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# When heading for [[Budapest]] you will see that the border is around 15 km from '''Bratislava'''. It is within walking distance (''if you like that kind of thing'') follow the motorway but be aware that once outside the city there are no [[petrol station hitchhiking|petrol stations]] and only one parking place which is more or less between the border and '''Bratislava'''. The parking is far from ideal, very quiet, no services and so large its difficult to talk to drivers.
# Go to the shopping centre AUPARK, there is a OMV petrol station with lots of cars going to the motorway, try to get a lift to the first petrol station on the motorway named Jarovce
(I tried this option with a girlfriend. Enough cars, a lot of drivers speak English, but nobody is going to the motorway and everybody has a car filled with groceries, kids or a wife (MF))
# Not exactly hitching, but you can get a bus ticket to Budapest for 90 SKK (~4.50 USD) from the Student Agency on Obchodna Ulica. The place is, if facing towards the old town, on the left hand side of the street just before Postova Ulica, near the McD's/KFC and Slovak Pub. If you're under 26 don't forget to ask for the 10% discount.
Another possibilityOther options:# Walk towards the border. It is around 15 km from '''Bratislava'''. Follow the motorway but be aware that once outside the city there are no [[petrol station hitchhiking|petrol stations]] and only one parking place between '''Bratislava''' and the border. The parking place is very quiet, that you might not think about no services and so large its difficult to talk to drivers.# OMV petrol station near shopping centre AUPARK. Try to get a lift to the first petrol station on the first look motorway named Jarovce.(I tried this option with a girlfriend. Enough cars, a lot of drivers speak English, but nobody is going to the map motorway and everybody has a car filled with groceries, kids or a wife (MF))# get a bus ticket to Budapest for 90 SKK (~4.50 USD) from the Student Agency on Obchodna Ulica. The place is , if facing towards the old town, on the left hand side of the street just before Postova Ulica, near the McD's/KFC and Slovak Pub. If you're under 26 don't forget to ask for the 10% discount.# a motorway-petrol station in the northeast of the city. Take Bus 63 (crosses the hole town) and get out at Tesco Lamac (next to a shopping center). Walk 1 km northwards and you get to a bridge that crosses the motorway. Go down the steps at the bridge and another 100m north and you're there.
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=== South towards [[Budapest]] {{European Route Number|75}}, [[Vienna]] {{European Route Number|58}} ===
==== The working and tested option ====
From the city centre take a tram number 2 or 4 in direction of Zlate Piesky, get off at the last stop. Then walk along the road around 15 minutes. When you see the beginning of the motorway with a sign Győr, Wien, on your right handside you will notice a petrol station. Go a few metres through bushes, and once you get to the fence, there is a hole in fence. Jump over it (its just one metre or something) and you are at the petrol station directly on the motorway. From there its VERY easy to get a lift to Wien, a bit harder to Hungary. Some people also go to Italy using this way to avoid paying for viniets for Austria, which are expensive.
=== West towards [[Austria]] ===