Please help! We leave in two days and I just checked the train schedule. We will have over 8 hours in Bari before our ferry leaves.There are two adults and three teens and we will have our luggage. Can we leave it at the train station? Any ideas on what to do in Bari? I thought about renting a car instead of the train but we have already paid for the tickets.

Elaine, you can leave your luggage at the station. They charge a few euro for a 24 hour period.

There's decent shopping to do near the station. However, what I love are the markets. If you stand at the station facing away from it, you go down a block or two, then turn left and go down several blocks. There is a huge market with fresh fruit, veggies, and seafood. Great people watching.

Thank you! We will have a lot of time, basically from 11:30AM when our train gets in until 6 at night when we need to be at the ferry port. After the market are there any places of interest that we can walk to. Also do you know if we cn walk from the station to the ferry port? Thank you, this seems a little overwhelming when you have never done it.

Be sure to visit the old quarter of Bari which is near the docks. The church of San Nicola is the burial place of St. Nicholas and collects "manna" that issues from the coffin.

Believe it or not, I, Thingorjus, madcap heiress, darling of the international jet set, have been to Bari!! I travelled there to take the SuperFast to Patras. (I, and my friend, Heather, arrrived by private car, so I have not been to the train station.) Upon arriving in Bari, we were petrified for our lives! I thought we would be murdered and our bodies thrown into the Adriatic. Everyone we met looked so unsavory and they all had rotten teeth. Well, while waiting for the SuperFast, we ended up playing soccer with some local children and had a very good time. Some men who were nearby loved my friend, Heather, when they learned she was of Italian descent, and showed her pictures of their children and grandchildren. So, don't be frightened when you first catch sight of Bari. Everyone we encountered was a living doll.

We arrived in Bari by car and had most of the day to spend before our ferry left for Dubrovnik at night (actually about three hours late, but that's another story). I don't know about the train station, but there are lockers at the main ferry terminals. You might want to take your luggage there and leave it so it will already be there when you are ready to depart. By all means, don't miss seeing Santa Claus's bones -- ooops, I mean, the bones of St. Nicholas.

I was ready for a dirty, disgusting town and was pleasantly surprised by Bari. The most interesting thing was that at sunset all these huge families came out, pulled lawn chairs out of their cars and sat along the sea promenade. It is a social event that apparently takes place every night.

Hi Elaine...seems like there are some fun suggestions that I wished I could have taken advantage of. ThinGorjus made me laugh....his initial assessment was something like ours, but I found Bari really easygoing.

I read on another post there is a bus to the port. But with your family I would just take a cab. Plenty out in front of the train station, and should cost no more than 15 euro for the lot of you. It's too far to walk...