There are 11 ways to get from La Rochelle to Messina by train, ferry, bus, car, car ferry, plane, or train (TGV, Trenitalia)
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Train, ferry
best- Take the train from La Rochelle Ville to Marne La Vallee Chessytrain Tgv
- Take the train from Marne La Vallee Chessy to Torino Porta Susatrain Tgv
- Take the train from Torino Porta Susa to Villa S.Giovannitrain Fr
- Take the ferry from Villa S.Giovanni to Messina Marittimaferry V1 / ...
22h 40mTrain to Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport, fly to Palermo Airport, train
cheapest- Take the train from La Rochelle to Bordeaux Saint-Jeantrain
- Fly from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD) to Palermo Airport (PMO)plane BOD - PMO
- Take the train from Palermo Centrale to Messina Centraletrain
12h 47m€73–257Bus
- Take the bus from La Rochelle to Bordeauxbus 701
- Take the bus from Bordeaux to Florence Villa Constanza Bus Stationbus
- Take the bus from Florence Villa Constanza Bus Station to Messinabus
33h 45m€101–202Drive, car ferry
- Drive from La Rochelle to Port of Genoacar
- Take the car ferry from Port of Genoa to Port of Palermocarferry
- Drive from Port of Palermo to Messinacar
34h 57m€250–413Fly La Rochelle – Île De Ré Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport, train
- Fly from La Rochelle – Île De Ré Airport (LRH) to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)plane LRH - CTA
- Take the train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centraletrain
15h 1m€100–333Train
- Take the train from La Rochelle Ville to Nantestrain Ter
- Take the train from Nantes to Modanetrain Tgv
- Take the train from Modane to Torino Porta Nuovatrain Tgv
- Take the train from Torino Porta Nuova to Messina Centraletrain
33h 35m€212–629Bus via Lyon
- Take the bus from La Rochelle - Bus Station to Lyon - Perrache Bus Stationbus
- Take the bus from Lyon Lyon Perrache Bus Station to Turin Stura Bus Stationbus
- Take the bus from Turin Stura Bus Station to Messina Main Train Stationbus
39h 14m€89–223Train to Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport, fly to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport, train
- Take the train from La Rochelle to Bordeaux Saint-Jeantrain
- Fly from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD) to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)plane BOD - CTA
- Take the train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centraletrain
14h 38m€92–257Train to Nantes Atlantique Airport, fly to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport, train
- Take the train from La Rochelle Ville to Nantestrain
- Fly from Nantes Atlantique Airport (NTE) to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)plane NTE - CTA
- Take the train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centraletrain
10h 18m€88–318Train to Nantes Atlantique Airport, fly to Palermo Airport, train
- Take the train from La Rochelle Ville to Nantestrain
- Fly from Nantes Atlantique Airport (NTE) to Palermo Airport (PMO)plane NTE - PMO
- Take the train from Palermo Centrale to Messina Centraletrain
12h 11m€104–278Train to Nantes Atlantique Airport, fly to Vincenzo Magliocco Airport, bus, train
- Take the train from La Rochelle Ville to Nantestrain
- Fly from Nantes Atlantique Airport (NTE) to Vincenzo Magliocco Airport (CIY)plane NTE - CIY
- Take the bus from Coffa Strada Statale 514 to Catania Central Bus Stationbus
- Take the train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centraletrain
19h 22m€112–393
La Rochelle – Île De Ré Airport (LRH) to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from La Rochelle to Messina is to train and fly which costs €85 - €320 and takes 10h 18m.
The fastest way to get from La Rochelle to Messina is to train and fly which takes 10h 18m and costs €85 - €320.
No, there is no direct bus from La Rochelle to Messina. However, there are services departing from La Rochelle and arriving at Messina via Bordeaux and Florence Villa Constanza Bus Station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 33h 45m.
No, there is no direct train from La Rochelle to Messina. However, there are services departing from La Rochelle Ville and arriving at Messina Centrale via Nantes, Modane and Torino Porta Nuova. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 33h 35m.
The distance between La Rochelle and Messina is 2567 km.
The best way to get from La Rochelle to Messina without a car is to train and ferry which takes 22h 40m and costs .
It takes approximately 22h 40m to get from La Rochelle to Messina, including transfers.
La Rochelle to Messina bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from La Rochelle station.
La Rochelle to Messina train services, operated by Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF), depart from La Rochelle Ville station.
The best way to get from La Rochelle to Messina is to bus which takes 33h 45m and costs €100 - €210. Alternatively, you can train, which costs €210 - €650 and takes 33h 35m.
What companies run services between La Rochelle, France and Messina, Italy?
You can take a bus from La Rochelle to Messina via Bordeaux and Florence Villa Constanza Bus Station in around 33h 45m. Alternatively, you can take a train from La Rochelle Ville to Messina Centrale via Nantes, Modane, and Torino Porta Nuova in around 33h 35m.
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport via Lyon
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 45m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €60–270
Flights from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–220
Flights from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Palermo Airport via Lyon
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €90–140
Flights from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport to Palermo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €90–210
Flights from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport to Palermo Airport via Lyon
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €90–210
- Website
- volotea.com
Flights from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport via Olbia
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 15m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €100–170
Flights from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €60–240
Flights from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Palermo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Tuesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €75–140
Flights from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport to Palermo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €30–180
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from La Rochelle – Île De Ré Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 50m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €85–320
Flights from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport via Malta
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 15m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €100–170
Flights from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Palermo Airport via Marseille
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €70–190
- Website
- transavia.com
Flights from La Rochelle – Île De Ré Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport via Lyon
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 35m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €95–490
Flights from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport via Lyon
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 5m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €60–300
Flights from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Palermo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €65–340
- Website
- flexflight.dk
Flights from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Vincenzo Magliocco Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 40m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–280
Flights from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Vincenzo Magliocco Airport via Nice, Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 15m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €65–280
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from La Rochelle – Île De Ré Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 40m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–550
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- sncf-connect.com
Train from La Rochelle Ville to Marne La Vallee Chessy
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 22m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €80–110
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
Train from Marne La Vallee Chessy to Torino Porta Susa
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 34m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- €110–240
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
Train from Nantes to Modane
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 12m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €100–240
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
Train from Modane to Torino Porta Nuova
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €26–85
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Torino Porta Susa to Villa S.Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 39m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €100–250
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- italotreno.it
Train from Torino Porta Susa to Villa S.Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 22m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €75–150
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 12m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €10
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Torino Porta Nuova to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 6m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €70–110
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Palermo Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 52m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €17
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €12
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Palermo Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €12–26
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- track.effiliation.com
Train from La Rochelle Ville to Nantes
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 47m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €15–75
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
Train from Nantes to Modane
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 12m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €160–360
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
- 2nd Class
- €160–240
- Rail 1st Class
- €250–360
Train from La Rochelle to Bordeaux Saint-Jean
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 23m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €14–35
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from La Rochelle to Bordeaux
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €15–22
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Bordeaux to Florence Villa Constanza Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 15m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €55–100
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Florence Villa Constanza Bus Station to Messina
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 20m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €30–70
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Website
- global.flixbus.com
Bus from La Rochelle to Bordeaux
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Schedules at
- global.flixbus.com
Bus from Bordeaux to Florence Villa Constanza Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 15m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- global.flixbus.com
Bus from Florence Villa Constanza Bus Station to Messina
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 35m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Schedules at
- global.flixbus.com
- Phone
- +39 06 88 93 82 32
- Website
- itabus.it
Bus from Florence Villa Constanza Bus Station to Messina
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 45m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €35–80
- Website
- https://www.itabus.it/en/home
Bus from Lyon Lyon Perrache Bus Station to Turin Stura Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 14m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €14–40
- Website
- https://www.itabus.it/en/home
Bus from Turin Stura Bus Station to Messina Main Train Station
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 25m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €40–100
- Website
- https://www.itabus.it/en/home
- Phone
- (+39) 0923 98.11.20
- Website
- autoservizisalemi.it
Bus from Florence Villa Constanza Bus Station to Messina
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 55m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €35–55
- Schedules at
- autoservizisalemi.it
- Phone
- +3-389-268-0068
- Website
- blablacar.co.uk
Bus from La Rochelle - Bus Station to Lyon - Perrache Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 35m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €35–85
- Website
- https://www.blablacar.co.uk/bus
- Phone
- +39 06 164160
- info@etnatrasporti.it
- Website
- etnatrasporti.it
Bus from Coffa Strada Statale 514 to Catania Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €5–7
- Schedules at
- etnatrasporti.it
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Ferry from Villa S.Giovanni to Messina Marittima
- Ave. Duration
- 20 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 010 209 4591
- booking@gnv.it
- Website
- gnv.it
Car ferry from Port of Genoa to Port of Palermo
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €65–140
- Website
- https://www.gnv.it/en
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La Rochelle to Messina bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Bordeaux station.
La Rochelle to Messina train services, operated by Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF), arrive at Nantes station.
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