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Okay, they are adjacent to one another, so do you really need a tour? You could set up individual tours to each one on your own and avoid paying a middleman to walk you across the piazza. Basilica San Marco Palazzo Ducale | Doge's Palace | Venice (visitmuve.it)

Here are three hotels that are centrally located (as in you can walk to most sites), I don't know what the rates are in the height of the season though. Damaso Hotel Rome™ - OFFICIAL SITE - BEST RATES GUARANTEED (hoteldamaso.it) Hotel in the Heart of Rome - Hotel Barrett Hotel Nazionale Roma | 4 Star Hotel in The Centre of Rome

Depending on the hotel, they may have a preferred service they use. I don't know how the prices compare to booking yourself, there are several that folks here recommend and you could easily check. Uber in Italy is not the model you are accustomed to (amateur driver with a personal car), Each city negotiates its own deal with Uber, in Rome it is simply a connection to a professional car service. It will cost more than just booking yourself.

Has anyone, ever, talked to a cruise line rep who actually knew what they were talking about? What awful advice! Taxis are available but for a ride like this, which is well out of town (about 45 miles), you'd do better with a car service or a shared shuttle. There are plenty of both of them, we used a shared shuttle in November that charged 80 euro per couple and picked up at the hotel. As for hotels, Rome is covered with them. When are you trying to go, and what is your price range (in euros)? The cruise lines tend to use hotels that are outside of the center to save money, with only two days you really want to be right in town so you're not wasting time going back and forth.

What do you consider "all of the main sites"? There's no way to see all of them in a one day tour, especially not one that spends hours going out to Burano and back. Which are you most interested in?

I have a strong bias here, but this is your trip and should fit your interests. My personal opinion is that the Amalfi Coast is wildly overcrowded, to the point that it's often not enjoyable to be there. I would avoid it anytime in July and August, and weekends from May through the end of October. Plus it's a lot of effort and time to get there. Naples, on the other hand, is chock full of art, history, culture, food, shopping ... pretty much anything you might be interested in other than small villages and those famous views. One huge benefit of staying right in Naples is that you can pretty much walk everywhere and there's no need for a guide. Some of my favorites in Naples include: * The cloisters of Santa Chiara, an oasis of calm and beauty in the middle of the city: Home - Chiostro di Santa Chiara (monasterodisantachiara.it) * Museo and Cappella Sansevero, for the amazing Veiled Christ and other stunning sculptures: The Sansevero Chapel | Sansevero Chapel Museum (museosansevero.it) * Teatro San Carlo, a gem for music lovers (esp. opera): Teatro di San Carlo - Napoli (teatrosancarlo.it) * The Archaeology museum, one of the best in the world: home – English|mann napoli (mann-napoli.it) * San Martino certosa and museum, great location overlooking the port, it's worth it just for the trip up there (funicolare and public escalators) but especially for the collection of presipi, the nativity scenes Naples is famous for. This is not the official website, which only works during Italian working hours for unknown reasons, but this gives you some info: Museo e Certosa di San Martino - Musei di Napoli (museinapoli.it) * Underground Naples - there is a rich history undergound, from thousands of years ago right up to WWII, when residents lived down there during bombing raids: Home - Napoli Sotterranea

You shouldn't have a problem finding a salon for a wash and blow out. If you are staying in a hotel, ask them to recommend someone and make the call for an appointment.

For which option? In the past there was no need but tourism has been so crazy the last few years that I would make a reservation if you want a private boat. The ATVO bus or the Alilaguna water bus should be okay without a reservation.

Here are a few of the bigger pharmacies that have websites, maybe page through and see if you can find your brands: Farmacia Centrale | Dott. Di Gioacchino (farmaciacentraledigioacchino.com) Farmacia online autorizzata dal Ministero della Salute - Farmacie Mariani Igiene E Cosmesi (farmaciamacedonio.it) FARMACIA INTERNAZIONALE - Piazza Barberini ROMA (farmaciainternazionaleroma.it)

When I was in Rome in November I discovered that my go-to store for all personal care products (and a lot more) for more than twenty years had closed!! They're putting in yet another restaurant. Here's what I'd suggest, go through your things and separate out the items that are very specific and hard to find and carry those, then buy the more common items once in Rome. Unless you are leaking money out of every orifice, don't count on buying anything at all in Amalfi. The few people who actually live there don't, so what is stocked is for tourists and priced accordingly.

Easiest and least expensive are rarely the same, unfortunately. The main transit options are: * Private motorboat, about 140 euro * Alilaguna public waterbus, 15 euro * Land taxi to Piazzale Roma plus vaporetto, 40 euro plus 9,50 euro * ATVO express bus to Piazzale Roma plus vaporetto, 10 euro plus 9,50 euro List of motorboat companies on the airport website here: Water taxi Venice Airport - Water Taxi to and from the Airport (veneziaairport.it) Alilaguna: Linea Rossa | Alilaguna Taxi: Taxi Venezia e Mestre: Cooperativa Radiotaxi a Venezia, i principali taxi autorizzati (radiotaxivenezia.com) ATVO: Venice Airport bus service (atvo.it) I've arrived to (or departed from) Venice just about every way possible, while many wax on about the romance of the private boat, I go for the Alilaguna. The private boat is nice, but to me it's not worth the cost unless you have a group (as we did) to split the cost.

If the tour ends in the Sistine chapel, and if you cannot exit from there into the basilica, you'd have to walk back to the entrance which takes about 30 minutes, due to crowding in the museums. That means you'd hit the street around 6:30 PM facing a half hour walk to the Roma S. Pietro station (1.9 km/1.2 miles), so the earliest train you could count on making would be 7 PM. There is one at 19:02 (7:02 PM) that arrives to Civitavecchia at 20:00, too late for you.

There are some ferries in November, but the schedule is drastically scaled back and they do cancel in the case of bad weather and/or high seas. Many of the stops are not docks, but simple landing platforms, you would not want to try that on a high weather day. If you happen to have a nice day during your stay, go for it. There's no need to book anything in advance so you can make a game-day call.

Six of one, half dozen of the other. Both stations have multiple tracks but both also have elevators at each track.

If you want to depart right from the ship, the only options I'm aware of are a ship's excursion, a private car service, or renting a car from one of the agencies that bring them to the port (do they still do that? It's been a few years for me.) The car service would be the most expensive, but also the fastest and easiest option. You could post on the roll call thread for your sailing to see if you can find others to share the car (or minivan) with you, to reduce the cost per person.