14 days in Italy
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Feb 8th, 2012, 11:02 AM
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VENICE 3 days
FLORENCE 3 days
DAY TRIPS FROM FLORENCE 2 days - Pisa, Cinque Terre, a proverbial Tuscan hill town like Siena or San Gimignano or zillions others
Rome 5 days - including a day trip to Tivoli and Hadrian's Villa - short way east of Rome.
Trains are the way to go between cities and Italy now has a modern high-speed rail network - check out www.trenitalia.com for fares and schedules but trains are really so so frequent you really do not need schedules to plan - just how long each trip takes - www.trenitalia.com also offers significant discounts for those willing to book really early online and then not change nor refund ticket - otherwise trains are always available on site - tickets that is but you will pay much more at the station perhaps for full fare tickets. Great info on Italian trains - www.seat61.com (there is an Italy Eurailpass only valid in Italy and on all trains you likely will take - it offers fully flexible options to take which train you want once there and in first class (which my decades of Italian train travel adamantly make me urge anyone on the trip of a lifetime to go first class - much more relaxed - bigger seats, often many empty seats to put your bags on, etc. - anyway check out www.seat61.com's link to RailEurope to check Italy Eurailpass prices to compare with whatever your itinerary is - contrary to a Fodor mantra that a railpass is always a waste of money in Italy that is just not the case - compare fares - but do keep in mind that with a pass you must buy a requisite seat reservation on most trains for between 5 and usually 10 euros - other great sites for info on Italian trains - www.ricksteves.com and www.budgeteuropetravel.com.
FLORENCE 3 days
DAY TRIPS FROM FLORENCE 2 days - Pisa, Cinque Terre, a proverbial Tuscan hill town like Siena or San Gimignano or zillions others
Rome 5 days - including a day trip to Tivoli and Hadrian's Villa - short way east of Rome.
Trains are the way to go between cities and Italy now has a modern high-speed rail network - check out www.trenitalia.com for fares and schedules but trains are really so so frequent you really do not need schedules to plan - just how long each trip takes - www.trenitalia.com also offers significant discounts for those willing to book really early online and then not change nor refund ticket - otherwise trains are always available on site - tickets that is but you will pay much more at the station perhaps for full fare tickets. Great info on Italian trains - www.seat61.com (there is an Italy Eurailpass only valid in Italy and on all trains you likely will take - it offers fully flexible options to take which train you want once there and in first class (which my decades of Italian train travel adamantly make me urge anyone on the trip of a lifetime to go first class - much more relaxed - bigger seats, often many empty seats to put your bags on, etc. - anyway check out www.seat61.com's link to RailEurope to check Italy Eurailpass prices to compare with whatever your itinerary is - contrary to a Fodor mantra that a railpass is always a waste of money in Italy that is just not the case - compare fares - but do keep in mind that with a pass you must buy a requisite seat reservation on most trains for between 5 and usually 10 euros - other great sites for info on Italian trains - www.ricksteves.com and www.budgeteuropetravel.com.
