Italy Holiday

scargill

I'm going to Italy for 2 weeks in September (honeymoon) and I'm trying to get ideas of places to go.

The rough plan is that we'd like to do things for the first week and lounge around on a beach for the second week.

I was thinking of maybe Venice for 3 days, Verona for 2 days, Milan for 2 days.

and then head down to the coast for a week (maybe Amalfi coast, fly to Naples ?)
Maybe thats too much hopping around ?

I'm just looking for ideas from anyone who has done similar. I don't really want to go into the travel agents and book their "Italian Honeymoon Package".

For the first few days I'd go all aout and stay in top class hotels - so some suggestions for Venice would be handy.

Thanks

Youngza

Hey

Just back from a 2 week honeymoon in Italy and had a ball!!
We did Rome (3 days), Venice (2 days), Lake Garda (4 days) and a few other random places too.
We hired a car which was great, totally flexible and air-conditioned!!
Driving around Italy is a piece of cake and does not wear you down like it does here!
We only had Rome and Venice booked, the rest we did as we went.
I found two great websites for accomodation, one was www.venere.com for hotels in the cityies, both hotels I booked (Rome and Venice)through these were excellent.
The real find though was www.agriturismo.com, which seems to be a network of farms/mills/old houses that do B&B's or self catering.
We had three of the most romantic and relaxing nights, each in a different type of venue, and each night we had the place to ourselves.
Most have great facilities (pool, aircon etc), and are very reasonably priced and the food in all, be it breakfast or if they had a restaraunt, is amazing.
These days/nights made our trip.

scargill

Thanks for that Youngza - that agriturismo website is exactly what I'm after.