Has anyone ever driven from Orvieta into Rome Termini to return a rent car? Would it be insane to do it instead of the 4 of us riding the train in from Orvieta? The rental car would be paid for through the day of return to Rome.

I would not try Termini---maybe FCO.

While I get a certain thrill out of driving in Rome, I wouldn't do it if I didn't have to. Taking the train is SO easy and relaxing; driving in Rome is not. As bob says, if you want to drive as close as possible, I'd choose to drop at FCO. Otherwise, turn the car in a day earlier, save the money, and take the train.

Never mind about the money, what about your sanity!

I agree with the above. Rome is insane to drive in.

It's a lot easier at FCO.

BTW, it's Orvieto, not Orvieta. In case you need to look it up on the train schedules at trenitalia.com.

The area around Termini is insane for traffic: fast, congested, confusing. If you don't want to drop the car in Orvieto, return the car to FCO and take the train to Termini from there. (Fiumicino airport)

We dropped our car at Termini. The drive in was not so bad, surprisingly, but when we got there, there was no rental car parking lot anywhere as indicated by our voucher.

My husband finally had to drop me off, I went inside the train station to find out where the Avis lot was. Of course the Avis office was at the opposite end of the station, where I had to wait in line to get a map to where the lot really was, in the basement of a parking garage a mile or so away.

That took about a half hour, during which my husband kept getting told to move on, you can't park there, and wondering if he was ever going to see me again.

I recommend to drop the car in Orvieto.

Driving in Boston, LA, San Francisco, Miami, Washington and even NYC holds no terrors for me. I wouldn't drive to Termini if they were holding the Second Coming and I were offered a front row seat.

On a trip to Rome several years ago, we dropped our rental car at a location in the city, but not in the middle of downtown. It worked reasonably well; the traffic at that location wasn't too bad. I'm suspicious of the route that the cap driver took from that location to our hotel (seemed excessively long), but I should have asked our hotel ahead of time what the average fare should be, so I view that as my error.

On our first trip to Italy we dropped our car off at Termini early on a Sunday morning, figuring the traffic would not be so bad, which it wasn't.

The problem was finding where to return the car, I did the same as the poster above, had my husband drop me at the termini to look for the office and find out where to leave the car, he ended up pulling into a parking area that was for "authorized vehicles only"....I was fortunate the rental guy came outside with me, found my husband and took it from there....so to make a long story short, it was a bit stressful.