How to Get Around
Parking Downtown
Use the kiosks to electronically pay for parking, but it is much easier to download the app for ParkMobile before you arrive. It’s detects where you are and you just select how long to park for and it charges your CC. The app warns you when time is running low, and you can buy more remotely.
Public Scooter Rentals
A cool option is to use the public Veo scooters that are all over Sarasota. There is a corral of them on Orange Ave. in front of the Citrus Square building. They cost $1 to unlock and then $0.37 per minute which is cheap since you’ll be at your destination in under five minutes no matter where you go. Learn more and get the app here.
A cool option is to use the public Veo scooters that are all over Sarasota. There is a corral of them on Orange Ave. in front of the Citrus Square building. They cost $1 to unlock and then $0.37 per minute which is cheap since you’ll be at your destination in under five minutes no matter where you go. Learn more and get the app here.
Getting to the Beach
The Bay Runner is a free trolley running the below route every 20–30 minutes between the beach and downtown. It stops every other block down Main Street and heads to St. Armands Circle and Lido Key. It provides free sightseeing and terminates at the South Lido Park beach. Or, drive as there is a parking garage for St. Armands, and an open field parking at South Lido beach.
Map from VisitSarasota.com
Traveling Longboat Key
Longboat Key Trolley, travels from the downtown bus station to the end of Longboat Key at Coquina Beach every 60 minutes, every day except for the five major holidays. There are stops marked by green signs with a trolley car pictured on it every few blocks along the way. Cost is $1.25. At the Coquina Beach stop you can transfer to the Anna Maria trolley to go to the extreme tip of the key.
Bus Service
Breeze bus service is centered at the bus station in downtown Sarasota to Siesta Key Village, Siesta Beach, South Village and Turtle Beach for $1.25 each way. Connecting buses travel everywhere in the county.
On Demand Service
Breeze OnDemand is very cool, and can get you from your door to anywhere to downtown Sarasota, St. Armands, Lido Key and Longboat Key for $2 per ride, Monday–Saturday from 5 AM–10 PM, and on Sundays from 6 AM–9 PM. It uses a cell phone app to pick you up in a minivan which is shared with other riders, then you might transfer to a bus. A pickup is generally within 30 minutes of calling for the ride.
Traveling Longboat Key
Longboat Key Trolley, travels from the downtown bus station to the end of Longboat Key at Coquina Beach every 60 minutes, every day except for the five major holidays. There are stops marked by green signs with a trolley car pictured on it every few blocks along the way. Cost is $1.25. At the Coquina Beach stop you can transfer to the Anna Maria trolley to go to the extreme tip of the key.
Bus Service
Breeze bus service is centered at the bus station in downtown Sarasota to Siesta Key Village, Siesta Beach, South Village and Turtle Beach for $1.25 each way. Connecting buses travel everywhere in the county.
On Demand Service
Breeze OnDemand is very cool, and can get you from your door to anywhere to downtown Sarasota, St. Armands, Lido Key and Longboat Key for $2 per ride, Monday–Saturday from 5 AM–10 PM, and on Sundays from 6 AM–9 PM. It uses a cell phone app to pick you up in a minivan which is shared with other riders, then you might transfer to a bus. A pickup is generally within 30 minutes of calling for the ride.
