Naples Travel Forum

I want to travel on the 14th June 2008 with my wife, 30 year old son and his wife from Capri to a cruise ship at the Port of Civitavecchia arriving by about 3 pm that day. I am able to arrange to get to Naples Railway station by Hydrofoil and taxi. What is the most efficient/best station to travel to with a minimum of train changes and best method to get to the port, presumably by taxi from the station.

trenitalia is your best friend in this situation

you need to get to Civitavecchia - and then a taxi to your cruise ship

please allow plenty of time for strikes (sciopero) delays (en retardo) and no taxis available

While there are a few direct trains from Naples to Civitavecchia during the day, they don't appear to be any during your desired timeframe. If you do as Jen suggests - visit www.trenitalia.com/en/index.html - you will see that the latest solution is to leave Napoli Centrale at 11:48 on the Alta Velocita' 9440 (arr Rome at 13:15), then take in Rome the InterCity (IC) train Carignano (#526) which leaves at 13:46 and arrives in Civitavecchia at 14:32.

Or you can leave on the AV at 11:10 (#9608), arrive in Rome at 12:37, then at 13:09, take the regional train (#3258) that arrives in Civitavecchia at 14:15.

Once you are in Civitavecchia, the docks are only 10-15 minutes away from the station...if you have no luggage...so I bet you'll want a taxi ;-). Note that in the summer of 2007, a VTer reported that the city set up a shuttle from the docks to the station...perhaps the converse will be working as well...but in any case, a taxi shouldn't be expensive...

Bill

but bill - having just got back from italy and reeling from the plentiful suprises italy always offers the stranger - This is Italy and it is exciting -
suggest the poster be ahead of the game and arrive well before he needs to - be awful if he misses his ship

hahaha, Jen! Actually, that's why I suggested the earlier train as well...and I don't know how early the OP can make it over to Napoli Centrale from Capri anyway...still, you're right that there's no point in waiting until the last minute ;-)

Bill

Hi
We sailed from Civitavecchia. The railway station in next to the port.
Although we did not travel by train we chatted with many who did. You could walk to the cruise ship terminal in 10 minutes, but a taxi will take you there for very little expence in a coulpe of minutes.
Enjoy your cruise, we did
Adrian(UK)