Train tickets from Trenitalia website for Italy intercity, how to get discount fare for famly of 4?

Question

Traveling from Naples to Florence and Bologna to Venice. It asked for Cartaviaggio card number whenever I tried to use the Family discount 25% or even 15%. Any advice? Is this a card purchase for frequent travellers? How to get discount without applying for the card?

Answer 1

Why not try the Eurail train site - they sometimes have discounted prices.

Answer 2

As a tourist your only way to get discounts on train tickets is to see if the "Amica" fares are available. Choose this option from the take-down menu and you get discounts when you travel in pairs (so two people would get a discount, but not a third unless a fourth is traveling). These discounts are applied to a certain number of seats per train and once they are sold the discount is no longer available so it's worth getting your tickets in advance.

Answer 3

There is a link to the pages for the Cartaviaggio cards on the train website. This is the 1st page:  http://www.trenitalia.com/en/cartaviaggi...

Basically these are frequent traveller cards, the Cartaviaggio card is free (except for the Cartaviaggio Executive which costs 89 euro). However, you have to be an Italian resident and have a valid mailing address in Italy to get one.You get the code you need when your application for the card is accepted.

The discounted fares are only available to holders of the card.