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Shops will not be open before the 28th most probably. If you like outdoors you may go to Trentino, You may stay in Verona and than travel north. A lot of activities around.

My opinion theres absolutly no need for any paid tour, especially from Rome . The trains worked great and a combo of Intercity & Circumvesuviana is 44 euro r/t while a tour from Rome would spend alot less time at the Ruins and be well over 100 euro per person Its 11 euro admission no CCs! theres an info office on the Left side simply ask for a booklet and map in English and it was far better then the couple of guides I sneaked along...

Quote: Originally Posted by ziobacio We did the same thing several years back, leaving at godawful hours from either VCE or BLQ (Bologna), and then came up with a different solution: leave in late afternoon and stay overnight in London, then do the transatlantic leg the next day. If you stay less than 24 hrs in London, I don't think it counts as a layover, and you get to have one more meal in Italy. Another advantage of this approach, if...

I have been in the Aosta region before. Is the Dolomite area in the east of N. Italy better/nicer than the Aosta area in the west? On another note, is the tunnel between Italy and France open during the winter? I know it has been closed on several occasions.

Quote: Originally Posted by bull Shops will not be open before the 28th most probably. What about the week of Dec 13-19? Or Dec 20-26?

Quote: Originally Posted by catchatiger Don't count on this happening. Last time Rome hosted a championship match there were no public screens and alcohol in the center was banned all day - even in restaurants! Maybe some smaller towns will have screens but the main ones may try to discourage large gatherings. Hosting the match is a very different thing.

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Quote: Originally Posted by stu52 so having the reservation already paid for was just a waste of 4 euro per person per museum. It's probably better to make the reservations over the phone and have them and not have to use them thus avoiding the reservation fee. Next time... Some advice reflected your experience with the lines. As for the phone reservation - I expect that they would certainly charge your credit card to validate the thing...

Thanks all. One final question if I may before we leave. We'll get the train from Milan to Venice, I see that at the time we want to go trains are every 30 minutes so we will just hop on when we are ready. But the whole service is advertised as all-reservations trains. So how straightforward is it to just buy and reserve on the next departure when we get to the station. And can we get return tickets without giving a firm resevation time...

Quote: Originally Posted by WHBM Thanks all. One final question if I may before we leave. We'll get the train from Milan to Venice, I see that at the time we want to go trains are every 30 minutes so we will just hop on when we are ready. But the whole service is advertised as all-reservations trains. So how straightforward is it to just buy and reserve on the next departure when we get to the station. And can we get return tickets...