Georg Schwarz wrote;
>Does anyone know which hotels near
>Rome Fiumicino Airport (FCO) offer a
>shuttle service to and from the airport,
>preferably free to geasts?
This info is probably 9yrs old but I looked into it back then, so for
what it's worth.
The big expensive (chain) hotels offered a free shuttle service with
*their* company shuttle bus.
The smaller hotels in the area offered a shuttle service but thru a
seperate private company with multiple pick-ups at other hotels.
IIRC the 1st hotel pick-up was ~7am and then on to the other hotels.
It's in the back of my mind and I could be wrong but I recall this
particular company didn't run on Sunday which I thought was rather odd
for an airport service.
So if you do find a FCO area hotel be sure you have the schedule for
the shuttle service they use.
>Which hotels can you recommend to a
>traveller with an early Sunday morning
>departure from FCO?
[I don't know if this applies to you.]
The 3 reasons to stay at the airport hotels IMO are; you arrived at the
airport and your connecting flight is early the next morning, you
arrived in Rome by train and need a hotel just for the night so you
train out to the airport that same day or you are dropping off a car at
the airport and leaving early the next day.
But *if* you have been staying in Rome it's alot easier just to spend
the last night in Rome and either take a taxi (€40) or a limoservice
for (€40-50), like this company
www.romeshuttlelimousine.com
The Rome-FCO train is €14 and if you had to taxi to the train station,
figure ~ €10 so €24 if you are traveling alone.
Plus an airport hotel *might* be more expensive than the one in Rome so
another possible saving?
I took a Limo from near the Termini train station to the airport in ~05
(Sunday @ 0510), I was at the airport in exactly 20min.
150km thru the wide straight roads leading out of the city center and
200km once he hit the Autostrada!
Also I know there is/was a private bus early-AM service that did
multiple hotel pick-ups and got to FCO very early for ~€25 but I can't
recall the company (Viator?). Regards, Walter
..And Paradise Was Lost...like teardrops in the rain...