Suggestions for Italy Itinerary (Rome, Florence, Amalfi)

To begin, you should calculate your time by counting nights, which gives you a better idea of how much time you have for sightseeing.

Your arrival and departure days are throwaway days. Your arrival day in Rome will be spent in a zombie-like state, and you'll be lucky to stay awake until dinner. Because of that, you have only one day for sightseeing in Rome. Assuming you depart on day 3 for Sicily, half of your day will be spent in transit.

On the day you fly back to Rome, you will have another half day in Rome before departing on day 8 for Naples. Again, half of your day will be taken up traveling to Sorrento, checking in and out of hotels. You will have a full day in Sorrento/Positano, but traveling is a bitch along the Amalfi Coast, so be aware that your day will be anything but calm. Likewise, your trip to Capri from Sorrento on day 10 will be mostly travel, and then you will have to schlepp your bags to Capri and then to Naples for a stay overnight. Day 11 is travel, and you get to spend one whole day in Florence without changing hotels.

It is very dangerous to get up in Florence and then count on making the trip from there to Fiumicino airport for a noon departure. You should be planning on BEING at the airport at least 3 hours prior to your flight, so most of us would definitely stay in Rome the night before a trans Atlantic flight. A railroad strike or train accident (I've been in one of each) would result in you buying a very expensive one way ticket home after you miss your flight.

My question in reviewing your itinerary is, "When did you plan on having any vacation time?" You will be constantly on the go for two weeks without any meaningful respite. Italy will be a blur, although you will have plenty of memories about being in motion and changing hotel rooms. Consider slowing down and staying in fewer places. I'd cut out Southern Italy and, since you have to be in Sicily for the wedding, spend more time in Rome at the end with a couple of night jaunt into Florence and Tuscany.

Day 11 is traveling again

Most people on this forum will say you are trying to see too much, and that you will spend most of your time traveling, instead of enjoying the sights you do visit.

Some options would be to focus on a smaller number of locations, such as:
Rome--Sicily--Florence/Tuscany--back to Rome for a a day or two and your last night before flying
Rome, Sicily, Amalfi Coast, back to Rome for 2 days before flying home. Capri is more than half a day, if you want to walk around, eat lunch, and walk around some more).
Rome and Sicily only (Sicily is the one destination I haven't visited, but others have enjoyed a week or more there). Since Sicily is a given, you could easily split your trip between there and Rome with no other sites. Rome is easily worth 4+ days even if you don't want to spend a lot of time on art.

With a noon flight out of Rome, I would stay in Rome the night before returning home.

Edited to add that I agree with previous response--I'd choose to cut the Amalfi Coast this time.

If you are able to narrow down your locations, you can ask for more help plan your timing at each location.

Is your flight R/T Rome? Have you already purchased it? If you haven't, a better path would be to fly into Rome, then fly immediately to Sicily. 3 nights

Sicily- Naples. 3 nights

Naples-Florence 3nights

Florence- Rome 3 nights keeping all of Rome at the end.

This would eleminate backtracking.

Gerri's suggestion is another good option, if available to you.

Why not go from Sicily to Naples and do that part of your trip before heading to Florence and then do Rome at the end?

Departing Florence in the AM for a noon flight out of Rome will end VERY BADLY. You need to be in Rome the night before, or be prepared to buy a new set of tickets for home.

On the whole, you are trying to go to too many places in the time you have Trying to accommodate your 'wish list', you cannot waste time going from Sicily to Rome to Naples and then to Florence--- Sicily-Naples-Florence-Rome, is the order to do that ambitious plan

If you still have the flexibility with your flights go directly to Sicily and do all your Rome days at the end.

Wow, seems a lot of moving and going back and forth for 2 weeks! You are not allowing enough time to explore the areas. I think I would either spend time in 2-3 nights Rome (first day getting over jet lag) then Sicily. Or better yet, go directly to Sicily and fly out of Rome on your way back. Are you going just for wedding? I haven't been there so others can give you advice on what else you can do while there. Then to the Amalfi coast since your already south. You could easily spend a week plus getting around seeing, Naples, Sorrento (Pompeii is close by if interested), Capri and then the Amalfi coast. Whether you ferry or travel the Amalfi Coast road, ii is popular and crowded I wouldn't do Positano as a day trip from Sorrento. Once you get there it is also very popular and crowded. Especially in July. Half a day in any of these places is not enough in my opinion.
Alternatively after your wedding you can go north to Florence and spend a week or so seeing and staying in a variety of Tuscan towns and tours. If you want the coastal town experience, Cinque terre is near by and worth 2-3 nights. Then back train to Rome for a 2-3 nights before flying out. Otherwise I'm afraid you will be doing more time traveling than actually being there.

Hope this helps...

I would definitely say there’s too much. If you’re not interested in art at all, then you could realistically cut Florence. You should give Rome a solid three full days of sightseeing (4nights). Otherwise, my usual advice here would be to either cut or expand your time in the Naples/Amalfi coast area. There is tons of things to do there, and travel in the area is not easy. A couple days just doesn’t cut it.

Have you considered focusing on Sicily itself? I’m going this spring, and I can tell you there’s two weeks worth of sightseeing just in Sicily. Given the extra effort you are spending to go there for the wedding, why not take advantage of that? Right now you’re just filling your itinerary with additional travel time.

It would be a much more relaxing trip if you do as awrzesinsi stated, drop Florence and add those nights to Sicily, Naples, and Rome.