italy
 

im going to italy with friends for 14 days. landing in rome . we want to see venice, rome, florence , sorrento , capri, almafi coast ,calabria also see tuscany. we plan on flying back from calabria to rome. any suggestion how many days to stay in each place or how to see everything in 12 days because 2 days are traveling days. thank you

In 12 days pick only 4 of the above and make each within a max of 4 hours travel time from the last. That southern excursion does not fit. Here is a feasible plan assuming Rome arrival and departure:

Land Rome---train to Florence day one--2
Get car---to Tuscany---3
Drive to Venice--drop car---3
Train to Rome---4

A better plan is to fly home from Venice if possible.
The AC/Calabria thing will take a week. Take your choice.

Not possible. I would get a guidebook and narrow it down to 3 places which you really want.

You should also consider an open jaw ticket (fly into Rome and out of Venice, or similar), so you don't have to backtrack to Rome at the end of the trip.

I completely agree that you should scale back your itinerary. You'll be spending more time traveling between places, and settling into hotels than sight-seeing...

Perhaps you could divide your trip in half:

Either do Venice, Florence, Tuscany, Rome

Or

Rome, Sorrento, (Capri and Amalfi Coast) and Calabria.

Just as everyone has advised you - pick one of Tuscanlifedit's itineraries. We did our first trip to Italy: Rome, picked up car on the out skirts of Rome, drove & stayed in Tuscany, did trip day trips to Florence by train, than drove on to Venice, dropped the car and flew home from Venice. We absolutely fell in love with Italy and knew we had to go back. So last year we did the second trip of Rome-Amalfi Coast-Capri and flew home from Naples. They were both wonderful trips and I sure couldn't tell you which one to do first but whatever you choose it will be fabulous.

Impossible. Cut out half of it at least, extend your stay to a month, or find a tour company that will fly you by each of these places.

thank you for your suggestion. spoke with my friends and now the choice is do we go to rome , florence and venice or rome amalfi coast , sorrento and calabria. we going thru sept26 to october 9. its hard to plan one friends wants to see as much as possible and visit calabria because family was from there the other friend doesnt want to travel to much. that time of year which part of italy would be a better choice? it our first time to italy for all of us.

For my first time in Italy I would pick the Rome > Florence > Venice route. Those are the arguably the three most well-known Italian cities to anyone outside of Italy.

Read guide books and study a good map and then decide.