Travel from Siena to Venice

Janie,

You can take the train from Siena to Venice but will have to change trains in Florence.
You will take a Regionale train from Siena to Florence, then a freccia (high-speed) train from
Florence to Venice.

So when you purchase your ticket, you will actually get 2 tickets; one for the Regionale train (Siena-> Florence) and one for the
freccia train (Florence -> Venice).

Keep in mind that the freccia train ticket is nonrefundable & unchangeable & you will get a seat assigned.

The train system in Italy is very reliable.

Check train schedules on this website: www.trenitalia.com

Use italian names for the train stations such as;
Firenze S.M. Novella for the Florence station & Venezia S. Lucia for Venice.

There are Sunday buses from Siena to Firenze. This Sunday, for example, the morning services leave at 6.20, 8.10, 9.40, 10.40, 11.10 and 11.40am. Route 131R and 131O. The R buses are express and take 75mins. The O buses take 95mins.

Thank you both for your responses. I would be interested in how to access the bus schedule you referried to. The times quoted would work for us. Can tickets be purchased ahead ?. Is that advisable? I have researched the senamobilita.it website and busfox but have not been successful in finding the schedules.

Thanks again.

The date search at http://www.tiemmespa.it/index.php works, if you test a Sunday. On printed schedules, Festivo = Sundays and holidays.

If the bus time doesn't work for you, you can use the train. It's not much longer by train (90 min vs 75 min) and since you need to catch a train in Florence, the train will put you already inside the station, while the bus station in Florence is 5 min walk from the train station and you have to walk a few stairs (maybe you have luggage) on the Via Alamanni side. It is true that the bus in Siena departs from via Tozzi, on top of the hill, near the city center, while the station is at the bottom of the hill, but where is your hotel in Siena? It might actually be closer to the train station than to Via Tozzi.

www.busfox.com/timetable/ works. Make sure you use Firenze (not Florence) and Siena. You also MUST enter the time in 24 hr format when choosing the ora. Eg. 6.40am goes in as 06:40, 10am as 10:00, 2pm as 14:00. The colon is important.