TICKET TYPE |
ADULT | CONCESSION / CHILD |
Cash (standard one way) | $2.80 | $1.70 |
Bee Card (standard one way) | $2.24 | $1.34* |
Children under five | Free | |
Daysaver - Travel on any Cityride routes no concession available | $7.00 | N/A |
*In 2022 all school students travelling on Cityride Rotorua urban bus services can travel for free before 9 am and from 2:30 - 6:30 pm on school days. This trial commences on the 31 January 2022 until 31 December 2022. Students will need a registered Bee card to travel free.
Outside of these times children are charged as per the concession rate above in conjunction with the concession groups below:
Concession fares apply to the following groups:
- Children under 5 years travel for FREE
- Children aged 5 - 15 years (paying with cash)
- Children including school students aged 5 - 18 years (paying with a registered Bee card with concession applied)*
- Secondary and school students with a valid student ID (paying with cash)
- Tertiary students (with a valid student ID with a NZQA registered institution, paying with a registered Bee card with concession applied)
- NZ SuperGold card holders after 9am Monday to Friday and all day Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays (with concession applied to a registered Bee card).
- The Accessibility Concession is available to people with an impairment that means they permanently are not able to drive a motor vehicle. An assessment is required as part of the application process. See here for more details.
How do transfers between buses work?
When using a Bee card:
When using a Bee Card, transfers between buses are automatically applied. Customers will need to tag on and tag off for each part of the journey; the system will not charge you any extra providing your journey is within the transfer rules.
- Free transfers between buses apply for two hours from your first tag on to your final tag off.
- The transfer time between buses can be no more than 30 minutes.
- You can only have a maximum of two free transfers per journey.
When paying with cash:
- Free transfers between buses apply for one hour from ticket purchase.
- The transfer time between buses can be no more than 30 minutes.
- You can only have a maximum of one free transfer per journey.
- You will need to present your ticket when transferring to the next bus.