Best way to get from Venice/Cinque terre/Rome?
 

Travelling to Italy Sept/ Oct...
Would like to visit
Venice
Cinque terre
Rome
plus a trip from Rome to Sorrento (2 night/ 3day tour)
After some suggestions on the order/ best transportation to visit these place
Would be much appreciated :)

Who/how many people are you?

How many day do you have altogether for the trip

Based on that itinerary train makes the most sense.

Order of places depends on your flights in and out of Italy - which would depend on availability of direct flights from wherever you are as well as costs. Definitely do open jaws flights - into the first city and out of the last. You need to tell us which they will be. Venice and Rome? Venice and Naples? Naples and Venice? Whatever will avoid backtracking.

We flew into Florence out of Rome and used trains to Venice, Cinque Terre and Rome. Very easy to do.

We arrived in Florence and took the train right away to Cinque Terre for two nights with a change in Pisa. Back to Florence for a week with a trip to Venice. The Florence apartment was a great base and we left luggage and took backpack for overnight trip.
Left for Rome on train.

Thank you for your help!
There are 2 of us.. havnt booked anything yet but coming from Barcelona and need to be in London...
Have 12 days in Italy :)

Years ago, I trained from Venice to Florence, Florence to Cinque Terre, then Cinque Terre to Naples (and the Circumvesuviana local train from there to Sorrento). The train to Naples passed through Rome. Anyway - it all worked out fine except for the long day of training to Sorrento, but in your case you'd stop at Rome anyway. Check the schedules on Trenitalia's website for current times. Back then, there was only ONE train a day that worked (left about 7AM) to get me down to Naples at a decent time.

Thank you so much!
I have never been but seems like such a mission getting from place to place

I actually enjoyed riding the Italian trains - kind of an adventure!

If you are coming from Barcelona you may be able to get flights to Venice, Rome, Genova, or maybe Naples or Pisa (last one good for le Cinque Terre). You can check to see of any of the overnight ferries from Barcelona to Italy work for you, but they are usually more expensive than flying.

Thing is that there is almost no zippy way to arrange a trip that includes both Venice & le Cinque Terre, plus the Amalfi Coast that doesn't mean you will be spending nearly 2 days in Italy on trains and in train stations. The high speed trains do not reach the scenic coastal areas, so it's a time consuming slog.

If you can get comfortable with seeing just one scenic stretch of Italian coastline with towns clinging to cliffs instead of two such coastlines, you'll have more time to enjoy being on the coast because you'll eliminate 9 or 10 hours of being on trains and inside train stations.

(PS: I just read Andrew's post. I live on the Italian Riviera, and I never go to Venice in all one day by train. It's just too far and the trains that run for most of the route are very old shabby cars, and run slowly and with an inconvenienet (for me) schedule. I also really dislike traking the train from the coast to Florence, for the same reasons.

By contrast, I truly enjoy taking the high-speed trains that run between Venice/Rome/Naples. They are modern, comfortable, on-time, clean.

I didn't go between Venice and the Italian Riviera either in one day - I stopped in Florence. I wasn't offering any suggest to the OP to do the same thing - just saying it was possible to do it that way. And I guess I don't mind old trains. Even the old trains I've taken in Italy were nicer than the trains I've been on in, say, Poland. To each his or her own.