yea, are you going? where to? My biggest pieces of advice are 1-unless you are traveling from country to country, i found it cheaper NOT to get the euro-rail pass. 2nd..travel by train at night...some of the train rides are 7-8 hours...so you can save a night of having to pay for a hotel.
A place not to miss if you want some down time is the island off the coast of naples..Ischia..(right next to Capri) It is absolutely beautiful, with great beaches..and the place we stayed at was 60euro a night which was really nice and included your breakfast and dinner...and it wasnt cheapo food....it was EXCELLANT. It's really not an american tourist spot at all...it was all Italians & Germans vacationing...
It had a beautiful pool, and was just steps from the beach.
In Rome, we stayed in the Trastevere distict...it was a really hopping area...a lot to do at night...street bands and such. (and the bus systems are really easy to use)
We went to the Rome bethel...and it was nice to see, but if you don't have some time to kill..if you've seen Brooklyn Bethel...you're not going to be missing much...it's super tiny, with just a few cases of stuff to look at. (but that is where we met some cute american witness boys to hang w/ the rest of our trip) lol
I 2nd the forgetting the eurail pass thing. Biggest rip off ever, especially for Italy. I'm pretty sure all trains in Italy require reservations which you have to pay for ontop of your pass, if you have one.
that's mad ghey. good to konw because i was totally trying to figure out if it would be worth it.
I really think I lost a few hundred dollars by using the eurail pass. It was good for local travel (like going back and forth to this one city a few times) but like..when we went into Italy for Venice and Rome I think I totally got ripped off.
Maybe, if you have enough time, look online to see how much it would cost to just make reservations for the different train trips you'll need to make and then compare it to the eurail price? But add to the eurail price more $$ for the reserving of seats (like..the eurail is your ticket price but doesn't include the reservation but if you buy the ticket separate the ticket price would already include the reservation price..)
Also, if you do go for a eurail pass, I think the flexipass works better than say "unlimited travel for one month" type pass unless you'll be on the train every day?
this is such a help too because i totally wanted to stay in trastever but all the guidebooks kept saying to think twice because not all the cabs and stuff go back there after certain hours so i didn't know if it was a good idea. did you go to sicily? i cant think of stuff to do there besides palermo but i was just wondering if there was other stuff to do.
sadly, no, we didn't make it to sicily...and that's where my mom was born. I don't even know much about it. (We're actually thinking about taking a boat from Athens over to sicily when we go) I'll ask my mom if there's anything in particular to check out...
The Roman metro system is very...limited (there's only two lines) but if you could stay anywhere along those lines you're pretty good to go.