I'm planning a trip this August and will be arriving 3PM "ish" at Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport (FCO) and heading straight to Florence.
I am not opposed to using trains. However after a fabulous set of recent experiences with ride service GoOpti in eastern Italy, Slovenia & Austria, I'd like to consider similar options for this trip. BTW, GoOpti does not operate from FCO.
Are there any car & driver services from FCO to Florence known to those here?
Thanks in advance....
After 8-10 hrs on a plane you want to spend another 3.5-4 hrs sitting in a car?
No personal experience but found these (among others), by doing a search for 'FCO to Florence shuttles'
https://www.welcomepickups.com/rome/fiumicino-airport-to-florence/ ( Approx $450)
Train goes directly into the center of Florence. When you arrive grab a taxi to your hotel...it doesn’t get any simpler
Why would you want to sit in a car for 4 hours when you can get there in 2 hours by high speed train. There is a train to Florence every 15 or 20 min, and they run till late in the evening.
For lack of customers, Trenitalia has cancelled the direct high speed train departing to Florence at 15:08.
They could run it again in August 2020 or introduce a new direct train departing at a later time.
Check again around May.
PS Loveland? Who picked the town's name? I hope it's not a marketing driven choice!
PS Loveland? Who picked the town's name? I hope it's not a marketing driven choice!
The city was officially founded in 1877 along the newly constructed line of the Colorado Central Railroad, near its crossing of the Big Thompson River. It was named in honor of William A.H. Loveland*, the president of the Colorado Central Railroad.
There is also a Loveland Pass (elevation 11,990 ft.) across the Colorado Rockies that's named after the same gentleman.
Voting with the others, there's no way I'd spend the time and $$$$ on a driver when you can get there so much faster and more economically by train.
Why do you not fly directly into Florence?
Yes. Check flying into Florence Via Frankfurt or Munich from Denver (United or Lufthansa) and returning from Rome (multicity open jaw flight).
Flying to FLR is generally more expensive than FCO, but sometimes the price difference is not that much. The train ride is almost 70€ pp after all (and a car service would be hundreds).
Thanks to all who've replied:
Dario: RE: the town of Loveland's name: joe32F gave the perfect answer!
Others: RE Why am I even considering this? Long story short: On Sunday I jumped on an extremely cheap fare flying DEN-MUC-FCO / FCO-IAD-DEN. Flying into Florence would have cost me an extra $600 per ticket. I've always used the trains when in Italy and after hearing back from all of you I will again this trip. As joe32F pointed out the options are both too long and too expensive.
I looked at adding a separate flight from FCO to FLR, but have settled on the train. It's not that much longer; no flight delays or added airport "dead time;" and the train will put me much closer to my hotel.
Thank you again!
