Nice to Genoa
Jun 14, 2013, 2:40 pm
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Nice to Genoa
Does anyone know how long it takes to get to Genoa by train from Nice/Cannes? I have 3 days in the south of France - thinking about spending a day in Cannes .. going to Genoa, and then stopping by Monaco on the way back to Nice.
I'm looking on voyages-sncf - apparently there are plenty of trains, example routing:
TER 86043
15h11 CANNES GARE
16h43 VINTIMILLE
TRAIN 681
16h58 VENTIMIGLIA GARE
19h06 GENOVA PIAZZA PRINCIPE
But it prints duration 99h55. Is this perhaps a bug? Or do the trains from ventimglia only run on certain days?
I'm looking on voyages-sncf - apparently there are plenty of trains, example routing:
TER 86043
15h11 CANNES GARE
16h43 VINTIMILLE
TRAIN 681
16h58 VENTIMIGLIA GARE
19h06 GENOVA PIAZZA PRINCIPE
But it prints duration 99h55. Is this perhaps a bug? Or do the trains from ventimglia only run on certain days?
Jun 14, 2013, 2:56 pm
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Bug. There's quite a few IC and RE trains from Ventimiglia to Genoa (at least every 2 hours) and SNCF trains head there every 30 minutes
Suggest you look at trenitalia for the Ventimiglia-Genoa section.
IIRC, 1 hr for Nice-Ventimiglia an around 2 hrs from there to Genoa.
Another option if you wish to avoid the change is direct SNCF bus (IDBus) but only once daily.
Suggest you look at trenitalia for the Ventimiglia-Genoa section.
IIRC, 1 hr for Nice-Ventimiglia an around 2 hrs from there to Genoa.
Another option if you wish to avoid the change is direct SNCF bus (IDBus) but only once daily.
Jun 14, 2013, 3:30 pm
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Bug. There's quite a few IC and RE trains from Ventimiglia to Genoa (at least every 2 hours) and SNCF trains head there every 30 minutes
Suggest you look at trenitalia for the Ventimiglia-Genoa section.
IIRC, 1 hr for Nice-Ventimiglia an around 2 hrs from there to Genoa.
Another option if you wish to avoid the change is direct SNCF bus (IDBus) but only once daily.
Suggest you look at trenitalia for the Ventimiglia-Genoa section.
IIRC, 1 hr for Nice-Ventimiglia an around 2 hrs from there to Genoa.
Another option if you wish to avoid the change is direct SNCF bus (IDBus) but only once daily.
Jun 15, 2013, 8:18 pm
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Jun 19, 2013, 9:05 pm
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It's farther than Genoa, but Cinque Terre is wonderful as well. Too rushed if you only have 4 days though. Also, there's more to the French Riviera than only Nice. We rented a car from Nice and also visited the Gorges du Verdon, Peillon, and Menton on the way back from Italy.
Jun 20, 2013, 3:19 am
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But as the other posters said, you might want to consider Cinque Terre as well or some other place along the coast, there are plenty of them.
Jun 21, 2013, 8:57 am
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i did blq-nce on a train once. Ventimiglia required down about 30-40 steps to get under the train track, and back up. it was part of a 2 week business trip with samples, so we had 4 heavy suitcases. there was nothing to see from the train. the train from ventimiglia to nice was more like a trolly than a train.
Jun 21, 2013, 1:34 pm
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Ventimiglia isn't that bad. Once you get off the train station and venture down towards the seafront it's a quite agreeable little town and worth spending a couple of hours in.
the train from ventimiglia to nice was more like a trolly than a train.