A detailed overview of all the ways to get to Rome inexpensively from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vilnius and Helsinki. We will help you make your trip to the Eternal City budget-friendly!
Traveling to Italy is not at all costly: housing and food in this sunny country will not cost as much as in many other European countries (for example, in France, Sweden, Norway), and finding a cheap flight is also not difficult.
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How to get to Rome inexpensively from Moscow
Getting to Rome from Moscow is very simple - a huge number of airlines fly to the capital of Italy.
Direct flights from Moscow to Rome are carried out by Transaero, Allitalia, Aeroflot and a number of other airlines, but the pleasure is not cheap - the price of a round-trip ticket will be about 15-17 thousand rubles.
It is much cheaper to get to Rome from Moscow on flights with a connection in some European city. As a rule, it is quite easy to find air tickets Moscow-Rome-Moscow for 8-9 thousand rubles.
JatAirways offers inexpensive flights to Rome via Belgrade, airberlin - via Berlin.
During promotions, you can catch cheap tickets from Moscow to Rome at Ukraine International Airlines (connecting in Kiev) and Finnair (connecting in Helsinki). To be aware of the emergence of such an opportunity, follow the news about promotions, special offers and sales of airlines on our website.
Look for cheap flights on metasearch sites like Aviasales and Skyscanner, who compare prices from hundreds of airlines and find the best deals. Be sure to use their price calendar - the cost of tickets for neighboring dates can be much lower.
How to cheaply fly to Rome from St. Petersburg
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The same Transaero, Allitalia and Rossiya (Aeroflot's daughter) fly directly from St. Petersburg to Rome. Direct flights from St. Petersburg are cheaper - you can find round-trip tickets for less than 10 thousand rubles. Here's an example found on Aviasales:
And if you still have time to buy tickets during the Allitalia promotions (for example, a discount on all tickets is 2000 rubles), then the flight to Rome will turn out to be extremely budgetary!
Vueling (half-cost airline) also operates a direct flight from St. Petersburg to Rome. A one-way ticket can be purchased for 80-90 euros. Example from Aviasales:
Iberia has similar prices:
A flight to Rome and back with Swiss (via Zurich), SAS (via Stockholm) and airBaltic (via Riga) will cost within 10 thousand. In the latter two, you can catch a promotion and find tickets for another couple of thousand cheaper.
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To Rome on low-cost airlines
The cheapest way to get to Rome on low-cost airlines... For example, the low-cost airline Ryanair flies from Vilnius to the capital of Italy. It is quite easy to find tickets for the Vilnius - Rome flight for 183 Lithuanian litas (approximately 2500 rubles):
And sometimes there are tickets for only 100 litas (1400 rubles):
From Helsinki, you can fly to Rome cheaply aboard another European low-cost airline, Norwegian. Tickets to Rome can be found for 65 euros. One bad thing - return tickets, as a rule, will cost a little more.
Search and buy tickets on the airline's website - www.norwegian.com.
But it should be borne in mind that you still need to get to Vilnius and Helsinki. It is not very difficult - you can get there from Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg and Moscow by trains and buses, but you will have to spend from 500 to 1500 rubles for a ticket. True, if you manage to catch the action of bus carriers (for example, from LuxExpess), then the ticket can be bought quite inexpensively.
Alternatively, you can get to Rome from Moscow via Budapest aboard the Wizz Air low-cost airline. But to fly to Rome really cheap, you need to catch the shares of the airline. The average price for a Moscow - Budapest flight is about 50-60 euros, the cost of an air ticket to Rome is about the same. As a result, it turns out not very economically. But on some days you can find a price of 30 euros for one flight segment, and on the days of promotions and sales it is even cheaper.
Charters are another way to get to Italy cheaply
In the summer, many charters fly from Russia to Italy, but they fly not to Rome, but to resorts (for example, in Rimini). You can buy last minute tickets for one of these charters, and then independently get to the capital by bus or train. The option is energy and time consuming, but this way you can get to Rome extremely cheaply and, if you wish, spend a day or two at sea. Sometimes tickets for charter flights departing in the next week can be bought for several thousand rubles! And that will be the price for a direct flight ticket with baggage included.
You can search for such cheap tickets on the Pegas Touristik website. Indicate the city of departure (the cheapest flights are traditionally for Moscow), the country of destination (Italy), and also put the date range (the next week or two) and the number of nights you are flying. In the "tour" window you need to put "TICKET ONLY (***)" - this will indicate that you only need air tickets, not a full tour package. Instead of asterisks, you need to choose an airport code: practice shows that the cheapest tickets are for flights to Lamezia Terme, a town in southern Italy (the code of this airport is SUF).
The completed search form should look something like this (only the dates will be different):
Sometimes you can find last-minute tickets in this direction for only 3200 rubles for a round-trip flight!
After clicking the "Search" button, the system will give you the available options. Click on the price, and then fill out the form that opens. When the operator confirms your reservation, you can pay by card (+ 1.5% to the price) or in Euroset and Svyaznoy salons (+ 1.5%).
It is quite budgetary to travel within Italy as well - by low-cost airlines, trains and buses. How do you, for example, a ticket from Rome to Milan for 1 €? You can find these at the Eurolines bus company - see the article "Travel itinerary in Europe: Budapest, Rome, Milan, Paris, Riga" - in it we gave an example of such tickets.
