Hello! We (my wife, two kids, and myself) are beginning to plan for our big trip next year (school year 25-26). We have to plan around school holidays, so we are limited in our options. For Winter Holidays we have two weeks which of course has us traveling in December. Spring Break is in the first couple of weeks of April, but is only one week. December brings some advantages in terms of Christmas events, but also cooler weather than April - it also appears to be rainier in December, but I'm not sure if that is true or just the average that is reported on other sites. And of course, it is usually more expensive to travel that time of year. That said, we'd have two weeks instead of one giving us more time to see things. We of course will spend some time in Rome and we want to stay in Tuscany for some of our time as well. If it works well, we'd love to see Venice, but my understanding is that December is often when it experiences seasonal flooding. We're open to other areas as well if we have time (which we would in December but probably not in April).
So overall, I'm curious about people's thoughts regarding these two options. We don't really have any other timeframes when we can go due to school and work. Thank you in advance for any advice/opinions.