Save money … go on holiday to Italy
It may sound a perverse idea … times are tight, so why not pack your bags and fly off to Italy. But the credit crunch and the pressure on tour operators, hotels and indeed whole regions which have had worse than expected summers, is yielding unexpected bargains for the traveller. As Autumn kicks in, now could be the time to book your visit to your dream hotel in Italy.
The most obvious point is that flights, hotels and the rest get cheaper outside of the peak tourist season. Let’s be honest, even the restaurants get cheaper in some of the most popular tourist spots of Rome, Venice or Florence when the money-rich visitors aren’t there to drive up demand. If you’re looking for a hotel in Italy, you can do a lot worse than explore the doldrums between summer and Christmas. Fix the date of the end of the various children’s summer holidays in the UK, US, Germany and the rest, and watch the prices of hotel rooms plummet.
It’s not quite so dramatic as the halving in the price of French campsites when the UK school holidays end (after all, most tourists booking hotel rooms in Venice probably aren’t travelling with their children). Still, far fewer adults will book weekends away in the early days of the school term … so September especially is dead water for many Italian hotels. Watch the prices inexorably rise as Christmas approaches. Many of those same couples have had enough of the kids and want to get away for a night or two!
Incidentally, if it’s winter sun you want, and you aren’t desperate to tan, it’s worth checking out a hotel in Italy in the southern regions. Check the temperatures for Sicily, Puglia, Calabria, the Sorrento Peninsula … it certainly beats the rain and mist of an Autumn in London!
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