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ONW to Cinque Terre - best spot to drop rental car

Greetings Community. We will be traveling north through Tuscanny for several days via rental car. We plan to finish with Volterra/SanGim and then head to our next stop Cinque Terre (after CT taking train to visit Milan then home to CA). So where to drop car and catch train? I know there are multiple options (Pisa, Lucca, ?) but wondering if there is an optimal one given we want to drive from Volterra, drop car, get on train. Thanks

Posted by
16895 posts

Dropping the car in La Spezia would mean no change of trains required, although you may want a taxi or city bus from the car rental office to the central train station. The Avis office is closer than Hertz or Europcar.

Posted by
12043 posts

ONW to Cinque Terre

"ONW" ?

Sorry for the question, but I just crawled out from under my rock in the cave.

Posted by
1814 posts

Pisa airport or La Spezia. If you are traveling on Sat. or Sunday, it's Pisa airport as all the La Spezia offices are closed after Sat. morning (Avis is closed all day Sat). At Pisa airport there's a shuttle bus from the rental car area, and then you catch the PisaMover train to the main train station.

ONW omit needless words?

Posted by
34236 posts

They say you never stop learning - every day is a school day.

I just had my 65th birthday and in all my puff I had never heard of the abbreviation of ONW. So is it common now to just take the first 3 letters of something and capitalize them? I've learned quite a lot recently from people elsewhere in the world. It seems that Rick Steves has spread a lot more, particularly in Asia.

Which country uses that abbreviation?

Posted by
8889 posts

I thought ONW was an airport code. I looked it up and found no airport with that code, so gave up.
I think some posters on this site invent abbreviations and expect readers to guess, clear and unambiguous questions only please.

Posted by
7175 posts

ONW - never heard of it. The only recognized definition is short for Omit Needless Words, which makes no sense here. Never heard of it used for 'onward'. Are those 3 other letters (ard) so hard to type? Text speak is getting OOC (out of control).

Posted by
2429 posts

@chris did the same and gave up lol
@nigel laughed with you, all my 63 years, it is like taking a class in “abbreviations “ drives me nuts! something special for you two SMH
(Shake My Head) happy travels
Aloha