We will be traveling to Sorrento in two weeks and plan on taking the Circumvesuviana or Campania Express to and from Pompeii and Herculaneum. My understanding is you can purchase Tap & Go tickets at the turnstiles using a credit card. Here’s my question. In stations like Sorrento, Pompeii and Ercolano Scavi where both the commuter Circumvesuviana and the more expensive tourist Campania Express both run, does the turnstile reader give you the option of choosing one or the other, or do these trains run on separate platforms, each with its own reader? And if they do run on the same platform and there is no option, let’s say you want to buy a ticket for the Campania Express--how do you make sure you’re buying a ticket for that train and not the less expensive Circumvesuviana (and, as a result, risking a hefty fine)? Thanks for your help.
Posted by
Gettysburg PA
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Just bumping this up for you
I have not heard of Tap and Pay for these trains
But maybe something new
I’d be surprised
Posted by
Wyckoff, NJ, USA
7903 posts
Where, exactly, did you read this? It is highly unlikely.
Posted by
OP
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The EAV website, https://www.eavsrl.it/tap-go-ticket-less/, indicates Tap & Go is active on the Naples-Sorrento railway line.
Posted by
Wyckoff, NJ, USA
7903 posts
Thank you for your authoritative and appropriate reply to my request.
Effort to post Translated site:
This is the most startling thing I have ever read about the dirty, jammed, late Circumvesuviana. Infrastructure in southern Italy has been sadly neglected for decades. I earnestly hope this is true, and not a mistaken early website publication.
Normally, this train is so crowded May-September that conductors cannot pass through the cars to check tickets. We bought untimed paper tickets from the newsstand next to the Sorrento station.
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It definitely looks like Circumvesuviana are setting up a tap system. I was there yesterday and saw the tap option before entering the platforms at Pompeii Scavi Station then there was another set up prior to the turnstile exits from Sorrento Station.
You can still buy tickets and you still have to validate your ticket before taking the train and that is what we did. By the way, if you're going to Pompeii I would recommend getting your return ticket as soon as you arrive; luckily we did that and didn't have to wait in the massive line up to buy tickets to head back to Naples or on to Sorrento.