train romania to italy

[dwenfish]

anyone know roughly how much that'd be, had a look on the intraweb and it looks like there an overnight train from bucharest to venice but it doesn't say how much it is...i imagine trains in romania are pretty damn cheap but it's a trenittalia train and it's a long way...

just wondering whether it'll be worth it..

thanks :)

[davesgcr]

look on www.seat61.com

Trains west of Italy are slow - but an interesting journey - about 15 hrs to Vienna .....

[zoltan]

go to the Deutsche Bahn site - stick in your start place and destination, hiot thje date and it will give you a timetable

Romanian trains a slow and its a big country ( the "rapid" ones are cripplingy lethargic IIRC )

Italian ones are great n relatively cheap

http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en

um.This isnt going to be a quick journey.Buy your Ticket to the Romanian border if possible, then sort out another from the Border to Buchresti - its pennies for internal Rom. trains.

Rail travel is fockin great in E/Europe!

[zoltan]

Oh...I see you are going Romania - venice.

When I was last there on the train, there seemed to be some grey area about buying international tix in Romaina - they wouldnt sell us Intl. tix for some reason, so we bought one to the border as a solutuon - thei is hopefully changed now ( 2 years on )

one thing is to be careful with the scurrilous Romanian conductors - if you buy a ticket to the border with Hungary on the Bucharesti- Budapest route, they will try to sell you a "discount" onward ticket to Budapest from the border as you pull ino the Border zone.

The Huingarina conductors will board the train and shrug when you try to present them with whatever pieces of paper you bought from the Romanian conductors - I have a group of people relieved of about Eur 70 by the Romanians and then have to buy the ticket to Budapest again form the Hungarians.

just tell them to fuck off if they offer you discoutn ticket and buy it from the HUngarians

[dwenfish]

hi, thanks for your replies, i've found this pagehttp://www.cfr.ro/calatori/engleza/swf/tarife_extern.sw
does anyone know why there seems to be 2 prices to venice? theres one for 98 euros then another for over double that! :confused:

oh and they all seem to be return journeys, i guess singles would be half that or do they not do singles??

[davesgcr]

Italian train fares havent risen for over 10 years - so buy accordingly !

[eoin_k]

I haven't done this route but I have travelled by train through Roumania enroute from Thesallonica up through Eastern Europe to Berlin and all the trains were really reliable and cheap.

[tim]

Italian train fares havent risen for over 10 years - so buy accordingly !

My season ticket went up by 10% in January, but it is true that Italian fares still seem cheap by British standards. There are also lots of coaches travelling between Italy and Romania (Romanians being the largest migrant community here), cheaper than the train, and a chance to travel as the Romanians themselves do, although you might have to put up with 30-40 hours of dubbed vieos and blocked bogs.