Venice to Rome airfare
 

Hi all,

In the last few months, there was a post that gave a website of an airline with really good deals from Venice to Rome. I have searched and cannot find it. It's definatley not Alitalia, some other airline that had one way fares for less than 80 Euro. Please help!

AIR ONE and VOLARE are the budget airlines on this route.

Steve

Hi doodlebugg

Try www.alpieagles.com or www.volareweb.com Hope this helps.

I've seen 19.99 euro one way fares on Volareweb

You guys are the absolute best, thank you! I just checked Volareweb, that's exactly what I'm looking for! 85 euros for 2 adults!
By the way, I could not have planned my first trip to Italy without the help of everyone on this board. Fodorites rock!
Eight weeks and counting until hubby and I are living la dolce vita. :)

I'm not trying to tell you what to do, but I checked those fares out too. I think I found a fare of $19 or so with Volare, but with fees and taxes that comes out to something like $47 each for two of us. When you consider the early arrival time at the airport, the transportation out to and from the airports and the costs and time for those, I've decided it is cheaper -- and actually takes no longer to take the train from city center to city center. Check it out and think about it.

<<I think I found a fare of $19 or so with Volare, but with fees and taxes that comes out to something like $47 each for two of us.>>

And as much as I hate to admit it, there is also the expense of Alilaguna (or vaporetto, which is much more cattle-car - - I think - - though, honestly I have never gone to the airport by any means except water taxi), and of course, transportation into Rome.

To be fair, there is also the cost of getting to and from the train station(s), but likely a few euro cheaper.

Door to door, flying MIGHT save 30-60 minutes, and maybe not.

Train is clearly NOT inferior for this route. And I am rarely the person saying that for "lengthy" train travel - - this one just isn't that lengthy!

Best wishes,

Rex

Rex makes an interesting point

When I flew Rome to Venice a couple of years ago, I was very happy with the timing. I took a VERY early morning flight, I think it was Alitalia, cost about the equivalent of $100.
However, since the flight left at 7am or so, I was at my hotel in Venice by about 9am and so had the whole day left to me.

Early morning is an excellent comparative example, Elaine.

Volare has a flight at 7 am; arrives at 8:05. I could see making it to a Centro Storico hotel by 8:45 to 9:45, depending on luggage pickup. You would want to set your alarm for 4:45, and walk out the door of your hotel at 5:15 to catch a 7 am flight from Marco Polo. If the lagoon were seriously fogged in, you would want to head for Piazza Roma the minute you woke up, because competition for early morning taxis (on wheels) to go by land to the airport.

For the train, there is a departure at 6:32, so you could sleep 30-45 minutes later, and walk out of the hotel at 5:45 (or possibly at 6). The train arrives at 11:05 - - so at your hotel by 11:20 perhaps.

So, arrive by train 1.5 to 2.5 hrs later, for having been able to sleep 30-45 minutes later. Quite possibly arrive a bit more rested, ready to put in a 14 hr day, if that's your style. Better chance of actually being able to GET your room with the later arrival.

More than one way to look at this.

The flight I was going to take from Venice to Rome departs at 7:20 pm and puts us in Rome by 8:10pm. This is for our last night in Italy, and we wanted a whole extra day in Venice. All the train schedules I've looked at are between 4-5 hours. I don't see how I could lose time flying here, but I've never been to Italy, so I'm not sure how early I would have to arrive, ect.

Are you planning on going into Rome for the night or just staying near the airport?

I think what you're failing to add in, doodlebugg, is the advance time you need to be at the airport, the time it takes to get there from Venice as opposed to getting to the train station, the time it takes to get your luggage (assuming you are checking it) and the time it takes to get into Rome from the airport as opposed to getting to a hotel from the train station there. Add all that together and I can't see anything less than 5 hours door to door if flying. To me the inconvenience and hassle of flying (and yes, I consider flying a hassle these days) isn't worth saving maybe an hour overall. You don't seem concerned with the price, but I assure you once you add in the cost of transportation to and from both airports as well, you will undoubtedly be paying more to fly.

I would be out the door of your hotel by 4:30 pm. You do have the advantage of fog almost certainly not being a problem to get across the lagoon.

I think you could be at your hotel in Rome by 9:10 pm, plus or minus 20-60 minutes.

The closest similar train service would be 16:32 (leave your hotel by 3:45 pm?), and arrive 21:05. At your hotel by 9:30-9:45.

So, I think you can stay in Venice 30-60 minutes later, and arrive 20-60 minutes sooner. On the train, you would have had the choice to have already had a nice (though early, limited choice, and overpriced) dinner before you arrive.

Rex, those are pretty much the figures I was coming up with in my head. Thanks for going to the trouble of actually pursuing the schedules. I felt too lazy to do that today. But I totally agree. And like it or not, the chance of problems or delays is far greater on the airlines than on the train, even with the Italian record for staging strikes.

I went through this last year, excited by a really cheap flight from Geneva to Paris, when I was going to be leaving Montreux. But no matter how I sliced it, the total travel time and expense was going to be greater with the flight than just taking a TGV direct from Montreux.

I am not arguing that the figures clearly indicate one mode to be head-and-shoulders superior to another.

I do not find flying a hassle. And I do not over-romanticize riding on, nor dining in a train.

Two people might easily look at these same facts and reach opposite conclusions.