Hello everyone, I am seeking advice about the use of a rental car to visit Assisi and Civita di Bagnoregio from Orvieto. My plan was to take the train from Sorrento via Naples and rent the car in Orvieto. Alas, there only seems to be Hertz cars with manual transmissions. I never learned to drive a manual and have no intention of learning in Italy. Hertz suggests a phone call to perhaps have an automatic available, but if it would not actually be there it would blow up my touring plan. So is my best choice to rent the car at Naples Airport where there is far more selection and drive from and return there since that will be my departure airport? It seems unreasonable to rent at FCO only to have to drag bags to Termini and Naples for my return flight.
Posted by
Twin Cities of MN
7203 posts
If it helps, we took the bus from Orvieto to Civita. It was easy, the Rick Steves Guidebook has the details.
Posted by
Gettysburg PA
8097 posts
I would rent in Sorrento and return at NAP
We are doing something similar this fall
See what AutoEurope.com has to offer
Make sure all drivers have an IDP
Posted by
Saint Paul, Minnesota
1796 posts
It was pretty easy to take the train from Orvieto to Perugia, and a bus from Perugia to Assisi (although we did not do this on the same day). Look into it and see if you could skip the worry and expense of a rental car (plus, in our experience, it takes more time to pick up and drop off a rental car in Italy than at home).