- Choosing wings
- How to get to Genoa from Milan
- The car is not a luxury
- To Genoa by train? Long, expensive, but romantic
- Bus tour
The administrative center of the province of Liguria in Italy, Genoa is also the country's largest seaport and home to many architectural and cultural attractions of the level of the UNESCO list. If you are deciding how to get to Genoa, pay attention to flights as the fastest way to get to one of the most beautiful European countries.
Choosing wings
You can get from Moscow to Genoa by plane only with transfers in Rome or other European cities, depending on the airline chosen. For example, Alitalia, native to all Italians, will deliver passengers from Moscow to Genoa with a connection in the Eternal City in six hours and about 220 euros. The French and KLM fly for 230 euros via Paris and Amsterdam respectively.
You will be able to save a little if you fly with a stopover in Milan. The cheapest way to get to the capital of haute couture is on the wings of the Russian airline Pobeda for 140 euros or with a docking in Belgrade on board Air Serbia. Ryanair planes will take you a couple of dozen euros more from Moscow to Milan via Cologne or Aegean Airlines via Athens.
You can buy tickets for the second leg of the Milan - Genoa route for 60-70 euros and fly on the wings of Alitalia. Travel time between Milan and Genoa is about an hour.
After landing in the homeland of Niccolo Paganini, use the AMT 100 Volabus for a transfer to the city, which runs every 30 minutes between the airport. Christopher Columbus and the center of Genoa. The schedule of their movement and the procedure for purchasing tickets are on the website - www.aeroportodigenova.com. The second way is by bus line 124 from the terminal to the Sestri Ponente area. Those who prefer individual transport are offered their services by taxi drivers. The average transfer price is about 8 euros.
The distance between the airport and the city center is just under 10 km.
How to get to Genoa from Milan
By subscribing to the airline special offers e-mail, you will be able to see very nice ticket prices in your news feed. In such proposals, Milan flashes quite often, and therefore you can build your own route and get to Genoa through Malpensa airport:
After landing at Milan airport, you can use the services of STAT, whose bus departs daily from Passenger Terminal 1 at 12.30 and arrives in Genoa at 15.30. The fare is 25 euros. You can find out useful details and buy a ticket on the company's website - www.statturismo.com. The site works in Italian, but is intuitively very simple and straightforward
You can also travel from Milan to Genoa by train:
- First, from Malpenso airport, get to Milano Centrale train station. To do this, take the express train departing from Terminal 1. Timetables and ticket prices can be found on the website - www.malpensaexpress.it. The fare to the railway station will be 7 euros.
- From Milan Central Station, trains leave for Genoa up to ten times a day. The fare depends on the time of day and ranges from 10 to 20 euros. On the way, passengers spend from 1 hour 45 minutes to 2 hours. Detailed timetables and ticket reservations are available on the website www.trenitalia.it. The resource has an English version.
The car is not a luxury
If you prefer your own vehicles and like to travel by car, use the useful information from the site www.autotraveller.ru.
Remember that traveling across Europe requires a lot of concentration and strict adherence to traffic rules from the driver.
The cost of one liter of fuel in Italy is about 1.60 euros, and there is a charge for travel on some sections of roads and tunnels. Parking zones in the cities of the country have their own designations and, depending on the category, the cost of an hour of parking and the allowable parking time are determined.
To Genoa by train? Long, expensive, but romantic
You can also get to Genoa by rail, and you can start your journey right in Moscow at the Kursk railway station. Then you will have to make transfers in German Berlin, Swiss Spitz and Brig and Italian Milan. The whole journey will take 35 hours in the best case, and the cost of travel tickets will be about 580 euros. Aren't you scared? Then study the schedule and book tickets on the sites - www.rzd.ru, www.bahn.de and www.fahrplan.sbb.ch. You will be rewarded with amazing landscapes that open on the way from the train window. The views of the Alps are especially beautiful on the Swiss section of the route.
Bus tour
If you are very fond of motorways, take the opportunity to get to Genoa from Moscow by bus. There are no direct flights in the Ecolines schedule and you will have to transfer in the German town of Karlsruhe, and then in Vienna, for example. The fare will be about 200 euros, and the multimedia system in the bus cabin, the opportunity to prepare hot drinks on the way and stops in beautiful cities will help to brighten up the long three days of the road. You can take substantial luggage on the road, because buses plying across Europe have spacious cargo compartments. On the way, passengers can use dry closets and individual sockets to recharge phones and other electronic equipment.
Bus timetables are available at www.ecolines.com.
All prices in the material are approximate and given as of February 2017. It is better to check the exact fare on the official websites of the carriers.
