[Idyllchat] Rome

[Russ Crum]

Carol and Tom,

I cannot help you about returning a car to Rome, but I am sure the  
Untours staff can give you some advice. They can also put you in  
touch with the Umbria Untours on site person who is very  
knowledgeable about that. We were on the Umbria Untour this fall and  
I know some of the people there when we were returned their car to  
Rome instead of Spoleto, which was our pickup point for the cars.

I can tell you that we found Untours to be quite flexible and helpful  
on these matters. We were traveling to the Cinque Terre area after  
our Untour in Umbria and wished to drive there since it was much more  
efficient that the train. When we queried the Untours staff about  
this we found that it was no problem to take the car to La Spezia and  
leave it at an Avis agency there. In fact, we learned we could keep  
the car longer than our two weeks by just paying for the extra days!  
All this had to, of course, be arranged with the Untours people in  
advance.

As to flying into and out of different locations, we have found that  
to not be a problem. Web sites like Travelocity and Expedia have  
places on their search page where you can designate multiple legs.  
That allows you to pick different cities instead of a simple round  
trip. We have found it to be useful also to check individual airline  
web sites for fares. If the trip can be handled on one airline, that  
may well get better fares than the other sites.  But check out Rome,  
Milan, Venice, Florence. All are possibilities. I don't know where  
you are flying from. But you may find your flight arrangements  
significantly better into and/or out of the different places.

The bottom line is - think flexibly! Decide where you would prefer to  
fly to and out of first. Then look at the options for local  
transportation; train, your rental car, etc. I might mention that the  
train between Rome and Florence is a fast train and there are now  
stops between those two. We have taken it a couple of times.

I hope that gives you some ideas.


Russ Crum
rrcrum at sbcglobal.net

On Nov 28, 2006, at 14:53, Carol/Tom Saathoff wrote:

> We are going on an Untour to Rome for one week and
> then on to Southern Tuscany for two weeks the middle
> of April. Has anyone picked up their rental car in
> Rome and returned it there? How much of a hassle is
> it? I think we could opt to train to Florence and pick
> it up there and deliver there but would incur the
> added expense of the train. Any thoughts on this would
> be appreciated. Also, we are arranging our own flights
> and wonder about flying into Rome and out of Florence.
> How do you do this when looking at Expedia (for
> instance) for cheap fares? Thanks for any info you
> care to share! Carol
>
>
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