First Congrats!

Go a lot last there last May headed there in April 2012.

www.betterbidding.com for cheap coolbig hotels

Usually do best in Big Cities bidding Priceline.com

Intercontinental.com Rome Ville and Hilton Molino Stuky Venice

for us last $180 or so Best Western Paistea Positano

Villa D'Ulivo www.bellagio.info www.hotelscombined.com

Boscolos are nice in Florence... Pitti Palace also last for us

seat61.com/italy we hop trains cheap low hassle city to city

www.eurocheapo.com good budget tips...

ricksteves.com good planning cheapoair.com

We just got free RT on AA.com by getting 2 AAdvantage CCs

80000 FF miles booked free 2012 flights with them.

They just went into Chapter 11 but still will honor

all ponts ond flights.. We save a lot this way.

Pare back for better experience maybe 4 days in 3 places

what we usually do... www.southernartgallery.com some

nice travelography to give you some ideas/cool photos.

of where we have been.

Happy Planning!

Most "mom and pop" hotels don;t have honeymoon suites. Most of their rooms are basic doubles with one double (not king or even queen) bed and not much room beyond that.

If you are looking for suites you had best prepare yourself for sticker shock - you wown;t get one in a top luxury hotel for $1000.

Luckily you are going in May - which is not yet the height of the season and you may still find some hotel bargains. But I think you need to decide what your realistic budget is and and if you are willing to spend what special rooms may cost.

Separately, IMHO you are trying to do way to much in too few days and will be rushing around - missing a lot of major sights and not having any time to relax. Also, you should know that the beaches on the Amalfi coaat are not very pleasant - most pebbles rather than sand, often in the town center next to fishing boats. Not at all what you might think if you are used to FL or the Carib (or even NY - where the beaches are much better.

Congratulations on your forthcoming marriage !

I also think you are trying to do too much, especially for your honeymoon. If you are anything like us you'll be exhausted after your wedding - we just slept for the first 3 days of our honeymoon !

It seems you have c.10 nights available ? Bear in mind that 2 nights in a place means only 1 full day, plus you need to factor in days travelling between locations. With 10 nights I'd stay in an absolute maximum of 3 locations. If going for 3 locations, I'd recommend a quiet realaxing place to start , a busy place in the middle and another quiet relaxing place to end. Do you have to fly to & from Rome ? If you can use other airports, can you book open jaw flights ? If so, given the places you've expressed interest in, I'd suggest something like

- fly to Naples
- get some combo of boat/bus/train to Amalfi Coast for 4 nights (Positano if that's where appeals to you - I prefer Amalfi and the Hotel Santa Caterina would be a fabulous place to start your honeymoon if you can afford it)
- get boat/bus/train to Rome OR Florence and stay there 3 nights, remembering that's only 2 full days (I prefer Rome but maybe it's a bit full on for your honeymoon and 3 nights is very short for Rome - you may prefer Florence which is much smaller with less traffic)
- get the train up to Lake Como & stay there 3 nights
- fly home from Milan.

Although personally with 10 nights I'd stick to 2 locations and would choose Amalfi and Venice for 5 nights each, flying between Naples & Venice.

P.S. Florence is in Tuscany, so you'll see some of the Tuscan countryside on the way if you go there.