Italy- 1 week itinary- will this work.?

victory

Thank you for all the replies:D yes, I have been using skyscanner for the flights, the flights are not the problem, cheap and accesible and go on the day that I want and return on the night that I want so no probs on the flights there and back:D

I have been on travel republic and trip advisor and groupon ( they look cheap and then decide they cannot do that day/time/closeness to Venice but if you went when it would be completely inconvenient for you/10 miles away / in the dead of night we can see what we can do for you:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:)

I have been looking in the travel agents window (bit early yet for next year May bank holiday) googling all about Italy, using the links here and am very grateful thank you for all your help:D

I have not booked anywhere or decided finally on anything, I am hoping it will just pop up in my inbox and I will be away;)

OH really does not want to stay in Venice for the whole week and so have to take that into consideration, he has been, got the photos, wants to move around as I do just how far/where/ what do we add into the holiday....

Some people I know have been to Italy and rather than helpful it gets more confusing because I say ' oh I am taking Pisa out... and they say 'Oh no, don't do that, it is just so beautiful etc etc or I was thinking of flying in to Rome/Venice rather than Genoa ' oh no you will miss x y z, don't do it:rotfl:

Struggling that is for sure;):D

lostinrates

Victory, you need to get out of the mind set that you can see and do everything on a week .

After all, have you seen every thing in uk?

If your stand wants to spend less time in Venice what about two days there, one in Venice its self, one exploring the smaller islands, and back streets. You'll be walking ALL day, are you fit and healthy? Its lots of up a few steps, down a few steps over bridges.


What are your interests? If you were anywhere, not just Italy? Historic buildings? Roman history? Art? Food? Landscapes? Be lead by yOUR interests, not your friends' . If you tell us what particularly want to experience we can help more.

Another thing, Italy is less cohesive than here, more regional. The places you are looking at, Rome upwards, are one big divide, more pronounced than the north south here, and they bicker about where north starts.:) but the regionality influence is strong, and your experience in Venezia of food for example, shpuld be guided by being there,and different from choices you make if you go to Tuscana or lazio. Similarly cultural differences are slightly influenced by this.by pinpointing What you want to experience and knowing where on your short list offers those best you'll be best served I think.

peachyprice

Still undecided eh!

Ok, well I would do either south or north, not both. If you want to do north, it's true, if you miss Genoa out you're not missing much, if you want to go to Venice, go for a few days, work your way across, to verona, Lake Garda, Milan or to Florence and Pisa. If you want to go south go to Rome, and down to Sorrento, and along the Amalfi coast, they have Positano as an equivalent to Portofino if that is what you want.

Look at it this way, just 'seeing' a place is not the same as 'doing' a place. I can guarantee if you move from place to place cramming in as much as you possibly can you will come home feeling like you haven't got to know Italy at all.

victory

lostinrates wrote: »

Victory, you need to get out of the mind set that you can see and do everything on a week .

After all, have you seen every thing in uk?

If your stand wants to spend less time in Venice what about two days there, one in Venice its self, one exploring the smaller islands, and back streets. You'll be walking ALL day, are you fit and healthy? Its lots of up a few steps, down a few steps over bridges.


What are your interests? If you were anywhere, not just Italy? Historic buildings? Roman history? Art? Food? Landscapes? Be lead by yOUR interests, not your friends' . If you tell us what particularly want to experience we can help more.

Another thing, Italy is less cohesive than here, more regional. The places you are looking at, Rome upwards, are one big divide, more pronounced than the north south here, and they bicker about where north starts.:) but the regionality influence is strong, and your experience in Venezia of food for example, shpuld be guided by being there,and different from choices you make if you go to Tuscana or lazio. Similarly cultural differences are slightly influenced by this.by pinpointing What you want to experience and knowing where on your short list offers those best you'll be best served I think.

I like history, the old castles, museums, not into paintings and art but love Downton Abbey, all the old historical buildings etc. Food, love european food so Italy and it's fresh fish, pasta (not so keen on pizza) will be perfect:D

OH is keen on history, no art, loves walking about just looking at things (colossum and pisa he has mentioned, Vatican could take it or leave it, churches not so much as historical buildings, guided tours, always reading the plaques to get more info)

Yes you are right, just over compensating for the 1 week away that we have, no we have not seen everything in UK, just I feel that I live here and have ample opportunity to see it when I can as for Italy just feel have 1 week:D completely wrong way of thinking of it, I know:D

victory

peachyprice wrote: »

Still undecided eh!

Ok, well I would do either south or north, not both. If you want to do north, it's true, if you miss Genoa out you're not missing much, if you want to go to Venice, go for a few days, work your way across, to verona, Lake Garda, Milan or to Florence and Pisa. If you want to go south go to Rome, and down to Sorrento, and along the Amalfi coast, they have Positano as an equivalent to Portofino if that is what you want.

Look at it this way, just 'seeing' a place is not the same as 'doing' a place. I can guarantee if you move from place to place cramming in as much as you possibly can you will come home feeling like you haven't got to know Italy at all.

Undecided? Yep:D what I have decided though is considering how much was going to happen in 1 week when this thread started to now it has completely changed:rotfl: I can see it was madness and will concentrate on one area...

OH says that Rome is down and Venice is up so we will probably fly to Venice to go to Rome to go to Pisa and that will be it and maybe fly out from there?

It just feels a whole lot different from the usual bucket and spade hol where it is neither here nor there to go sightseeing , just being on the beach, swimming in the sea, going out for a meal along the sea front is enough, I watch the comedy show 'Benidorm' and there is one clip there where they are in inclusive and son asks dad to go out of the hotel to go to the beach and dad replies 'no way, we get everything we need right here, all paid for':rotfl::rotfl:

I would hate to land, go to hotel and never leave hotel:D

victory

I am going to look at package deals inclusive of flights and accomodation, see if they have a good price to them, thought of a coach tour but OH says no, total waste of valuable time he says if we have to stay on a coach, travel through to Italy, quick get off/on/stop and back again but they do what I mean 1 day Venice,1 day Pisa 1 day Rome that type of itinery, OH says no fly there def fly there and work out our own itinery

lostinrates

victory wrote: »

I like history, the old castles, museums, not into paintings and art but love Downton Abbey, all the old historical buildings etc. Food, love european food so Italy and it's fresh fish, pasta (not so keen on pizza) will be perfect:D

OH is keen on history, no art, loves walking about just looking at things (colossum and pisa he has mentioned, Vatican could take it or leave it, churches not so much as historical buildings, guided tours, always reading the plaques to get more info)

Yes you are right, just over compensating for the 1 week away that we have, no we have not seen everything in UK, just I feel that I live here and have ample opportunity to see it when I can as for Italy just feel have 1 week:D completely wrong way of thinking of it, I know:D

Venice fish will be good, squid ink pasta, but also game. Not from the island obviously, but the region.

My quick recommendation is squid ink pasta at trattoria alla Madonna ( very central, ) mix of tourists and locals, we've seen a few politicians in there. Also restaurants on fondamenta della misaricordia ...not too far off beaten track, but not on the 'main routes' real food. I like la rioba, I have had nice food there, and I wrap up warm and sit by the canal when ever they let me, even when they think I'm mad to sit out in the cold night, its romantic.

There small supermarket, I am afraid I cannot remember now which it is, not far from the station, I usually buy stuff for lunches there. Rather than rely on over priced places if I am staying on tourist trail. Or you might find a boat selling fruit if you are lucky

I think I'd do the two days in Venice so you both are happy you have seen it but not spent half the week there, but please get to the smaller islands, at least murano/burano, and imagine how it would be to live there. .

I can check and see if the basic place we sometimes stayed at still has good prices? Its clean but basic, not all rooms have a candle view....

lostinrates

victory wrote: »

I am going to look at package deals inclusive of flights and accomodation, see if they have a good price to them, thought of a coach tour but OH says no, total waste of valuable time he says if we have to stay on a coach, travel through to Italy, quick get off/on/stop and back again but they do what I mean 1 day Venice,1 day Pisa 1 day Rome that type of itinery, OH says no fly there def fly there and work out our own itinery

I agree with your husband!!!

lostinrates

peachyprice wrote: »

Still undecided eh!

Ok, well I would do either south or north, not both. If you want to do north, it's true, if you miss Genoa out you're not missing much, if you want to go to Venice, go for a few days, work your way across, to verona, Lake Garda, Milan or to Florence and Pisa. If you want to go south go to Rome, and down to Sorrento, and along the Amalfi coast, they have Positano as an equivalent to Portofino if that is what you want.

Look at it this way, just 'seeing' a place is not the same as 'doing' a place. I can guarantee if you move from place to place cramming in as much as you possibly can you will come home feeling like you haven't got to know Italy at all.

Teehee, I 'm not sure I agree. I think Venice and Rome would give a wonderful jusxtaposition.

Personally I love Milan, (I lived there....) but I'd not go there if I had just one week, and ...though many think its heinous I feel the same about the lakes, especially given victory's interests.

I do agree, she cannot fit it all in. Venice and Tuscany or Venice and Rome are a common choice for splitting a holiday.

Personally I'd probably do Tuscany, then they could do day trips from where every they choose to other places if they really are more 'flibbertyjibberty' than the rest of us.

Given those intersts in buildings but not art then Tuscany could encompass a day in Pisa, two in Florence and a day in sienna, for example, maybe a trip to A hill town or somewhere like Luca if they cannot imagine a second day in sienna or a third in Florence. That's the four days, and two in Venice. Too many stops means too much time on train in my opinion, where as in Tuscany you can hire a car for a day for trip out, but train to the main centres from which ever you base in. Personally, we'd centre a Tuscany trip in Florence, but that's obviously biased by it being dh's home town, but its central to Pisa and sienna for train trips and its....Florence. :rotfl: or you could spend one day in Rome, and fly back from there. Personally I'd be exhausted, Most of the holiday will have been spent travelling though.



If anyone tells you 'you should have.....' When you get back victory, poke them with a wooden spoon. Ultimately its your holiday, you guys choose! Just....leave time and energy to actually enjoy it. What's the point of a romantic evening meal in some of the most lauded cities in the world in a country that knows love, if you are both too exhausted to make the most of it!?

victory

lostinrates wrote: »

Venice fish will be good, squid ink pasta, but also game. Not from the island obviously, but the region.

My quick recommendation is squid ink pasta at trattoria alla Madonna ( very central, ) mix of tourists and locals, we've seen a few politicians in there. Also restaurants on fondamenta della misaricordia ...not too far off beaten track, but not on the 'main routes' real food. I like la rioba, I have had nice food there, and I wrap up warm and sit by the canal when ever they let me, even when they think I'm mad to sit out in the cold night, its romantic.

There small supermarket, I am afraid I cannot remember now which it is, not far from the station, I usually buy stuff for lunches there. Rather than rely on over priced places if I am staying on tourist trail. Or you might find a boat selling fruit if you are lucky

I think I'd do the two days in Venice so you both are happy you have seen it but not spent half the week there, but please get to the smaller islands, at least murano/burano, and imagine how it would be to live there. .

I can check and see if the basic place we sometimes stayed at still has good prices? Its clean but basic, not all rooms have a candle view....

Yes please...:D:D