CatAttack
Traveller
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Posted 11 years ago
Hey guys -
I'm travelling from Venice tomorrow night - YES TOMORROW ! to end up in Nice the next morning. Now my travel agent told me i could take a night train from Venice to Nice - now i've looked it up there are lots of connections and today i went to reserve my seat and the man who served me gave me a ticket to get to Milan then another to get to the border - at 1 am where he said i would have no problem jumping on a train to Nice. Now i find this hard to believe and don't see how any of this could be a night train (as if i was in a bunker i would be getting woken up again and again to change trains and wait around??)
I need help advice anything ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE !!!!!!!!
i don't care if i have to go up further near Paris then back down over night just please help me!!!!
Thanks - Cathleen :)
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
Hej Cathleen,
first the bad news: There is no Venice - Nice night train, it has been withdrawn several years ago.
What kind of ticket do you have? EuRail? Or anything else?
Now, what could you do if you have an EuRail pass: The reservations you have got are probably for this connection:
Venezia SL 1820 - 2055 Milano Centrale
Milano Centrale 2110 - 0105 Ventimiglia
The first train from Ventimiglia to Nice is at 0517...still quite a bit of time to cover. It is not uncommon to stay overnight at Ventimiglia altough during the winter it might not be really comfortable and, you might be on your own - during the summer there are more young travellers on that route. As far as I know it is not possible to stay directly at the station also.
In fact, there are not really much possibilites to travel overnight comfortably on that route. The only night train from Venice that might help you is the train to Rome:
:arr: [u]https://rail.cc/en/night-train/trieste-rome-icn-770/771/245[/u]
From Rome you could then go along the coast to Nice (via Pisa - Genova - Ventimiglia), but this would take several hours.
It might be easier to stay somewhere at a hostel after all - in Genova or Milano maybe.
Flo 8)
CatAttack
Traveller
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Hey thank you so much for replying you have no idea how grateful i am!!!!
i have a eurail pass - if i did go to rome then back up how long would that trip take from the website i'd arrive in rome at roughly 630 am - so would it end up being midnight before i get to my hotel ???
:P thanks again
Cathleen
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
Hej,
no problem. ;)
If you go with the night train (you could in fact already leave at Venezia SL at 2330!) all the way to Rome, you'd arrive at 0620 at Roma Termini. Then:
Roma Termini 0657 - 1116 Genova PP :arr: Frecciabianca, 10€ reservation
Genova PP 1255 - 1507 Ventimiglia :arr: IC, 3€ recommended reservation
Ventimiglia 1517 - 1603 Nice Ville
Not _really_ a fast way, but hey, you'd have a look around Rome main station and Genova as well! ;)
Unfortunately, I dont really see an alternative. You could leave the night train in Bologna at 0212 but then would have until 0452 for the connection to Ventimiglia. The next stop after Bologna is Arezzo at 0421 but there are no good connections to Ventimiglia either (it's the middle of the night after all...).
The only other thing I could think of is to wait until around 3am in Venezia, then take the night train from Wien to Rome until Bologna or Firenze and continue to Ventimiglia from there. However, staying at Venezia Mestre until 3am (this is the station on the mainland, unlike Venezia Santa Lucia directly in the Laguna) probably isnt more pleasant than staying overnight at Ventimiglia. And the connection from Bologna or Firenze is not very good either.
The fastest way still is via Milano - Genova, but alas it is not possible overnight...
Flo 8)