Getting from Bergamo to Garda? Easily done???

dueaug

Lads just looking to see if it is easy to get from Bergamo/Milan airport to Garda (middle of lake garda). It takes about 1 1/2 hours and a taxi is about €160!! Had a look and can't figure out buses/trains. Flying into Verona is more expensive and no flights on a Sunday.

Changing where we are going is not an option cos we are going to a wedding! Probably very simple way of doing it just brain fried at the min.

mfceiling

dueaug wrote: »

Lads just looking to see if it is easy to get from Bergamo/Milan airport to Garda (middle of lake garda). It takes about 1 1/2 hours and a taxi is about €160!! Had a look and can't figure out buses/trains. Flying into Verona is more expensive and no flights on a Sunday.

Changing where we are going is not an option cos we are going to a wedding! Probably very simple way of doing it just brain fried at the min.

Hire a car? You could get the bus into milan and probably is very easy from there...train/bus to the lakes. It's probably one of the most beautiful parts of the world I've ever been to. Enjoy!!

munchkin_utd

see here.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Travel-g1850051-c204924/Lake-Garda:Italy:Lake.Garda.From.Bergamo.Airport.html
seems very doable by public transport

BTW, Garda is a gigantic lake which probably would take 2 1/2 to 3 hours to drive around. Maybe more. So knowing exactly where you're going is quite important in figuring the logistics.

dueaug

Thanks a lot lads. Will sit down over the weekend when I'm not so muddled!!

keithclancy

I second taking a car

Italian public transport can be a bit Irish

dueaug

Thanks all, someone else has a thread up about car hire in Italy so looking at that option at the mo. Fingers Crossed.

dingding

There is a bus from Bergamo Airport to Bergamo Train Station, leaves every 20 minutes or so. It is probably only about 20 minutes of a journey on the bus. Exit the airport and turn right and the bus stop is there.

I was there years ago and used this train station.

desenzano del garda train station

As other posters said, it depends how far it is from your destination. Might be possible to get a taxi from the train station. Trains in Italy are generally reasonably priced.

It is about an hour and 45 from Bergamo to Desenzano which is at the south west end of the lake.

There also appears to be a station in Peschiera del Garda which is on the south east end of the lake. From what I can see these are the only train stations on the lake.

If you get time you should spend a day in the 2015 Expo in Milan.

Balmed Out

I got the bus to a train station and then I think I had one change of train and I was at Lake Garda or near it. Short bus and was at my destination which was the peninsula sticking up at the bottom of the lake. Trains can be fairly busy and I remember wishing I had checked what number train / end destination I should get as it was a little confusing.

dueaug

We are actually staying in Garda on Lake Garda. My friend says its half way down the lake. These comments giving me a little more hope thanks a mil all.

Wyldwood

If you're going to Garda then Peschiera is the nearest train station, about half hour from Peschiera to Garda.
If cost is the only consideration then you would be better to fly to Verona and take a bus from there to Garda, much shorter commute and probably work out not too much different.

Lake Garda is a beautiful part of the world, I envy you.