Cheapest adult pass
$197
Second class, 3 travel days in 1 month
Typical reservation
€13
Per person, per high-speed train
Regional trains
No fee
Hop on, no reservation, pass valid
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The four things that decide it
Most people overpay because of one of these. Each takes about three minutes to read.
What the Italy Pass actually is
Travel days, validity windows, first versus second class, and the difference between the Eurail and Interrail versions.
ReadReservations are the real cost
€13 on every Frecciarossa, €3 on an Intercity, nothing on a regional. Four people on one trip changes the maths entirely.
ReadIs it worth it for your trip?
Enter your journeys and compare a pass against advance point-to-point fares. Sometimes it isn't — we'll say so.
ReadWhat the pass does not cover
Italo, the Leonardo Express, the Circumvesuviana to Pompeii, the Cinque Terre shuttle. Know before you arrive.
ReadCities
Where the trains take you
Station layouts, airport connections, what to eat, and which day trips are worth a travel day.
Lazio
Rome
The hinge of the Italian network
Tuscany
Florence
Ninety minutes from everywhere
Veneto
Venice
Get off at Santa Lucia, not Mestre
Lombardy
Milan
The northern gateway
Campania
Naples
The south begins here
Piedmont
Turin
Arcades, cinema and the Alps behind
Routes
The journeys people actually make
Times, reservation fees and what a walk-up ticket would have cost.
Itineraries
Costed, day by day
Each one counts the travel days it burns and the reservations it needs.
The classic seven days
Three cities, four moves, and three full days with no train at all. This is the itinerary a 4-day pass is designed around.
7 nights · 4 travel days
North to south in ten days
Milan to Naples with the lakes, Venice and Florence on the way. Five travel days, every one of them carrying at least two hours of train.
10 nights · 5 travel days
The fourteen-day grand tour
Everything above, plus the deep south. The eight-day pass only makes sense on an itinerary like this one — count your moves before you buy it.
14 nights · 8 travel days