Visitors to Italy often make mistakes that cost them money or make their trip less enjoyable. In this video we’ll share some common mistakes and how to avoid them.
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I visited Italy 🇮🇹 recently for the fourth time planned multiple destinations. I was there 8 days in Milan looking to go to Verona, Lake Como and Switzerland 🇨🇭. But I due to exhaustion and stress of delayed travel to Verona back and forth, I couldn’t do anymore travelling beyond Milan. I missed a train as I booked online and didn’t get the right platform. Stress 😣 I tried to make the best of the city visiting local areas as well as tourists areas. My trip was nearly ruined but it gave me much needed experience.
In case of medical emergency while in Italy, you will not be charged there but make no mistake, your bill will be sent to you where you reside. It is not free !
Please stop with this mandolin music! Italy is no longer what is in your foreigner’s mind: pasta 🍝 mandolin and hand gestures
I am planning a visit to Italy in October, I am mainly interested in Rome and the north of Italy. What do you suggest? Also I am a bit afraid of pickpocketing since it is very popular in Italy. Your video is great! Thanks 🌸🌸
Great video!
I agree with everything explained on this video and have a few extra tips. Often a transatlantic flight of six hours or more, will dry out your sinuses leaving you vulnerable to cold or upper respiratory illness. Thus ruining your trip. Carry a wash cloth with you and if you sleep on the flight wet the cloth and keep it on your face, breathing the moistened air. Other options are saline nasal spray and if you can find it evion has an aerisol water spray which can be sprayed on your face at regular intervals.
As for what to expect when you arrive, the coffee in italy is quite different, much stronger than in the U. S. This is true even when American coffee is advertised. My advice is to accept it as something thats different and grow accustomed to it.
Thirdly it is the quintessential ugly American to Deal with waiters or clerks as it they are cheating you. Get familiar with the currency and the price of things, count your change and have trust. On the other hand keep your valuables with you, passport in particular. Most hotels will ask for your passport at check in and often hold it throughout your stay. If something unplanned occurs do not let it ruin the whole trip. Take each day as it comes, adjust, adapt and move on.Italians live La dolce vita, the sweet life. You wont really have enjoyed italy, if you dont aspire to achieving that, if only for the few days you are there
AT&T is now $12 per day. However, after 10 days in a row, they do not charge you until your next billing cycle begins. They just increased the cost from ten to twelve. The other option of buying a SIM card in Italia is not possible for iPhone users with newer phones as they do not have SIM cards anymore.
Im good with toilette $ 😊 Nice great tips! Thank you.
I was waiting for you to mention some restaurant faux pas, such as picking up pizza to eat with your hands, or ordering a capuccino in the afternoon, or asking for spaghetti with meatballs.
Brilliant!
Very good advices !! 👍👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶🇮🇹💕💞
I use Line app to call U.S. from oversea ! 💜
I had a GREAT experience with Uber. We were picked up around 5:30 am. The car was a Mercedes Benz and the driver had on a suit and looked like a chauffeur. At that time in the morning you can’t depend on any other transport from your Vrbo to Termini station. A little pricy but worth it.
Just found your channel and your suggestions in this video were spot on! Just subscribed
My wife has been in the hospital in Venice for a week now awaiting transport home. Our travel insurance provider has been wonderful so far. Regarding pre-existing conditions, they do normally cover them if you obtain the insurance within a few days of making your first travel arrangements. If you are from the US, you will find medical care here is not what you are used to back home. Not judging, just a different system. Very little English is spoken by the providers and they really don't seem to care for "Americanos" I've heard that word spoken in a derisive manner several times. Don't leave home without travel insurance! We cruise several time a year and it was adding up but glad I got it.
Just came back from Italy a couple of days ago. We visited Sardinia, Rome, Bari (The Apuglia Region) and Calabria. We did really well with the itinerary as far as planes, trains and automobiles but I feel that I shouldn't have listened to some of these travel vloggers when it came to Apuglia. We felt that Monopoli, Lecce & Altamura were not worth visiting at all and we should have skipped them. The worthwhile towns in the area were Bari, Polignano Amare, Conversano, Ostuni, alberobello & Matera.
My advice is to avoid Italy, especially Rome, and good luck finding a restaurant with Italians working in the kitchen or the front, all you’re going to find are restaurants owned by middle east/Indians selling Olive Garden Italian food. There is not much culture left anywhere in Europe and you can’t go back in time 50 years, so save your money and buy yourself something nice and stay at home instead of giving it to these losers. Also forget the museums and old churches, do you really want to pay to wait in line 3 or more hours to see and old building that looks like 30 of the ones you passed on the way to these so called attractions? I’d much rather go to Asia and bang 18-20 year old women for my 2 week vacation.
I live in Italy..Northern Italy we have dinner at 7.
At 9:08 and I'm American you show us- and say "everyone in Italy…wears sneaker" but those folks I'd guess are 95% tourists" I say that by the line, the fact of casual clothing the shorts etc, so I wonder do Italians wear sneakers to the same extent? Re: tourist trap restaurants- THEY WON'T BE GOOD. I've found myself in really small mom and pop places, you hear them yelling in Italian in the kitchen LOL. Food was great!
Very good presentation (very clear and talking at the right speed for me) 👍🏼
I went on a trip to Europe back in May for two weeks. Not Italy, it was Portugal actually. Same message though. Don't cram every country/city into a stressful time constraint trip. You will not enjoy it. For my Portugal trip I spent one week in Lisbon and one week in Porto. It was enough time to see what I wanted to see at a leisurely pace. There were a few places I wanted to go to that I booked ahead of time. Nothing was back to back. If I was interested in a cooking class or wine tour while I was there I'd book it if there was room for me. I like doing things on a whim. Life is too short for a structured schedule.
You forgot to mention that tipping doesn't exist in Italy. It remains your discretion whether you want to give it or not.
I have never regretted trying to see it all when traveling to Europe. So much to see and I have FOMO. I love getting all the sites in. Yes it’s exhausting, but I sleep well at night.
Thank you for this. It was straight to the point!!
I agree totally with your advice about regional travel. I think it's easier after you've been to see Rome, Venice and Florence. We used Bologna as our hub and then traveled to Verona, Ferrara and Ravenna. Later we traveled to Civitavecchia for a cruise.
OMG Izamal is not Italy 🤭… just saying 2:06
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great video much appreciated
Outstanding video. Lots of great ideas and suggestions. Very helpful and supportive. Grazie 🎉
I must say that you have covered almost all the topics that a foreign tourist should know before coming to my country. I especially appreciate the fact that you are encouraging people to visit other places besides the classic ones like Rome, Florence and Venice. Italy can be a real surprise for many from this point of view and each region has its "treasures" to discover. The fact that you have voluntarily ignored some of our weaknesses clearly shows that you are an intelligent person and that you love and respect my country.