Today on the Trenitalia website, they are "testing" some new options, including payment through Paypal. After trying several times to have a credit card payment accepted and failing (despite being registered on the Trenitalia site), I used the paypal option and had success! Also, as of today, some of the summer fares are posted, including some really low mini fares.
Posted by
Minneapolis, MN, USA
1525 posts
I just purchased tickets for Rome-Verona on July 12th (about 110 days from now ?!?) for a decent mini fare of 19euro each. I had no problem using my US-based Mastercard. I love using Paypal as an alternative to sending expensive wire transfers for apartment rentals, but Paypal does use a fairly poor currency exchange rate amounting to something like a 5% or so penalty - more than my credit card, so I chose to use that instead. I'm all in favor of Paypal getting more widespread though. It has some tremendous potential advantages for many people.
Posted by
OP
Baltimore
49 posts
I agree about the disadvantages of paypal, but was frustrated with the credit card rejection! Got a great fare from Florence to Naples for late June -- 19 euros.
Posted by
Napa, CA
3580 posts
I tried to buy train tix from Venice to La Spezia this am using Trenitalia.com. All went well until the end of the transaction; I was told to try again later. I was using my Visa Capital-One card. There were so many seats available in first class for the train I wanted, I think I will just wait until I reach Venice before buying my tix.
Posted by
Como, Italy
81 posts
mini fares start from 9€, so if you are flexible with your travel dates/hours, you can pay just 9€ on all highspeed connections between ROMA-MILANO, TORINO-NAPOLI (which goes through milan usually, so even MILAN-NAPLES), ROMA-BARI, FIRENZE-ROMA, ROMA-VENEZIA (stops in FIRENZE too), ROMA-REGGIO C.,
Posted by
Knoxville, TN, USA
7209 posts
Yes those mini fares are a huge $ saver. Our group of 16 is traveling Rome -> Venice in June. I had budgeted around 1500 Euros from our group for this trip. Imagine my surprise when I bought 16 tickets for 144Euro...TOTAL!