How to book a flight to the Cinque Terre

Below you will find all our tips for booking a flight to Cinque Terre.

A lot of you have been asking how you can fly to the Cinque Terre from both Ireland and London Gatwick. So, in this post we hope to give you all the information you need to book your flight to the Cinque Terre.

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As most of our readers travel from Cork, Dublin or London Gatwick, we’ve listed the best options for all three airports.

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What you have to look forward to when you visit the Cinque Terre

From Cork:

The only airport in Italy that you can fly to from Cork is Milan Bergamo with Ryanair. At the moment, they fly twice a week on Thursday’s and Sunday’s and the same days for the return journey. Milan Bergamo is typically a cheap airport to fly into, but it is about 45 minutes from Milan City. If you choose this option, we highly recommend spending the night in Bergamo – it’s a gorgeous town.

From Milan Bergamo the fastest and cheapest way to get to Cinque Terre is by train. Although it does involve a few changes. From the airport you hop on Bus number one to Bergamo train station, from there you get the train to Milan Central train station, here you will get the train direct to Monterosso al Mare. The train to Monterosso takes 4 hours and costs approximately €34. You can find all the train information here Again, please note that trains are not available to book for next Summer yet

Other options from Cork, would be to drive to Dublin and get the Dublin to Pisa flight detailed below or fly from Cork to London with Ryanair and get a flight to pretty much anywhere in Italy – although, do note that the closest airport to the Cinque Terre is Genoa and the second-closest is Pisa.

From Dublin:

From Dublin the best option is to fly to Pisa. Pisa, is the closest large city to the Cinque Terre so, for those who don’t want to spend too much time messing around – we recommend this option. You can fly from Dublin airport to Pisa with Ryanair, they fly four times a week – Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday & Sunday and the same days for the return journey.

From Pisa airport you hop on the PisaMover airport bus to Pisa train station which takes only 10 minutes. From Pisa train station you can get a direct train to Monterosso al mare which takes just over an hour and costs approximately €13. You can find all the train information here Again, please note that trains are not available to book for next Summer yet

From London Gatwick:

There are heaps of options from London Gatwick but we recommend either flying to Genoa or Pisa.

Option #1 – Fly from Gatwick to Genoa:

Genoa is the closest airport to the Cinque Terre. You can fly to Genoa with British Airways. Over, the Summer British Airways fly to Genoa every day. Although, British Airways isn’t as notoriously cheap as Ryanair, you may get some good deals if you’re lucky.

From Genoa airport you get the Volabus Genova to Genova Brignole train station, from there you can get the train direct to Monterosso which takes 50 minutes and costs only €9. You can find all the train information here Again, please note that trains are not available to book for next Summer yet

Option #2 – Fly from Gatwick to Pisa:

You can fly from Gatwick to Pisa with easyjet. They fly every day during the Summer months.

From Pisa airport you hop on the PisaMover airport bus to Pisa train station which takes only 10 minutes. From Pisa train station you can get a direct train to Monterosso al mare which takes just over an hour and costs approximately €13. You can find all the train information here Again, please note that trains are not available to book for next Summer yet

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The beautiful village of Manarola in the Cinque Terre

Some other points to note about booking a flight to Cinque Terre:

If you do decide to rent a car while you’re in Italy, we do not recommending driving between the villages in the Cinque Terre as the roads are very narrow and winding and take so much longer than the train. The train goes between each of the five villages every 15 minutes. If you do have a car, you can park in a carpark on the outskirts of each village as you cannot drive into the villages, they are all car-free with the exception of some roads in Monterosso al mare

The trains in Italy are very clean and efficient, we recommend booking a Second-class ticket (all the train prices listed above are for Second-class). You can pre-book the tickets online or at the ticket machines in the train stations. Just make sure you validate your ticket before you get on the train (or you may get a fine), there are ticket validation machines on the train platform and they are typically bright red in colour.

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And, I think that’s it for now – we hope you found our guide to flying to Cinque Terre helpful.  If you have any questions please comment in the section below and we will get back to you.

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