We are traveling with our 14 year old twins on the family trip in June (London to Florence). I would like to extend our travel and am looking at other cities to travel to before heading home to the Tampa bay, Florida area. It’s the first trip to Europe for our kids. They are excited to see as many places as possible. I would like to end in a city that’s easier to fly home to without too many stops. Any ideas are appreciated.
Posted by
Chicago
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If you're ending in Florence, you could go to Venice. Your kids are likely to be fascinated by the city of canals. (Be prepared, as the anti-tourism movement is strong in Venice.) In the big city category is Rome, which is well-served by airlines. Maybe your kids would love the ancient Roman sites. One more idea is Naples. They could see the Pompeii site, which is about 20 miles from central Naples, and see where pizza originated. And nothing beats the Italian coast.
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A website like Skyscanner can help you search for flights to random cities to your home airport. Are any of your trip plans so far booked?
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Republic of Texas / U.S.A. / Magyarország / Budapest
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I wouldnt beat the flght connection angle too hard. This is a special event and its one that can not be replaced so go to where you are most interested and just deal with the flights. London and Florence, great choices for how different that the are. Why not continue that trend with stop number 3.
You did the anglo and latin cultures now:
Go natural with Montenegro
Go ancient with Athens
Go eastern with Romania or Bulgaria or Hungary
You can easily come up with a meaningful 4 day or more trip to any of them. As someone else pointed out there are internet sites to help with flights. I just went to Google Flights. I put in Florence to Europe, one way, non-stop for the first Monday in June (then did each day of the week as not all flights go on all days). Under $100 I got: Budapest, Sofia, Bucharest, Athens, Corfu, Tirana, Belgrade. Sure, most of these will take you two changes to get home. So?
Posted by
Charleston & Birmingham
4828 posts
I agree to add Rome. If you're there long enough, you could do a day trip to Pompeii. People on this forum will tell you not to do that, but we've done it twice and it was fine. I think 14 yr olds would really like Pompeii.
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Bellingham, WA
814 posts
According to the Tampa airport website, direct flights are available to/from London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Zurich. Of these four, Amsterdam is the obvious choice, IMO. Anne Frank, VanGogh, canals, fries, great transportation.
Here is what the Man in Seat 61 says about getting between Florence and other cities, including Amsterdam, by train:
https://www.seat61.com/international-trains/trains-from-Florence.html