Any suggestions on a good way for travel between these two cities? There is a bus that takes abou 4.5 hours but I was wondering if anyone has info on the comfort of these buses? Are they like the big buses in France and Spain with big comfy seats?
I looked at getting a driver for my husband and me but 384Euro is out of our budget. Thanks!
There are two bus services between Salerno and Matera; neither one takes 4.5 hours.
The Miccolis bus takes 3 hours 10 minutes. You can see a photo of the coach on their website. It looks very comfortable.
https://booking.busmiccolis.it/
Trenitalia runs a FrecciaLink bus that can only be booked together with a Frecce train ticket to Salerno. A ticket from Rome, Caserta, or Naples will work. The bus part takes 2h 55 minutes.
There is a photo of the bus on this webpage, but it is from 2016 and the bus may be different now.
You can book this one on Trenitalia, using Napoli Centrale ( or other appropriate station) as the starting point and Matera as the end point.
Cost for either service is under 30€.
We visited Matera for a few hours in early March (part of a Road Scholar tour) and hope to return next year to spend a couple of nights and explore more on our own.
We drove from Salerno to Matera and spent several days in Matera but also stopped in some ancestral towns and Alberobello and Locarotondo. It was not a difficult drive but we spent a week among the different places.
