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5 Tips for a Luxury Trip to Rome for Less

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Some tips from today's NY Times.

The Eternal City is home to historic art and architecture, designer clothes and accessories, and luxury lodgings — here’s how to have it all, on a budget.
A visit to the Eternal City with all the bells and whistles doesn’t have to put a big dent in your wallet, says Simone Amorico, a native Roman and a co-owner of Access Italy, a company that sells luxury trips to Italy.
“If you know where to stay, dine and shop and when to visit, you can come to Rome and have an affordable luxury trip,” he said. Here are some of his best tips to do just that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/travel/rome-budget-affordable-luxury.html

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Thanks, Philip. We're definitely believers in "walk everywhere," and we'll check out the Monti area when we're there next month.

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"affordable luxury" - now there's a great marketing term! (brought to you by a salesman in the luxury tours business)

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As an added bonus this year, you can freeze your a$$ off.

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We LOVE to walk Rome. Have never taken a taxi or city bus, and the metro only a couple of times: once when I had a shoe blowout, and another to get from Point A to a distant B and not a lot of time to do it in.

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