My sister and I are traveling to Rome in October. We are using Marriott points and staying at the Courtyard Central Park- NW of the Vatican. A regional train is required to get to the hotel from Rome. (The hotel offers a shuttle to the Vatican for a fee.) How safe are the regional trains? Any help or advice on this hotel/trip would be appreciated.
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Northamptonshire, England
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All Italian trains in my experience are pretty safe. You sometimes hear of accidents in India but very rarely in Italy, or any of Europe for that matter. Also, if you don't get enough train answers you could change the title of your post from "Rome Hotel" to something like "Rome Trains"
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OP
Kernersville, NC
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thanks!
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San Francisco Bay Area (USA)
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That is an upscale area in Rome, near the Policlinico Gemelli University Hospital, of the Catholic University (the hospital where the pope goes when he's sick). Not walking distance from things however, that's a business traveler hotel. The Rome Viterbo F3 line is a regular commuter train used by regular people, it's not like you are in the Bronx. This is the train schedule of the F3 line (Rome-Viterbo), your station is the 'Gemelli' station. http://www.lovelyhair.it/fr3/Orario.htm For the Vatican You get off at San Pietro station. To go elsewhere you get off sooner, at the Valle Aurelia station, where you transfer from the train station (up above) down to the Metro (subway) line A. Take direction ANAGNINA to go to the city center or to the Termini station. You can reach the Metro line A from your hotel also with an ATAC bus (city bus). ATAC bus No: 994 (for Line A station: Valle Aurelia ) 446 (for Line A station: Cornelia);
146 (for Line A station: Battistini). If they don't charge too much, I would ask if they provide the shuttle to the closest line A station (probably Cornelia). But I'm sure you'll get tired of this commute and you'll end up using taxis a lot. To minimize cost, use taxis only to come back in the evening, when transit is more infrequent and you'll also feel safer at night with a taxi. If you get off the Metro A at Ottaviano/Musei Vaticani, there should be taxi stands around there and it won't be a long taxi ride from there.