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melodymelody81

Anyone been to Italy and have travelled from Venice to Rome by train, and also tour Rome by train?
Do I need to reserve in advance? Help!

布小熊

I have traveled from Rome to Venice by train. We did get our ticket and made the reservation ahead because we wanted to get the special promotion tickets for 19 (or 23 euro). We event got the 1st class ticket for that price!
I am not sure if you need to reserve in advance but it's 5 hours ride and if your trip has a pretty much fixed schedule for that day, might as well get the seat and the reservation done ahead. (info from 2006 tho.. )

melodymelody81

thanks! where di you reserve the ticket? I wonder if I can do that here before going there,,,

布小熊

I did it online. (the italian site was OK to go thro)

布小熊

I used:
http://www.trenitalia.com/en/
for my reservation back in 2006. I think they have changed their site now.

http://www.trenitalia.com now redirect me to this new english web site:
http://www.ferroviedellostato.it/homepage_en.html

info in my old reservation via email looks like:
TrainSEAT DETAILS
  9468xx/xx/2006 From Roma Termini (10:55)  To Venezia S. Lucia (15:28)Mandatory reservation
Posti assegnati in Carrozza 1: 56 - , 55 - , 53 - , 54 - , 51 -
FAREPASSENGERSFURTHER DETAILSCodice C.P.
  In Eurostar a 29 euro   (Adulti:5 Ragazzi:0) 5- 834101

So I bought 5 first class tickets from Rome to Venice for 29 euro each. You have to pick specific seats because these long train ride are not "free seating"

tequila

many train tickets are cheap if you wanna travel by train from one place to another.

布小熊

The one I purchased was the faster (EuroStar) trains. It took about 4 .5 hr and would have  cost 51 Euro 2nd class and 70 Euro 1st class 2 years ago. An intercity train takes a little over 6 hours and costs around 40.50 euro.
So I got the deal by getting the tix 3 months before my travel day.

tobiko

wow that's CHEAP!!!!!

無聊人士

I have been Italy for like 6 times. coz I was study in Switzerland before. I took the train from Zurich and spent like 3.5 hours to get 米蘭. I dunno how much you guys cost for purchase ticket, but if you have visa (such as, student visa, working permit.....etc...!) you only spend like $35 - $50 swiss dollars. ----- dunno how much now for Euro.

But when you arrive 米蘭, be careful keep away from the church which outside the train entrance, coz there are so many "難民系到搵食. 多數系南斯拉夫人".  You can take the taxi to the downtown area, i remember just like around $10 Swiss dollars get down to downtown area. ......

布小熊

I have been Italy for like 6 times. coz I was study in Switzerland before. I took the train from Zurich and spent like 3.5 hours to get 米蘭. I dunno how much you guys cost for purchase ticket, but if ...
無聊人士 發表於 2009-9-23 03:48 AM

wooo so jealous. Did you only go to Milan? I think Milan is the closest to France and other western european countries. I haven't been there.

It's generally the same for most cities. The worst area is closest to the train station. So don't wonder around there. There are lots of public transportation from Rome train station. And you can take water taxi from Venice train station or water bus (not sure). Since we had our luggage, we took the water taxi but we had to bargain. The lady from our apartment rental agent actually was on the phone to help us negotiation the price (also giving them instruction of how to get to closest "landing" to the apartment).