Thread: Four Weeks in Italy

Anyone have a suggestion as to where to stay to see Pompeii, Herculeneum, Capri and Ischia? We really don't want to stay IN Naples. Thank you all for your suggestions - I'm still planning so if anyone else wants to chime in it will be appreciated. Linda

Quote: Originally Posted by Linda VH Anyone have a suggestion as to where to stay to see Pompeii, Herculeneum, Capri and Ischia? Sorrento would work. I don't remember the drive from Pompeii as taking particularly long. In fact, you can take a hydrofoil to Capri direct from Sorrento, which is infinitely more charmig than Naples. (Naples is not as bad as its depicted, but it is rather chaotic and not relaxing.)

Rick Steves has a video on Naples that might be worth your time to watch. He calls Naples "quintessential Italy". I don't know that I've ever heard anyone else use quintessential in a sentence. Romelle PS - lots of libraries have the Rick Steves videos.

Just a couple of quick ideas off the top of my head. We've been to Italy almost every year for the last 10 years, and never went any place we didn't enjoy. Once we did a two week excursion to Le Marche (the Marches), but you need a car (we started in Bologna). Absolutely fabulous, it's like Tuscany but no tourists. Urbino is especially worth a visit. There's a series of great cities along an easily accessible train line:...

Just get in a car and go. Leave the car outside cities (or turn it in). I like a car to travel through the countryside and stop at places that look interesting. Trains are nice for getting from one place to another, but not for just meandering. I don't like tours because I like to see things at my own pace and get frustrated listening to the spiels. I spent two half days (one afternoon and the next morning) in Pompeii and it wasn't...

We have been to Italy 5 or 6 times and have enjoyed all the above places - but here's another thought - we were Venice for our son's wedding last month and decided to rent a car at the airport and from there drove north through the Prosecco Wine Road. It was beautiful and many people asked us how did we get so far off the "tourist road" - they seldom seen people from the U.S. in that region. We used the town of...

I'll add Cinque Terre and Lake Como (Menaggio in particular).

Ciao Linda, if you could be more specific on the budget I can give you some suggestion about some nice hotels near Capri, Pompei. June is a perfect period to visit the area and Italy in general, very nice weather and not too crowded!!! In 4 weeks you may consider visiting a part of the Alps, I would suggest Dolomites, they are really different from the US mountain landscapes. Go discovering small towns in Tuscany or Umbria, like San Gimignano...