Hi nova,

There is no longer a Trenitalia pass.

You can find schedules and prices at www.trenitalia.com/en

You can purchase a railpass for Italy through www.raileurope.com.

Before you do that, go to www.railsaver.com and enter your itinerary. It will tell you if a pass will save you money.

Thanks for your help.
I have one more question: Can i buy TrenItalia 4 Day 2nd Class Adult FlexiPass when i come to Rome or it has to be bought before i come to Italy?

Hi nova,

I thought that you buy your railpass from RailEurope or other travel agent, not Trenitalia. Where did you find it from Trenitalia?

You should buy it in the US. In the few countries where you can buy them, there is an additional charge.

Are you sure you need a railpass? They are not usually cost effective. In addition, you will have to pay extra for required seat reservations on the ES* trains.

I have a couple of questions about trenitalia website. I select a ES* train from Venice to Florence and get a price, but is that the ticket and reservation price or just ticket price? Do I make the reservation when in Italy, what is the cost, and can I get the reservation from any train station or do I need to do it at Venice station? Does anyone know about IC train where I want to make a reservation and how much does it cost?

Hi lpalusha

>I select a ES* train from Venice to Florence and get a price, but is that the ticket and reservation price or just ticket price? <

It is the full price. If you use the trenitalia.com site you can choose window or aisle seats. There are reduced fares for kids and families as well.

>Do I make the reservation when in Italy, what is the cost,

You can, or you can do it online.

>and can I get the reservation from any train station or do I need to do it at Venice station? <

You can buy all of your tickets at one time at any train station.

>Does anyone know about IC train where I want to make a reservation and how much does it cost?<

Reservations on the IC trains will be about 3E more per reserved seat.

Hello, when i tried to purchase a ticket, at the screen where i select the number of tickets and class of ticket, it does not give me the option to purchase. Instead of the Acquista icon, i get SOLUZIONE NON ACQUISTABILE text. Am i doing something wrong, or is my specific ticket not available online? Thanks!

Ernesto

Hi ernesto,

If you are on the English language part of the site, it doesn't work.

If you are on the Italian language part of the site, you can buy tickets from about 24 hr to 60 days before departure.

If you will be traveling outside Italy (eg Venice to Vienna) you can't purchase online.

if you buy on line you must print confirm no. the ticket inspector on the train then issues your ticket from a hand-held machine. I found it much better to buy the tickets at the termini in rome, all instructions were in english with touch screen, you can select you seat layout etc, even accepts paper cash, can choose any train journey in italy - just watch out which platform your your train departs from (ask a member of staff, they all speak some english) the notice board sometimes gives the wrong no.

Ira:

Many thanks! I was wondering how to buy my train ticket Milan-Venice in April. You saved me a lot of work.

All the best ... Ger

I am happy to report that after a great deal of uncertainty I successfully bought train tickets from the Trenitalia website.

I had to wait over 20 hours until they finally sent me the email with the password so that I could use the online ticket service.

I used the English language version. I bought ES tickets from Venice to Milan. After I entered my credit card information, I got a page that had assigned seats and a "PNR Reservation Code". I printed out this page on my computer.

But, again, it took until the next day for me to get the official email with "Order confermed". (That's how THEY spelled it.)

The instructions tell you to print out that email OR...if you don't have a printer... to copy down the train #, the reservation code, the "CP" code, coach and seat assignments and bring that information with you on the train.

Good luck.