I'll be finishing a tour in Rome next fall and staying a few extra days. My flight home will be early in the morning, and I plan to spend the preceding night at or near the airport. I also want to visit Ostia Antica on this trip, and I'm thinking of going there the day before my flight, then on to the airport without returning to Rome. I won't have a car.
I'm looking for info or experiences to see how feasible this is. I understand that there's no luggage storage at the Ostia site, so I expect I'll have to take the train from Termini to FCO and leave my bags at the hotel, then get to Ostia -- by bus? taxi? return train to Piramide and then out to FCO from there? (Could I store bags at Piramide or the train station next door?)
If I can't combine a visit to Ostia with my trip to the airport, I'll probably go there as a separate day trip. But I hate to backtrack all the way into Rome when Ostia and FCO are so close together. And I'll have no trouble making the flight out since I'll be at an airport hotel that night. Any insights?