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JenBenMen
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Jen
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Italy--Please help plan!
We are traveling to Venice, Florence, Room, Amalfi Coast and then Sicilily
Did you use any travel tours you recommend? Hotels that are a must?
We are either going May-June 2008 or October 2008
TIA
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Posted 3/3/08 8:51 AM  |
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Re: Italy--Please help plan!
I am thinking of the same. I could use the info as well.
Thanks
hope you don't mind me piggy backing you...
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| Posted 3/3/08 4:43 PM |
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JenBenMen
party of five
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Jen
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Re: Italy--Please help plan!
It is fine--can someone helpf us
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| Posted 3/4/08 8:43 AM |
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Foodie03
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Re: Italy--Please help plan!
Posted by JenBenMen
We are traveling to Venice, Florence, Room, Amalfi Coast and then Sicilily
Did you use any travel tours you recommend? Hotels that are a must?
We are either going May-June 2008 or October 2008
TIA
We went last summer--I posted a few weeks ago about some awesome restaurants we went to if you want to do a search on that.
I would highly recommend our hotels in both Venice and Rome. Neither had many amenities, but we are not the type of people that needs all those things. We barely spent any time in the room.
Venice-Acca Hotel located off Campo San Polo. It was so reasonable, large, beautiful room, in a location that was away from all the touristy crowds and noise but still close enough to walk to everything within 10-15 mins. Yummy breakfast.
Rome-Hotel Teatropace33 located 1 min from Piazza Navona. GREAT LOCATION--this made the entire stay. Also reasonable. Large room, clean, high ceilings, no elevator but has a gorgeous original spiral staircase in the center of the hotel. Breakfast in the room each morning.
We took some tours that we liked. The best one by far was a wine tour with Tuscan Trails. They have a website. It was like 5-6 hours long, they pick you up at a location by the Ponte Vecchio on Florence and bring you to 2 vineyards for tastings and tours and then to an agritourismo for a delicious lunch. This was our favorite day out of our 16 day trip to Switzerland and Italy. Highly recommended!!
We also took a walking tour in Venice and one in Florence through Adventure Bellissima. Both were about 2 hours and very informative.
The hotels and tours were all booked online through various travel websites. Check out different hotels at tripadvisor.com. This site is great! Considering we were going in blind, I think we really lucked out with many things.
If you have other questions I'd love to answer them!
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MrsAT
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Allison
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Re: Italy--Please help plan!
Rome-Hotel Teatropace33 located 1 min from Piazza Navona. GREAT LOCATION--this made the entire stay. Also reasonable. Large room, clean, high ceilings, no elevator but has a gorgeous original spiral staircase in the center of the hotel. Breakfast in the room each morning.
Just booked this hotel for 4 nights in July...It had really good reviews on tripadvisor, and wasn't expensive--great location. So glad to see another good review.
For the original poster... DH and I are in the midst of planning 2 weeks in Italy (Rome, Naples, Capri, Positano). It seemed like a daunting task at first, one which I wholeheartedly felt needed the guidance of a travel agent. I've used the internet to plan everything. I already mentioned tripadvisor (They're great b/c they'll list hotels in a variety of orders and give helpful reviews and links to sites that you can book from). GL  http://www.positano.com/
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| Posted 3/4/08 6:50 PM |
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JenBenMen
party of five
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Jen
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Re: Italy--Please help plan!
Thanks
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| Posted 3/5/08 1:55 PM |
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