Marjean

First being a newbie, I couldn' find my question so this may be a duplicate...sorry!

We are getting off our cruise ship in Venice to stay 2 nights in Venice; then take a train to Florence and stay 2 nights there; then go to Rome by train where we will take a train immediately to the Airport to go home. I know, don't miss Rome but we will have already stayed 3 nights in Rome at the beginning of the trip...

We do not want to drag our luggage which will be for 3 people (3 big ones 24" to 26 ", one medium and 3 carry ons) on our Venice to Florence to Rome train trips so we are hoping that we can reduce our luggage.. OR do you have suggestions to mimimize our luggage (beyond packing lighter for a cruise)when we go from Venice to Florence and Florence to Rome.

Is there a way we can ship and store our luggage in Rome so that we only have to take carry on and the one medium bag to Venice (2 nights and Florence 2 nights) before we fly home?

Your are all so great, tacky at times, but I love it. I await your responses....I know, I know ... pack l ighter...but knowing that I probably won't give me advice anyway...Please!!

janisj

Here is your other thread http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34847636

To find all your posts - click on your name.

If it were me - I'd just pack lighter. That would solve everything. But if you can't do that -- I wouldn't bother shipping stuff back to Rome just to pick it up and schlepp it to the airport. I would condense things as much as possible and send it home from Venice.

You'd still have all the suitcases but they wouldn't be nearly as heavy.

nona1

I wonder what 'tacky' means to you? Must be different to the BritishEnglish meaning...

Marjean

Thanks for responses.

First, thanks for the link;sorry about the duplicate posting; secondly a good idea about shipping some things home; lighter luggage would help and thirdly, hope tacky doesn't mean something bad to you, I meant funny and sometimes verbally arguing with each other. I should be careful to use words that are not slang. I don't want to inadvertently offend anyone.

suze

That was my thought on your other thread, to lighten the load and ship directly home from Venice. Maybe you could use a duffle bag rather than suitcase? So it could be folded up and sent along with some of the stuff. Trying to get it down to the 3 smallest suitcases, packed light, one per person for the remainder of your trip.

Marjean

Any idea how expensive it would be to ship (a duffle bag - good idea) home? Is there a service or do you just go to the post office?

JaneRebecca

I don't know about the British/English meaning but last time I looked (American English slang) "tacky" meant: Of poor taste, lacking style.

kybourbon

Trenitalia offers luggage shipping on their website by DHL. I'm not sure if this is just an option between countries or if you can ship within Italy.
http://www.trenitalia.com/en/promozi...zioni/dhl.html

suze

Several times I've just used a local post office but it was simply to lighten my load a tiny bit, when I wa traveling thru changing weather and cities, not to send a whole suitcase worth. It wasn't cheap but it was worth it.

LoveItaly

In Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Second Edition:

Tacky: broken-down, crude, dilapadated, dingy, dowdy, down-at-heel, faded, frumpy, gaudy, inelegant, mangy, messy, nasty,, outmodeded, out -of-date, and so forth and so on.

I have no idea what tacky refers to in British/English. But it certainly is not a compliment in American spoken English lol.

Marjean

OK tacky was a poor word. Lets dwell on the beauty of Italy instead and thanks for the information on our luggage issue. Based on what you had to say, we are rethinking our itinerary to see if we should stay in a Rome Hotel extra days and do some day trips rather than take a train from Venice to Florence and another train from Florence to Rome.

Dukey

Please explain the ITINERARY to me:

From reading this I gather you are starting out in Rome("we will have already stayed 3 nights in Rome at the beginning...&quot and then going on a cruise which returns to Venice. And from Venice you want to go to Florence and then to Rome for the trip home.

Is that right?

You don;t want to drag all the luggage (I assume from the cruise) from Venice to Florence to Rome, right?

If that is the actual case, I ASSUME you are taking a lot of luggage because you are going on a cruise. But you want to STORE it in ROME before going on the cruise in the first place???????

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

janisj

Dukey: What I read into Marjean's question was essentially

&quot;Is there a way we can ship and store our luggage<b>to</b> Rome (from Venice) so we only have to take carry on and the one medium bag<b>from</b> Venice to Florence to Rome before we fly home?&quot;

Is that right, Marjean?

janisj

sorry - was so worried about the &lt; B &gt;'s I forgot the spaces. This is better . . .

&quot; . . . . .luggage <b>to</b> Rome (from Venice) so we only have to take carry on and the one medium bag from Venice . . . . .&quot;

Dukey

Well, I agree your interpretation DOES make more sense and now that I have re-read the OP I agree that is what the person is asking about.

Marjean

Yes,

We are arriving in Venice with all our cruise luggage and want to ship most of it to Rome for Storage. This way we will not have to drag luggage to the hotel in Venice, to the train station to Florence and then Rome. We will end up in Rome where we hope to pick up our luggage and go home.