busybeeme

We are traveling from Verona to Vernazza in July by train with a stop at the Crevalcore station to see the Lamborghini museum and tour the factory. We were planning to hire a cab for the 7km trip to museum from the station but are not sure what to do with our luggage during the tour. As best I can tell, there is no luggage storage at the station. Any ideas would be much appreciated!

Jean

You could take a train from Verona to Bologna Centrale and store your luggage. There is luggage storage at BC, and you'll be making a connection here on the journey to Vernazza in the afternoon. Make sure you know the hours so that you can plan the pick-up time.

Check the Lamborghini website. I think there's a bus from Bologna Centrale that stops very close to the factory. This may work better than waiting for the next train to Crevalcore.

If you pre-book a tour with Motorstars or a similar company, I think they'd pick you up and return you to BC, but I doubt they would hold your luggage.

This is going to be a very long day.

busybeeme

Thank you, Jean, for your quick reply. I couldn't find any information on the Lamborghini website. It looks like luggage storage at Bologna Centrale is our best bet. Is it a locker situation or a staffed check? Do you know where to find the hours?
Thanks again!

Jean

Here are the hours of the luggage storage at BC:

http://www.grandistazioni.it/cms/v/i...003f16f90aRCRD

I've never used the storage there, so I don't know if it's lockers. Whatever, I would lock all pieces.

The bottom of this page of the Lambo website mentions the bus from BC.

http://www.lamborghini.com/en/company/how-to-reach-us/

And this website describes it also:

http://www.rome2rio.com/s/Bologna-Ce...gnese-BO-Italy

You might want to bite the bullet and pay for a taxi each way. It would save you an hour or more overall, and in a long day's itinerary that's not insignificant.

greg

The Lamborghini site mentioned above:
http://www.lamborghini.com/en/company/how-to-reach-us/
says to take bus #576 from the Bologna Centrale. The tper.it site references says the bus is hourly from the Bologna station. http://www.tper.it/sites/tper.it/fil...tper_Bo576.pdf Besides, if you look at the train schedule, www.trenitalia.com, trains to Bologna from Verona is more frequent, if not cheaper at last minutes fare, than to Crevalcore.

busybeeme

Thank you Jean and Greg. This was just what I needed to make a long day less so.

sandralist

Luggage storage at Bologna Centrale is a guarded room with personnel who check bags. You will need to present identification (passport). According to the tourist website for Bologna, the storage is open from 7am to 9pm every day. There is an e-mail where you can confirm

http://www.bolognawelcome.com/guida-...gna%20Centrale

I can't remember how much it costs per piece and whether they accept credit cards. I would come with small bills and a pocket full of change.

If you are arriving on the fast train from Venice, you need to walk from the new/modern part of the Bologna station to the older part (follow the signs for piazza Medaglie d'Oro and "deposito bagagli"). You will find taxis near the luggage storage.

sandralist

(By the way, 36 years ago, in August of 1980, an unattended suitcase in the Bologna Centrale station exploded, killing 85 people and wounding 200 more. The bomb was planted by an Italian neo-Fascist terrorist group, and the event was one of the most traumatic in post-war Italian history. There will probably never be self-automated luggage lockers in the Bologna train station.)