Getting to Calabria

Getting To Calabria.Travelling to Calabria has been made much easier now that Ryanair flies directly to Lamezia Terme airport from London Stansted. Flights currently leave five times a week and depart from Stansted at 06.10, arriving in Calabria at 10.05am. Lamezia Terme is about 1½ hours drive from Bianco and the airport has plenty of car hire desks. There are also trains from Lamezia Terme to Bovalino and Bianco, which take around 2hrs 45 minutes. The train station at Lamezia is about two kilometres from the airport. For more information on flights, visit http://www.ryanair.com/ and http://www.sacal.it/ (for Lamezia airport information) and http://www.trenitalia.it/ (for train timetables and online booking). There is also the option of flying to Rome with Easyjet, British Airways and Alitalia and getting a connecting Alitalia flight to the region's capital Reggio di Calabria or to Lamezia Terme. Check with http://www.alitalia.com/ for flight deals. Please remember that Easyjet flies to Rome Ciampino and flight to Calabria leave from Rome Fiumicino. Thomson Holidays are also planning to introduce direct flights to Calabria in summer 2006 from five regional UK airports.