Hotel Giardino

Re: Trains from Rome Termini to Perugia or Assisi

by mccalpin

Glen, you're reading the schedule correctly. I imagine that the people who said that you had to change at Foligno were probably looking at the raileurope.com website, because it often doesn't list local ("regional") trains. You will notice that from Rome to Assisi, most of the fast trains like Eurostar would require a change at Foligno (except for Eurostars at 13:31 and 20:00 from Termini).

The 39/AS tariff is explained at http://www.trenitalia.com/cms-file/html/trenitalia_en/info_tariffe/Info_Tariffe_en.html#2

For regional trains you have absolutely no reason to buy the ticket online in advance. You can't make a reservation on a regional train (if you have a ticket and have room to stand, you can get on), so buying in advance gets you nothing.

You CAN buy such tickets online, however, you are limited to how far in advance you can buy them (without them expiring). Once you buy them online, you can't change them, but since they are tremendously easy to buy at the station (all the bigger stations have ticket machines so you don't even need to go to the ticket window), there just isn't any reason to do it in advance and take the risk that your plans will change.

Yes, fare 39/AS is the standard fare. '39' refers to a class of tariffs for simple one way or round trip trips in the regions on regional trains, and define the cost per kilometers in each region. There are no discount fares available to non-residents on regional trains...

OK?

Bill