Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
» You can take your bike on the metro all day Saturday and Sunday and on weekdays after 8pm. You can also take it
on the Lido di Ostia train on Saturday and Sunday and on weekdays from the beginning of service to 10am and then
from 8pm until the end of service. You have to buy a separate ticket for the bike.
» On regional trains marked with a bike icon on the timetable, you can carry a bike if you pay a €3.50 supplement.
Hire
Reckon on around €4 per hour, €15 per day.
Appia Antica Regional Park Information Point (
06 513 53 16; www.parcoappiaantica.org ; Via Appia Antica
58-60)
Eco Move Rent (
06 4470 4518; www.ecomoverent.com ; Via Varese 48-50;
8.30am-7.30pm)
Treno e Scooter (
06 4890 5823; www.trenoescooter.com ; Piazza dei Cinquecento;
9am-2pm & 4-7pm)
Villa Borghese (Largo Pablo Picasso)
Taxi
» Official licensed taxis are white with the symbol of Rome and an identifying number on the doors. Always go with
the metered fare, never an arranged price (the set fares to and from the airports are exceptions).
» In town (within the ring road) flag fall is €3 between 6am and 10pm on weekdays, €4.50 on weekends and holi-
days, and €6.50 between 10pm and 6am. Then it's €1.10 per kilometre. Official rates are posted in taxis and on
www.viviromaintaxi.eu .
» You can hail a taxi, but it's often easier to wait at a rank or phone for one. There are taxi ranks at the airports,
Stazione Termini, the Colosseum, Largo di Torre Argentina, Piazza San Silvestro, Piazza della Repubblica, Piazza Belli
in Trastevere and in the Vatican at Piazza del Pio XII and Piazza del Risorgimento.
» You can book a taxi by phoning the Comune di Roma's automated taxi line on
06 06 09 or calling a taxi com-
pany direct.
» The website www.060608.it has a list of taxi companies - click on the transport tab, then getting around. then by
taxi.
» Note that when you call for a cab, the meter is switched on straight away and you pay for the cost of the journey
from wherever the driver receives the call.
Taxi companies:
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