A backdoor man! (Siena Mobilita)

Member Name: dangaroo

Product:	Siena Mobilita
Date:	23/12/08 (60 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: On time and modern

Disadvantages: Quite expensive considering the size of the distances

Siena Mobilita is the public transport run in Siena and the Siena part in Tuscany, whilst Siena is a relatively tiny place and only the really unfit or perhaps less able or disabled would need to use public transport to get from the train station to the city itself, it comes in handy for little trips to nearby places such as the tourist pulling tower town - San Gimignano.

We made use of the bus service to San Gimignano, I thought that the price was quite dear for the rather small journey, especially when compared to the reasonable price of trains in the country. The buses were clean and fairly modern and the passengers were mostly tourists, there didn't seem to be too many locals using the service. Between Siena and San Gimignano, there was a change at Poggibonsi. The first leg was more frequented by locals than the one to San Gimignano as it seems a lot of foreigners do the first part by train as the bus station in Poggibonsi is outside of the train station. From Siena to Poggibonsi and onwards to San Gimignano and then back to Poggibonsi, we took 3 buses and all of them were meticulously on time. The majority of the connectios leave you with 30 minutes to spare in Poggibonsi.

For anyone looking to defraud the system it looked quite possible to sneak on the back of the bus on the way back since plenty of people ploughed on to the door and no one checked tickets - it may not always be like that though!

Summary: The only option to get to San Gimignano except driving or hitchhiking!