wanderbird
Traveller
6 comments
Posted 9 years ago
Hi!
I have planned to travel in Italy for 1 month. How much should I count for the budget per day?
Will sleep in cheap hostels (around 15-25e I guess mostly in Italy) and take some night trains. Thought to eat cheap like buying local fastfood and from markets. Maybe visit some sights along the way, but trying to put in minimum the ones with extra cost. I think I have to take some buses and metros maybe sometimes.
In addition the the more known like Venice, Florence, Cinque Terre, maybe Lake garda, Turin, Genoa.. I have also thought to visit some small cities like Siena, Bologna, Perugia, Bolzano (or some in the north near mountains), and also interested in Puglia region in the south (but not a must). Have already been to Rome and Milan, so no need to go there.
So how much should I count for the daily budget? How expensive is the different parts of Italy?
And do you think it is worthwhile to buy the one-country pass, or should I just buy one-way tickets?
Thanks!
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
Hi!
I have been travelling through Italy with a mate last summer and we have been to Cinque Terre, Siena, Perugia, Assisi and Rome. We booked cheap hotels or AirBnB (around 25/30€ pP per night) and usually went to a restaurant/pizzeria in the evening where pizza+beer usually summed up to about 10-15€. If you add expenses such as the occasional espresso during the day, entry fees etc and given the fact that you want to stay in hostels you should be perfectly fine with a budget of about 35-40€ per day.
Regarding trains, we did book the first trip Milan - La Spezia and the last trip Milan - Rome in advance using Intercity and Italo high speed trains and for the remaining trips we bought tickets for regional trains in advance which are pretty cheap.
If you are going to stay a full month and travelling longer distances too a 8 day one country pass looks pretty good for just 22€ per travel day. Use the pass for longer distances and combine it with locally bought tickets for regional trains on shorter distances and you will be fine. :)
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Thank you! :)
Flo 8)
ntrain
Traveller
123 comments
Have not really noted much differecne between local prices in IT, except that the REAL touristy towns like Firenze, Roma are much, much more expensive if you are so dumb to only go to the touristy places!
Prices for Hostels can easily check on all those well-known ites.
In general IT is not very cheap at all, many things cost more as in the cheap store-chains in DE/NL. If travel by train-then its very hard to find such cheaper chains / shops near train stazione-most are very far away and not clearly marked either.