Train from Rome to Florence

From Rome to Florence

Done with Rome and now moving on to Florence... =)... but before that... need to find out how to get to Florence.... 3 trains options: (1) Eurostar, (2) Intercity Plus or (3) Regional ....

Extensive details and photos of (1) Eurostar and (2) Intercity Plus can be found in the following website... http://www.seat61.com/Italy-trains.htm .... but not for (3) Regional trains

Why such discrimination leh???? cos Regional trains are the local trains which are alot cheaper but also means take longer time from Rome to Florence la....

anyway, managed to find a photo of how the inside of a Regional train would look like...

This travel blog photo's source is TravelPod page: Soaking Stresa

quite lokcok hor??? worse when being compared to the Eurostar and Intercity Plus train but no choice la... Mr Ang and I are budget travellers...or should i say...we are catty travellers.... oopx...

Let me summaries the differences:

(1) Eurostar - 1 hour 35 minutes - 1st class is at 63€ while second class is at 45€

(2) Intercity - 3 hours 1 minutes - 1st class is at 39.50€ while second class is at 30€

(3) Regional - 3 hours 49 minutes - 16.50€

i feel that a 48 minutes difference between the intercity and regional train dosen really make a difference for a 3-4 hours train ride...so no point spending extra S$50 (for 2 tickets) to take the intercity train... then when compared to eurostar... the 2 hour 14 minute difference would cost us S$100 more...definitely a no no no.... time is really not that precious to us while on holiday.... hahahaha.....

so we decided to just 'enjoy the real rome's way of train travel and the scenic view on the train ride bah... hahahaha.... hopefully we get seats too as there's no reservation of seats for regional trains de.... =(....