Need help on my train ticket booking from Switzerland, France and Italy
Apr 22nd, 2013, 02:16 AM
#21
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 1,361
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I would never imagine a return day trip Grindelwald - Firenze but OP's question got me curious.
The first connection of the day is ( by today's timetable)
Dep. Grindewlald 05h19 > Arr. Firenze SMN 12h27, total time to take 7hrs 8min. with 5 changes of trains. The next is slightly better Dep. 06h49 and Arr. 13h27, with 4 changes of trains.
Return : eg. FIR Dep. 14h30, GRW Arr. 23.36, with 5 changes again (the last ride is a bus that gets you to GRW).
Who wants to do it and for what I don't know but cetainly you can if you really need to. Perhaps driving a car is slightly better ...
The first connection of the day is ( by today's timetable)
Dep. Grindewlald 05h19 > Arr. Firenze SMN 12h27, total time to take 7hrs 8min. with 5 changes of trains. The next is slightly better Dep. 06h49 and Arr. 13h27, with 4 changes of trains.
Return : eg. FIR Dep. 14h30, GRW Arr. 23.36, with 5 changes again (the last ride is a bus that gets you to GRW).
Who wants to do it and for what I don't know but cetainly you can if you really need to. Perhaps driving a car is slightly better ...
Apr 22nd, 2013, 04:41 AM
#23
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 78,320
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Who wants to do it and for what I don't know but cetainly you can if you really need to. Perhaps driving a car is slightly better ...>
no car is not better - the high-speed trains in Italy go up to 180 m p h or the Milan to Florence portion and just as fast as cars on the other. Plus once in Florence you'll spend hours trying to find a parking lot as private vehicles are banned largely from the city centre.
no car is not better - the high-speed trains in Italy go up to 180 m p h or the Milan to Florence portion and just as fast as cars on the other. Plus once in Florence you'll spend hours trying to find a parking lot as private vehicles are banned largely from the city centre.
Apr 24th, 2013, 06:37 AM
#25
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 2
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I appreciate everyone's concern (the trip is one way!) and answers. We are going in June so apparently would need to wait for the new schedule but it doesn't sound like it will change much.
Thanks for all the responses and help!
Thanks for all the responses and help!
Apr 24th, 2013, 11:19 AM
#27
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 78,320
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
If you have a Swiss Pass you can use it to go to the Italian border station - Domodossola - at the southern end of the Simplon Rail Tunnel - so buy a ticket on www.trenitalia.com from Domodossola to Florence (after checking if www.sbb.ch - Swiss Railways doesn't have some special say Spiez to Florence fares.
Apr 26th, 2013, 08:44 AM
#29
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 78,320
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
In order to make it clear: the timetable of the direct Switzerland - Milan trains will NOT change in June; the change is only for trains which start and end in Italy>
trying to make sense of this - all Switzerland - Milan trains end in Italy, right?
trying to make sense of this - all Switzerland - Milan trains end in Italy, right?
May 3rd, 2013, 12:30 PM
#32
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 78,320
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
How do you know they will not change - are you saying they never ever change? since Trenitalia has yet to release its summer schedules how do you know that?
curious as to why the never ever change - don't pass the smell test - or are you saying they will not change only this year and how do you know that?
curious as to why the never ever change - don't pass the smell test - or are you saying they will not change only this year and how do you know that?
