Useful information for passengers

In Bratislava there are two types of tickets: time-tickets for more transfers and prepaid zone tickets (24-hour, 48-hour, 72-hour, 168-hour, 30-day, 90-day and 365-day).

Time-tickets valid for 15 and 60 minutes and cost 0.50 and 0.70 EUR (15.06 and 21.09 Sk). Reduced fare tickets are usable for 6 to 15 years old children, students with certificate issued by Bratislava Transport Company (DPB), retired and baggage. You can obtain your ticket in the most of kiosks, DPB shops and ticket machines. 30-minute ticket is mostly used ticket in Bratislava. Travel time is shown in all schedules and controllers must accept its even if real travel time is longer. It is not relevant in which tariff zone you are, only time validity of ticket is important. On the other hand, if you use prepaid zone ticket, you should pay attention in which zone you are. 1st tariff zone covers wider city centre and if you aren't sure where you will travel, we recommend you to buy ticket which valids in all tariff zones. Please note that if you want to buy prepaid ticket with validity longer than 7 days, you have to have chip card issued by DPB. If you are going to use night line, you should have 60-minute ticket which valids 90 minutes in night lines. During non-working days validity of 60-minute tickets is extended to 90 minutes. Children under 6 years and retired over 70 years can travel for free. Information about tickets is on page Tickets, border of 1st and 2nd fare tariff is in Public Transport Map.

You have to validate all tickets with validity from 10 minutes to 7 days immediately after entering the vehicle. If you are changing line, don't validate the ticket second time. During checking of ticket validity, all designators are blocked after 15 seconds after closing the doors. Be sure you hold your ticket before getting on vehicle and put it in designator in right direction. Validity of ticket ends after the labelled time elapsed. If you want to get on from request stop, you should nod driver. If you want to get off at request stop, you have to press button Stop.

There are also fines for breaking conditions of using public transport. Travelling without valid ticket is fined 50 EUR (1506 Sk) and if you don't have enough money, you will have to pay additional fine. If you don't have ticket for baggage exceeding 30 x 40 x 60 cm the fine is 1 EUR (30.126 Sk) and for animal 2 EUR (60.252 Sk). Animal travelling in vehicle has to have regular ticket and has to be in cage resp. dog has to have muzzle. If you want to enter vehicle with dog or baby buggy it's necessary to ask driver..