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Italy undoubtedly is one of the most popular travel destinations in Europe. It is the fifth most visited country around the world. Its rich cultural and historical features with the greatest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites to date (totally 44 of them) that inherited from different period of time, has won Italy over 40 million international arrivals each year. Unfortunately, traveling to Italy is always like a dream comes true for most of us who have limited budget for travel.
Reasons contributed to this costly visit inlcude its strong Euros, high tourist demands and high local living standard. But don’t let them stop you from visiting Italy! there are still ways to cut the overall travel cost to Italy down to a level that could fit into your available budget. These are 5 tips that may help you through your Italy travel planning and budgeting:
- Spend more days in each city of Italy. Traveling to your dream country for the 1st time need lengthy and well ahead plan. Plan longer period for the whole trip and spend more days in each day. Your average daily budget would be much lower since transportation cost plays the biggest role in Italy travel. You will have more time instead to explore further into Venice, Florence or Rome. Don’t be so ambitious as you can’t have both worlds at one time!
- You will be able to find cheaper deal and nicer authentic local street food, by staying more days in each city! Best discovery always comes last. I always found the best value food on my last day on any travel but could only hope to stay longer. With that in mind, You need to decide what would be your maximum period available for Italy travel, and your maximum allowable budget. Strive a balance in between to achieve a lower daily budget.
- Book all your local transportation and accommodations well ahead as soon as like 3 months in advance. Domestic train online booking can only be done 3 months before traveling day. So book at least 3 months ahead especially in peak season to grab the cheapest possible fares. Most likely local transport will determine your period of stay in that city of Italy. So, confirm your domestic trip before booking your accommodations. Following the above steps, you are very near and on the right track to achieve an average daily budget of 150Euro, by rule of thumbs.
- Book entrance pass and travel pass online. The longer you stay in a city, the cheaper you would get to travel around city. The best example would be Roma Pass which costs 25Euro but covers 3 days unlimited travel pass and 2 entrance passes, which carries extreme value!
- The last tips to fit the Italy travel cost into your budget is saving one meal for the another meal. After deducting all costs of transportation and accommodation, and also those expensive entrance fees, with your budget, you will know how much you could spend on each meal. An average meal in Italy costs 12Euro. If you have only budgeted 10Euro on each meal, save your lunch with 5Euro pizza plus Coke and you will have 15Euro to spend for an authentic dinner with a cup of cappuccino!
Hope these will help you to plan immediately your next travel to my favorite country of Italy.
– Travel Feeder, your ultimate photo travel blog
Italy, ah, what a beautiful place. Beautiful food, beautiful scenery, beautiful life – everything is just wonderful. Now, all you need to add to that wonderfulness is a great trip budget or a cheap vacation. Like Travel Feeder suggests, plan ahead and map it out. So, what are you waiting for? Go be brilliant in Italy! Happy Travels to you from Reader’s Digest!
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Guest Post by Lisa Fantino
Visiting Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, is historic, artistic, scientific all rolled into one and here’s a Top 5 list of must-see attractions.
- The historic triumvirate/Christ Church, Independence Hall (a UNESCO World Heritage site) & the Liberty Bell Center. In the city where the United States was born, no visit would be complete without seeing the church where Ben Franklin prayed as a boy, along with George Washington, the nation’s 1st President; the room where the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776 and the Liberty Bell itself, which stands as a symbol of the country’s fight for freedom.
- Franklin Institute – was founded in 1824 by the first professional organization of mechanical engineers and draftsmen in the U.S. Today, it houses interactive exhibits on everything from space to ancient and modern medicine, giving children and adults alike a hands-on explanation. Visitors can walk through a giant heart along the path of blood flow and climb aboard a steam locomotive. There’s an IMAX theater and planetarium as well. The Institute also features rotating exhibits and is currently showcasing an exhibit on Cleopatra, the last Queen of Egypt, through January 2, 2011.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art – is one of the largest art museums in the US and sits atop Ben Franklin Parkway. Its collections are quite impressive and span 2,000 years, everything from the masters to ancient temples have a home in its walls. It’s the perfect rainy day retreat if weather hampers your outdoor plans and if you go on Friday evenings you can listen to cabaret music and grab a bite to eat. Its grand center steps have become known as the Rocky Steps, having played a huge role in the Oscar-winning movie.
- Eastern State Penitentiary – the nearly 200 year old former maximum security prison contained seven cellblocks and housed some of the nation’s most notorious prisons including mobster Al Capone and bank robber Willie Sutton. Today, its crumbling walls, death row block and empty guard tower echo the voices the inmates left behind. There are daylight tours but venture near Halloween and experience one of the most terrifying haunted houses anywhere, Terror Behind the Walls.
- Love Park – no visit to Philly would be complete without a visit to Love Park which sits catty-corner to the city’s magnificent City Hall building.
Lisa Fantino is an award-winning journalist and attorney and the Italy travel consultant and creative force behind Wanderlust Women Travel. She recently launched the Amalfi wedding site, Wanderlust Weddings. Her love of Amalfi has also inspired her to gather sterling silver jewelry and gifts inspired by the blues of the region at Amalfi Blu. In her spare time, she writes travel features for MNUI travel insurance and blogs as Lady Litigator.
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