EVERYTHING IS CONFIRMED

Well we finished our planning phase. All hotels are booked and confirmed, down to the floor, view, breakfast, bathroom etc. I have read at least 200 reviews on these 5 hotels. And if you look at my sheets of paper here in front of me, i researched approx. 180 different hotels on the entire trip. Wow im a nerd. Our Siena hotel has a curfew of 1am, which most hotels in that city have so the owners can go to bed. Wired huh? When averaged out over the trip our hotels are $137 a nite, which is similiar to America i guess. All we have left is to buy museum tickets, but those are bought for the exact hour we are to be there, so we will buy when we take our trip. Train tickets are on the way. With that said, it is up to Jen to plan our points of interest. She is my cultural liason to italy. I am the linguistic expert of the trip i think. Now we just sit and wait...... 114days to be exact. But the wait is half the fun. If you are that much of a loser and want to check out our hotels go ahead, the best one to look at is the Riomaggiore hotel.

NAPLES HOTEL: Hotel Duomo
FLORENCE HOTEL: Hotel Monica
RIOMAGGIORE HOTEL: La Baia Di Rio
SIENA HOTEL: Hotel AlmaDomus
ROME HOTEL: Residence Vatican Suites

well maybe i should be keeping this personal, but this blog it to help other people like us plan a european trip. Here is the costs of the trip.

Flight for 2: $2300
Train for 2: $500
Hotel for 2: $1700
Food for 2: $750
Entertainment for 2: $750

Estimated Total: $6000 for 2
(there is also a bunch of crap we have to buy b4 we go, video camera, bags, etc.)
When i get back ill let you know how much we went over :)

Well this will be one of the last blogs i write unitl we go. TTYL

-Paul

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