Rome-Venice-Lucca - Questions on plan
May 19th, 2010, 08:03 AM
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Rome-Venice-Lucca - Questions on plan
Very early planning stages of a trip - June 2011.
Right now I am thinking we will have 12/13 days on the ground. I am looking at three primary destinations - a) Rome, b) Venice, c) Lucca (in that order)
Questions -
1) is 12/13 days enough - or will I be rushing it?
2) how practical is it to go train with those three destinations.
With respect to the first question - the alternative is to drip Venice and focus on a) Rome, b) Siena and, c) Lucca. I assume that would be easier.
With respect to the second question - I have rented a car in Europe before - but I am like the idea of not having to deal with it on this trip.
Thanks
Right now I am thinking we will have 12/13 days on the ground. I am looking at three primary destinations - a) Rome, b) Venice, c) Lucca (in that order)
Questions -
1) is 12/13 days enough - or will I be rushing it?
2) how practical is it to go train with those three destinations.
With respect to the first question - the alternative is to drip Venice and focus on a) Rome, b) Siena and, c) Lucca. I assume that would be easier.
With respect to the second question - I have rented a car in Europe before - but I am like the idea of not having to deal with it on this trip.
Thanks
May 19th, 2010, 08:30 AM
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If you are going to stay in those three cities, a train will suffice. If you want to get out into the countryside, then you need a car.
Lucca is a nice smaller city but I don't know that I would spend more than 2 days there without taking day trips. You can go to Pisa, or Firenze, from there on the train.
I would do Rome, Lucca, Venice, in that order. Even better, into Venice, then Lucca, then Rome.
Lucca is a nice smaller city but I don't know that I would spend more than 2 days there without taking day trips. You can go to Pisa, or Firenze, from there on the train.
I would do Rome, Lucca, Venice, in that order. Even better, into Venice, then Lucca, then Rome.
May 19th, 2010, 08:37 AM
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Yes, if you haven't purchased your airline tickets yet, rholt, do consider flying into Venice and departing from Rome. The planes from Venice tend to usually depart quite early in the morning so flying into Venice would probably be more convienent for you. This would be a multi-city flight aka open jaw flight.
May 19th, 2010, 09:33 AM
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Hello rholt, you will no doubt find there is no or very little difference with buying the multi-city tickets than the round trip tickets that have you arriving and departing from the same airport. If you purchased two one way tickets than yes that would be terrible expensive. But the multi-city tickets are not one way tickets. And if they are a bit more than buying the typical round trip ticket (flying into and departing from the same airport) you are still be ahead of the game as you will not have to backtrack and consequently pay for transportation to do that..so you save money and your valuable vacation time. Best regards.
May 19th, 2010, 11:02 AM
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Yes, thanks ellenem. Years ago they used open jaw but the airlines use multi-city now. Rholt, I wanted to also say you are planning a trip that sounds wonderful to me, three beautiful and fabulous cities! And all three are quite different from each other which is fun.
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We are doing a very similar itinerary, but straying a bit further, so we will be using a car. We start in Venice for 2 nights, then to the Lakes (Como 3 nights, Stresa 2 nights), then a full week in Tuscany (looking at renting a villa since there are 6 of us), then 3 nights in Rome and back home. We plan to pick up the car when we leave Venice and return it at the edge of Rome (NOT driving in Rome!). Wish we could do everything by train, but we're a bit more spread out this time around.
As everyone has said, the open jaw flights really are not running any higher than round trip from either Venice or Rome, and you are right, not wasting time and $$ doing a backtrack is a big plus!
I hope you have a wonderful trip!!
As everyone has said, the open jaw flights really are not running any higher than round trip from either Venice or Rome, and you are right, not wasting time and $$ doing a backtrack is a big plus!
I hope you have a wonderful trip!!
