A hotel booked for ten days in Rome, plane fight out from Rome...want to see the other towns...what to do?

Question

Hi Guys,
I'll be off to Rome in December for ten days and I'm having a major panic about my hotel situation, it may not seem so complicated to some folks, but I'll be going alone and it will be my first time to take a trip alone.
My dad has booked a hotel in Rome for ten days, but I want to try and get to the other towns as well, like Florence, true enough I can stay for a day and come back the same day, but what if there's something I miss...and seeing the other towns as well. I know I'll be staying in Rome for the first 4-5 days. (I was there last Dec with family) so I know what to do...but beyond that I'm not so sure.
I know I can easily get train tickets for the other towns...I'm not so sure about me staying there, especially with a hotel booked in Rome...I'm afraid of unbooking it, and dealing with no vacancies when I return to it after being in venice for example for a few days.
I hope the question makes sense...
Thankyou.

Answer 1

Rome has a central train station and you can get to any city in Italy quite easily from there.

If you have a hotel in Rome booked and you plan to stay overnight in Florence or Tuscany just tell them at the hotel. If you're paying for your room then they will keep it just as you left it. Florence is only about 1hr 45 away by train and easy to commute to over a couple of days, Pompeii is around 1hr 15. If you plant to travel to Venice or Milan by train then I would recommend an overnight stay as it takes around 6hr plus to get there. Train tickets are cheap and easy to obtain so don't worry. You can even pre book them if that would make you feel easier.

Here's some additional information on Italy.

Milan - The Refrectory of Santa Maria del Grazie to see The Last Supper (Tickets in advance)

Venice - Saint Mark's Square, The Doge's Palace, Rialto bridge, Bridge of Sighs, Arsenal, The Accademia, Giacomo Cassanova's house, The Grand Canal and Murano.

Rome - Vatican Museums which include the Sistine Chapel, St Peter's Basillica, Castel Saint Angelo, Forum, Colosseum, Palatine, Circus Maximus, Via Appia, Gallery Borghese, Capitoline Museums, Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps, Pantheon and many many churches.

Florence - Uffizi Gallery (tickets in advance), Accademia (Michelangelo's David is there, Bargello, Duomo, Palazzo Vecchio and the Loggia with its sculpture, various churches and family chapels, Palazzo Pitti, Fort Belvedere.

Vinci in tuscanny to see the birthplace of Leonardo da VInci.

Naples- Pompeii, Herculanium.(1.5hrs from Rome)

Padua, Verona, the lakes, the Dolomites etc etc.

I can only list a few things here or I'd be going on for days

If you're pushed for time then train travel in Italy is very cheep and efficient.

Great guide books are the Eyewitness Travel Guides. They have photos, every attraction you can think of, opening times and great maps.

Take a look at these web sites and enjoy your trip.

http://mv.vatican.va/3_en/pages/mv_home....


http://www.polomuseale.firenze.it/englis...


http://www.whatsonwhen.com/scripts/query...

www.venere.com

buon fortuna

Answer 2

I suggest you do a bit of research online and see how much time you'd like to spend in the cities you want to visit. For example, in Florence, do you want to just wander around the city and see the general sights - the old bridge, the duomo, the markets - or do you want to go into the museums and see the art history (eg galleria academia for David's Michelangelo, and the Uffizi for paintings - in which case, book your tickets in advance or you'll spend several hours just standing in a queue). Once you've figured out what you want to do, you can figure out how long you want to spend there (eg a full day for just walking the streets all day, or maybe more time to see the museums etc - depending on how long you can stare at paintings!). Venice you could do a day trip, but it's a very different place to the rest of Italy - given it has no roads - do you want to spend a little more time there to experience it, to see inside the churches, etc. Once you've got a bit more of an idea, change your hotel booking (eg, don't just cancel it, say you'll be back in 2 days, or 3 days), so that when you return you're not stuck with the possibility of an full hotel there. If you REALLY don't know, then look up online for several hotels that you like the look of. Before you leave the city you're visiting (florence, or whatever), ring ahead and check they've got a room for the night - if they don't, ring the next hotel on your list. Most hotels will have an english speaking person available if you don't speak italian. If it all gets really bad, there is almost always a place at the train station, which will find you a hotel room for the night. You'll probably pay a little more, but you'll have a bed for the night without having to worry about wandering the streets with your luggage, knocking on doors..

Answer 3

The time is going to be much less of a difficulty than the funds. Airfare is quite high priced genuine now; lodges are not much low-priced the two, extraordinarily ones that are even somewhat superb. i might advise discovering vacationer properties, extraordinarily in Florence and Venice, incredibly than rather lodges. no longer as superb, yet rather well worth the fee. vacationing by capacity of prepare is considered the terrific way, in spite of the reality that fee ticket expenses are no longer extraordinarily much low-priced. Rome to Florence is speedy on an exhibit prepare. Florence to Venice is not any hardship the two. in spite of the indisputable fact that, Venice returned to Rome is a great bite of time. in case you are able to fly into Rome and out of Venice, you would be very fortunate. some lodges/vacationer properties have publications for hire, yet self-traveling in my journey has been a lot extra effectual. in basic terms %. up a e book and a map previously you go away -- they are extra decrease priced that way. i've got been to Italy three times and had a extra robust half who replaced into fluent in Italian each and every time. My Italian consists of ordering gelato. i do no longer think of issues could have been as common, yet while there are 4 of you and you're all incredibly smart, you are able to desire to be waiting to clutter by way of with English and pointing at issues you like.

Answer 4

We used to live near florence.. Just take the train from Rome to wherever for day trips and train back to Rome at night. or keep the Rome room and just stay in other hotels throughout Italy but make Rome your home base.