Trenitalia Weekly Pass
Alexandrie Gallup
We will be in Italy in September and for three of those days we plan to use the train. We will be coming from Lugano, Switzerland and heading to Florence. We will then go from Florence to the Amalfi Coast and from the Amalfi Coast back to Rome. I have been reading that rail passes in Italy do make much sense. Does anyone know if the Trenitalia pass is worth it? I would appreciate any help!!
Nigel, The seat reservations are included in the cost of the new Trenitalia pass.
Sunshinegirl123, Both Trenitalia and Italotreno have already published the discounted and the walk-up fares up to December 8. Just Enter your days of travel and do the math.
Note the trenitalia.com displays the price per group of passengers, italotreno per person.
Annie, the new Trenitalia pass is really quite new. There's no deadline to reserve Italian trains and they rarely sell out, so I would not expect any problem. Ticketed reservations are also changeable under the same restrictions as regular, Base-fare tickets. Note that this pass is counting travel segments, not full calendar days like Eurail passes do.
The fast trains in Italy (Frecce) require seat reservations, so you can't just hop on a train without going through the reservation process. I see that the charge can be up to $14 per seat if you buy from a US source. I imagine it's a bit lower if you figure out a way to get the reservations from Trenitalia, but I don't know whether that is even possible. The seat reservation fee is built into the cost of the rail ticket if you buy tickets rather than a pass, so regular passengers don't have to worry about how to get their seat reservations.
As we're about half way into September, I imagine you're now in Italy so have already settled the question of the Trenitalia pass. After reading all the terms & conditions of the pass, I'd probably still just settle for Super Economy / discounted tickets rather than use the Trenitalia pass, as that's a less complicated option.
We'll be traveling in November and the 3 journeys in 1 week option would be perfect for our plans. And it would end up being a bit less expensive than buying them individually when I check the specific fares for the trains we want to take -- about 60 euro total saved for the 3 trips over that week.
Just wondering how well it works, and if the Comfort level (a step above the "Easy" -- WHO comes up with these names?) really does give you the ability to book any Premium, Business, or 1st class seats that are still open.
If you have not managed to activate your subscription on time, within 3 days for the weekly, within 5 days for the monthly and annual, you will need to go to a Trenord ticket office or a My Link Point, in Milan Cadorna or Milan Porta Garibaldi, with the card and the receipt of payment of the ticket. Here our staff will load your card manually.
2. You will be redirected to Trenord e-Store. Choose the electronic card on which you want to renew the subscription [it is also possible to renew the subscription on cards in the name of other people]
6. Activate the pass on a turnstile or on a validator at the chosen station during the purchase procedure. Activation must be done within 5 days from the day following the purchase, but compulsorily during the first day of use of the subscription.
Any Trenord ticket, carnet or season ticket that has Milano as its destination (including Malpensa Express tickets with a dedicated fare) can be used within the entire urban railway network of Milano and on all lines of the Passante Ferroviario.
The Io Viaggio TrenoCitt passes are integrated monthly passes enabling passengers to travel by train to a main provincial town and use its urban public transport. These passes must be accompanied by the IO VIAGGIO card.
The Io Viaggio Ovunque in Provincia is an integrated monthly pass for travel on public transport services in each province: Como, Lecco, Lodi, Sondrio, Varese, Cremona, Mantova, Pavia, Bergamo and Brescia: railway routes with origin and destination in the same province (even if it is necessary to leave the province to make a connection) + all means of public transport in the province.
Io Viaggio Ovunque in Lombardia is an integrated pass for travel on the entire local public transport network in the Region: urban and suburban buses, trams, trolley cars, subways, suburban and regional trains in 2nd class, Malpensa Express service (only Milano Centrale-Malpensa routes where there is a 2nd class option available), boats on Lake Iseo, on-demand services, cable cars and funiculars in the public transport network
monthly (from the first to the last day of the calendar month), quarterly (from the first day of the 1st month of validity until the last day of the 3rd month), annual (from the first day of the 1st month of validity until the last day of the 12th month)
If you travel on a line without devices or vending machines and therefore you have not activated the subscription on the Io Viaggio card, you can still travel and in case of control show the card together with this receipt from your device, you do not need to print it.
Paper passes sold by other transport companies are integrated passes such as IVOP, IVOL and Trenocitt and will continue to be valid on board Trenord trains.All Lombardo transport companies will switch to season tickets on the regional Io travel electronic card, but with different times compared to individual company projects.
Always check the validity of the card; if the card is valid for less than the chosen contract, it does not allow you to finalize the purchase. We also remind you that monthly passes can be purchased online from the 22nd of the month.
To proceed with the online purchase of the IVOL season ticket, it is necessary to indicate a railway route; subsequently the system will proceed to offer you the integrated IVOL season ticket in the purchasable options
If the contract is not present, activate it at the station devices, on the APP, it is advisable to go to one of our Trenord or My Link Point ticket offices in Milan Porta Garibaldi or Cadorna for direct.
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