thanks...for your help
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jtc
jtamchay@yahoo.com
"Giovanni Drogo" wrote in message
news:alpine.LSU.2.00.0906291503560.4618@cbfrvqba.ynzoengr.vans.vg...
> On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, jtc wrote:
>
>> I have a friend who will be cruising on the HAL Noordam and docking
>> in
>> Cittevechia on October 6th, 2009 at 7AM.
>
> Civitavecchia I suppose
>
>> Do you think there might be a direct express train from the port to
>> Venice...???
>
> "express" and "direct" are obsolete names in Trenitalia terminology
> :-)
> Now they have things like Eurostar AV, Eurostar, Eurostar City,
> Intercity Plus ... and Regionale :-(
>
> Now, being serious, no, there will not be any through train (with no
> change) from Civitavecchia to Venice. Simply there is no request for
> such a route.
>
> Although the most obvious route may seem the one north along the
> coast to at least Grosseto, then reaching Firenze (Florence) and
> then catching some high speed train to Venice from there, it will be
> faster to go "backwards" to Rome and catch an high speed train to
> Venice in Rome.
>
>> She and her husband would like to take a train from the port to
>> Termini in Rome...they cannot leave til after 10:30AM they believe
>> at
>> the earliest. from Termini they would like to go first class to
>> Venice
>> on a first class ticket for two, with luggage, probably no earlier
>> than 12:30PM.
>
> I use this German planner for itineraries everywhere in Europe
> http://home.arcor.de/e.lauterbach/auskunft/fplanx-en.html
>
> For instance it shows me this connection
> ES 9789 + ES 9474 (dep. Civitavecchia 11:15, about 1 hr for change
> in Rome, arrives Venezia SL 17:17)
>
> ES are high speed trains, compulsory reservation (you can reserve
> even on the same day at the station).
>
> You can check the fares on trenitalia's site. Judge yourself whether
> it is worth travelling first class (only advantage will be seats
> arranged as 2+1 instead of 2+2).
>
> There is no such thing as a ticket "with luggage". You carry your
> own luggage, and stow it, according to volume and weigth, in
> overhead racks, in space between seat backs, or in racks at the end
> of the cars.
>
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