Trenitalia to Revamp Fare Structure Effective June 10, 2012 Trenitalia has announced a brand new fare structure for its "national" (reserved) trains, to take effect on June 10, 2012. There will be THREE FARE LEVELS: BASE FARE: tickets will be changeable and refundable (with conditions and restrictions) ECONOMY: tickets will be changeable (with conditions, restructions, and a fare upgrade) but not refundable SUPER ECONOMY: tickets will be nable and nonrefundable.
Posted by
Centennial, CO, USA
1898 posts
Any information on the difference in cost on these different fares? Obviously the Super Economy would be least expensive. Where did you find this info? Can you share the website/link? This is very useful, we'll be in Italy soon. Thanks for posting!
Posted by
Texan in CA
4418 posts
(banging head on table) As soon as we figure out one scheme, they change it! As long as the website starts working correctly again and continues taking everyone's credit cards, then great. Ugh - even on the English page, the towns and stations still must be in Italian (new this year)(and you must know the name of the station) and there's still lots of trial-and-error - it's 'Firenze SM Novella', NOT 'SMN', 'Santa Maria Novella', etc. Except when it doesn't even like that - sometimes just 'Firenze', then you get all of the train stations. Annoying. Ray, thanks for the notice!
Posted by
The Hague, NL (AMS)
2207 posts
The Super Economy and the Economy are promotional fares, thus their allotment is controlled by Trenitalia. Although there are no "advance purchases" required to get these tickets, there may not be any left a day, an hour, or even a week in advance! Here's a post with more info on the "new" Trenitalia Fare Structure.
Posted by
Forest Grove, OR
11839 posts
There are some very good deals to be had with the new structure. Last week I priced Rome to Verona, 2nd class, mini fare at Euro 117.00 for 2 people. Last night I bought tickets for Euro 18.00 for two! Non-refundable, but who cares? My return from Bolzano-Bozen is Euro 70.00, versus Euro 116.00 with a mini. So shop shop shop, and learn Italian city names. :-) My U.S. CC was accepted.