Paris to Cinque Terra to Florence to Rome by Train

Have you researched any of this at all on your own yet?

Might start here and you will find info and links to all the train companies
https://www.seat61.com

Where searching for trains you need to use the correct station names and correct spelling
Florence is Firenze (SM Novella)
Rome is Roma (Termini)
Cinque Terre- your choice of which town

Also- no experience with myself but you'll likely be better off flying from Paris to Pisa or Florence for your CT stay

Here is another tool useful as a starting point in your research
www.rome2rio.com

Check flights Paris to Genoa too. For a trip of this length, I'd try to avoid an overnight train--you rarely get sleep, and this one requires a change. your first day in CT will be a sleepy blur.
PS You can find all this by googling in five minutes--just a kindly intended tip, as finding this kind of info is a good skill to have for travel!

Arrive in Paris 3 days taking night train to Cinque Terre

A night train will have 2 or 3 changes. Seems to be a miserable, sleepless night.

The metal bird is clearly a better choice.

Are u sure there is a night train between Paris and one of the five villages in the Cinque Terre?

There is a day train that departs from Paris Gare de Lyon to Milano Centrale at 7:27 AM. It takes 6h and 40minutes, add three hours to go from Milan to Monterosso and you'll start checking out flights to Genoa!

No, I haven’t found a night train and don’t want to fly. Had an awful experience with vuerling. I was asking if there is a night train. If not is there a night train to Florence? I’m using all the sites and Rick Steve’s books an am just not finding a quick train option from paris to Florence.

There isn't a quick solution.
On Google flights, I see Paris to Genoa on Volotea.

https://www.raileurope.com/en-us/destinations/paris-genoa-train

Have you plugged it into RometoRio and looked at the results?

Was able to find this on thetrainline.com ($130.00)

I did not take the time to work it out as a purchase directly from the train company

Journey summary
Thu 12 May 2022
Duration: 18h 14m, 3 changes
20:51
Paris Austerlitz
5771
12 hours 17 minutes

09:08
Nice Ville
28m transfer time
09:36
Nice Ville
86023
55 minutes
No seat allocated

Sit in any vacant unreserved seat except first class
10:31
Ventimiglia
32m transfer time
11:03
Ventimiglia
745
2 hours 2 minutes

13:05
Genova Piazza Principe
42m transfer time
13:47
Genova Piazza Principe
665
1 hour 18 minutes

15:05
Monterosso

You must really detest flying to contemplate doing a train journey like this

There isn't a quick train option Paris to Florence, is why you aren't finding one.

It would be like finding a quick train option between Boston and Raleigh, North Carolina. The two city pairs are each more than 700 miles apart (although Paris and Florence also have the Alps between them).

Do yourself a favor and take EasyJet from Paris Orly airport down to Pisa. You could take a short train ride to LaSpezia from there and a short local train into the C/T. Then you can later take the train over to Florence.

Budget European Airlines are often just a few Euros to fly in--and are better values than a long train ride.
Distances in Europe (and especially France) are often deceivingly long when looking at a map.

The villages of Cinque Terre are not easy to get to, even from places in Italy. That’s part of what preserved them for so long.

If you open google, type in Paris to Monterosso (or any other city/town). A map will appear, with symbols above it. One symbol is a car, the next is a train. Click on the train. Below the map it will say “Leaving now”. You can change this to various dates and times. This will show your options. Each little arrow represents a connection. There are no options for boarding a train, going to sleep, and waking up in CT. You will have at least three or four connections, maybe more. Not a restful night!

Per easy jet option. What does hold luggage mean? Is that what we Americans call checked luggage, could bag be any size? They have so many specifications and that is where we got burnt with vuerling so I don’t want to mess up.
Please help me understand fully this- flexi
ticket

Our FLEXI fares give you convenience, simplicity and save you time. Here are all the great extras you can enjoy when you choose a FLEXI ticket

Cabin bag
ONE additional small under seat bag (e.g. a handbag or laptop) for FLEXI fare, UP Front and Extra Legroom customer

Hold luggage
23KG hold luggage included

Seat selection
UP Front seat for free or Extra Legroom at a discount

easyJet Plus bag drop
Save time by using our dedicated bag drop desks

Fast track security
Available at most major airports
easyJet Plus Speedy Boarding
Be amongst the first to board the aircraft to secure your overheard locker space

Vueling is not the only airline that exists in Europe.

You can fly non stop from Paris to either Genoa or Pisa (the closest airports to the Cinque Terre) with Air France, Volotea, EasyJet. Vueling flies only to Genoa from Paris Orly.

There is no night train going from Paris to Cinque Terre. You need to take several (day) trains to reach your destination. It's actually faster to fly from the US to Italy, than taking a train from Paris to the Cinque Terre.

Cabin bag = British for Carry-on bag
Hold luggage=British for checked luggage (23kg luggage included in the price (23kg=50lb), if more you will pay extra)

Other terms you may hear on EasyJet:
Lorry = truck
Pram = baby carriage
Quid = Pound Sterling

There aren't that many good options for night trains on your route. Although you can take a night train from Paris to Nice and then continue by day train along the coast, which is certainly a scenic option.

Doing the whole trip by day train is also possible. When I do a dummy booking for early May there is an option with one change in Milan for a total cost of €67,90. It will be a long trip, a bit over 10 hours. But there are some great views, especially as you cross the Alps.

If you are insistent on riding the rails all day-there is no night train to CT- then look at the French rail website (sncf) or the Italian rail ( trenitalia) website for itineraries and prices. Use the Italian, not English place names. Good luck on finding one that's less than 11 hours and has only one or 2 changes.

Or suck it up and fly into Pisa (I think easy jet has a direct flight once a day) or Florence (multiple direct flights on different air lines) in less than 2 hours. Then hop a train to the CT village of your choice.

So if you could add some days, thinking "outside the box", you could enjoy scenic train rides in Switzerland to get you to CT. Fast train to Zurich and head to Luzern. From Luzern there is a scenic train to Andermatt and another to Chur. The Bernina Express from Chur gets you to Tirano. Then you can take a train to Milano and from there CT.

You'd want to buy Paris to Zurich in advance for a lower fare. I'm not sure what the cheapest way would be for Switzerland, but know that you can take the scenic train routes but ride in the regular cars, which would be cheaper.

We actually did something like this when the cheapest way to get to Italy for us was to fly into Zurich, and use the trains to get to Lake Como.

This is definitely not the quickest or cheapest option, but it'd be pretty.

Easy Jet’s website tells you the luggage size limits: http://www.easyjet.com/en/help/baggage/cabin-bag-and-hold-luggage#takemetohold

With any airline ticket, it’s important to understand what is included in the fare you purchase. Count on the airlines enforcing the rules for size and weight, and number of bags allowed. This way you’re not surprised with very large fees for checking a bag at the gate.

Thanks to you all. No more replies needed please. Going to re evaluate and likely change to only busting italy. Thanks for all and for ending this thread.

Before COVID, we took the night train from Venice to Paris. There was a stop in Milan. If the Thalo train still runs and you started in Paris, you'd have to transfer at Milan in the very early morning. From there, you might have to change in Pisa to get to Cinque Terre. The night train wasn't horrid but I'm glad we got on where it started and off where it ended.

During the same trip, we did Florence to Cinque Terre. It seemed like a loooong trip, too.

All airlines have baggage limits and restrictions.

All budget airlines (both European and American) have baggage limits and restrictions. They are VERY strict and specific regarding size and weight for both checked bags and carry on..
There are charges for baggage, seat selection, boarding passes, etc
If you don’t follow those restrictions you will get dinged at check in or at the gate where you will likely have to pay more for non-compliant baggage than you would if you just pay for that baggage when you purchase your ticket.

You have to follow the rules otherwise the “budget” bit of the airline cost is a wash.

For future readers and travellers:

• There are daily IC direct trains with reserved seats from Milano Centrale to Monterosso, nobody would go via Pisa.
• The fastest trains do the Florence-Monterosso trip in 2 hours and 25, it depends on the departure hour/station from Florence. Of course, the same is true when going in the opposite direction from Monterosso to Florence, some faster trains call at Firenze Campo di Marte instead of Firenze SM Novella.
• Thello did not survive Covid.