The areas highlighted on the map of the CityBee application are parking areas where cars can be picked up and must be parked at the end of the trip (only, of course, without violating traffic rules: without parking the car in places marked “Reserved” or “No parking”. Also, please do not leave CityBee cars in underground, multi-store parking lots, private driveways, prohibited parking zone regulated by time or on the lawn.
Green zone
You can always leave your Bee here if you follow the traffic rules, and do not park in disabled, reserved areas, apartment associations and special permit areas.
Important – green areas for cars, cargo, and electric cars are different.
Yellow zone
Leaving or picking a Bee up here might incur an extra fee or discount for the trip. Please note that the conditions differ for each area. Click on the desired area to see them.
Red zone
It is not permitted to leave your Bee here. Ending the trip in the prohibited areas might result in a fine. Areas not separated by color are also not CityBee areas and Bees cannot be left in them. Bees must return to the beehive.
With CityBee cars you can also travel between cities and towns (including vans but in some cases van drivers have to buy their own vignettes and pay for the roads themselves*).
Parking in the city parking lots in Lithuania (Vilnius, Kaunas, Gargzdai, Klaipeda, Palanga, Kretinga, Neringa) is free of charge only in CityBee zones (indicated in the mobile application).
Parking in the city parking lots in Latvia – Riga (except Rīga Satiksme R zone in Old Riga), Jūrmala, Liepāja, Ventspils, Jelgava, Olaine, Ķekava and Ādaži – is free of charge.
Parking in the city parking lots in Estonia (Tallinn) is free of charge in the city’s parking spaces (except Old Town) and in selected private car parks (https://help.citybee.tech/et/articles/5598752-millistes-tasulistes-citybee-tsoonides-saan -parkida) as well as in other cities marked on the CityBee map.
If the car is parked in a private paid parking lot (with the exceptions mentioned above), the driver pays the parking fee independently.
You can travel between Baltic countries: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, but for leaving car in other country you will be charged 79 euros.
* You can find all toll roads in Lithuania here. and purchase the vignette here.
In Latvia vignettes are included in the price and drivers don’t have to buy it.
In Estonia You have to buy a vignette if the vehicle weighs more than 3500kg.
You can purchase the vignette here.
When you refill a bee with a fuel level less than 25% volume of the tank capacity, a 2 EUR discount will be added to your account for future trips.
ATTENTION! Discount for refueling the car is applied only when the fuel drops to 1/4 volume of the tank capacity and you fill a full tank. The discount is given just once during your trip.
How to refuel: https://intercom.help/citybee/en/articles/4890184-do-you-need-to-pay-for-the-fuel.
A minimum fee will still be charged if the trip is less than it. Discounts will be applied after that.
Thank you for taking care of our bee!
The radar function in the CityBee app helps the user to be the first to know if any of the CityBee cars are nearby his location at a specific time chosen by the user.
The radar function icon is located first from the left side in the main menu section of the application. When you click on the icon and activate the radar, it will turn orange.
The minimum radar distance is 100m, the maximum – 800m.
The radar function has two modes:
Notification without automatic reservation – when a CityBee car appears at the specified time and distance, the app will send a message to the user to inform them about it.
Automatic reservation – when a CityBee car appears at the specified time and distance, an automatic car reservation will be made by choosing the “Pay as you go” tariff. The tariff can be changed after car reservation. Car reservation remains free until the end of the free reservation period (15 min).
Other details:
The radar function will continue to work even if the car is reserved until the user turns it off manually. The radar function detects only cars that are incoming in the current location of the user and chosen distance when the radar function is activated.
In the event that you have spent your personal funds, for example, to refuel the CityBee vehicle or have purchased window fluid, CityBee will return them to you if you perform the following actions:
Write to info@citybee.lv
Send a photo with a receipt from a gas station
Briefly explain the reason why you had to use your own funds
Fill out the refund form and send it back
CityBee will return the funds to your personal account within a week.
Important:
Currently, CityBee does not have the option to return the spent funds by adding them to your CityBee profile, but only to your personal bank account.
Please note that the bank account to which the funds are to be returned must match the name of the CityBee profile owner to whom the reservation was made.
Open the mobile CityBee app, which You are already signed into, select ,,Menu“ -> ,,Help“.
You will be directed to the Help center, select ,,Live chat“.
When the new live chat conversation will be opened, select the arrow to go back ( < ) at the top left of the page.
Select ,,See previous” and You will see all Your previous conversations in the live chat.
At least one payment card must be linked to a CityBee account. You can link more than one payment card and choose from which card you will be billed for services before each trip. It is important that the card type is VISA or MasterCard and that the secure internet shopping function is activated.
How do I activate the secure internet shopping function?
1. SEB: Log in to your internet bank and look for “Accounts and Cards” -> “Card List” in the menu bar at the top. You’ll see all of your cards that can be registered with the secure internet shopping programme. Next to the desired card in the options below, click on “Online Billing” and click “Enable”.
2. Swedbank: Log in to your internet bank and look for “Cards” -> “Secure internet shopping” in the menu bar on the left. You’ll see all of your cards that can be registered with the secure internet shopping programme. Select the desired card next to the note “Online Billing” and click “Enable”.
3. Šiaulių Bankas: Log in to your Internet bank and in the menu on the left, select “Cards” -> “Secure payment” -> select the payment card for which you want to activate the secure internet shopping and click “Register” -> enter the requested data and confirm it by pressing the “Enter and Sign” button -> soon the status of the card will change to “Registered”.
4. Luminor bank: Log in to your Internet bank and in the menu, select the item “Payment cards” -> select the payment card for which you want to activate the secure internet shopping and in the opened window click “Secure shopping service settings” -> select the “Order service” button -> enter the requested data, which the bank will show you later during the purchase -> click “Order service”.
5. Danske bank: No additional activation of the secure internet shopping is required.
6. Citadele bank: No additional activation of the secure internet shopping is required.
Smoking is prohibited in CityBee cars. A fine for smoking in a car is €70.
Signing up for CityBee is free. And no membership fees are applied.