Everything was as stated in the description, however I wish we had more time, especially with the train transfers to the next city. Staff at GVV were helpful except one. Price was great. The 2 city tours had great guides.
1. Venice was great, but rushed and lots of walking.
2. Florence was even better. Unfortunately, our train was pushed back due to potential strike and we lost money for one of our pre booked tours.
Definitely recommend doing a pasta making class, not as expensive, a lot of fun and met several new friends. Also you don’t have to pay for another dinner because we ate the pasta.
4. Rome, beautiful but way too much to see with only a day and a half.
5. Overall great vacation, but make sure you LOVE to walk and climb stairs because you will do a LOT of it. Get to know the train system, buses and metro to be prepared to get around. (None of the cities had ramps/elevators for public use. Definitely not disability friendly).
6. Hotels were ok but not always in best areas. They were clean and had friendly and helpful staff. All in all we only slept there, so ok.
7. AMERICA AIRLINES was a disaster!!!!. Even though I have their credit card, the rules changed so THAT LUGGAGE is NO LONGER INCLUDED FOR INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL. Thus costs increased to over $140 each way for my and my daughter’s suitcase.
The flight was full, no extra seats. Also the seats were so tight making it very difficult to get out. My knees kept bumping the seats in front and I am only 5’ 4”, unfortunately my daughter is six feet and, we were in the 2 middle seats for a 10 hour flight. We had way more space on the connecting flight which was only one hour. Go figure.
After travelling to Europe several times, I will never go on American Airlines again.
The thing that is weird is food/snacks because you were served their “dinner” one hour after leaving the airport and nothing until one hour before landing when the attendants were scrambling to pick everything up.
6. Wish we had more time so we could see everything and not have to walk from 8 am to 8 pm.
You don’t really have 2 days in each city to sightsee(but 1 1/2 d/t train transfers).
But a great vacation to get a brief look at these wonderful cities, just wished we had more time.
