My wife and I have our tickets for our train ride to Venice. Do we just board the train or do we have to get them validated prior to boarding?
Posted by
Land of La
8714 posts
Did you buy them online or at the train station? Personally I'd find the yellow box and validate them so there would be no question or fine.
Posted by
Elk Grove, CA, USA
6898 posts
I suspect that you will be on a high-speed for this journey. If yes, you should have a document that has the travel date, train number and departure time. More importantly, it should have a 6-digit PNR number. If you have this, you have your ticket and you are pre-validated. You can board the train. The conductor has a wireless PDA that he or she uses to enter the PNR number. You are checked out in seconds onboard. It works great.
Posted by
Lethbridge, AB, Canada
19 posts
When I traveled in April from Venice to Milan, we boarded the train, went to our assigned seats, then once the train left the station, a conductor came through each car to validate everyone's tickets.
Happy travels!
Posted by
Seattle, WA, USA
7737 posts
Actually, in Trina's case what the conductor was doing was checking the tickets, not validating them. You only need to validate tickets that do NOT have assigned seating. You can look at the back of the tickets and it should tell you (in English) whether you need to validate it or not.
Posted by
Tresana, Highlands Ranch, CO, USA
23340 posts
Since all trains in Italy except for regional trains requires a seat reservation you ONLY need to validate (time stamp) a ticket for a regional train because that ticket is good for 60 days after your purchase it. It is an open ticket and you can jump on and off any regional train. All the other tickets are date, time, train specific so if you miss that train you need a new ticket. The short answer to your question is NO since you have your tickets you have a ticket with a specific date and time.