How to get into town from the Airport

If you’re traveling with someone, sharing a cab may be your best option.

Cab prices from the airport may vary greatly. If you decide to take a cab from the airport, make sure you take a TAXI COMUM (literally, "common taxi"), as opposed to a cab referred to as RADIO TAXI or other special-service type of cab.

If you take a TAXI COMUM, expect to pay NO LESS than 100 reais (approximately 59 dollars, considering an exchange rate of 1,70).

If you’re traveling by yourself, it might be a better deal to take a bus into town. There is a bus called Airport Service, and it can take you to different parts of São Paulo.

How to get your tickets:
When you leave the customs area and find yourself on the ground floor lobby (wing A), walk out of the lobby and turn right. Walk for about 40 meters, and you will see a sign on your right that says AIRPORT SERVICE. You can pay for your ticket (R$28, or around US$ 16) with credit card.

For more information (bus lines and time sheets), visit:
http://www.airportbusservice.com.br/

(there is an icon for an English version of the page at the bottom left corner of the page).

If you’re staying at the Howard Johnson Hotel (recommended on our conference site), the best thing to do is to take the Airport Service bus to Avenida Paulista (on their website, look for “Guarulhos Airport – Paulista Avenue and Augusta Street Hotels Circuit), and get off at the Ibis Hotel (on Paulista Av. itself). The bus driver will ask you where you intend to get off the bus. If he happens not to, just tell him “Ibis Paulista” (pronounced “ee-bees” in Portuguese).
Once you get there, you will have to take a cab to the hotel – which should cost another US$ 15, depending on what time you get to the city and the usual heavy traffic).

If you’re staying at the Lorena Flat Hotel, you should still do the same thing, except that is much closer to Ibis Paulista than the Howard Johnson Hotel (the latter, however, is closer to the university).

How to get to USP from the Howard Johnson Hotel:

For you to have an idea of the distance between that hotel and the “Cidade Universitária” (the campus), take a look at the map:

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It is almost certain that we will have a free van service from that hotel to the conference site. Please wait for more information, as we get closer to the conference date.

Meanwhile, in case you are wondering, a cab ride from the Howard Johson hotel to the “Faculdade de Letras” (the building where the conference will happen), on Avenida Professor Luciano Gualberto, would take you about 20 minutes (again, depending on traffic) and would cost you about R$30 (around US$ 18).

To get an idea of the size of the campus, as well as of the location of the conference site, please check:

http://www.usp.br/mapas/cidade_universitaria.html