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Practical Italy

A guide to navigating the practical things in Italy such as bus stops, road signs, buying tickets and shopping. From a beautiful Lake Como perspective.

​And also from a Padua perspective.

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On the bus on Lake Como

26/1/2015

 

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Buying a bus ticket on Lake Como can be a real pain - for tourists and bus drivers. Mainly because you have to buy them in advance for the longer distance buses and you have to find out where the bus tickets are sold. In Tremezzo, for instance, they are sold in the local butchers and the travel agency. In other villages or towns it might be a bar or newsagents. These places might be shut in the afternoons between one and three so you need to think ahead.  
The question you need is:
Dove vendono i biglietti di corriera/autobus? (Where do they sell bus tickets?)
The buses that travel up and down the lake are more like coaches than city buses - hence they are usually referred to as corriera and the city buses in Como are called autobus.
The tickets are sold according to distance. Tariffa 1 is the shortest distance, probably two or three villages. This ticket would take you from Tremezzo to Menaggio (a distance of about 5 km). Tariffa 5 would take you to Como. Tickets aren't dated, so it is best to buy a good supply:
Dieci biglietti tariffa uno, per favore. (10 tickets tariff one, please)
When you get on the bus, the driver tears off the bottom tab and you keep the rest. The tickets are valid for one journey so if you are going there and back, you need two tickets. If you haven't got a ticket, the bus will stop at the next place that sells them and you will have to hop off and buy them (holding up the bus). In cities, it is a different type of ticket and you have to validate it in the punch machine on board.
Now you can see why it is a pain!

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corriera - long distance bus leaving como

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