, the total profit of the group increased by more than 162 000 Euros or by about 46%.

From the 1st of February there will be time changes on Simple Express route Vilnius – Warsaw. The bus departing from Vilnius bus station at 22:00 will arrive to different stations of Warsaw as follows:

- 06:00 Centralny DW
- 06:15 Warsaw Airport
- 6:30 D.A. Gate

Lux Express
 

The prices to/from Warsaw Airport have been  changed due to the circumstance, that Warsaw Aiport has implemented a fare for entrance to the Airport.

1) Route: Riga – Vilnius – Kaunas – Warsasw
Lux Express + Simple Express from Riga to Warsaw Airport (17,2 EUR; 8,6 EUR*; 3,4EUR**, 19 EUR***; 9,5 EUR****; 3,8 EUR*****)

Lux Epress LOUNGE + Simple Express from Riga to  Warsaw Airport (19,2 EUR; 9,6EUR*; 3,8EUR**; 21 EUR***; 10,5 EUR****; 4,2 EUR*****)

The price change affects departures from St. Petersburg on Fridays and from Tallinn and Riga on Sundays.

New prices are following:
1)    Lux Express

Tallinn-St. Petersburg and St. Petersburg-Tallinn (32 EUR/1345 RUB; 28,80 EUR*/1211 RUB*)

* 10% children 0-12 (incl) years old

Due to the low demand of passengers we decided temporarily close some departures on Tallinn-Riga and Tallinn – St.Petersburg routes. 

Departures will be closed form 16th of January 2012 till 11th of March 2012.

Lux Express departures:
Tallinn – Riga departure from Tallinn at 8.30
Riga – Tallinn departure from Riga at 16.00

Simple Express departures:
Tallinn – St. Petersburg departure from Tallinn at 3.50
St. Petersburg – Tallinn departure from St. Petersburg at 18.00

From 9th of  January will change Lux Express and Simple Express tickets designs. Tickets design changes are driven by the desire to be simpler for customers, more understandable and more customer friendly.

Dear Customer!

Please be informed, that starting from January 9th, 2012 there will be a change in Lux Express price list – departure date and time at your ticket can be changed free of charge only once, for each next change service fee 2.00 EUR will be added.

Thank You for understanding!
Lux Express

Tallinn sales office
Lastekodu 46

24.12.2011 from 06:30-20:00
25.12.2011 from 06:30-19:00
26.12.2011 from 06:30-20:00
31.12.2011 from 06:30-19:00
01.01.2012 from 10:00-20:00

Riga sales office
Pragas iela 1

Dear Clients!

Please, be informed that due to the National holidays of the Republic of Latvia, on November 18th Riga’s sales office opening hours will be from 06:40 until 20:00.

Tickets can be purchased via our home pages www.luxexpress.eu and www.simpleexpress.eu.

Yours faithfully,

Lux Express Latvia

In All Saints' day on the October 31st and November 1st our Stotis sales office (Sodu str. 20B-1, Vilnius) will be working from 09:00 till 19:00.

We have to announce that from 15th of October we are canceling 2 Lux Express journeys on the line Riga – Tallinn (departures from Tallinn at 00.30 and from Riga at 21.30)

The last departures on the above mentioned journeys are the following:
Tallinn -Riga at 00.30 – on 14th of October 2011
Riga–Tallinn at 21.30 – on 14th of October 2011

We will personally contact all customers who have booked the tickets for later than 14th of October to find the perfect solution.

We apologize for all the inconvenience that may cause!

Due to credit card fraud in the Internet it is not possible to buy online a tickets for traveling from Baltic States to Germany, Great Britain and Italy. You can buy tickets for these trips from Lux Express sales offices and from our travel agencies.

We are apologizing for any inconvenience!

Sincerely Yours

Lux Express

The 40th Tartu Ski Marathon will take place on 20 February 2011. Lux Express will take the skiers as well as the spectators to Otepää and bring them back to Tallinn after the marathon.

The price for a return ticket is 20 EUR.

To buy a ticket, follow the steps below:

In the new year almost every second or 48% of Latvian citizens have commitment to travel more frequently, the same number of respondents acknowledged that one of the trip destinations will be the Baltic States, concluded in research prepared by the leading passengers carrying company in the Baltic States Lux Express. Research carried out among 571 respondents aged from 17 to 74 years.

During Christmas and New Year period Lux Express ticket sales offices are working on changed schedule:

Tallinn
During Christmas time the sales office is working on regular schedule:
24.12.2010 06:30-21:30
25.12.2010 06:30-21:30
26.12.2010 06:30-21:30

For the New Year the opening time has been changed:
31.12.2010 6:30-20:00
01.01.2011 8:00-20:00
From 02.01.2011 06:30-20:00 every day.

Thanks to the tourism development in the Baltic States, the region's leading passengers carrying company Lux Express in the first nine months carried 50.5 thousand or 18% passengers more than last year, during this period reaching the total number of carried passengers 334 thousand. Riga-Tallinn was the route where Baltic state citizens were traveling most active.

The number of passengers travelling on the coaches operated by AS Lux Express, the largest international coach route operator in Estonia belonging to the Mootor Grupp increased by 16.4% during the first half-year of 2010 reaching 185,721 passengers. By the end of the first six months of 2009, the company had provided transportation services for 159,546 passengers.

Due to technical reasons the Emilii Plater 08 bus stop in Warsaw on the Vilnius - Warsaw - Vilnius line,
operated by Simple Express, is closed from 29.07.2010.

The new stop is moved to Dw. Centralny 04, Al. Jan Pawla II (near the Central Railway station).

The location on the map can be viewed here.

International passenger carrier company’s “Eurolines Lux Express” revenue rose by 22% during 2009 and reached 7.05 million EUR (24.34 million LTL). 386 000 passengers used company’s services – 18% more than in 2008.

To help you stay better connected with us Lux Express now has its profiles on Facebook and Twitter. Join our community and you will find out the latest news about Lux Express services and products, upcoming events and other general information. You will also have unique opportunity to enjoy special offers created for our friends only.
Your feedback is important. Users’ thoughts and comments will help us to continually improve our services. If you have Facebook and/or Twitter account, please join us now. Simply follow the links below.

The 39th Tartu Ski Marathon will take place on 21 February 2010. Lux Express will take the skiers as well as the spectators to Otepää and bring them back to Tallinn after the marathon.

The price for a return ticket is EEK 250.

To buy a ticket, follow the steps below:

From 15th of January the time table for Riga-Vilnius lines will change.  You can find precise information from here.

The route traffic turnover of Eurolines Lux Express grew 16% in the third quarter and the company will invest 20 million in order to purchase new buses.

The route traffic turnover of MootorReisi AS that operates under the brand of Eurolines Baltic grew 16.4% in the third quarter of 2009. The three quarters overall, revenue growth amounted to 26%. The number of passengers increased by 11%  in the third quarter, and 22%  in the first nine months. The average ticket price has risen 3%.

Despite the reduction of economic development leading passenger carrier in the Baltic "Eurolines Lux Express” plans to invest 1.15 million euro to expand and modernize the company's operations. Thereby, inhabitants of Latvia would be provided with even more simple and comfortable transportation to Lithuania and Estonia.

Press release
Vilnius, 15th October, 2009

From the 1st of October, 2009 Lux Express joined the loyalty program BalticMiles which itself is owned and operated by airBaltic. From now all permanent Lux Express passengers will receive a certain amount of miles for their journeys by bus. Those received miles may be used to buy different services.

Product concept of Eurolines Lux Express
Product concept of our Lux Express package is modified. The existing assortment which includes Lux Express and Lux Express Special is diversified with Lux Express Special Lounge.

Starting from 26-th of May Eurolines Baltic will launch a new route Vilnius Warsaw.
Departures will be 4 times a week on Tuesdays, Thusdays, Fridays, Sundays from Vilnius and on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays from Warsaw.

Bus goes also to the Warsaw international airport. That is especially convenient  for those passengers who wish to start their flight early in the morning, because bus arrives to the airport 06:15.
Departure from Warsaw airport will be at 19:30, next departure is 20:00 from bus station and arrival in Vilnius 06:20.

On 23 March, we will bring a new standard to the coach service on the Tallinn-Riga route – Lux Express Special.

Lux Express Special is basically a development of the successful Lux Express product concept and it has been designed exclusively for the needs of corporate customers.

The advantages of Lux Express and Lux Express Special have been listed below for comparison:

Eurolines Lux Express offers comfortable RIGA AIRPORT TRANSFERS from Tallinn, Pärnu, Klaipeda and Vilnius.
Prices start from 15.90 EUR.

In the Summer there are 2 direct and 3 connecting departures from Tallinn, 2 direct departures from Klaipeda and 2 direct departures from Vilnius.
From Riga airport there are 3 connecting departures to Tallinn, 1 direct departure to Vilnius, 1 direct and 1 connecting departure to Klaipeda.

Tickets to the connecting departures can be bought only in advance, not from the bus.

During the first half of 2009, Eurolines will be purchasing four new tourist coaches, three of which will comply with the Lux Express service standard applied by the company on international routes. Due to the increase in the number of coaches, new departure times will be added to the Lux Express departure schedules on the Tallinn-St. Petersburg, Tallinn-Riga and Riga-Vilnius routes, starting from March, said Hannes Saarpuu, the Chairman of the Management Board of Eurolines Baltic.