It was an agonizing, five-minute ride, for his 8-year-old daughter, Melissa, is a third grader at the school.

They boarded the shuttlebug, which reminded them of schoolbuses, and took the five-minute ride down to the surface.

The driver charged us twenty thousand soms for the five-minute ride, about eighty cents.

"North of here, about a five-minute ride," Mike said.

Then we boarded a bus for the five-minute ride to the village.

Take the cable car up, which takes 15 minutes, followed by the so-called mini-train, a five-minute ride in what is actually an open funicular.

Drive is about a five-minute ride from the casinos, but most tourists never see it.

From here, cruise passengers can take the 20-minute walk into the city or jump on one of the tour buses for the five-minute ride.

Either way, expect to wait more than an hour for a five-minute ride.

Now it's a five-minute ride, and as many as 625 people can be ferried to the monastery every hour.