"Buses" Top 5 Page for this destination Naples Transportation Tip by toonsarah

Once we got used to the system we found the buses an interesting, if slow, way to travel around the city. I never tired of watching the traffic here – the way even the youngest scooter-drivers weave effortlessly if precariously round the cars and other large vehicles; the way pedestrians step out just knowing that the traffic will somehow magically halt for them; the drivers we saw reading newspapers, drinking coffee and even taking down notes from a phone-call while at the wheel.

Bus travel is cheap, or seemed so to us, used to London transport costs. A single journey, when we were there in November 2007, costed just €1 for up to 90 minutes continuous travel (i.e. including a change of buses if needed). You need to buy your ticket in advance from a Tabacchi – look for the letter T on a shop sign. We found one just a few doors from our hotel in Via Francesco Saverio Correra and would pop in each morning to buy the number we thought we would need for the day.

You’re supposed to enter the bus from the doors at the front or rear and leave the central door for those exiting, but most people seemed happy to ignore this, especially when the bus was crowded and moving around inside difficult. Once on board you need to validate your ticket in the machines – then settle back, or hang on, for the ride!

Mode: AROUND
Type: Bus