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Patrick UThe location of the departure station is stated wrong in Kars. It is the bus terminal within the city.
Kars to Hopa, Bus Standard 2X2, Yesil Artvin Ekspres, Aug 19, 2025
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Signe NWe sat in the front of the bus. The seats were not the comfiest, but the views were amazing. We stopped for a small break after about an hour and then had a half hour lunch break at a small restaurant where we could purchase kebap. Still, we arrived half an hour early. There were seatbelts (over the hip) on the bus and curtains for the windows. P.S. no air conditioning.
Kars to Hopa, Bus Standard 2X2, Yesil Artvin Ekspres, Aug 14, 2025
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Isolde MNice trip in air conditioned bus, enough breaks and stops to buy food or have lunch
Kars to Hopa, Bus Standard 2X2, Yesil Artvin Ekspres, Jul 17, 2025
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Joseph BDeparture point is the central Kars bus station, not the petrol station outside of town.
Left on time, arrived early! Cannot complain, worked like a charm!
Kars to Hopa, Bus Standard 2X2, Yesil Artvin Ekspres, May 30, 2025
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Tracey SVery comfortable modern bus - recommend.
Kars to Hopa, Bus Standard 2X1, Ozlem Ardahan Turizm, Oct 22, 2024
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Olaf MThe indicated departure bus station is some km out of Kars. We were told to ask at the Yesil Artvin office downtown for information about how to get there. So we did the day before our departure.
The staff speak only turkish and said: Passport! Finally we were told to be at the bus station downtown at 9am (according to your information sheet the bus was to leave at the out-of-town station at 10am, distance about 3km.
When we got there next morning at 8.50, there was a small bus (30+ seats). No information about the schedule or if this bus just would go to the other station, nothing. Another passenger we asked said she'd go to Erzurum on this bus, which is a quite different direction. This was irritating. At 10.10 the bus departed, so we sat around for more than an hour for nothing. It didn't even go the other bus station, just bypassed it (looks like a lost place anyway!).
The bus took a route far from the direct one to Hopa, and that is why the journey takes 6 hours and it could also take a passenger to Erzurum (who had to change somewhere). We arrived in time at the end. But no information, no service except a nip of water and two breaks to get food outside.
Some days before we had a completely different experience with another company.
Anyway, it's good there's a bus from Kars to Hopa.
Kars to Hopa, Bus Standard 2X2, Yesil Artvin Ekspres, Aug 7, 2022