How to get to Umeå

Perhaps you now have started to try to figure out the best way to get to Umeå, Sweden from your hometowns. Here follows some travelling advice.

To travel by plane is probably the fastest and most comfortable way of getting here, and for you to find the cheapest connections from your home country I guess that you are more capable of than I am, so I wont give you any advice in that matter.

If you want to come here in a more environmental friendly way you can either take the train or the bus.

The train connections are today not the best, a new railroad (Botniabanan) is under construction and is supposed to be ready to take on passengers by the end of August, the problem with that is that you can not yet book tickets and I have no idea when they are available.. The Swedish railroad company that have connections to Umeå today is called SJ, you will get to their English site on this link:

http://www.sj.se/sj/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=10&l=en

By bus Ybus I think is the way to go, they have good connections from Stockholm to Umeå. Their English site you will reach by this link:

https://portal.ybuss.se/boka/index.asp?id=0&language=2

Both the trains and the busses are departed from the same building in Stockholm; Stockholm Central Station.

When you get o Umeå, we will try to arrange that we are the ones picking you up with our cars. If this turns out to be hard for us to do the connections from the train station, bus station and the airport to our school (where the dinner will take place on Monday the 4th, and also where we’re probably will spend the night as well) are very good and it’s not far in distance.

We will soon send you more info in how you will pay the registration fee, the deadline for this will probably be in the end of July.

Do please contact me on hilma_87@hotmail.com if you have any further questions.

//Hilma