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Recommendations for Family trip to Southern Italy

  • 15-06-2015 8:44pm
    #1
    GatsbyGal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭


    Hi,

    We are planning to go to Italy in august for ten days. We are travelling with an eight and seven year old who are volcano mad so we are planning on seeing vesuvius and etna. We are thinking of flying into Lamezzia as it would be central to where we would like to see. We plan on going to Sicily also.

    Are there any small towns we should stop by and spend more time at? Or should we stick to the larger tourist spots like Sorrento, Positano and Palermo?

    We plan on renting a car which will give us more freedom to stop and go when we like. Any information on the area would be very gratefully appreciated.


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  • #2
    josephineperry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭josephineperry


    Hi! I have been to southern Italy a couple of times (I have friends/family there) so I can give you some information on the area :). If you want to visit both sicily and naples, I would not recommend flying into lamezia, because you would need to go to naples first and then drive all the way back to sicily. This would be a waste of time, in my opinion. The best thing would be flying to naples, visit the the city and the surrounding areas (vesuvius , little towns), and then drive all the way south to Villa S. Giovanni wehre you can take the ferry to Sicily. This way, you might stop whenever you fancy visiting a place along the way.

    Places worth seeing near Naples are: Pompej, Ercolano (ancient cities that were destroyed by Volcano eruptions, might be interesting for your kids :) ), Sorrento, Positano, Amalfi. Along the way, you might like Maratea, Pizzo and Tropea. Nice beaches and good food :). Just google these places and see what interests you most. Unfortunately, I don't know much about Sicily, sorry. I cannot tell you where you can rent a car as I travelled with my friends, who showed me around and made things easy for me ( I didn't need to organise anything ) But I am sure you will find something. I had the impression people are not very organised there, so you might need some extra "patience".... and remeber to watch out your wallets and cameras, especially in Naples. But, other than that, I am sure you will love it. It was a great experience for me , the weather was great (it might get too hot, though), I loved the food and the people were very friendly. Hope I was of some help. Enjoy your trip!


  • #3
    MacGyver007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 860 ✭✭✭MacGyver007


    GatsbyGal wrote: »
    We plan on renting a car which will give us more freedom to stop and go when we like. Any information on the area would be very gratefully appreciated.

    At the risk of going off topic, a word of caution: be very careful when driving around the cities that you do not wander inadvertently into the ZTLs; these are traffic zones which are limited to the likes of local residents' cars. The fines for doing so are quite stiff (as are the administration fees that the rental company also charge you for passing your details on to the local police) and you only find out that you have transgressed several months after returning home.


  • #4
    GatsbyGal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭GatsbyGal


    MacGyver007 wrote: »
    At the risk of going off topic, a word of caution: be very careful when driving around the cities that you do not wander inadvertently into the ZTLs; these are traffic zones which are limited to the likes of local residents' cars. The fines for doing so are quite stiff (as are the administration fees that the rental company also charge you for passing your details on to the local police) and you only find out that you have transgressed several months after returning home.

    Interesting you bring this up as a friend of mine has just received such a fine for doing exactly this in the past few weeks. Thanks for the heads up.


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