- Expensive by plane
- Comfortable and fast on the train
- How to get to Milan by bus?
Rimini is a famous Italian resort located on the shores of the Adriatic Sea. Its hotels stretch for 15 km along the coast, offering its guests wide beaches with white clean sand, a shallow, well-heated sea near the coast, and a well-developed infrastructure.
If your soul wants more than a relaxing break in a sun lounger at the edge of the surf, then you can plan several trips to neighboring or even distant cities famous for their sights. These settlements include Milan, which is also considered the capital of world fashion. This means that in Milan you can easily update your wardrobe in a day or two, and this is an additional excellent reason to come here. We know how to get from Rimini to Milan without spending a fortune.
Expensive by plane
Those who like to travel by plane, for sure, when planning a trip from Rimini to Milan, the first thing they will do is look for acceptable flight options. Rimini has an international airport that also serves domestic flights. In the vicinity of Milan, you can find three airports that receive planes from all over the world.
The only inexpensive and optimal time flight from Rimini to Milan Malpensa airport is offered by the German carrier "Hahn Air". The journey will take 4 hours and 35 minutes. The flight involves one change - in Tirana, the capital of Albania. The docking is small - only 1 hour 20 minutes. The cost of a ticket for such a flight is $ 250.
There are other options for flying to Milan from Rimini, but all of them are not economically viable, since the price for such flights starts at $ 800.
There are no direct flights between Rimini and Milan. Locals and almost all tourists prefer to get to Milan using less expensive public transport - trains and buses.
Comfortable and fast on the train
Trains are the favorite form of transport for Italians. The rail network covers the entire country and allows you to reach the most remote corners of Italy in comfort and at a reasonable cost. About 60 trains run from Rimini to Milan every day, such as InterCityNotte, Regionale Veloce, Frecciarossa, Frecciabianca, Regionale, Intercity, Frecciarossa 1000, ItaloTreno. Some of them are straightforward. Part goes to Bologna, where you need to change to another train. By the way, when buying tickets that involve connecting, you can significantly save money by choosing the second not the high-speed, and therefore the more expensive train, but the regular Intercity, which runs at a lower speed and makes more stops. You will lose insignificantly in time, but at the same time you will gain in the ticket price. The average cost of a train ticket to Milan is 25, 5 euros. When booking tickets in advance, you can save about 57% of their cost, that is, the ticket will cost 11 euros. You can find tickets for less.
The train from Rimini to Milan Central Station takes about 2 hours and 40 minutes. The fastest train covers the distance between the two cities in 2 hours and 5 minutes.
On the Italian railways website, you can book a specific place for yourself. This service costs a few euros. Locals traveling in Italy usually refuse to purchase a specific seat in the carriage. Experience shows that there are always free seats on such trains, so you should not overpay.
The first train from Rimini to Milan leaves at 3:24 am, the last at 20:50. Trains departing early in the morning or late in the evening may have berths.
Train tickets can be bought at the station just before the trip. They are sold at cash desks and in special machines, where information in English can be called up on the screen. If you have difficulty handling the machine, do not hesitate to ask other passengers for help.
From the train station in Milan Milano Centrale, where trains from Rimini arrive, the city center can be reached by metro, buses and taxis. Express trains to each of Milan's airports also leave from here.
How to get to Milan by bus?
You can also get to Milan from Rimini by bus. Regular buses will become a lifesaver:
- if there are no train tickets at the box office. This can happen on a holiday, when the Italians themselves break away from their homes and go on excursions to neighboring or distant cities;
- if you want to see Milan, but the railroad workers go on strike, which happens often in Italy;
- if there is a desire to outline cities for further trips. The bus goes through a picturesque area, stopping at cozy villages, which you can later come to for a separate walk.
The information that it is cheaper to travel by bus than by train is a myth. A trip from Rimini to Milan by bus will cost an average of 30 euros. If you order tickets in advance on the bus carrier's website, you can save a little.
From the Bar "Il Trovatore" stop, which is located at the exit of the A14 motorway, two Baltour buses leave daily towards Milan. The first departs at 9:10, the second at 16:35. Buses reach their destination in about 4 hours and 15 minutes. There are two short stops on the way - in the cities of Bologna and Parma. The final stop in Milan is near Rogoredo metro station on the M3 line.
Another bus carrier “FlixBus” operates on the Rimini-Milan direction. His buses make more stops (there are five of them in Rimini alone), so it takes about 5 hours to get to Milan. The final stop in Milan depends on the flight: it is either the Terminal Bus di Lampugnano bus station, or the bus station at the Rogoredo metro. By the way, this bus goes through Milan Malpensa Airport, which is highly appreciated by tourists flying home from Milan. The first FlixBus leaves Rimini from the Centro Studi bus station on Via Annibale Fada at 4 am. Some buses leave from the stop at Piazza Tripoli. There are usually about 5 buses to Milan every day. The transport schedule changes frequently, so when planning a trip, it is worth checking the departure time of the bus with the carrier. The fare on the FlixBus varies from 17 to 24 euros.
