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(TGA) - Travel - Due to recent cancellations in my flight from Poland to Florence I had to play around with my trip schedule a little. Can someone help me out in helping to decide how I should go about getting from Gdansk, Poland to Pisa or Florence.
Option 1: Take a flight on ryanair from Gdansk to Frankfurt, Germany, arrive in frankfurt at 11 at night, and then fly from Frankfurt at 10 in the morning to pisa. I will then spend a few hours in Pisa and take a train to florence.
Option 2: Take a train from Gdansk to Pisa.
Does anyone know how long of a train ride it is from Poland to Italy? Thanks in advance.
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Did you check if there is a Ryanair flight to Pisa? Or to Bologna, this is 1h by train to Florence.
i have no idea but I think the train from Poland to Florence is at least 15-20 hours and I dont think there any direct trains but you have to connect somewhere in Germany or Austria.
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I just checked but the flight to Bologna is from Katowice in Poland. Which I guess isn't too bad since it is only an hour from Krakow. I would have to take the train from Gdansk to Katowice and then from their go to Bologna. So do you think this would be somewhat less time consuming?
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Where are you in Poland? Gdansk or Krakow?
WindJet flies from Krakow to Bologna, Ryanair to Pisa or Rome (1.5 hours by train from Florence), AirBerlin to Rome.
Any of them would be better than travel by train or a flight with an overnight stopover, even if you have to change your dates by a day or two.
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I'm in Gdansk for most of my stay but I will also be in krakow for a few days so its a possibility to fly from there. But I have also noticed that there are flights from Wroclaw which is a shorter trip from Gdansk and then I can fly back from Italy to Krakow.
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From Gdansk, fly to Munich rather than Frankfurt if you want to fly to Germany. Munich is a smaller, better designed airport, and there are direct trains from Munich to Italy.
Buy Munich-Verona (Porta Nuova) direct trains at a reduced advanced price online on reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en…
Then in Verona, buy your ticket to Florence. Prices on http://trenitalia.it/homepage_en.html for dates until June 12. Later dates not yet available online.
From Krakow, as I said in answer to your earlier question, fly Ryanair to Pisa - much cheaper if you have limited baggage.
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The problem with flying from krakow is that ryanair only flies twice a week from their and I already have the hotels booked from july 2-6. I can't stay any longer then the 6th because wizzair still has my flight from venice on the 6th but it would be fine if I can get to italy 1 day sooner.
Someone mentioned to fly into bologna and I am considering doing that because their is a ryanair flight from wroclaw into bologna which gets into bologna on july 1st at around 4 pm. So I was thinking that might be enough time to take a train from bologna to pisa and then tour pisa for about 2 hours and then take a train to florence where I will stay for about 4 day's.
Do you think that is way to much train travel for one day and that it would be better to just take a train from bologna to florence, rest for the night and maybe walk around in the city. And then take a train to pisa the next morning and spend maybe an hour or two taking photos and then head back into florence?
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