Naples. Circumvesuviana train. Are tickets sold for a precise time?
I'm going to visit Naples soon and want to take Circumvesuviana train in order to get to Herculano and Pompei. So I have a couple of questions answers to which I cannot google. I prefer to ask these questions here instead of figuring out at the place because as far as I know the locals speak poor English so it should be easier to find the information here. So my questions are:
I need to take a train from Napoli Porta Nolano to Herculano Sciavi. Are the tickets there sold for a precise time, like departure at 8 a.m. so I should take exactly this train or I can just buy tickets to Herculano and take this route train departing at any time?
When buying tickets should I buy back tickets as well? Or I can buy back tickets at the Herculano Sciavi station? I guess the answer to this should be yes but I would like to know for sure.
Best Answer
The circumvesuviana trains are local mass transit. Used by people to get to their jobs, schools, to go shopping etc. As such they are part of the integrated public transit system of Campania. This is managed by the Unico Campania consortium.
Having an integrated system is quite common in Europe and one of the consequences is hat you can’t really buy tickets for the Circumvesuviana train. What you in stead buy is an ticket for a certain number of zones from Naples, valid on all modes for a certain time.
So for Herculaneum you would buy a two zone ticket (NA 2) which would be valid for 120 minutes. For Pompei you would need three zones. You can also buy a day ticket for a bit more than two single tickets. So if you want to do both Herculaneum and Pompei on the same day just buy a three zones day ticket and all your travels are covered.
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No, from what I can tell you buy your ticket when you get to the station, and it's valid for a fixed time period. I've seen lots of references to overcrowded trains with people standing so there's definitely not mandatory seat reservations!
I think there are multiple options available, but it's hard to find out what they are. It seems that you can buy tickets valid for an hour or three hours, but you can also buy a three-day pass. I don't know what the prices are for this. In either case be careful, as I've seen lots of reports of tourists being short changed or given a cheaper ticket than they asked for but charged the higher amount.
Also note that though I don't know how it works for this system, tickets tend to need validating in Italy, so I imagine you could buy all the tickets you need at the start of your trip then validate them just before you travel.
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