We are traveling to Milan in May, and then have 10 days to tour other areas. We were thinking of traveling by train from Milan to Verona, staying 2 days. Then train to Lake Garda for 3 days, then a train to Lake Como for 3 days. Is this feasible? And is there any way to add the
Bernini train onto this agenda? The day trip from Milan sounds awful because it is mostly in a bus with less than an hour visiting St. Moritz . Any advice is appreciated!
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If your home base on Lake Como is Varenna, you can take the train north from there to Tirano, 1.5 hours away, to board the Bernina Express or a regional train on the same tracks. The ride to St. Moritz from there is a bit over 2 hours.
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Thank you!
Also, is there enough to do to stay in the Lake Como area for 5 days, with one day being a day trip to Lake Maggiore? Then we would go to Verona for 4 days, with one day being a trip to Lake Garda. Any ideas about our timeline?
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We were in Lake Como and Verona in August last summer. We spent five nights in Lake Como and three in Verona including a trip to Sirmone on Lake Garda. While we certainly found enough to occupy ourselves in Lake Como but I would have switched a day to Verona. We lost most of a day traveling from Lake Como to Verona and found we did not have as much time as we would have liked in Verona.