We are planning a 7 to 10 day trip to Italy, concentrating on the Venice area.
Am looking at apartments in Verona and Venice as our home base. Any suggestions or thoughts?
Will we be bored in the area for a week?
Will we need a rental car or are trains easily accessible between the surrounding towns?
We have also considered the Lake Como region.
Thank you so much for your assistance!
Posted by
Carmel, CA, USA
2456 posts
I would just say that all three of these locations are wonderful, and with 7 days, or better 10, you could spend time in each one. You could even collect "V"s -- 3 nights each in Venice, Verona and Varenna on Lake Como, with maybe a day trip to Vicenza, would be a terrific trip. All are easily accessible by train, with a number of nearby day trips which can be made by train or by boat, in the cases of Varenna and Venice.
Posted by
San Francisco Bay Area (USA)
16238 posts
The Tre Venezie regions offer more than enough to keep you busy for a over month, let alone a week. I wouldn't bother with getting out of my way to go to lake Como. If you want a lake that is just as beautiful you have lake. Garda right there, just minutes from Verona. In your place, with 6 nights I would spend 3 nights in Venice and 3 in Verona which you could use as a base to visit lake Garda one day. With more nights, for example 9 nights, I would spend only a couple in Verona, then I would rent a car and visit both Lake Garda and the Dolomites by car. You can visit those by bus too, but the Dolomites are more efficiently done by car because you can cover more road with a car. If you return from VCE, you might need to spend the night in or near Venice.
Posted by
Baltimore, MD
9 posts
If you stay in Venice, you will probably spend most of your time in Venice. I can't imagine being bored there. I would avoid staying in San Marco, and get into one of the other sestiere. Getting in and out of Venice is a little more convoluted than other places though, since you have to get off a train and then get on a boat to get wherever you are going.
If you really want to see the whole area, Verona is the best for a central headquarters. You can train into Venice in about an hour. Verona is pretty vibrant, and not small. (Not too big either.) There's plenty to do in that area.
I would plan to stay somewhere in the Centro, which is a long walk or short cab to the train station, and use the train to get around. You could always rent a car or scooter for a day if you needed the flexibility. Or you can sign on for a tour of, say, the Palladian Villas or wineries in the Veneto and let someone else do the driving.
Enjoy your trip!
Posted by
Seattle, WA, USA
7737 posts
What Roberto said. Verona is really wonderful - one of our favorite places in Italy. We stayed there for three nights in 2011 then five nights in 2013. Here are some photos of it from those trips, if you're interested: http://flic.kr/s/aHsjLc5EFA
I can highly recommend Residenza Carducci in the Veronetta n'hood of Verona, just across a bridge from the historic center. That's where we stayed both times. The breakfasts were the best we've ever had in Italy.