First take a nice large view on a map and start to focus the distances between places.



Today in Italy there are several airports therefore, you do not need to fly into Rome Fiumicino or Milan Linate. See below a list of available airports to fly into.

Bari.- Firenze.- Genova.- Lamezia Terme.- Milano Malpensa.- Napoli.- Olbia.- Palermo.- Pisa G. Galilei.- Roma Ciampino.- Roma Fiumicino.- Torino.- Udine.- Venezia Marco Polo.- Verona Villafranca.

Also it is possible to connect to your desired destination in Italy though some of the main capitals of Europe, where many of the low cost airline companies operate from.

Some of the most popular are Easyjet.com, hlx.com and Ryanair.com who now fly throughout Europe and to all the above destinations.

Once you have found your best affordable flight journey and know you arrival airport, then you will start your itinerary. Look first at your arrival and future departure time, and see whether you may include these days in your itinerary or not. Usually the arrival and departure day are just reserved to get in the Italian atmosphere, relaxing, shopping, packing, unpacking.

How much you can effectively do

Well to answer this question, you really need to study and inform yourself as much you can.

Visiting as many travel guides on the web or on paper, reading travel magazines, talking with friends and relatives who have been there, watching TV documentaries, could be some of the inspirational source's that may determine your choice and identify the interesting city/ies you will visit in your journey.

Also ask yourself these questions, what hobbies I/we have? what sport I/we like?, what is my dream food I/we would love to try?, how I should learn the Italian culture?

Italy is so full of richness that even Italian natives haven't had chance to see it all. In each city, you can find something matching your holiday needs.

What is important that at the end of your documentation you will have a clear idea of how many sites and how many breaks you will need to satisfy your holiday expectations.

Better to stay in one city or multiples?

If your holiday will focus the attention on a sole city, then find out and discover all the attractions of your destination and decide what are the bests.

Sightseeing, relaxing, music, eating, drinking, nightlife and romanticism is what Italy is all about. From this make a nice combination in respect of your priorities.

Do not forget that sightseeing and relaxing in Italy always takes longer than you expect.

In case you are foreseeing moving from one city to another, first we recommend to print out a good scale map of Italy and rationalize your movements from and to another one.

Which way to get around?

Are you willing to experience driving in Italy? Well if so, you should have read about the differences of behaviour between north and south. If not, and you are planning a tour from north to south or vice versa, you will realize immediately the differences.

For those that are not amateur, there are many ways to find public transportation which will bring you at your destination. Select our guides, we have added in each city a list of useful web sites to the public transportation companies. Browsing inside this will permit you to find the simplest and cheapest way to get to your destination.

Once the destination is selected?

We recommend you select two or three alternative places, just in case your desired destinations are not what you were expecting. By surfing for a couple of hours on the public transportation website's you should been able to calculate the required time that should be dedicated to your moving around Italy. Deduct this from the total amount of days / hours of your holiday and see how much time you have left, then estimate an average time of four hours for each activity you wish to arrange at each destination, and see if the schedule can be realized.

What makes a successful hotels choice?

Few criteria mainly determine our choice. Simply and quickly the frustration of finding the right accommodation can go away if you clearly know how to respond to the following questions. Which kind would be ideal for me, hotels, bed and breakfast, farm house, studio apartment, flat or villa, then what is my budget.

If the location is a main factor, you may consider to perform your choice using our google map which shows all filcoo properties, on it, giving you a picture, average prices and links to the hotel pages.

When these criteria are clear, selecting your accommodation will be really enjoyable.

Start scrolling the list and pay attention to the outline, picture, area and price. Follow your natural instinct and control the availability. If the hotels are available for immediate booking, then open and read carefully the whole page. Give particularly attention to the cancellation policies, before confirming the booking.

If some of the hotels you are interested in do not show availability, you may still try. Many hotels prefer not update their availability, but just work on enquiry basis. We suggest then to correspond sending a request. You can send the same message to multiple properties listed and wait for a reply. So this formula it's recommended when your holiday is planned at least 40 days ahead.

The hotels managers will respond to your enquiry within a limit of 48 hours. Filcoo will collect all the offers and present it to you in a clear scheme, so that you can decide and finalize the booking.

Are Hotel reviews really useful?

You will never have a complete idea of the quality of the hotel, until you have seen it and judged it in respect to your personal taste. There are many website's that post comments and opinions, some of them give you useful information, some other's just denigrate the work of people who are trained to satisfy a million different needs.

There are some properties that specifically require from their customer to post good comments, upon their return home, as popular commercial website's, report the ranking in respect of their review grades. So we suggest to use a fair grade of judgment and infer what useful for you.

After everything is booked ?

Marks what you need in case of modification and cancellation and outline the deadlines to act if any plans changing is required. Also remarks the phones number of the accommodations where you will spent your vacation, it's always recommended to make a phone call the day before the arrival to confirm the time of arrival. If you don't want to call send an email, but no the day before but few more.

Learn little bet of Italian history and approach this culture, start looking around for some goods books, Italy has been native land of world wide famous poem, get around and ask for movies, the sexiest was the centre of the European production and to finishing the music. The melodies of Italy are delightful and express in a romantic way the life style of the mother and father of Italy today generations.

Arrival in Italy

What can cause a bad arrival and ruin your enjoyable time in Italy, it may be mainly two events :

a) the flight company will not delivery you baggage

b) some where in train station or busy busses they may pick pocketing.

Those two are the main worries but not the only two things that may happen, so stays concentrated until your arrival in hotels or the Bed and breakfast.

In the first situation case, make sure that you will delivery to the baggage claim office the address where you will going to stay and the length there. Plus make sure they give you a direct phone number of the person in charge who will follow you case, and not just an answering machine. It will be good if you try to phone this number and make sure it is reliable before you leave the airport.

Upon the arrival in Italy never carry large amount of cash, few hundred euro to cover the prime necessity will be more then enough.

Keep your contacts number, such as credit cards, bank, and other useful documents such as passport, flight thicket, hotels reservation, cars reservation and any others useful information as guides, lists of phone numbers in a folder stored somewhere else from where you have your wallet.