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Travel plans, routes and timetables / Re: Traveling through Italy and France in July

« on: May 25, 2011, 02:39:41 am »

Excellent, thank you, I secured exactly the seats that we wanted!

I'm now looking at the next leg of our journey from Venice to Monterosso al Mare. Trenitalia is only showing options going via Milan where we would make our only change with approximately 40 minutes between trains. This sounds pretty reasonable to me, although the travel time of 6 hours is quite long. Is this the best option or would I do better to look at alternative routes?

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Travel plans, routes and timetables / Re: Traveling through Italy and France in July

« on: May 24, 2011, 01:05:44 pm »

Apologies, I'm usually very careful about including every detail when I'm asking a question. Based on those pictures I'm after advice on the latter - the train that is running from Rome to Venice is the ES Italia AV 9408 FRECCIARGENTO. What do you think?

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Travel plans, routes and timetables / Re: Traveling through Italy and France in July

« on: May 24, 2011, 07:54:03 am »

Thanks for the advice Direct-Orient

I have a couple more questions. I'm now able to book the first leg of my journey via the Trenitalia website. For this leg we're looking at travelling first class and we'd like to book two seats facing each other with the corridor (i.e. no other seats) next to us. I'm confused by the seat descriptions option when I'm booking - do I want window, median or corridor?

Will we have any issues with these seats and travelling with a couple of suitcases?

Thanks again.

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Travel plans, routes and timetables / Re: Traveling through Italy and France in July

« on: April 25, 2011, 12:59:59 pm »

Ok, thanks again for the advice 

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Travel plans, routes and timetables / Re: Traveling through Italy and France in July

« on: April 25, 2011, 07:30:24 am »

As a follow-up, I thought I'd check on trains for our first journey which is planned for July 24, Rome to Venice. TrenItalia only shows one route leaving at 19:05, but if I search on another site which I recently found (www.raileurope.com.au), there's at least 6 different options listed there. I've also checked this with other dates closer to now and they show similar results.

I'm a little confused - I thought that TrenItalia would show me all of the options? Have I somehow done something wrong here? The other site has some interesting information but the prices they're quoting for tickets are ridiculous.

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Travel plans, routes and timetables / Re: Traveling through Italy and France in July

« on: April 14, 2011, 08:10:42 am »

Thanks for your advice, it's very helpful

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Travel plans, routes and timetables / Traveling through Italy and France in July

« on: April 13, 2011, 05:24:31 am »

I'm hoping to get some help with organising my honeymoon travel through Italy and into France this July. My new wife and I will be flying into Rome where we're hoping to go for a daytrip to Pompeii while we're there. Then we're planning on traveling via train up to Venice, then across to Monterosso (in the Cinque Terre region), and finally across to Nice.

In trying to prepare for the trip I've noticed that I can't find information yet on the Trenitalia site for the dates that I'm after, which brings me to my first question - how far in advance should this information be available so that I can check prices and purchase tickets?

I'm still trying to determine whether I should go with a Eurail pass or just book the tickets directly, so any advice on this front would be appreciated as well. Our itinerary is 99% locked in so I don't think that we'll need the flexibility of a pass but I'm happy to take any advice onboard!

Lastly I'd like to know about traveling in first class vs. second class on the routes we're looking at - I haven't been able to find much information on what the difference is to make a judgement about whether it's worth paying the extra for first class, so again any advice anyone may have would be greatly appreciated.

I'm so glad this site and these forums exist as it's really quite daunting trying to organise train travel throughout Europe! Thanks in advance