Hello everyone! My husband and I are planning a month long trip to Northern Italy for May 2025. We have visited Italy only once, and that was a lifetime ago in the 1970’s! We spent a week in Rome and a day in Florence. We are both in our 70’s. This will be our only trip to northern Italy, so we want to visit all the places that intere... Read More

Other than slight difference in price, is there any particular difference between? Recommendations? Looking to go from Como San G to downtown Zurich, or straight to ZRH airport. And thoughts regular vs business class? Thanks! Read More

I am planning a last minute trip to Italy for my family of 5 (kids are 21, 19 & 13). I’m hoping I can pull this off, since we want to head to Italy the week of 6/24 - which is right around the corner! This will be our 1st time in Italy and my 1st time planning a trip to Europe so it’s a bit overwhelming! I would love to get feedback on what I’ve pu... Read More

I am planning a 20 day trip and I want to visit Northern Italy places such as Venice, Florence, Lake Como. Also Id like to stop by some places in Switzerland and southern France such as Marseilles and Nice. I want to rent a car, however I have read that I should not do it in Major Italian cities and only do it for the ride outside of the cities. H... Read More

Hi crew and as always. Thank you in advance for your thoughts and guidance. To make the most our our visit to Spain and her sights I like to when it makes sense hire a guide, or join a small to medium size group .I have learned that wandering aimlessly unless its on casual a stroll is not the best use of our limited time, Here are our dates and ci... Read More

London 10 nights - have to have this amount if time here due to Taylor Swift concert Aew wrestling etc portugal 7 nights Seville Spain 4 nights Gibraltar 4 nights Rome 4 nights Malta 7 nights Munich 3 nights fir Oktobefest. Will fly to Portugal from London then bus/train for Portugal/Spain. Fly from Gibraltar to Rome . Fly from Rome to... Read More

We booked this trip back in May. We’d been trying to visit the Dolomites since 2020, first planned for October, then moved to December. The trip had been completely booked and cancelled twice. Hopefully, the third time would be the charm. Flights and planning We decided to spring for Business Class, as we’re getting awfully tired of... Read More

I seem to be having a lot of trouble with the details of this trip. I finally have my dates, my itinerary, my flights, and my hotels. I want to rent a car in Edinburgh on September 17 (Mon) and drop it in Bath on September 21 (Sat). So I went to a few companies to see where the drop points are and if they're open on Saturday. I checked with thre... Read More

Hello! My wife and I are finally looking to do a Honeymoon after a few years of marriage (Covid derailed a lot of plans). We're really interested in New Zealand. We've looked around at multiple past posts on different sites and itineraries, and I've crafted one for us. This will be during the New Zealand summer at some point. We currently are plann... Read More

Hello, Our family of four (two adults and two teenagers) are planning a trip to Provence late June this summer. After three days in Barcelona we're renting a car (in France) and doing the following: Two nights in Collouire (this might change) three nights based near Avignon/Arles Two or three nights near Vaison La Romaine two nights in Ro... Read More

Where have you gone in Europe where someone has assumed by your face that you are from somewhere specific in Europe? Today I was musing if I shall ever finally find MY face country. You know--a place where you look around and find people who look more like you than not. My other family members have had that happen; I have not. When we travel,... Read More

I understand that one must book certain buses in the Dolomites in the high season. Does anyone know specifically which dates are considered 'high season' and how I find out which buses need to be booked, and how far in advance? We will be staying in four areas of the Dolomites from third week of September through mid-October. Read More

What do you think about that for a 25 nights road trip in july : Arrival in Bordeaux (2 nights) Pyrénées (3 nights) Carcassonne and Narbonne (2 nights) Nîmes (4 nights) Luberon (3 nights) Nice (2 nights) Coastal Liguria (only the first part after Monaco and before Genoa 3 nights) Turin (3 nights) Vanoise mountains (2 nights) Lyon (1... Read More

I've used the Easter weekend to do some extensive research and have now put together a first draft itinerary for a proposed 5-week trip to Ireland and the UK (less Wales). For context, it'll be my sister (20), our mother (55) and I (27). We are huge history lovers, adore wildlife and appreciate the great outdoors but aren't quite into things li... Read More

We'll be in Monaco from 8am to 10pm on a Sunday, April 21, 2024, with Regent Splendour Cruise. I am seriously considering cancelling my scheduled ship excursion and visit nearby village or villages independently. Which of these towns (Villefranche, St. Paul de Vence, Eze) would you recommend for a couple who simply want to spend four or five hours... Read More

Bonjour à tous, i have been looking into international shipping options from Paris to New York and am a bit overwhelmed. I’m betting that any number of Fodorites have experience with this, so I’m hoping for some advice. i need to ship about fifteen or twenty tins of tea altogether, too much for me to lug around, esp since Paris is just the fi... Read More

I used to call these micro visits to a place a "drive by." But I like the term hit and run tourism because it implies some damage is left in its wake. Here's an interesting article about coping with hit and run tourism, written by the director of the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence.

Hi All, I am well aware that this is an extremely broad question, but can you all throw some family vacation ideas at me? Live in central Jersey, have an almost year two old and an almost six year old. Looking for a family friendly vacation this summer for two or three nights within a three-ish hour drive from us. We’ve done a few of the pretty... Read More

I am looking for suggestions for a few days to add both before and after a 10-night Amsterdam to Bruges cycling trip. I am a very well-traveled, old(er) solo, female coming from the US and have spent a lot of time in Europe but never the Netherlands or Belgium. I definitely don’t party and am not looking for an active nightlife. Also, I am not a sh... Read More

A few years back, we planned a 10-night trip to Northern Portugal. We did our research and amassed a ton of notes about sites, visiting hours, hikes and walks, driving routes, wine and port, food and restaurants, you name it. We were well-prepared for our departure on March 28, 2020. Well, you don’t have to guess how that turned out! Not wanting... Read More

I’m slowly starting to piece together my next trip (woohoo!) for June-July 2025. Between being peak season and the weather, I’m thinking to visit the UK and Ireland over the alternate option of Italy (as an Australian, I am sure I will still be cold in Scotland even in summer!).

Hi ! We want to go back in family (2 adults and 2 teens) for a seventh time in july for 25-30 days.. This time we have that plan in mind. 1) Fly to Paris (cheapest flight from Montreal) 2) Take a rental car (no stay in paris which we have seen for one week last year). 3) Drive to northern France 4)Belgium (5-7 nights) 5) Netherlands (7-8 nights) 6)... Read More

Hi everyone! We live in the United States. My husband and I are taking our 17 year old daughter (who will have just graduated high school) and our 19 year old daughter to Europe near the end of May. We are thinking around the 20th. Our youngest daughter has a friend in London she wants to see for a day, we thought about seeing Ireland, we would lo... Read More

Heading to Cotswolds for about a week in Blockley. Any recommendations for restaurants, markets and things to do? Have plans for antiques, walks and have made several restaurant reservations but open for suggestions. We are definitely food oriented and like to take walks. Might visit Stratford upon Avon. have been to Bath several times and Oxford... Read More

Traveling for the first time in Europe with our 1 and 2 year olds. Have a couple of questions about airport travel. 1. We are flying into Rome and have a 1.5 hour layover until Naples. I've heard as long as the flight is under a single ticket you will not be going through customs until you reach your end destination. Is 1.5 hours enough to get t... Read More