Bolzano Travel Forum

I am going to fly to Munich from London next Monday. I will be arriving at the airport 5:00 in the afternoon.

Then I have to find right train station to get to Bolzano. I was told that - there is a direct train to Bolzano & it take about 3 hours. Is it true?

I would like to know, (1) which train station (and how to get there from the Munich airport) (2) what time the train leave? (on Monday night) (3) How much is the return ticket between Munich and Bolzano

I can not find any good English site to tell me the information.

Please someone give me advices on this?

Well, I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that there are several direct trains a day from München to Bolzano/Bozen (the Italian and German names for the same town, as they use both there), although the trip is really closer to 4 hours.

But the bad news is that the last one leaves central München at 17:31 - which means that you will have no way to catch it if you arrive at the airport at 17:00.

For your research:
1. You can go to either the Hauptbahnhof (main or central station) or the Ostbahnhof (a station on the east side of the city center); the train to Bolzano/Bozen passes through both.
See http://www.munich-airport.de/en/consumer/anab/bahn/index.jsp
for information on how to take the train to either station

2. http://www.bahn.de/international/view/en/index.shtml
shows you the English pages for the official German rail website.
Enter 'Muenchen Flughaven' for the start and 'Bolzano' for the destination. It will give you many choices for the start; I picked 'München Flughaven Terminal' and this worked.
It will change the name to 'Bolzano/Bozen' for the destination; this is fine.

3. The one way ticket is generally about 60 euro (plus or minus), with a discount fare of 43 euro still available on most trains - see the German rail website.

It looks like you need to take a different flight, or plan to spend the night in Munich...or, of course, you could spend an very unpleasant night on slow trains with long layovers in the middle of the night...

Bill

Dear Bill

I can not believe that I got great advice so quickly... so pleased to join this site

Thank you so much for amazing information!

However I am very sad about train time... I can not cancel the flight and also I should be Bolzano on the night... (we are showing work in the big art show once in 4 years called Manifesta7 at Bolzano - it will open from 19th July to Novemeber - hope many people visit it!)

But that is my problem. I will check the site you gave me and decide what to do.... I just wanted to travel through the Alps in this occasion...

Well, this is bizarre...I was looking at the Italian rail site (www.trenitalia.com/en/index.html) and it shows a EuroNight rain (#389) that leaves Munich Hauptbahnhof (main station) at 21:03, and arrives in Bolzano/Bozen) at 01:05.

So I went back to the German rail website and sure enough, it shows this train as part of a 9 hour journey, with 2 changes....and fails to note that if you stayed on the train (instead of getting off at Innsbruck as it suggests), you'd be in Bolzano in another 2 and a half hours. But when you click on CNL 389 on the German website, it shows you the whole trip all the way down to Rome.

I have no explanation for why the German rail website fails to show this. It appears that there are 2nd class seats all the way thruough (not all cars on many trains go all the way, so I wondered if it didn't offer this solution because only sleeping cars when all the way)...I just don't have a good explanation.

Bill

Take a look at the discussion we are having on your post at http://forum.virtualtourist.com/discussion-430567-1-1-Travel-0-0-Europe-discussion.html?s=2&p=1&l=1

It looks like you have a solution after all...

Bill

Bill

I am speechless...!

After I got your first advice, I have been checking the site you gave to me, emailing my colleagues who are also traveling same route - same flight on the following day, discussing the possibility of the change of the flight, finding the cheap accommodation in Munich etc, etc. - & off course doing my work and house work too

Now it's 1:30 am. I am absolutely tired (usual night)

then i just checked Virtual Tourist site again as a last thing of the day, i found your research with other members...

I read your conversations twice with excitement but my eye sore right now(and English is not my first language too). I will read them tomorrow again - i just wanted to say how I appreciate all of your help. Thank you very much.

sunfat