I am looking to purchase tickets from Milan to Florence on July 29. There are tickets available on the two high speed trains the whole month of July except for a few days (including our date of travel). Any thoughts on why? I am hoping not to use a regional train as this adds 2 hours to our trip. Thanks!
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You can find help here: https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/italy/train-tickets-late-july-rome-to-venice-and-then-venice-to-florence
And here: https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/italy/july-6th-train-from-venice-to-rome
And here: https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/italy/trenitalia-and-italo-advance-purchase-window
There are works on the railroad in Florence from 26-30 July.
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cincinnati
89 posts
dianak,
what a previous poster shared with me was that there would be tickets available but that they would likely include a transfer to a bus to circumvent the works on a section of railway in Florence. In another post, that same person stated that the tickets would likely not go on sale until June 14th (for our dates at end of July). We are waiting, but it makes us nervous to wait that long to purchase high speed rail tickets and certainly flights between our destinations will greatly increase in price as well. One of our trip members has their heart set on seeing Venice or we would remove it from our itinerary and stay an extra day in either Rome or Florence. I hope this helps.
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Gettysburg PA
9299 posts
Honestly I do not understand the panic
Trains will run with whatever adjustments they make (bus for a short portion)
Just wait-even if there wasn’t this construction issue buying tix 2 months in advance is hardly necessary
The site says ”temporarily” unavailable not never available
Train schedules for this time frame are not even normally updated til first week or so in June