Hi
we shall be in Munich late August and plan to travel to Salzburg by train stay a couple of days and then onwards to Bolzano , final destination Merano for a week. After Merano we need to get to Naples by train.

Does anyone have any websites they recommend I buy my tickets for these trips? Thanks in advance.

The Seat61 website is fantastic for all things train related. Might be best to buy tickets from the main train company in the country you're travelling in but I've used the Trainline website to book and pay, for a few different countries, and it's user friendly.

I also prefer to buy directly from the train company operating the actual route, but regularly use Trainline to lookup schedules/evaluate alternatives as it aggregates available options across competing providers. As August is a long way out, timetables may not be fully released yet but you can run a few dummy dates for May or June to get an idea about possible connections.

So for your intended journeys the following are relevant : DB/OBB for Munich-Salzburg, OBB for Salzburg-Bolzano and Trenitalia/Italo for Italy.

I suspect you may need to retrace from Merano to Bolzano for Naples - its a very long journey, few direct connections, several others involving changes. Do note Italo (privately owned) also operates this route, and is sometimes very competitively priced (especially if you are able to commit to non refundable, non cancellable fares).

Be very careful with station names as some cities have multiple stations eg Munich HBF, Salzburg HBF being the main ones in those cities.

Moderators, as this is a routine post, you could remove the (likely erroneous) Trip Report tag, thanks.

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