When's the best time for Italy?

[Peaches]

A friend of mine and I were discussing going to Italy today. Any suggestions on when the best/worst time is? We want good weather and as few people as possible.

[Peaches]

And now that I've started looking at flights, where's the best PLACE to go in Italy? We will probably only have a week.

[Trev]

I've worked in both Venice and Rome and I couldn't recommend anywhere more highly than them both


However I was working a 8-6 shift at the time and I got to see very little of the day but the nights were fantastic, good food, drink and the scenery is breath taking



Edit: I was going to recommend May

[Winetalk.com]

Time : end of September
Schools children and Euro vacationaires out safely back and the weather is still GORGEOUS,
not hot, not cold.

If this is your first time, go with organised tours like Globus or Trafalgar..
it's cheaper and you'll see all the highlights without THINKING about anything.

DO NOT GO TO ITALY for the first time on your own,
you'll miss it all by going by yourself.

Here is the link to the tour which I beleive is the best based on your time availability and expereince,
I took the similar one in 1997 and my daughter this year:
http://www.affordabletours.com/search/it/?t=ZJ

we'll be there at the end of September/October. We'll go North we know the least.

[Peaches]

Perfect, Serge! Many thanks!!

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here are few more:
http://www.affordabletours.com/search/it/?t=ITADA

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Originally posted by Peaches@Apr 17 2005, 05:57 PM
Perfect, Serge! Many thanks!!

Peaches, our travel MO is:
1) go organised and see the highlights
2) mark places you wanna come back
3) come back on your own to the places you like
4) never rent the hotel-
apartments are cheaper and provide 3-4 times more room.

if you have ANY specific questions-
hit me on ICQ, e-mail or PM

[Peaches]

Serge, is it better to do just the ground tour or are the flights included decent? I don't want to end up spending 3 days on a plane.

[Trev]

Originally posted by Peaches@Apr 18 2005, 12:04 AM
Serge, is it better to do just the ground tour or are the flights included decent? I don't want to end up spending 3 days on a plane.

I guess you want to see all of Italy then

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Originally posted by Peaches@Apr 17 2005, 06:04 PM
Serge, is it better to do just the ground tour or are the flights included decent? I don't want to end up spending 3 days on a plane.

all those tours have no internal flights...you go with the tour on the coach. Both Trafalgar and Globus and Cosmos have very knowlegable and local guides.
Take a Fodor's book with you to fill your free time and see places not incuded in the tour. When you book it, hit me and I'll give you the best restaurants in Rome and Florence which won't break your wallet and proide the best examples of local cusine..YES, every region in Italy has it';s own specialties.

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Originally posted by Trev+Apr 17 2005, 06:06 PM-->