Acadia Center is located in Camden, Maine, USA. The nearest airports are in Rockland (Maine) and Portland (Maine). Rockland is a 15-minute drive from Camden, and Portland is about a 2-hour drive from Camden.

Buying your airplane ticket: Prices vary widely depending on your point of departure and the date you are flying. If low cost is important to you, do a price comparison of flights to Rockland (RKD), Portland (PWM), and Boston (BOS), and then figure in the cost of transportation between the airport and Camden.

Travel Options

• Fly to Rockland (Maine): airport code: RKD. Rockland (Knox County) Airport is only 15 minutes by car from Camden. Cape Air offers several daily non-stop flights between Boston and Rockland. If you fly to Rockland, we will meet you at Rockland Airport and give you a ride to your accommodations in Camden (there is no charge for this service).
• Fly to Portland (Maine): airport code: PWM. (Make sure you book your flight to Portland, MAINE, not Portland, Oregon.) Portland is about 2 hours by car from Camden. Major airlines serving Portland International Jetport include Air Tran, Continental, Delta, Jet Blue, Northwest, United, and US Airways. There are frequent non-stop flights between Portland and many US cities.
  Taxi from Portland to Camden: If you fly to Portland, we will reserve a group mini- van taxi service to meet you at the airport and bring you to your accommodations in Camden (about 2 hours). The fee for the taxi is $80 per passenger for the one-way trip between Portland and Camden, payable to the driver. Please note that the taxi service will not pick you up in Portland after 11:30 pm, so if you arrive after that time you will have to stay at a hotel overnight in Portland and travel to Camden the next day.

• Fly to Boston (Logan Airport): airport code: BOS. Bus from Boston (Logan Airport) to Camden: Concord Coach offers hourly bus service between Boston and Portland and twice-daily bus service between Boston and Camden. Reservations are not necessary (and not available). Travel time by bus between Boston’s Logan Airport and Camden is about 5 hours. The one-way fare is $36. If you take the bus from Boston to Camden, we will meet you in Camden and give you a ride to your accommodations (there is no charge for this service).
  

  Travel time by bus between Boston’s Logan Airport and Portland is about 2 hours. The one-way fare is $26. For information about transportation from Portland to Camden, see “Taxi from Portland to Camden” above.

  For the most recent schedule and fare information, see the Concord Coach website.

• Travel by car from Québec: The Acadia Center is about 400 km from Québec City and about 600 km from Montréal.

Arrival and departure: You should arrive on Sunday and depart on Saturday. Classes are Monday through Friday.

Visa: If you are required to have a visa to enter the USA, you should apply for a visitor (B-2) visa, not a student visa. Because we do not grant academic degrees or credit, you do not need (and you will not be able to obtain) a student visa to attend courses at the Acadia Center.

Register now for a private or combination (private/mini-group) intensive course at a time that works best for you, or for our summer mini-group course. Questions? Call us at 207-354-7105 or contact us by e-mail.