I see fares as cheap as 9 on Trenitalia for your date from Verona to Venice. You would need to book

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We will be traveling from Innsbruck to Venice on April 23rd-is it true that you can pay 3 euros in Innsbruck and then use an Italy railpass once you cross the border? If we have a railpass can we just show up and get on the train in Innbruck and stay on till we get to Verona and then switch trains to Venice? I see there are additional fees for reservations for railpass users-is there a reservation fee if I just buy indivudual tickets? Any help would be appreciated! Do you recommend the pass( we are traveling 5days in Italy from Innsbruck to Venice to Florence to LaSpezia and back to Innsbruck) Thanks!
Seat reservations are madatory on most trains in Italy (all, but the slow R trains). The seats on the faster trains will be 10 with a railpass. Tickets bought in Italy or online in advance from Trenitalia include your seat. Sometimes you can find a supereconomy ticket for 9 (cheaper than the railpass supplement).
Fully flexible first-class cheap used rental cars tickets can cost a ton and a railpass can be cheaper if doing some long train rides - but if you want to plug yourself into some non-refundable cheap used rental cars hard to change ticket months in advance (to guarantee availability cheap used rental cars as they are sold in limited numbers) cheap used rental cars then that often will be cheaper.
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Like other one country railpass, they are only good to the border of that country. If you had a pass that included both countries (not saying you should bet a pass, but don't know if you are covering more places than you listed), cheap used rental cars you can select global pass on Trenitalia for the return cheap used rental cars and the supplement is 7 .
Regular walk up price Verona/Innsburck cheap used rental cars is showing as 41 on Trenitalia. Not sure why oebb would have a different price (they list standard price as 37 and a discount price of 39 - doesn't make sense).
I see fares as cheap as 9 on Trenitalia for your date from Verona to Venice. You would need to book Innsbruck/Verona first before booking the 2nd part. A poster the other day made the mistake of booking the 2nd leg of a one day trip and then couldn't get the 1st leg needed. There are a lot of trains Verona/Venice so you wouldn't get stuck, but you might not get the cheapest ticket (lots of tickets cheap used rental cars that day for 19 on Trenitalia).
Regular walk up price Verona/Innsburck is showing as 41 on Trenitalia. Not sure why oebb would have a different price (they list standard price as 37 and a discount cheap used rental cars price of 39 - doesn't make sense).
but if traveling several days it may not be - depending on lengths of trips and whether you want flexibility to hop on trains as you go along - vs full fare tickets. But yes for most folks doing at most Venice-Florence-Rome they would not be - depends on how much you are riding the rails - if someone is going from Milan to Venice to Florence to Rome to Naples and back to Milan then a railpass would be cheaper I believe over full fare tickets - again flexibility is a factor and passes are a bit better deal in 1st class than 2nd class.
I guess your point is that few people cheap used rental cars would benefit from a pass money-wise and that is true but to say that 'a railpass is usually more expensive than solo tickets has to be qualified as to how many train trips you are doing - the more the more a pass becomes viable.
cheap used rental cars what kind of point to point tickets you are talking about - full fare or discounted ones like the 9 euro ticket - now even someone traveling from Milan to Bari and back every day would always find a railpass to be more expensive than getting 9 euro tickets on every segment.
Now again I would agree 'for what the average person does a railpass is usually - actually almost always in a recent check - more expensive than even buying regular full fare tickets on a walk up basis.