We are considering Turin as location for a quick last minute girls trip. We only have 2-3 days. Would you recommend staying in Turin and taking day trips by rental car? Or should we move around and stay at a new place each night in the villages? TIA

What do you hope to do with your girlfriends?? Turin is wonderful, and certainly can be entertaining enough without leaving for 2-3 days. Great food and wine, plenty of cultural attactions, walkable...we love it there! If you want to visit the vineyards, a car might be helpful. We adored the area near Alba.

Depends on what you are looking for - nightlife as in any large city or quiet village life. Turin is a great town itself - very unappreciated it seems by most tourists - lots to see and do in it. I would base in Turin as relocating each night is a pain and takes a lot of time. Maybe take trains or buses to some Alpine resorts or even to places like Milan - just an hour away by train and Genoa about 1.5 hrs and a day in either of these fabulous cities would be great too - for info on trains check www.trenitalia.com; www.seat61.com; BETS-European Rail Experts and www.ricksteves.com.

just two of us! Quiet.

We we are looking for great food, good wine, some shopping, and something old to look at.

we we will probably fly into Milan, then take train to Turin. Will look at train options...just realized I may not have enough time to get international drivers permit!

Plenty to do in Turin itself, and I did a day trip by bus.

See: https://mytimetotravel.wordpress.com...njoying-turin/

I suppose you know that there are direcrt buses from Milan Malpensa aiprort to Turin. The train (either with a huge detour via Milan or with train changes at Busto Arsizio Nord and Novara) is a waste of time and money.
SADEM

As said above, you can easily spend 3 days in Turin. Day trips by public transport are possible too, for instance to

Aosta Valley castles
Breuil - Matterhorn (the gondolas to the glaciers run in hight season only)
Courmayeur - Mont Blanc
Aosta (roman theatre and museums, medieval city center)
http://www.lovevda.it/en

Savona (Italian Riviera): 2 hrs OW by train
Genoa: 2 hrs bay train

Maybe if you like quiet and not a large bustling city you could go to say an Alpine resort and base there.