KLouis

The "slow" train that serves the Tiburtina, Prenestina, Ostiense and Transtevere stations (among many others), also leaves every 30 minutes on X'mas day. As for metro and buses, this year's schedule is not yet available, but last year they worked from 8:30 till 13:00 and from 16:30 till 21:00.

glasszon

How are the reliability of the Leonardo Express? I have a 8am flight from FCO and will be staying near the Termini Station, am I cutting it too fine if I take the first train to the Airport in the morning?

KLouis

Leonardo is pretty reliable. But the first train is at 5:35 and you'll be at FCO at 6:07. Depending on where you fly to this may be a little too late for CI, security, immigration and getting to the gate or, potentially, more than enough... The chances, though, are in favour of making it.

glasszon

Thanks, to be precise my flight is at 8:20am going to Doha, it's part of the Qantas Award J RTW trip so there are severe consequence if I miss it (cancellation of all remaining sectors in J with over 25k miles yet to travel), so would you suggest I take a taxi to the Airport instead?

iapetus

The cost of the train is €14. The cost of a taxi is €48. And the taxi gives you the benefit of being dropped off in front of the terminal, as opposed to having to make the (admittedly not-so-long) walk from the train station. If I were that concerned about making my flight, it would be worth the €34 differential to me.

KLouis

I fully, absolutely and 100% agree with the above! And it there's two of you, as is often the case with award flights the price difference will only be €20. By the way, a cab at around 5-5:30 am would take about 30 minutes from Termini to FCO, maximum!

glasszon

Thanks, guess taxi it is, I was hesitant because I have 4 luggage with me between the both of us, so not sure how happy they will be to taking that many luggage on the taxi.

rove312

There's also Rome Shuttle Limousine ; if you say in the booking form how much luggage you have, they may bring a van.

KLouis

With 4 pc of luggage it's definitely a cab. I see you and your partner walking from your hotel to Termini and then to the platform that the Leonardo Express goes from, OMG... Then walking from the station at FCO to the CI counters, OMG... As iapetus suggested, the cab will bring you straight to the building, and you can always ask your hotel, when booking the taxi, to ask for a larger car, e.g. a Fiat Multipla or a Renault Espace or Scenic, or something like that. This should not be a problem.

The rest of my post will be sort of out-of-topic I assume that you're on vacation and not flying home from a year-long stay abroad. Why on earth do you carry so much stuff with you, needing 4 pieces of luggage? When travelling with my wife, we usually go with 1-2 pieces maximum and we manage easily. Our transfers are much easier, and we could even go cheaper such as even using LCCs with lots of restrictions. Try it out, your quality of life will improve tremendously.

glasszon

I know what you mean, but it's too late to redo our luggage as I am flying out tomorrow, I will see whether we can pack a bit lighter for the next trip.

JBD

I second. I've used them for many transfers and have recommended them to friends and family, and to my fellow FTers.

Administration notes: I just updated the wiki to reflect their current price of €50. And I'm using the Alert a Mod button to request this thread be made a sticky.

JBD

I was just looking over ADR's FCO website (Aeroporti di Roma) and saw under their "To and From Fiumicino" page: Car Sharing

Here's the link (but keep in mind that ADR often rearranges its website rendering links invalid, so if this doesn't work, start from ADR's homepage):
Car sharing - Aeroporti di Roma

Here's a cut and paste:I for one would never use this (I'd be scared silly to drive into Rome). But I'm curious if any of you have heard of this, and have used these cars?!

Here are the links to the companies mentioned:

Enjoy

Car2Go

JBD

And also new to me on the ADR site on its "To and From Fiumicino" page is: Chauffeur-driven car rental
Car rental with chauffeur - Aeroporti di Roma

Here's a cut and paste
And then it provides the name of 3 companies with linked websites. I looked at the first two trying to find pricing, but didn't see any details. However, the third company shows prices for a Mercedes E Class from €45
https://limousineuara.com/en/transfer-2/

I've never come across any of these companies before. Have any of you? Are these companies different than the car services we've discussed in the past? The way they're listed on ADR's site makes them seem more sanctioned than the ones in the wiki above.

Grace B

Can anyone advise if the newsagent in the arrivals area of T1 is still there, for the purchase of Cotral bus tickets?.

Last time I was at FCO, a few months ago, the newsagent's shop was all shut up, and I had no idea if there was anywhere else to purchase Cotral tickets at the airport. I understand that without a ticket it will cost EUR 7 paying cash to the driver (if he/she will accept it), which is considerably more than the ticket cost.

Thanks for any info.

KLouis

If, as it seems, you don't mind about the duration of the journey, you could take the Cotral bus to the Magliana and then change into the metro. This will be even cheaper than the Cotral alone!

At any rate, even if the newsagent's shop is still closed, you can walk up to T3 and buy your ticket there.