Hi fellow travellers,
I'm finishing a 10 days driving trip into Rome, I know I should ditch the car!!!
But here is my questions:
I will be arriving into Rome from the north around 11h00-12h00, where should I be returning the car if I don't want to waste my day in traffic or commuting? Termini, one of the airports or other solution?
Have you already booked the car from a specific company - and if so do they have offices outside the city?
Just browsing on www.rentalcars.com, and you can find a car from Milan Airport to Civitavecchia (port city) downtown, and then there's a train from there to Termini in under an hour, which will link to a fast train to FCO Airport (if that's where you're headed).
It's one feasible option I guess - if Civitavecchia is easy to reach from wherever you are the night prior
At that time of day you shouldn't have too much trouble driving into Rome, the problem is more likely to be the last 3 or 4 kilometres through heavy but moving traffic on one-way streets to the drop off point - less of an issue if you have sat nav with you.
Ciampino airport is fairly straight forward, but the junction off the GRA on to the S7 ( I think it's junction 23 - make sure you follow signs for Ciampino Airport and not Ciampino) requires a very quick manoeuvre across 3 or 4 lanes of traffic and where you need your wits. At Fiumicino all the car hires are in multi storey carparks C and D so you need to know from your hire company which car park to use.
If you use Hertz they have a base here in Orvieto just 200 metres from the station - and I guess other towns on the way have similarly just one or two agencies4
But ... do we have any information at all that the OP is heading for any airport, or to a port, or even a space station?
They might just be coming in for pizza.
