Update: This popular deal is still available.
Groupon is offering
6-Night Italy Vacation for 2-People (Venice, Florence & Rome)
from New York City (JFK), Los Angeles (LAX) or Chicago (ORD) on sale
from $999 per Person. Offer is valid for purchases made by January 24, 2024.
Thanks Deal Hunter
serra for sharing this deal
Offer Notes:
- Choose your package from the drop-down menu.
- Prices vary by City and Departure Date
- Once you've purchased this Groupon, you'll receive an email confirmation with instructions to finalize your travel dates with Great Value Vacations by January 26, 2024.
- Each person must buy a voucher; price is based on two people traveling together and sharing a room. Additional fee to travel solo.
Know Before You Go:
- A passport is required for all travel outside the U.S.
- Passports must be valid for at least six months after the date of travel, and contain at least two blank visa pages.
- Before international travel, always check the State Department's website for important info on the destination and its entry/exit requirements.
- Varied COVID-19 levels and restrictions should be taken into consideration before international travel. Please find more info by visiting the U.S. Embassy's site here.
What you Get:
- Flights & Transportation
- Round-trip Economy Class Airfare into Venice (VCE), and out of Rome (FCO) from:
- New York (JFK)
- Los Angeles (LAX)
- Chicago (ORD)
- Rail from Mestre to Florence (tourist class)
- Rail from Florence to Rome (tourist class)
- Airline & flight times are determined at the time of booking.
- Hotels (6 nights + 1 overnight flight)
- 2 nights of accommodations at Leonardo Royal Hotel Venice Mestre or similar in Venice.
- 2 nights of accommodations at PopApartment (studio apartment) or similar in Florence.
- 2 nights of accommodations at Hotel Pineta Palace or similar in Rome.
About Your Vacation:
- On this vacation from Great Value Vacations, you'll explore three of Italy's most popular cities on your own.
- First, you'll experience Venice, the city on water.
- Grand Canal: Ride a gondola through Venice to see landmarks such as the Rialto Bridge and St. Mark's Square.
- Your second stop will be Florence, considered the birthplace of the Renaissance
- Tuscan wine country: Florence's wine is an art form; stop at a local winery to sip an aromatic chianti, the area's signature vino.
- Your final stop will be Rome, home to ancient ruins and the Colosseum.
- Walk through the Colosseum and the Roman Forum, the heart of ancient Rome.
Leave a Comment
Top Comments
JFK assuming 1stop, flight ~500/p with TAP/turkish and other similar players or ~800/p with British airways/lufthansa/etc. tier airlines
2 nights of accommodations at Leonardo Royal Hotel Venice Mestre or similar in Venice ~95/nt
2 nights of accommodations at PopApartment (studio apartment) or similar in Florence ~91/nt
2 nights of accommodations at Hotel Pineta Palace or similar in Rome ~130/nt
Rail from Mestre to Florence (tourist class), Rail from Florence to Rome (tourist class) - no idea what tourist class is but looks to be about $25/ea for business class. So $100 for this
So rough calculation of 1750-2350 for $1998, Maybe a deal if they use the bigger airlines, but if you're doing this anyway, seems easy enough to book your own and save
114 Comments
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
Venice? Sure. Florence? Yep. Rome? No way.
I'm not sure if this travel agency will work with you, but I've booked travel with an agency that had a groupon where they'll let you change the return flight dates out further, providing you cover your own accommodations for the extra nights... and pay any additional fee if the flight is deemed to be more valuable. In the past, it's worked out where the return flight we ended up taking was CHEAPER than what they had proposed, making the package even cheaper. So we were on the hook for slightly less than the value of the deal plus the hotel stays. This gave us a lot more flexibility in where we could go.
In the five times we've traveled there, we've been to:
Rome (all five times)
Venice (twice)
Naples (three times)
Capri (twice)
Pompeii (twice)
Positano (once)
Verona (once)
Murano (once)
Amalfi (once)
Florence (once)
I was last in Rome around Valentine's Day of 2020. The city had gotten notably dirtier (to me, anyway) from when I was there just a few years prior.
Positano and Capri are a must-visit. Unfortunately, the ferry lines between Capri and Positano were not running (non-peak season / cold weather?) when we were last there.
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
Venice? Sure. Florence? Yep. Rome? No way.
I'm not sure if this travel agency will work with you, but I've booked travel with an agency that had a groupon where they'll let you change the return flight dates out further, providing you cover your own accommodations for the extra nights... and pay any additional fee if the flight is deemed to be more valuable. In the past, it's worked out where the return flight we ended up taking was CHEAPER than what they had proposed, making the package even cheaper. So we were on the hook for slightly less than the value of the deal plus the hotel stays. This gave us a lot more flexibility in where we could go.
In the five times we've traveled there, we've been to:
Rome (all five times)
Venice (twice)
Naples (three times)
Capri (twice)
Pompeii (twice)
Positano (once)
Verona (once)
Murano (once)
Amalfi (once)
Florence (once)
I was last in Rome around Valentine's Day of 2020. The city had gotten notably dirtier (to me, anyway) from when I was there just a few years prior.
Positano and Capri are a must-visit. Unfortunately, the ferry lines between Capri and Positano were not running (non-peak season / cold weather?) when we were last there.
5 trips to Rome? Wow... why? Go to Switzerland. Much nicer and prettier!
i.e. if you want to see the Vatican museum, but you really only want to see some of the most known works: plan ahead and take straight shots to see those. Want to see the Spanish Steps? cool,but do you really need to walk up and down or sit down for a while or is all your interested in just being able to say you've seen them? cool. treat them as nice set of stairs and move on. Or another example outside of Italy- if you're in Paris for instance don't go up the Eiffel tower unless you really really feel like you need to. Or don't go past the first level. Another huge time drain to take away from everything else.
Also: if you're going to be out and about: don't go for a fancy hotel or any hotel that is further away from the landmarks if you can find a decent bed that is in a much more central location. I agree with a poster on the previous page: this will not allow you the option to be more aggressive on time.
Rome wasn't built in a day. Nor should anyone expect a quality experience in just one day.
Speeding thru a place would be much better accomplished in Japan. Precision and efficiency are part of life. Italy isn't like that. Rome is much more than a series of attractions and is nothing like Disney. If you think the food is crap, then you obviously have not spent any energy finding food.
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
Leave a Comment