Hi all. This will be the first and only trip I will ever have in Europe so I want to make the most of it. I will be traveling at the end of May from Florence to Naples and then from Naples to Rome. I have been reading that for both there is beautiful countryside to see if you take the scenic route. Can anyone help with several questions? Whether you can answer all or just one, it will be appreciated. 1. From where to where is the best of the two for a great view? 2. What train(s) can I take to get a view? (all I can find are bullet trains and I read that they are not the trains to take for views) I also have some other questions related to my trip... 1. Arriving in Rome, how fare is the Tiburtina station from the Termini station? 2. My son is booking italo trains directly from their site and says you can't pick your seats. DOES ANYONE KNOW A WAY TO BOOK AND BE ABLE TO PICK
YOUR OWN SEAT, even if it's from another booking site? Thank you all so much!
Posted by
Northamptonshire, England
33845 posts
1. Difficult to answer that one. You see, the best views are of the hilltops, the hilltop views, the hilltop towns. Trains are scared of hills and do everything in their power to avoid them. Trains also hate winding around corners if they want to go fast. If they can't avoid hills they go through in many tunnels. Most people prefer to go fast so they can get to their destinations more quickly and get back, so train lines - the slower ones as well as the faster ones - tend to be relatively straight lines on flat ground. My suggestion is to spend some time in the hill towns of Tuscany and perhaps Orvieto. There are Regionale trains but although they are on different tracks than the high speed trains they are adjacent. 2. see number 1. If your son is looking on the .Italo website that is all he will find. You need to be on the Trenitalia website for the Regionale trains and their schedule isn't posted more than a week in advance. Look at the same day of the week this week. The schedules won't change much. Or use the comprehensive Bahn website and check the "Local" box. Second question number 1. The fare is just one Metro ticket. Second question number 2. I was able to choose my seats in February. I didn't know that the .Italo website had changed.
Posted by
lexington, il
4105 posts
The train site is (trenitalia.com) Stations: Roma Termini-Roma Tiburtina
Time is 7 minutes cost is 1 euro