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Timeshare Rentals Naples-some questions
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Question: I'll be travelling in Italy for a month in September, and was hoping that I
could get some pointers...
We'll be flying into Zurich and then taking a train to a villa in the Venice
area (I traded a week of a timeshare condo). We'll spend the first week
there, taking day trips throughout Northern Italy.
During the second week, we'll stay around Florence and take day trips to
Sienna and other surrounding towns.
I traded another timeshare week for a place in Lecce for the third week (in
the heel of Italy) and we'll take day trips from there throughout Southern
Italy.
In the final week, we'll stay near Naples and visit areas that we might have
missed. We'll fly out of Naples
We have Italian Rail Passes and will travel mostly by train. What's the best
way to take our day trips - rental of car, take a cab, busses?
Can you recommend some quaint, non-touristy areas that we can visit? Can you
recommend places to stay in the Florence and Naples areas? What's better, B&Bs
or hotels? How far in advance do we need to reserve places to stay (say for
1-2 nights)?Any ideas ?
Answer: Be careful in sothern Italy (Naples & south). On two seperate trips in
the past year, my trip, and a friend's trip, were inconvienenced by acts
of petty theft in southern Italy. The objects of desire in both cases were
American sunglasses. Stolen, in both cases, from right off the wearer's face!
(And in the case of my friend, the glasses were perscription, thus probably
of little value to the thief). Wear those cheap sunglasses!
One guide book refers to Naples as the "j.d. capitol of the world".
Train travel in Italy is amazingly cheap. We traveled for 3 weeks last
september on a kilometer pass, and second class fares. For trains between
larger cities, the only difference we noted between 1st and 2nd class was
crowding. The seating quality was the same.
If you can take a train, do it. I wouldn't rent a car in Italy! Talk to your
travel agent for horror stories. But you may find train travel less
convienent in the south, where there are fewer lines.
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