There appears to be two routes to get to Venice from Cinque Terre- through Milan or through Bologna. We will have already done the train trip from Milan to Cinque Terre so I was hoping to do the other route. When I enter La Spezia to Venice into dbbahn it will not compute. Please help !
Posted by
Vernon, Canada
32405 posts
judy,
That trip is going to take at least five hours (or the better part of a day), so I'd suggest choosing whichever route is quickest with the fewest number of changes. The two typical routes are either via Milan or via Florence.
When trying to enter cities into the bahn.de website, were you using the specific station names? Which of the five C.T. towns will you be departing from? You may get better results by using the Trenitalia website.
For example, using an arbitrary date of 12 February and Monterosso as the departure point, one of the easiest trips shown is a departure at 08:59, arriving Venezia S. Lucia at 14:20 (time 5H:21M, two changes at Pisa and Firenze SMN, current fares as low as €39.40).
That's actually a fairly straightforward (albeit long) trip.
Happy travels!
Posted by
Seattle, WA, USA
7737 posts
That's the kind of dilemma I always try to avoid with my trip planning. Can you rearrange any of your itinerary? If not, you're looking at three train changes, I believe, and over five hours, as mentioned.
Posted by
Prince George, Canada
32 posts
We are going from Vernazza to Venice in May. We decided to do it through Milan as it meant fewer train changes. However, nothing wrong with going through Florence. When you are doing your tickets, I found out you can't put in the regional trains. So for example we will get our own ticket from Vernazza to Levanto. Then I booked from Levanto to Venice.
Posted by
Elk Grove, CA, USA
6898 posts
There are actually 3 ways to go from the CT to Venice - via Genoa/Milan, Parma/Bologna and Pisa/Florence. It's a minimum 5.0hrs with the Pisa/Florence routing as the fastest. But, it's up to 3 train changes. The Genoa/Milan routing and the Parma/Bologna routings have 2 train changes. www.bahn.de is a great website to look at the various train runs but it's the German national train website. You cannot buy tickets for journeys within Italy on the German train website. You can best do this on www.trenitalia.com which is the Italian train website but this website is often difficult for people to use.