Bari Travel Forum

I need some information on the best way to get from Rome airport to Bari.
I shld arrive early in the morning - was wondering if there is a direct train from the airport to Bari town. And from Bari what are the best option to visit sicily

You don't say which of Rome's airports you are arriving at, but in any case the answer is no, you need to get from the airport to Roma Termini, from which there are about 4 direct trains a day to Bari Centrale, e.g.:
dep. 08:52 arr. 14:46 (5h54)
dep. 13:38 arr. 18:15 (4h37)
If, as is most likely, you are arriving at Fiumicino you just take the Leonardo Express from the airport to Termini and change there for the Bari train.
As for getting to Sicily, there are ferries from Bari to Corfu and Albania but I don't know of any to Sicilian ports. You can fly from Bari to Palermo with Air One, it's not too expensive, or you could take trains there via Caserta and Salerno (long journey but perhaps you would want to stop off en route); the train from Salerno is the one from Naples mentioned here http://insurance.essentialtravel.co.uk/tg-europe/italy/sicily-getting-there.asp, which goes onto the ferry. Or from Caserta you could take a train to Villa S. Giovanni and from there the ferry to Messina; from Messina Marittima you could then take a train to Messina Centrale and and from there a train to e.g. Palermo. Or there are buses, go to http://www.onbus.it/, click acquista online (in the and then under Partenza select Bari under Partenza and then wherever you want to go in Sicily, then date of travel. To Palermo it takes about 12 hours (on a Saturday, 08h15-20h00) and costs €43.50, you can also do it overnight.

I just found a nice new tool that might interest you, go to http://www.trenitalia.com/en/viaggia_treno/index.html, click on "Go to ViaggiaTreno" and then "entra", and you will get a map which will help you understand (and even find, by clicking on the names of cities) the railway routes between Bari and Sicily. However, for railway timetables you may find it easier to use http://bahn.hafas.de/bin/query.exe/en, which covers the whole of Europe.