When holidaying abroad do you usually take advantage of local public transport?

I use public transportations as much as possible. It is usually cheaper than the trips organized by the hotels and I prefer to travel the same way as the locals do. That way I am able to experience the country in a different way, and I like the challenge that I get when I have to organize my own transportation. Sometimes it is very hard to read the timetables (if I don't speak the local language), but I always carry a dictionary and a phrasebook and if I still can't figure things out I try to find someone who speaks English...

I take the public transport when traveling abroad, first, it is more economical, secondly, I want to experience commuter's life in that particular country. I will surf the web the bus schedules for my destinations. Another thing is you will enjoy more the sights if you travel by bus or by train as you are just sitting and relaxed.

I travel abroad at least once and year. Whilst there on every one of my trips I use public transport. This summer I flew off to Vancouver on a plane with my disabled toddler son and my baby daughter. When we arrived we took the sky train from the airport to the city center. Then we took a bus over to our friend in West Vancouver. Whilst in Vancouver we took local buses, the sky train and a river ferry. Then we took a bus to the ferry port before getting a ferry over to Vancouver Island. On that beautiful island we went on the train that goes on the route Victoria to as far north as the line goes. We went on buses there. We took a ferry over from Little River to Powell River on the mainland. The most unusual journey we did was a bus and two ferries from Powell River to Vancouver. I am an independent traveler and so I go around on public transport that the local people travel on. Last year when I was pregnant with my daughter I traveled with my disabled toddler son from London to Cape Town. Public transport in South Africa is limited. In Cape Town there was a mini bus to Green Point. To see the other sights we had to get a two day pass on the blue and the red explorer buses. They were touristy but much necessary due to no public transport. We traveled on a coach to the Garden Route and we got dropped at a petrol station and not the center of town. We found that happening a number of times on that route. Then we came back on Baz Bus which is a backpacker bus service.

Yes, I do. I mostly travel to cities, so it comes naturally, so to speak.

Usually I take the packages arranged by tour operators when I travel abroad. However, I see to it that I try most of the place's mode of transport. Either to go back to the tourist spots or going to the mall or just to experience it. And most of the time I just want to experience it. I just go around the city and just enjoy the view. One thing I haven't tried though is drive around. I love to experience that.

I'm usually using public transportation services. In countries which are very uncommon to me I tend to use a taxi or go by rapid train when parts of the public transportation system seems to complicated to me. For example; in Thailand I haven't used the bus but have used taxi and rapid train.

Most of the time I take the local public tranport. It´s a lot cheaper, you get to see what the common life is on a place and as they go through streets where you wouldn´t go on a car you do a wonderful free sightseeing. The few times I have taken trips organized by the hotel they have been disappointing. So I only do that when there´s no other way to reach my destination.