planning a trip at the end of may 2004 for trip to italy. i have never been there. we will be in italy one week. what do people recommend seeing, doing... anywhere in italy. i want to see it all but with a week what is the best plan of action??? please help

Hi rd,

For a one-week honeymoon, the Amalfi Coast, Venice, Tuscany, Rome, or Florence.

Start with the mini-guide for Italy at www.fodors.com.

Do a text search for these places on this forum.

You don't have much time to decide.

Seems lots of people are planning honeymoons in Italy this year. Use the search function of this board and you will see lots of ideas. If I were going to Italy in May, I would be sure to spend 3-4 days in Venice.

It takes six weeks to even begin to "see it all" - - and that's at a "tourist level".

You need to start one (or both) of two places:

1. The largest public library or bookstore (or both) available to you. Don't buy books with lots of reading. You want big coffee-table sized books, filled with pictures, so that you can start to make a top ten list of things that make you salivate. From that, half will be impractical to fit into one trip, but the other half will make for a framework.

2. Even better, what you need is to close your eyes, and picture what you already THINK you want to see in Italy, the places you have always dreamed of going to visit. Tell us what they look like - - realizing full well that you may not know their correct names, nor precisely where they are (especially in relation to each other). And tell us WHY they appeal to you the way they do.

Post this additional info (and it would help to say how much you can afford on this 7 day trip, and from where will you be originating). $8000, from New York versus $2500, from Juneau or El Paso - - those are very different kinds of trips (the latter might be essentially camping).

Looking forward to hearing more from you.

Whatever your answers, congratulations on your new life in marriage... and...

Best wishes,

Rex

We spent our 2 wk honeymoon in Italy! Just wonderful! I'd recommend a few days in Venice then the rest in Tuscany (day trip into FLorence).

I think Rome is just too much and too busy for a honeymoon but if you research and find it's your thing then a Rome/Amalfi Coast trip would be cool.

going from st. louis, mo USA to russia for a week then flying into italy. don't know where to begin. where to fly into where to go?!?!?!?

This is what our honeymoon consits of and we arive June1st
4 nights Rome Hotel Borocco
3 nights Capri Hotel Luna
3 night Florence Hotel Plaza Lucchesi
2 nights Venice San Clemente Palace

WE ill be taking the train from Rome -Capri-Florence-Venice.

For your air from Russia to Italy I would check European carriers. Try Ryanair.com, they have flights that can be as low as $1 yep $1 you just have to pay taxes and fees, its a great airline within Europe I am just not sure if it covers Russia, I would check them out and see what places in Italy it goes

I was in Italy for a little over a week last year. We spent half the time in Rome and half on the Amalfi Coast (mainly Positano). You don't want to get too ambitious seeing lots of Italy... with only one week you should probably focus on one or two areas. Otherwise you'll be exhausted from all the travel and hauling your bags around and that's just not very romantic.

If I could go back to Italy for one week, I'd spend 2-3 days in Venice and the rest around Florence. I hear that Sienna and Assisi, near Florence, are particularly lovely. You might also want to check out the coast north of Florence, as I hear it's very lovely. Good luck!

Glad to see your e-mail. Hope you will understand the value of continuing the dialogue here. So now we know where you are originating.

When you look at that pile of money you have, just sitting on the shelf, does it look more like $2500? or $8000?