lake como ferries

We were there in April, 2019, and never saw any lines at the ticket booths. Perhaps that happens on Sunday evening as folks go back to the cities, but again, lines never presented any issues.

When I was using the ferries there a few years ago I never saw a queue.

I was just in Varenna this summer and it was a zoo at the ferry docks, but that was in early August, so hopefully May will be better. The tickets aren't timed, they are for point-to-point travel, so I don't see why you couldn't buy them all at once in the morning. There are different prices depending on which towns you're traveling between, but if you tell them your itinerary they'll be able to help you.

We were in Varenna in 2017 with the Best of Italy Tour. We were given a "day pass" for the ferry, rather than individual tickets for different destinations. I'm hoping that a Day Pass would be available.

There are different kinds of tickets. You can buy day passes but that often is not the best choice financially as it requires more than two ferry rides to break even. We bought point to point tickets last August.

The lines even in August were never that long.

One issue we did have is that we found the ferries would only take cash. So be prepared for that. I had asked last summer on this board and was assured that wasn't the case but at least in Bellano where we bought most of our tickets, it was.

We've been to Lake Como a few times in May and never saw lines for ferry tickets. You may want to see if they still offer day passes for sections of the lake, vs a more expensive full-lake pass. We found that purchasing a "mid lake" day pass was cheaper than buying individual tickets to travel between the towns that you mentioned, and we didn't need to buy tickets every time we wanted to board a ferry. And if I recall, a "day" pass was good until the end of that day, not for a 24 hour period.

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