Traveling to Italy

[katrina1234]

I and my sister are planning a trip

Hello everyone, I and my sister are planning a trip to Italy at the end of this year. We are planning on flying from NYC, is there any good travel tour that goes from NYC to Italy? Or should be travel by ourselves and join the local tour when we get to Italy? We need suggestions on how to find a good travel tour for Italy? Thank you so much in advance for any help and advice.

 

[Christy]

Italy's a VERY easy country for english speakers to travel around in (my first solo trip was 6 weeks in Italy)--unless you want a tour because you don't have a minute of time to plan your itinerary or think about hotels, I'd encourage you to do it without a tour. Then you'll really get to see and do what you want. Is this a ski trip?

I'd also highly recommend the Rick Steves Italy guide--at least check it out before you commit to a tour.

 

[CMCM]

I've been to Italy and Europe a lot and traveled around there including all over Italy. I have NEVER taken a tour in my life, and I've traveled in 55+ countries. It is always great fun to arrive in a city and find a place to stay, and we never had a problem doing this "on the fly". If you travel by train, when you get off in a city's train station there are always tons of hotels in that area, so you can easily find a place to stay. You can ask people like taxi drivers, the gondola guys in Venice and so on for their recommendations. We found some wonderful places that way. We always liked having the freedom to stay somewhere as long as we liked and preferred to not be locked into some sort of travel schedule as dictated by a tour. Just get a good travel book and go from there!

 

[ski diva]

As a ski forum, the best we can do is offer to help you plan a ski trip. Is this the nature of your trip? If so, what resort are you looking at?

 

[dloveski]

Italy is quite easy on the American traveler. We found most Italians speak perfect English and are not reluctant to help out.