Fodor's Travel Talk Forums - Question about rental cars and trains for our Italy trip

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Originally Posted by coral22 (Post 17619776)

Hi, Karen,
We stayed in Montalcino and on our way to Florence we took a more eastern route with the intention of going to Cortona and Arrezzo, but we ended up just going to Arrezzo. We returned our car at the Florence train station, which was very easy. We were concerned about ZTL fines but contacted our rental car company, and they confirmed that we were authorized to drive there. All cars coming through the ZTLs are photographed, and if you are authorized to be there you are put on the white pages, which drops you from getting a ticket. From there, It was an easy walk to our hotel. It was nice to keep the car through that journey, and we liked the flexibility to stop for one more lunch along the way.

coral22, thank you so much for this information. It's very helpful. I would never have thought to contact our car rental company about the ZTL's. We do like to have the flexibility of a car so we can make stops along the way if we choose to do so, and have lunch.