alexvsim
Traveller
9 comments
Posted 14 years ago
I noticed that most domestic trains (IC Milan-Venice, ES Milan, Rome) in Italy require reservations. Are these hard to come by like the TGV in France? Can you make these reservations last minute at the station?
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
Not as hard as for the TGV trains in France.
You can use ticket machines in the stations to get the reservations - even short time before departure.
But you can as well buy the reservations/supplements in advance and online and then pick them up at the machines:
[u]https://rail.cc/en/italy-train-supplement-online-booking/f2949[/u]
In Italy you have a lot of free and slower connections by Regional trains and IC trains.
Use the schedule planer with the option without HST:
[u]https://rail.cc/en/search-interrail-route[/u]
For IC trains a reservations is recommended but not needed as rail pas traveler. But there are no signs over the seats showing that there is a reservation on a seat - so often you will have to move to an other seat during a trip by IC. But you save money. :)
[u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-train-reservation/italy/it[/u]
Peter :)
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
As far as I know there is no InterRailers limit for reservations like in France - so if there are free seats available you can get a reservation, be it one week in advance or at the day of departure. Note that there is no compulsory reservation on IC or E trains but I'd recommend it as for all other kinds of tickets reservations are compulsory. And because reservations arent labelled in the coaches it might happen that you will have to give up your seat to someone who has got a reservation.
Flo 8)