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SEA > Florence -- Itinerary feedback?

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Hey there, I would absolutely love some feedback about this itinerary!

For some context, we are fairly active travelers and aren't opposed to using short road trips to see and explore places. I should also note this will be our first time in Italy, so seeing Venice is important to us. Based on what we're reading online, we're considering consolidating May 13 - 15 into having Siena as a base and planning day trips around it.

Itinerary: May 4 - Arrive to Venice in the evening
May 5 - Full day in Venice
May 6 - Full day in Venice
May 7 - Leave early morning for Florence (train), mostly full day in Florence
May 8 - Full day in Florence
May 9 - Full day in Florence
May 10 - Day trip Pisa & Lucca - sleep Florence
May 11 - Leave for Cinque Terre early morning, mostly full day in Cinque Terre
May 12 - Cinque Terre full day
May 13 - Train to La Spezia to rent a car - drive to Siena
May 14 - Drive to Assisi
May 15 - Drive to Orvieto
May 16 - Train to Rome
May 17 - Rome
May 18 - Rome
May 19 - Travel day home

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If you are going to Rome, I would visit Orvieto on the way to Rome, I wouldn’t bother to drive back to Siena to spend the night in Siena and go to Rome the next day. That’s too much backtracking. If you want you could spend the night of May 15 in Orvieto, then on the 16th head to Rome. You could return the car in Orvieto (on the 15th) and go to Rome by train, provided you rent from Hertz, which, I believe, is the only car rental company in town. Or, you could keep the car and drive to Rome, where you’d return the car upon arrival.

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re: day 10/11, not sure why you're backtracking to Florence? You could day trip to Pisa (I believe they have luggage storage at the train station) and then move on and stay overnight in Lucca, then head to Cinque Terre from there.

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Thank you both for the feedback, when I posted this itinerary on Reddit some of the feedback was to use Florence as a base and travel to Lucca/Pisa, I think what you're saying makes sense though, that should make the trip to CT shorter too.

Great to know about Orvieto and Hertz, I'll scope that out to make sure we are able to smoothly drop off our rental and train over to Rome.

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