Ciampino is 15 km south-east of Rome and closer to most of our hotels than Fiumicino, but it has no train of its own. That makes the choice simpler than it looks: a fixed-fare taxi to the door, or a bus to a station and a change. Here is each option, where it leaves from at the airport, and the way we would reach each of the ten hotels in our Rome edit.
The short answer
Take a white taxi from the rank outside arrivals: €40 fixed to all ten of our hotels, typically 31–39 minutes, with no changes. The cheapest way is the Ciampino Airlink, a bus from the square opposite the airport to Ciampino station and a train to Termini, €2.70 on one ticket. Coaches to Termini take about 40 minutes from the stops opposite departures.
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From the rank outside arrivals. The answer for almost everyone: €15 less than from Fiumicino, to the door, with no changes.
The driver meets you in the arrivals hall. Worth it for families who need child seats, late landings, and hotels on pedestrian squares.
The bus leaves from the square opposite the airport. The cheapest way in, with no size limit on luggage, but a change with cases at Ciampino station, and usually another from Termini, before you reach the hotel.
From the stops opposite International Departures, with tickets online, from agents in arrivals or on board. Direct, but it ends at Termini.
From the stops opposite International Departures. Line B runs from Laurentina to Colosseo and Cavour, so a light traveller can reach the Colosseum side of the city without going through Termini.
The onward leg after the Airlink or a coach. No line reaches the Pantheon or Piazza Navona.
Colle Oppio
One of the two closest of our hotels to Ciampino, so the €40 fixed fare takes you to the door in about half an hour; a light traveller can take bus 720 and Metro line B to Colosseo instead.
Beside the Pantheon and well away from the Metro, so after the Airlink or a coach you would still need a taxi from Termini; take one from the airport for €40.
Campo Marzio
The hotel has valet parking, so the €40 taxi pulls up at the entrance; there is no sensible public transport route with bags.
Campo Marzio
Via di Ripetta is on the far side of the centre from Ciampino, and the fixed fare covers it all the same, straight to the door.
Centro Storico
The hotel offers valet parking and the nearest station is fifteen to twenty minutes away, so the €40 fare to the door is the clear choice.
Piazza Navona
The hotel faces Piazza Navona, a pedestrian square, so a booked driver who knows the closest drop-off saves a search with luggage.
Velabro
Rhinoceros Roma, in the Velabro, is one of the two closest of our hotels to Ciampino and eighteen minutes on foot from Circo Massimo station, so take the taxi.
Cavour is seven minutes uphill from the hotel's cul-de-sac in Monti, so with cases the €40 taxi is worth it; light travellers can take bus 720 and Metro line B to Cavour.
Trastevere
Trastevere has no Metro and the hotel sits below the Gianicolo, a long way from any Ciampino bus route, so the fixed fare is the only sensible answer.
Aventino
The Aventine is quiet, residential and thirteen minutes uphill from Piramide, so the €40 taxi to the gate beats any combination of bus and Metro.
For most of our guests, the taxi. It is €40 for the car, not per person, it covers all ten hotels inside the Aurelian Walls, and the drive is typically 31–39 minutes. The Airlink is far cheaper at €2.70, but it is a bus, a train and then the Metro or a taxi from Termini, with bags each time. It makes sense for one person travelling light to a hotel near Termini or the Colosseum.
Not from the airport itself. The Ciampino Airlink is Trenitalia's combined service: a bus every 20 minutes from the square opposite the airport to Ciampino station, then a regional train to Termini, all on one €2.70 ticket. The ATRAL bus also runs to Ciampino station. If your hotel is on the Colosseum side, city bus 720 to Laurentina and Metro line B can be the more direct route.
Ciampino takes no commercial flights between 23:00 and 06:00, and the arrivals terminal closes at midnight. After a late landing, the taxi rank is the reliable answer and the €40 fixed fare does not change at night. A pre-booked driver tracks the flight, so a delay pushing you towards midnight changes nothing.
The fixed fare works in both directions: ask the hotel to call a taxi and pay €40. For a first-wave flight, the departures terminal stays open overnight only for passengers with a flight in the next 24 hours, and the first café opens at 04:00, so the taxi at dawn is the comfortable plan. Check the airport code on your booking: CIA is Ciampino, FCO is Fiumicino, and the taxi between them is €55.
Questions people ask
€40 per car to anywhere inside the Aurelian Walls, a fixed fare with all supplements included, in both directions.
Typically 31–39 minutes to our ten hotels, all inside the Aurelian Walls.
The Ciampino Airlink: a bus to Ciampino station and a train to Termini, €2.70 on one ticket.
From the stops opposite International Departures. Terravision, SIT and Rome Airport Bus all run to Termini in about 40 minutes.
Not directly. City bus 720 runs to Laurentina on line B and bus 520 to Cinecittà and Subaugusta on line A, from the stops opposite departures.
Ciampino, by road: typically 31–39 minutes to our hotels against 30–45 from Fiumicino, and the taxi is €40 rather than €55.
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