Cartagena-
Barranquilla-
Santa
Marta
Shuttle via MarSol, is a
bus
service that runs an hourly van service
from
Cartagena
to
Barranquilla
then on to
Santa
Marta. They use Mercedes Benz
vans that are all new. They seat no
more than 13 people. They are a very
organized and an impressive service.
What you do is call them, give your
name and number and where you are
located. My experience with them is
only Cartagena
to Barranquilla
and return, but I'm certain the service
is excellent all the way to
Santa
Marta.
If for example, you are in a
Cartagena
hotel, call and reserve your time for
the next available
bus that
meets there schedule. They run every
hour from 6 a.m. till 4 p.m. to
Barranquilla/Santa Marta.
The van comes to your hotel and they go
around
Cartagena picking everyone up.
Then they stop at the
Cartagena
office near the airport, and then they
leave on the coastal highway to
Barranquilla.
When they arrive at
Barranquilla
they drive a route around the city to
drop people off. They don't go all the
way south in
Barranquilla, they'll drop you
off at a point as far south as they go.
In Cartagena
they won't go any farther from the
center than pie de la Popa (where the
monastery on the hill is). If the van is
leaving the
Cartagena office at 6 a.m. they
start picking people up at 5am. If you
call they'll say like be ready at 5:30
a.m . They always show up. I've never
been stiffed and I've used them dozens
of times. Sometimes if the passengers
are from all over
Cartagena
they'll pick you up in a taxi and the
taxi will take you to the office where
you'll board the van before going to
Barranquilla.
Best of all it only costs 19,000 Pesos
(about u.s. $10.) and these guys know
the highway. They fly through the
security and speed traps, never
take longer than 1 hour and 15 minutes
to get to
Barranquilla.
I know they're good because all the
other van service companies try and
steal their passengers. There's a Home
Depot at the pie de la Popa and
sometimes when I'm waiting there for the
MarSol van, a competitive
van company, will come by and say marSol
sent them for me and its bull shit.
MarSol is great and a great price. Why
use a private car for 120,000 pesos that
actually may take longer sometimes.
Here's the numbers for the MarSol
office in
Barranquilla: 368-3272,
369-4228, 300 808-3147, 313 545-0004,
373-6425, 357-4265
their address is calle 93 # 47-13 their
right up from the McDonald's
Here's the numbers for the MarSol office
in Cartagena:
656-4192 ,300 805-6659. Their office
address in
Cartagena is Crespo cll. 70 no.
6a/120. When you walk out of the airport
in Cartagena
there is a main street in Crespo, I
don't know its name but you just walk
one block to the right and their office
is on the sea side of the street,. Once
again walk directly out the airport to
the main Crespo road and turn right walk
one block and you'll see the MarSol
office on the right hand side.
The MarSol van service between
Cartagena-Barranquilla-Santa
Marta is
Tom Power approved. Remember, were all
in this together.
