The Three Islands Tour

[teerex51]

1) Do we need reservations for the ferries for the day time crossings? Such as Porto Torres, Sardinia to Ajaccio, Corsica?
2) Have you personal experience with Civitavecchia to Olbia ferry crossing? It seems a natural route departing from Roma.

3) For the overnight crossing from Sardinia to Sicily, do we need reservations for a berth and meals? First class or second?

4) We intend to use exact same hotels and routings that you und Capitano Hook used. Do we need advance reservations?

5) We'll have the bikes rented for 7 days. Is there any place or any thing you two didn't see you would recommend to us?

No problemo Don, glad to be of assistance.

1) Negative. There'll always be room for 2 bikes in the garage and 2 guys at the bar.

2) Plenty. Go for the Civitavecchia-Golfo Aranci service run by Sardinia Ferries. Great off-season rates and good on-board service.

3) Tirrenia's the only shipping line working that route and they suck big time. BTDT. Moreover, there's just a sailing per week to Palermo and one to Trapani.

This year, the Palermo run was on a Friday and the Trapani on a Sunday. This is a glorified ro-ro ship with limited accommodation. You need to secure a cabin early next year, stock up on beer and hole up in your cabin for the 13.5-hour ordeal.

4) Nope, wing it like we did. Hotac is not an issue that time of year.

5) We never overnighted in Corsica and that's a shame, but we've heard many horror stories of bikes stolen there. If you can spend a night in Corsica, check out St Florent or Calvi on the NW coast and book a hotel with indoor parking.

If you need local assistance, please count on your Italian Chapter. We'd love to eventually ride along.

Stef

 

[beemerdons]

https://www.sport-touring.net/forums/index....opic,180.0.html https://www.edelweiss.smugmug.com Stef, my Canadian friend Alex "Global Rider" writes European motorcycle travel reports for SportTouringNet, BMWMOA Forum and many others

He also has mentioned many times the thievery problem on the French island of Corsica. Maybe just day trips for Corsica.

Wowser, I am glad I asked about Sardinia to Sicily ferry crossing. We will need to modify our MC schedule to these days!

https://www.tirrenia.it/index_en.asp Will become familiar with this website and plan to book ferry before booking any airfares!

 

[beemerdons]

Since ShinyPartsUp bumped a SkooterG Ride Report that was 9 months old, I thought I'd bump this fantastic Three Isles Ride Report from Stef-teerex51 from 6 months ago. So what do you say johnny80s "mi Guido", do you want to ride the Italiano Homeland with Papa Chuy? I just heard from a little bird, actually a Milanese Magpie, the Italian FJR Forum is catching a ferry, crossing the Mediterranean Sea to North Africa to ride FJR's in Tunisia. When I finally grow up, I want to be Senor Stefano!!!