[Idyllchat] Trains from Milan to Verona

[Jay Cloidt]

In Milano Centrale, they have ticket machines similar to those you can find
in any major city in the US. These machines can display everything in
English. You can also buy your ticket online from the website, and print it
out at these machines in Milano Centrale. I did this in 2004. At that time,
it was only available from the Italian language portion of the website. They
have since made that available to the English portion of the website.

If you take this option, they will give a code that you need to bring with
you, and you need to have the credit card you made the purchase with.

Lately, though now it may be a little off season, reservations on Italian
trains seem to becoming more and more necessary.

I'm writing this from my hotel room in Zurich after our Untour in the Swiss
Heartland and Ticino. The train to Ticino from Luzern was the train to
Venice. It seemed that every seat in 1st class was reserved from Milano
Centrale on. Fortunately, we were getting off before Italy, so had no
problems.

Another tip in Italian trains is read the reservation cards. Many times you
can find a seat that is reserved after you are getting off. Some people just
see the card and won't sit there.

Again, it is possible to purchase tickets from the US and print them out
there. You can just buy them at a ticket machine once you are there. The
ticket machines can handle about a dozen languages including English.
Anytime you want to change something to English (ticket machine, atm, etc.)
look for the British flag.

Good luck and have fun,

      Jay

On 9/24/07, Patricia Edie <jpedie at ca.rr.com> wrote:
>
> We leave in four days for Italy.  Part of our trip includes our first
> Untour, in Tuscany North from Oct. 10 - 24.  I "think" we are ready!
>
> I have a quick question for those who are familiar with Italian
> trains.  We
> are flying in to Milan and staying for two nights in the city.  Then we
> are
> taking the train from Milan Centrale Station to Verona Porto Nuovo
> station.
> I have looked up on the Trenitalia site and know the times of all
> departing
> trains.  Since it is not heavy tourist time and since it is a Sunday, we
> are
> planning to just buy our tickets at the station.  I speak a little Italian
> and can handle the language issue.  My questions are:
>
> Are we being naive to think we can just buy our tickets the day we are
> going?
>
> Does our Senior Citizen status in age (65 and 70) qualify us for Sr.
> citizen
> tickets in Italy or does that Sr. citizen discount only apply to Italian
> citizens?
>
> We have traveled many times to Italy but always either with a group or a
> car.  For this part of the trip we are using the trains so it will be a
> new
> experience for us.  Any info would be appreciated.
>
> Grazie,
> Patricia Edie
>
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