From: Steve Rainbird on
What is the best way to get from Rome (FCO) airport to our hotel which is in
Pantheon square?

TIA

--
Steve

From: Poetic Justice on
Steve Rainbird wrote;

>What is the best way to get from Rome
>(FCO) airport to our hotel which is in
>Pantheon square?

I believe the taxi rate is still fixed at €40 but you can get a car
and driver to meet you at Arrivals for €40 & €45 which is the better
option.

I have used both companies in the past.
www.romeshuttlelimousine.com/FiumicinoE.htm OR
www.limoservicerome.com/Services%20and%20rates.htm

The Airport-Termini Train and then a taxi will likely be €35 ±.
Regards, Walter



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From: Poetic Justice on
>The Airport-Termini Train and then a taxi
>will likely be €35 ±.

I haven't checked the train price in a long time, it's now €14.
You said "our hotel" so if 2 persons it would be €28, the taxi
charges ~€1 per suitcase so it would be €40 at least, more if the
driver takes the scenic route:).
Regards, Walter



...And Paradise Was Lost...like teardrops in the rain...




















From: Andreas H. Zappel on
"Steve Rainbird" <steve.nospam.rainbird(a)mssint.nospam.com> wrote:

>There are 2 adults and one child. The hotel has told us to take the train
>and the a bus so that's what we will do i think.

And informed the hotel you as well, that luggage in public transport
(underground, busses) will be charged with a normal ticket for the
suitcase?
So, three persons on the train is around 45,00 EUR + 2 persons on the
bus 3 EUR + 2 (?) suitcases makes 50 EUR.
It seems that the hotel is in the area where a special taxi fare is
charged and the fare is EUR 45,00 (but you have to lok that the taxi
is a rome one, the taxi fare for the taxis from Fiumicino, which is
the city where the airport of Rome is located, is higher.

If you understand some german have a look here:
http://www.roma-antiqua.de/rom-reise-informationen/unterwegs_in_rom/flughafen_fiumicino#taxi

Greetings from Cologne

Andreas
From: bartc on
Steve Rainbird wrote:
> Cheers,
>
> There are 2 adults and one child. The hotel has told us to take the
> train and the a bus so that's what we will do i think.

That sounds like bad advice unless they also gave very detailed
instructions, especially as to the locations of the bus-stops,
route-numbers, ticket offices, and exact details of where to disembark, and
then how to get to the hotel from there.

Even so, plenty of opportunity to get lost, accosted by beggars, get on the
wrong bus, and so on (I assume you go through Termini).

And it's a hell of long, up and down walk from FCO arrivals to the train
station.

Forget the cost, just take a taxi. Especially if arriving late.

--
Bartc