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.
Posted by
cincinnati
90 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.
Posted by
Gettysburg PA
9374 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
Posted by
OP
11 posts
Thanks. No panic--this is just our family's first trip to Italy and since trains were available for the remainder of our trip we didn't know if this route was truly sold out. We will wait. There is comfort in having everything lined up ahead of time.
Posted by
Gettysburg PA
9374 posts
I get that
This wasn’t directed at you personally-there are multiple threads here on this train issue
There are 2 train companies that run multiple fast trains every hour on this route
If all ever sold out it would be shocking (IOW- unheard of)
;)
Posted by
107 posts
we didn't know if this route was truly sold out.
No offense, but Ignoring a warning that reads "temporarily", thinking that all trains are sold out months in advance when there are seats on all the Milan-Florence trains departing today... you must admit it sounds a little like panic.
As I read on another forum: if trains routinely sold out and railway companies did not add more cars/runs, they wouldn't be mass transit anymore. They would be planes.