Expense for Dean's Trip Below - Venice, Lake Como, CT, Spello and Rom

How did you like the Trtl neck supports? Were you able to get any sleep using them?

Thanks for sharing. Are your travel expenses (flights, trains, etc., for two?)

you did well!!
for the past 8-10 years or so, we have tracked our travel expenses in great detail, mostly to enable us to plan our future travel budgets more accurately, especially once we were both fully retired. we then calculate our daily rate (I actually do it two ways: the 1st way using the total number of elapsed days away, including the travel days to and from our destination, and the 2nd calculation is dividing the total cost by the number of nights we actually paid for lodging).
I may or may not be guilty of using this as a rationale to book longer vacations, since for many of our trips airfare is a major source of expense -- now that we lean more toward booking premium economy/comfort plus tickets -- so staying away longer helps to bring the daily cost down :~).

@ Laurie, we had a flight from RDU to London at night and I was determined to sleep. Well, that didn't happen even though I had an eye mask, ear plugs and my Trtl Support. I twisted that thing around a million times, trying it every way without success. My husband bought the deluxe one and he had no luck either. We bought put them in our backpack and didn't use them again so I would not recommend them.

@ Lindy, the costs are for 2.

@ milgreen2, I love your way of working the numbers to get to stay longer! LOL I'll have to keep that in mind!

Thank you so much for posting this information. We're (well, I am) at the beginning stages of planning our first trip to Italy. It's a bit overwhelming, but your post gave me a huge amount of information on what to expect as far as costs. I just found this forum today and know I'm going to read every post that mentions Italy. Again, thank you!