Currently slated to land at 10:50 AM on April 19 from US. How early should I book my train tickets to get to Florence? Is a 2 hour window from landing enough time for my wife, her mom, and I? Or should I just wait till the day we land to get train tickets to Florence?
Posted by
Gettysburg PA
8925 posts
Best plan is to wait til you land
This question comes up very often
No way to predict delays, time to get thru passport control etc
I believe Trenitalia still runs a 1:53pm train from FCO to Florence-eliminates the change at Termini
If your flight is in time you would have time to grab a bite at FCO before that train
Posted by
Eastern Iowa, USA
9203 posts
The usual advice is to either wait until you get there to buy tickets, it is more expensive, but the safe option. You can buy changeable tickets, but they are only changeable up to departure of your scheduled train, so if your flight is severely late, you may have missed your window.
Another option is just to leave an abundance of time (4-6 hours), you get cheap tickets, but may be twiddling your thumbs at the station, rather than on your way to Florence.
On a normal day, I would think two hours tight. Seems like always a bit of a snag at immigration, FCO is a lot of walking to get out and to the airport train station, 30+ minute train ride to Termini, plus up to a 30 minute wait for the next train, walking at Termini to find your train, so 3 hours would be safer, but will likely get there in 2.