WARSAW BUS HUB
Warsaw’s coach network runs on a split map: the ageing Zachodnia terminal west of the centre, a ring of FlixBus curbs from Metro Młociny to the National Stadium, and the Ukraine corridors that made the city Europe’s east–west bus exchange.
The Warsaw West bus station at Aleje Jerozolimskie 144 opened in 1980 and looks it: a concrete hall that has been promised a replacement since at least 2017, yet still dispatches the PKS fleets, the domestic minibus lines and most international coaches. FlixBus’s official “Warsaw, West Station” stop is here — international departures from the international platforms, with the Żak Express lines to Ełk and Białystok on platform 3. The redeeming feature is logistics: Zachodnia is one stop by SKM or a short tram from Centralna.
Read the ticket, not the map: FlixBus also boards at Metro Młociny (P+R terminus, platform 1), Metro Marymont, Centrum on Marszałkowska, the Main Railway Station by Złote Tarasy, and both kerbs at the National Stadium — the wrong stop means a cross-town sprint. The network is the point: 324 cities direct, from Berlin and Prague to Vilnius and Budapest, and the densest Ukraine web in the EU — Lviv overnight from about $45, Vinnytsia, Kyiv and Odesa with multiple carriers daily. The Modlin airport shuttle and Chopin airport services plug both airports into the same grid.
THE TIO READ
Domestic Poland, take the train; cross-border, take the coach. The Ukraine and Baltic corridors are where Warsaw’s buses beat everything — book the 23:00 Lviv departure at Zachodnia, sleep the border queue, and save the rail fare for the Pendolino runs where it actually buys time.
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