To/From Mexico City It's a 4-hour trip to San Miguel from the airport in Mexico City. If you arrive in T2, the international terminal, you simply exit customs, make a right and walk to the end of the corridor, where you will exit and see the bus station entrance. If you arrive in T1, the older terminal, you will go upstairs to the bus office, purchase a ticket, and they will direct you where to get the bus. You can also depart from Terminal Norte, on a first-class bus (with one stop in Queretaro). Primera Plus, Satelite, ETN, and Omnibus de Mexico all have one to six deluxe buses per day. Flecha Amarilla and Herradura de Plata have buses that leave almost every half hour (most are first-class). Make sure that your bus is a "directo". If you can't get a quick departure, catch a bus to Queretaro and change buses there. To/From Guanajuato: Flecha Amarilla has nine buses a day to San Miguel.

To/From Queretaro: If you arrive in Queretaro by first-class bus, go out the front door and cross to the opposite terminal. Buses for San Miguel leave about every 20 minutes during the day, and every 1-2 hours in the evenings. You can choose between Satelite, Flecha Amarilla, and Herradura de Plata. The trip takes about one hour.

To/From Laredo/Nuevo Laredo: Transportes de la Frontera/Estrella Blanca has a first-class bus that leaves Nuevo Laredo at 6:30 PM, arriving in San Miguel de Allende between 7 and 8 AM the next morning. The return bus leaves San Miguel at 7 PM and arrives in Nuevo Laredo around 7 AM. You can buy a ticket through Greyhound. There are also several smaller charter bus lines with offices in Laredo which specialize in carrying passengers to and from central Mexico to Laredo and points north. The prices are generally lower, but they can be crowded, and the bus's comfort and quality varies considerably from company to company. San Miguel de Allende's Central de Autobuses, (the bus station) is 1 1/2 miles west of town on the westward extension of calle Canal, called calzada de la estacion. Taxis from the bus station to the center of San Miguel are 20 pesos during the day and usually 25 pesos at night into town and available at all hours.