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You could take the train in the morning and arrange a car transfer for the return, or get on the roll call for your sailing and see if you can find others to share the cost of a car service for the day.

It's very easy to do by train or bus. Trenitalia now offers a train + bus combination ticket, so you don't have to worry about how to get the bus ticket, etc. Messina Centrale train station is about 750 meters/one half mile on foot from the cruise port. On the Trenitalia site you enter Messina Centrale as your starting point, then Taormina Centro as your destination. The entire trip takes an hour and a quarter and costs 6,30. While the train portion cannot sell out, the bus does so if you decide you want to do this I would purchase these tickets in advance. The first run of the day leaves Messina at 9:15 and arrives to Taormina at 10:30. You haven't shared your hours in port but there is a return that departs Taormina at 15:50 (3:50 PM) and arrives to Messina at 16:55 (4:55 PM). If that works you'd have a little over five hours in Taormina. EN - Trenitalia

All tickets on Frecce trains are assigned seats, regardless of train section or fare type. For the short ride from Civitavecchia to Rome I'd get the cheapest seat available.

Etna has a bus from Taormina at 14:45 (2:45 PM) that arrives to Catania at 15:55 (3:55 PM).

There's nothing wrong with train one way, bus the other, whatever best suits your schedule needs.

Ah, okay. Those are all in the system by now.

Arriving back at 4:30 for a 5:00 departure is way too close. For one thing, all aboard will be 4:30. What is your travel date? The full schedule may not be loaded into the system if you're looking too far in advance.

That's the Interbus, and it's probably overblown. Visitors assume the worst and falsely assume that what happened to them the one time they were there must be the norm. Also, sometimes they're just not reading the schedule properly, there are a lot of factors. The Trenitalia bus connection is a different animal, if that's what you're looking at.

It seems to me that most foreign visitors head first for the train rather than the bus, as it seems easier given that the locations are fixed and easy to find. The train is an option, even easier now that Trenitalia offers a train + bus combination that you can purchase from them, in advance. These will sell out, so I would buy in advance. On the Trenitalia site or app, use Catania Centrale as your starting point and Taormina Centro as your destination. You'll see that the results include the Taormina Link bus. Also note that one of the morning train options includes assigned seats, a benefit worth paying a little bit extra for (the 8:41 Intercity train, which puts you in Taormina at 9:55). EN - Trenitalia For the bus option: The bus station on Via Archimede is only a few steps past Catania Centrale. Here you can get buses to Taormina on Etna Trasporti. For this your starting point is CATANIA - Via Archimede - Autostazione and your destination is TAORMINA - Via Pirandello - Terminal Bus. Web site here. Interbus offers the same service, from the same location: https://www.interbus.it/travel-plan/fermata.php?id_vettore=1

It will be nearly impossible to keep a group this large together on the trains, which are wildly overcrowded, especially in the summer. I encourage you to reconsider and look into the ferry for transportation, which is capacity controlled (the regional trains are not). Also, the ferry port is an easy walk (about 650 meters/four-tenths of a mile) from the cruise terminal while the train station is a bit further away (about 2 km/one and a quarter miles). Also, note that the "beach" is very small and reservations will be required, I would look into that as soon as the beach concessions open for the season. Fegina rentals info: Cosa Offriamo - Bagni Fegina - Stabilimento Balneare Monterosso Al Mare - Cinque Terre Ferry info: Navigation Golfo dei Poeti - Visit the Cinque Terre from the sea (navigazionegolfodeipoeti.it)

There is still no announcement on either Turismoroma or the official website here about a date when the fees will begin. Nothing mentioned yet on their facebook page either: (20+) Pantheon Roma | Facebook

The most you'll change your drive time is about 15 minutes, is it really worth a lot of angst over the decision?

No, it won't be over which I why I said two hours would not be out of the question.

Best case is an hour and a quarter but at rush hour two hours wouldn't be out of the question.

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I too think it's too tight from the Dome climb to picking up luggage and getting on the train. Did you also check Italo? They often have better fares than Trenitalia. Italy high speed train tickets| Italotreno.it - Official website

A wheelchair is only usable on the Pompei for All access route. This is not the typical tour itinerary (you can download the map here: Pompeii for all - Pompeii Sites). The regular tours are not appropriate for anyone with walking issues, I have seen some nasty falls from tripping on the stones. Perhaps one of the canes that opens to a chair would make visits more possible for her?

Yes, that's it. The port bus departs at 8:50, the train departs from Civitavecchia at 9:16.

The town has a video and and downloadable booklet, both in English, on their web site to introduce you to the town and what there is to see. Comune di Crotone - Aree Tematiche - Aree Tematiche - Turismo

Tickets for seat assigned trains are useless if you miss the train, in most cases. Your recourse would be to purchase a new ticket for a later train. Especially with luggage coming off a cruise, you should limit your search to seat assigned trains. It's hard to describe the discomfort of standing for an hour, crammed into a regional train, trying to keep your eyes on your luggage. It's not worth the savings in either time or money, in my opinion. The first seat assigned train of the day to Rome (where you'd change for a train to Florence) departs Civitavecchia at 9:16 and arrives to Florence at 12:01.

It's hard to see how any of us can be helpful to the OP. Let's assume that the 6:30 disembarkation time is real. The good news is that Sunday traffic from the port to the airport will be better than any other day of the week, so that's a plus. At the airport we know that flights into Israel have more security to get through than any other destination, so that's a bit of a negative, in terms of risk assessment for making the flight. The key variables are: * time you can disembark (best case is 6:30) * travel time to the airport (best case is 50 minutes) * check-in and security time Only the OP can assign risk to each variable and decide if the value of this flight is outweighed by the risk of not making it.

It's one kilometer/a little over a half mile on foot from the cruise port to the base of Funicolare Centrale. The stop is called Augusteo and it's located in Piazzetta Duca d'Aosta, just off Via Toledo. You can make a google map of the route. You take the funicolare to the top, the third stop, called Piazza Fuga. Come out of the station and turn right, then right again onto Via Domenico Cimarosa. Turn left at the first corner onto Via Morghen, look for brown and white signs like this: You'll pass a big Carrefour supermercato, shortly after this you'll come to a big staircase where you'll again see the brown and white signs. Fortunately, just to the right of the staircase is a free escalator. At the top of the escalator you'll walk across a small piazza, cross the street and take another escalator to the top of the next staircase. Cross the street and turn left, passing by the top of the Morghen funicolare, you'll soon see the brown and white signs directing you to turn right and walk down an alley that brings you out to the intersection of Via Maestro Colantonio and Via Eduardo Dalbono. Continue straight/slightly left onto Via Dalbono, at the end of the street turn right onto Via Tito Angelini. Follow this, it dead ends at the Certosa. Don't use google maps for this route, it doesn't seem to know about the hills and how to avoid them with the escaltor. If you follow their route you'll be exhausted when you get there.

Olbia is a pretty small town, at the very least I would consider going in to enjoy a leisurely lunch sitting outdoors in a piazza. There is a free shuttle bus from the port to the town center.

The closest bus stop to that address is Fontanella Borghese, where the #100 and #119 stop, but that's not very helpful unless they happen to be going where you want to be. You'd probably do better walking a little further to Largo Chigi where you can get a greater variety of lines. You're located in the heart of historic Rome, most things are within walking distance so you probably won't use buses very much. You'll be able to reach most places faster on foot. If you would use a bus, metro or tram five or more times a day, the day pass makes economic sense, but it's highly unlikely that you would. An individual use ticket costs 1,50 euro. The Roma 24 hour pass costs 7 euro. Biglietti e abbonamenti (atac.roma.it)

The other option is the bus. It's not as comfortable as the ferry but at 6 AM that's your public transit option. You want to get going on this hike as early as possible, because of the heat and also the increasing overcrowding on the very narrow path. You would take the SITA bus #5120 from Salerno to Amalfi, followed by the #5080 from Amalfi to Agerola (Bomerano). You might make the 6:30 bus, the two tricks are getting off the ship the second they allow it, and finding a place to buy a ticket. You must have a ticket before getting on the bus. The next bus on a Saturday is at 7:15 (Saturday is a school day in Italy). Here is the Salerno to Amalfi bus schedule: 0 (sitasudtrasporti.it) Here is the Amalfi to Agerola (Bomerano) schedule: 0 (sitasudtrasporti.it) The place where the first bus ends, Piazza Gioia, is the same place where the second bus starts, so that part is pretty easy. The bus stop closest to the cruise port at Molo Manfredi is called Teatro Verdi, it's about a ten minute walk from the cruise port. If you make a google map of these coordinates you'll be at the bus stop: 40.67922617043909, 14.752685496571514 Look for tabacco shops as you walk to the bus stop, these are the most common places for buying tickets. You may be able to get them as you go through the terminal, if places are open. Unfortunately, you'll need two different tickets for this trip. For the Salerno to Amalfi segment you need the AC3 Aziendale, which costs euro 2,60. For the Amalfi to Agerola (Bomerano) segment you need the the AC2 Aziendale, euro 2,20. To make your life easier, if you find the AC3 in Salerno, buy two. It's more ticket than you need for the second segment but the convenience is worth the extra 40 cents. Be sure to validate the ticket by stamping it on the bus as soon as you board. They are slowing transitioning to a Tap & Go system but it's not on buses yet, unfortunately.