Travelling to and from Italy

FINDING A HOTEL IN ITALY

To find and book a hotel in Italy, the cheapest and least time-consuming way is by doing it via the internet.

There are a number of online hotel reservations services with many hotels all over Italy.
These hotel services often have arranged special rates and discounts with the hotels. We have selected some of the best.
Here they are, with the links to their sites:

HotelsItaly

HotelDiscounts

Accommodation Line

TravelNow

Venere - Hotels in Italy

Italian Tourist Web Guide

HotelsCentral.com - Find hotels in Italy

A leading travel specialist is Expedia, a comprehensive travel site for all sorts of needs, from flights to hotels, from car rentals to holiday packages, from holiday deals to guides and insurance.

Here's the Expedia search box to find flights, cars and hotels according to your preferences.
This box is to Expedia UK site, but you'll be redirected to another country site, if necessary:

If you're travelling from the USA, Economy Travel is an excellent site. Economy Travel has very low international airfares. As one of the largest international ticket agencies, it can offer savings between 10-40% off of published fares on 24 major airlines by offering consolidator fares. These are not the prices that you would pay if you booked directly from the airlines' websites or reservation systems.
This is the link to its site:
Economy Travel

Web-hotels is an online service for international travellers: you can find and reserve hotels with up to 70 % discounts, apartments, flights, car rentals. It's also a good source of information, with its excellent travel guides. It has a section on Italy.
You can visit Web-hotels by clicking on this link:
Web-hotels travel services

Travel 4 Less is a comprehensive website to research and meet all travel needs, offering tailor made holidays, discounted flights and independent travel arrangements.
Travel 4 Less, designed for both the independent traveller and the package holidaymaker, negotiates rates with leading airlines, hotels, car rental and tour companies, providing considerable discounts to the traveller.
Here's the link to this website:
Travel 4 Less

111 Travel Directory is an excellent travel site, well designed, easy to navigate, rich with information. The section "Tips 4 Trips", with advice from other travellers, is interesting. Italy is well represented and widely covered. Worth a visit.
Click here:
111 Travel Directory - You'll find cruises, romantic getaways, country inns, boutique hotels, discount airfares, car rentals, vacation packages, European rail passes, plus travel advice.

Ebookers is another very good choice. It's a British online travel specialist, one of the leading in Europe, offering complete travel services, including discount airfares with 120 airlines.
Here we have provided an ebookers flight booking engine, with which it's easy to check availability and price of flights for your chosen departure airport, destination, dates and other details.

Ebookers offers discounted car hire rates to its passengers. These rates are fully prepaid and fully inclusive of all local insurances and guaranteed availability. It is cheaper to hire a car from the UK before travel than it is locally, and prices will be pre-negotiated for all ebookers customers. This is useful, for instance, if you want to find a car waiting for you at the airport the moment you arrive.
This is the direct link to ebookers car rentals services:

TravelNow.com is an online travel agency offering international airfare and car rental reservations services. It can sell tickets to people travelling from any part of the world, delivering them as e-tickets.
To visit these services, follow this link: International airfare and car rental reservations

TRAVELLING TO AND IN ITALY BY TRAIN

North American residents can find information and the facility to book rail tickets and Passes in Italy when they visit Rail Europe .
They are the specialists on rail travel in Europe, and you can both buy rail point-to-point tickets online for single journeys from one destination to another in Italy and Europe, and buy Italian and European Rail Passes online.
On Rail Europe you'll also find plenty of information about timetables, prices and other practicalities of Italian and European rail services:

Rail Europe

111 Travel Directory also provides information on European rail passes.
Click here:
111 Travel Directory .

USEFUL BOOKS ON ITALY

Click on these titles to look and/or buy these books.

• Lonely Planet Italy
• Rick Steves' Italy
• Rick Steves' Italian Phrase Book & Dictionary
• Under the Tuscan Sun
• Walking in Italy
• Fodor's Citypack Rome Book & Map
• Italian Journeys
• Berlitz Italian Phrase Book & Dictionary
• 365 Breathtaking Walks in Italy's Captivating Landscape
• Florence, Siena, Pisa & Lucca
• The Alps of Tuscany : Selected Hikes in the Apuane Alps, the Cinque Terre and Portofino
• Carrara : The Marble Quarries of Tuscany
• International Job Directory
• How to Get a Job in Europe
• Work Your Way Around the World