I am trying to reserve all of my freccia train tickets for this summer. As of now there is only one which I have left to do and that is from Venice to La Spezia. From what I am understanding, frecciarossa runs from Venice to Florence and then I have to book a regional train to Pisa or La Spezia. Am I understanding this correctly? And if so, do I buy regional tickets the day of or get them ahead of time? Also, does anyone know if these trains run frequently or is there a better way to get to my destination. Thank you for any advice you can give.
Posted by
Uppsala, Sweden
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You book a ticket from Venice to La Spezia from Trenitalia and see what the website suggests. Do not book each train separate!
Posted by
Minnesota 🎒
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IMHO, easiest would be the 7:26 Frecciarossa 9405 from Venezia S. Lucia arriving in La Spezia at 12:20 (4 hours, 54 minutes) with a single change to regionale Regionale 18361 at Firenze SM Novella. You could also do this at 9:26 (Frecciarossa 9411 and change in Florence to Regionale 18367); takes the same amount of time. There's a Frecciarossa with a single connection to a regionale in Florence leaving at 11:26 and 13:26, and taking the same amount of time, as well. You can purchase this as a single ticket all the way through; no need to buy the regionale ticket separately.
Reference the Trenitalia website; enter your departure and arrival points; enter your date of travel and desired hour of departure; enter number of passengers and hit "Search". Voila!
Editing to add: this is also as quickly as you can get from Point A to Point B.
Posted by
Italy
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do I buy regional tickets the day of or get them ahead of time?
Regionale trains have no reserved seats and offer no discounts for advance purchases, so they can't sell out and there is no benefit in getting tickets in advance. Nevertheless you should just get a through ticket from Venice to La Spezia, Badger is right.
does anyone know if trains run frequently
Everyone knows it, the schedules up to June 12 are displayed on Trenitalia and the summer ones will be similar or better.
is there a better way to get to my destination
Are you actually staying in La Spezia? Because if your final destination is one of the five villages in the Cinque Terre there is another route via Milan.
It takes more, but you'd have reserved seats all the way from Venice to Monterosso: take an high speed train from Venice to Milano Centrale . Freccia or Italo, it doesn't matter. Than an intercity train from Milan to Monterosso.
Railway sites are programmed to minimize time of travel, not transfers. So you won't see the route via Milan on trenitalia.com and You'll have to make 2 separate purchases.
Give yourself 20 minutes or more at Milano Centrale to change trains.