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Trains to Southern Italy - Naples, Palermo

Most common reason : you are waaaaaaaaay too early. Up to 2 month advance is what railways offer-sometimes not even that. It is logic that many look at summertrips now and do not realise that or think trains are samesame as planes. For a global idea: use next week/same day. Times as such will hardly change. As such the local planner is always best, should be evident enough, then comes bahn.de as global for near all of EUR. Other as what many think, EUrail does NOT run any trains, you will not see it as stazione, it is simply a marketing plan now well over 60 yrs to entice tourists to go by train. R->N has at least hourly frecce=hi speed trains and besides that a fair lot of slower regionale. No need to worry-seats a plenty, also on the day itself mostly. There are 2, on busy days maybe 3, treni di notte to go to Sicilia. You need with a pass only pay the suplmt for sleeper/cuccette or posti di sedere. 1 comes even from far norte-MIlano, then stops in R then 2-3 hrs later N, the oth

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Trains to Southern Italy - Naples, Palermo

Works for me. What is the exact search that fails? Anyway, the local search engines are sometimes more up to date, for Italy trenitalia.com. For cross-border, bahn.de is an alternative. Thank you for this information.  The search is working if I search for dates within the next 2 weeks, so I just cant look so far ahead. Is the bahn.de included in the global pass?

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Trains to Southern Italy - Naples, Palermo

You can take whichever train from the participating companies . Trenitalia is participating, so you can take every train they plan. Sometimes mandatory seat reservation needed, mainly for the Freccia services (€10) and IC (€3) You find the overview here https://www.interrail.eu/en/plan-your-trip/tips-and-tricks/trains-europe/railway-companies Perfect!  This information was very helpful!

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Trains to Southern Italy - Naples, Palermo

As far as I know the only major train company in Italy not included is Italo, which operates high speed trains along the same routes as Trenitalia. Certainly all the trains (other than Italo) from Rome to Sicily are included, as are all trains in Sicily except the Circumetna train.   Great, thanks!

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Trains to Southern Italy - Naples, Palermo

You have 2 options from Rome to Sicily: Option 1 (my preferred) is the Intercity (IC) direct service from Rome to either Palermo or Syracuse (Siracusa) that crosses the Messina straits on the ferry. This runs a few times during the day and takes about 10 hours. (There is also a night sleeper service). Option 2 is to take the Freccia service to Vila San Giovanni, then take the passenger ferry to Messina (small charge) and connect with a regional service to Palermo or Catania/Syracuse). Although the Freccia trains are high speed the track to the south is not so the second option rarely saves more than an hour. IC trains have a reservation fee of 3 euro and the Freccia has a 10 euro fee (plus any agency fees).   Yes, option 1 will probably be the best since we wouldnt be saving much time.  Is the ferry included in the global pass? Thanks!

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Trains to Southern Italy - Naples, Palermo

For Italy, use www.trenitalia.com or the TrenIT! app. Please never use the rail planner app or the Eurail website to plan. They don't get updates frequently enough to be reliable. ok, thank you.

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Trains to Southern Italy - Naples, Palermo

Most common reason : you are waaaaaaaaay too early. Up to 2 month advance is what railways offer-sometimes not even that. It is logic that many look at summertrips now and do not realise that or think trains are samesame as planes. For a global idea: use next week/same day. Times as such will hardly change. As such the local planner is always best, should be evident enough, then comes bahn.de as global for near all of EUR. Other as what many think, EUrail does NOT run any trains, you will not see it as stazione, it is simply a marketing plan now well over 60 yrs to entice tourists to go by train. R->N has at least hourly frecce=hi speed trains and besides that a fair lot of slower regionale. No need to worry-seats a plenty, also on the day itself mostly. There are 2, on busy days maybe 3, treni di notte to go to Sicilia. You need with a pass only pay the suplmt for sleeper/cuccette or posti di sedere. 1 comes even from far norte-MIlano, then stops in R then 2-3 hrs later N, the oth

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emilydgeeFull steam ahead
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Trains to Southern Italy - Naples, Palermo

You have 2 options from Rome to Sicily: Option 1 (my preferred) is the Intercity (IC) direct service from Rome to either Palermo or Syracuse (Siracusa) that crosses the Messina straits on the ferry. This runs a few times during the day and takes about 10 hours. (There is also a night sleeper service). Option 2 is to take the Freccia service to Vila San Giovanni, then take the passenger ferry to Messina (small charge) and connect with a regional service to Palermo or Catania/Syracuse). Although the Freccia trains are high speed the track to the south is not so the second option rarely saves more than an hour. IC trains have a reservation fee of 3 euro and the Freccia has a 10 euro fee (plus any agency fees).   Yes, option 1 will probably be the best since we wouldnt be saving much time.  Is the ferry included in the global pass? Thanks! On option 1 the train actually boards the ferry, where you disembark upstairs and then return to your se

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Transfer times Germany

Hello, Our journey is 1.5 months starting in Scotland… too many places to list!  The travel date for the places I listed above will be October 17th, early in the morning - I have not booked a set time yet as it will depend on the transfer time between trains.

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Transfer times Germany

Ok, thank you for letting me know it would be tight… I will play it safe and go with a longer transfer time.

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Transfer times Germany

The journey that day will be from Rothenburg Ob Der Tabuer to Lucerne Switzerland.  Thanks.

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Transfer times Germany

Awesome, thank you! That is great information.  I may have more questions as the date gets closer and my planning becomes more confirmed.

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sorrento to pompei

So were actually travelling from Positano and wanting to go to Pompeii.  I was originally going to take the bus from Positano to Sorrento, then train to Pompeii (because I thought we could use our eurail passes from Sorrento on), but now Im wondering if its best just to take a bus from Positano to Pompeii or take bus Positano to Sorrento then catch train in Sorrento to Pompeii?Thanks!

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