Am i reading this right? is tit a different entrance to the ruins if i take the train from naples to pompeii, then it is if i take the train from sorrento to pompei - the ampitheater entrance to the ruins -
i saw someone mention that in comments to an earlier post -
The Circumvesuviana from Naples goes to Sorrento with a stop at Pompeii Scarvi, you get off and on the train at the same station. There is another train a regulate that goes from Naples to Pompeii but the stop is in the actual town, not at the ruins.
The dirt cheap Circumvesuviana goes to the Porta Marina Entrance (train stop "Pompeii Scavi/Villa Mistiri" about half hourly. It leaves from the lower level of the Main Naples station where you get off the (Trenitalia or Frecciarossa, long distance railroad) train from Rome.
"scavi" means, roughly, the excavation, so we are using it here to distinguish between the famous tourist attraction and workaday modern Pompeii city.
You are remembering a poster who (OPINION: wrongheadedly) valued remaining on the train from Rome over practicality.
Pompeii is closer to Naples than to Sorrento, but it's a simple daytrip from either place.
