We will be in Italy for one week Rome 5 days Venice 2, party of three. We will be doing at least one day trip to Pompeii . And travel from Rome to Venice any suggestions. Italy pass? Car rental? Or point to point.
Posted by
Seattle, Wa, USA
663 posts
Train, point to point. If you buy the tickets in advance you can get really cheap "mini" fares.
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Tresana, Highlands Ranch, CO, USA
23652 posts
I assume you are arriving in Rome and departing from Venice. You would not save any money with a rail pass. Trips too short and too few. Use the train a car would be an expensive handicap for those cities. Pompeii will be a very, very long day trip from Rome. You can do it but I generally would not recommend it.
Posted by
Seattle, WA, USA
7737 posts
I think Frank meant to include a "not". You would not save money with a pass. Do the train with p2p tickets.
Posted by
Truro, NS, Canada
3943 posts
We did a day trip fr Rome to Naples (we did Herculaneum tho, not Pompeii) and arrived back in Rome early evening...mind you, Herc is smaller then Pomp - we spent 2-3hrs there, then went up the top of Mt Vesuvius, which was anoth 90min-2hr. We also got started maybe by 9-9:30am fr Rome(took the faster train), missed our stop and had to wait 45min to get a train back to the proper stop, spent 45min eating lunch, and still got back to the city by 7pm-ish, so I think it's doable...now, I know Pompeii takes a lot longer to tour, and you can't just walk there fr the train stn, so I'm not sure how much time is in play there...