Our family is flying into Venice and staying a couple of days.Our problems is that we would like to take a local train from Venice into La Spezia (Rioggiamore). The only advise we have been getting is to take the railpass which will take us to Milno back to La Spezia. That is a 7hr travel time. Is there a guickier train ride going straight to La Spezia? Such as regionale, diertto, etc.
Thank you Jackie
Posted by
Elk Grove, CA, USA
6898 posts
Unfortunately, www.trenitalia.com is not being nice to me for 6/21. This is a Saturday. For that date, I'm only seeing a night train. This is not normal. Once I can get the schedule up, it won't differ too much from the one above. You probably still will go through Florence.
Would you be so kind as to identify your first choice so that I may be to assist on that journey. I need a bit more information on your travel expectations.
Posted by
Elk Grove, CA, USA
6898 posts
I was able to call up a Saturday schedule for 5/24. I realize that this is not 6/21 but the schedule will be similar if not identical.
CLICK HERE to see the schedule.
Note that the CT is a bit out of the way. There are no direct trains. You will change trains 2-3 times somewhere along the route.
Posted by
Minneapolis, MN, USA
8700 posts
The bahn.de timetables cover all of Europe and can be easier to read than the Trenitalia ones, particularly when you're looking for details for many trains throughout the day. According to bahn.de, your fastest route would be to leave Venezia Santa Lucia at 07:27; change at Venezia Mestre, Firenze S.M.N., Pisa Centrale, and La Spezia Centrale; and arrive at Riomaggiore at 13:03. Total time is 5hr36min. See here.
New timetables throughout Europe will go into effect in early June so you may not be able to get accurate ones yet for dates in late June. However, the times will change by only a few minutes, if they change at all.
Posted by
Elk Grove, CA, USA
6898 posts
By "local" do you mean the Regionale R train or are you just using a generic term to say I want to travel locally from Venice to Riomaggiore as fast as I can.
Actually, taking the "local" trains (Regionale) is the slowest way to get from Venice to Riomaggiore. This will take you over 9.0hrs. Also, you won't see such a journey on the Trenitalia train site or any other train site. If you want these kinds of journeys, you have to breakup your trip into local segments (i.e. Venice/Verona, Verona/Milan, Milan/La Spezia, La Spezia/Riomaggiore.
If you are referring to faster trains, you're still looking at a minimum of 6.5hrs for the trip. You will change trains 2-3 times depending on the run (mostly in Florence).
CLICK HERE to see what the train schedule looks like.
Posted by
OP
ogden, utah, usa
2 posts
Thank you for the suggestion. We are planning to go on June 21, 2008. Could you possibly find me a schedule for that date? I looked at the one you gave us and its pretty close to our second choice of getting there. Thank you
Posted by
Akron, Ohio, USA
1 posts
You can do it in about five to six hours. I know this sounds round about but the quickest way I know is Take the Eurostar from Venice to Firenze SMN. From there take a regional train to La Spezia. I assume your jurneys goal is Cinque Terre, so you prurchase your pass at the TI at La Spezia Centrale