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Good to know! Thank you!! I'm the same. I'm always early everywhere because I don't want to be late. And I certainly wouldn't want to miss our flights to Italy! Thank you! We are not Admiral's Club members. We aren't frequent fliers. Thanks for the heads up on the app too!

Sounds like a pain, but with such a long layover it would be worth it. How much time would we need to allow to get back to terminal 8 and get to our gate in plenty of time? I'm always early everywhere, so I will pad whatever I'm told.

If it's only a ten minutes ride and we have 6 hours between flights it would be worth it to go to the terminal with the Chase lounge. Hopefully my husbands Global Entry get's taken care of in time. I can't believe we applied at the same time and my pre-approval came the same day and I already have mine (although my friend and I had to travel to Atlanta for our appointment) and he's still waiting for approval. If he doesn't hear something soon, I think he should just go ahead and apply for TSA PreCheck.

I agree. I’m so glad we kept scrolling until we found it. The Chase lounge is in terminal 4. Any idea how far apart they are via air train? As long as we have we thought it might be worth it. It appears to be AA.

Sounds ok to me. I assume we will be able to tell the difference between the legitimate taxis and the scammers.

I didn’t think about that. lol Our flight arrives at 12:45.

We thought so too. We had to buy some points for my ticket, but it only cost about $400. Just a little more than 2 flights from Munich to Rome.

Maps says it’s about 35 minutes from the airport to our hotel. Does that sound about right?

If there’s a reason to upgrade we would be open to it. We’re doing several private transfers on this trip. We are sharing a minivan and private water taxi with another couple going from Trieste to Venice as well. We don’t mind paying for security and convenience.

Thanks, but we found one that goes Clt-JFK, JFK-Rome with a 6 hour layover. We just had to keep scrolling down to find it. And i totally spaced it that we have lounge access with my husband’s chase sapphire reserve card.

I’ve sent them an inquiry but haven’t received a response yet. Stefano’s is 75 euro. Would there be a reason to use them or a private transfer over a taxi? Are taxis lined up outside the airport?

We’ve now booked all our air and we are not planning on visiting Florence this trip. I have transfers booked from Rome to Amalfi (with Pompeii tour) and Amalfi to Naples, where we’re just spending one day then flying to Athens. Now my questions. From the airport in Rome would it be cheaper to take a taxi to our hotel or book Joe Banana again (they are $109). And from our hotel in Naples just take a taxi to the airport? Is that something our hotel could arrange? I have no idea what we will do on our last day in Rome but I will investigate your suggestions. I have some places on a list as well, just nothing I felt was a must do. I feel like we could even wait until we get there to decide as long as we don’t want to book a tour. update: Google says a taxi is 48 euros. Sound right?

Not sure what this is. Will need to look it up but dh wants to see Pompeii.

We found a flight Clt-JfK, JFK-Rome with a 6 H layover so we booked it. Thanks for everyone’s help! Not a bad layover given we can utilize a lounge.

Thanks so much! This makes the long layover at JFK more appealing.

I believe my husband’s Chase Sapphire Reserve card has access, but do we have to book with that card or just show it? Because we would book with our AAdvantage miles.

I don’t see your response. They have another option with a slightly longer layover, 1H 45M. That might be a bit better. According to Google that is doable.

Does that mean they don’t take care of our luggage on this mess? And is that connection at LHR long enough?

I had no idea. What if you choose the option that is all through JFK. Would we still have to deal with our luggage? It has a LONG layover. And I was mistaken. I forgot, although I got global entry months ago, my husband also applied back in August and has never heard from them. If we take one of the flight that first go to EWR or LGA, which is easier to get to JFK from?

Sorry, yes it’s EWR. We have Global Entry, which includes pre-check. I assumed since it was connecting flights they would transport our luggage. When they did have tickets options, months ago when we first started looking, everyone said they didn’t leave enough time to make our connecting flights so we didn’t buy them. We could buy nonstop tickets but would have to fly economy. My husband is a big guy and he doesn’t want to do that. He’s not huge, but big enough that he wants the extra space. They do have a Clt-JFK, JFK-FCO. It has a 12.5 H layover and I think it’s about 15-20,000 more points, which we have. You think it’s worth it? That’s a really long time to be stuck at an airport!

After reading your concerns about our current plans to fly Clt to Munich and then buying separate tickets to Rome, we are using miles for tickets from CLT to Rome. We only have enough (we want Premium Economy for the extra room) miles for connecting flights from LaGuardia and then JFK to Rome. We have options of 6 H, 7.5 H or 13 H. Is 6 hours plenty of time? I see travel time by taxi is approximately 90 minutes. I assume the airlines take care of transporting our luggage, correct? Or do we have to retrieve it and check them in at JFK?

I’ve taken everything you all said into consideration, slept on it, and discussed with my husband. We are going to stick with our current plan of staying in Rome 5 nights and doing a day trip to Tuscany. We will skip Florence this time. There are many areas of Italy left for us to see and we hope to return. @cruisemom42 While we take many vacations around the states where we stay somewhere for an extended period of time, when we travel outside the states it’s typically on a cruise where we get a snapshot of several places. For instance, over Easter we’ve rented a home in the mountains for a week. I greatly appreciate all the help everyone here has provided!

Perhaps we would be better off canceling that flight and booking Charlotte to Rome. I see a flight we have enough miles for Premium Economy that is CLT-EWR, with a 13h 29m layover, JFK-Rome. Is there anything close enough to the airports we could do without spending a whole day just hanging out at the airport? DH isn't interested in that. lol There's another option with a 6+ hr layover.

I guess we might as well not try to get to Florence this trip. We are cruising from Athens to Venice.

Thanks! We are frequent flyers. I get this. We got a much better deal on premium economy with our miles flying to Munich, rather than direct to Rome. What would you consider more generous? Global Entry only helps us in the US, right? No, were flying to Munich on AA.