Thanks again to everyone for taking the time to respond. We have decided to eliminate Vienna and I got an airfare quote from British Airways of $1,505.00 for New York - London - Berlin - Venice and then Rome - New York. It is expensive, but I think it might be the best I can do. What do you think?

I'm topping this for you because I'm not an expert on flight prices, but if you're saying $1505 is the price for flights between all of those places, and assuming you're going late May or early June since it's after graduation, that doesn't seem like a bad price for all those flights.

I bought our tickets today from British Airways. I eliminated Vienna and went with New York-London, London-Berlin, Berlin-Venice and Rome-New York. The ticket ended up costing $1,492 and I feel pretty good about it.

My new questions are:

1. Should I make advance reservations for train tickets from Venice to Florence and Florence to Rome? If so, how would I go about that?

2. Does anyone have a recommendation for a 2 star, air-conditioned hotel in Berlin or London?

Once again, thanks to everyone for taking the time to respond.

Hi C,

You can buy your Italian train tickets at www.trenitalia.com

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I think your airline ticket sounds reasonable for all the legs and during that season.

You might want to post your new questions on new threads as they may not get attention at the end of this thread. People who know the answers may not open your post due to the title and some people only read the first post without reading through all of them.