13 Things To KNOW Before Coming To Italy 🇮🇹 2024 | Italy Travel Tips For First Timers
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- After a few years now living in Italy, we want to share a few tips and stories that we have to help you on your travel to Italy. These are just a few things to know before visiting that way you can have the best vacation and not be caught of guard. Keep in in that this is not even close to everything that Italy is. Your experience might be different than what we have had so far.
Italy has so much more to offer than what you see online. We want to share the smaller cities and town, the attractions that only locals go to.
When visiting Italy, don't overthink it, people here are very kind and are always willing to help.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:34 ITALIAN LANGUAGE
02:19 RIPOSO & OPENING HOURS
03:39 SCAMS & TOURIST TRAPS
07:16 PACKING
10:35 TIPPING & CHARGES
15:26 WHAT WHAT TO WEAR IN ITALY
18:36 GETTING AROUND ITALY
21:22 AIR CONDITIONING
22:55 COFFEE CULTURE IN ITALY
25:26 CASH & CARD
27:00 EATING OUT IN ITALY
31:04 SEASONAL CLOSURES ITALY
33:29 TICKETS IN ITALY
36:50 CLOSING THOUGHTS
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13 Things To KNOW Before Coming To Italy 🇮🇹 | Italy Travel Tips
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What tips would you add? For someone visiting Italy for the first time?
Most important, have a good time when traveling and visiting here ❤
I’ll be looking for that regional food and wine speciality before October!! 😊
@@sheilahamilton1747which regions are you heading to?
Great video, love how relaxed and unscripted it is and so on point! Small suggestion: you may want to switch your ring light on when recording? A few things I would add to your next video: 1) Savoury breakfasts like eggs & bacon are not a big thing in Italy and mostly only available at non-Italian chain restaurants. 2) On the issue of wi-fi: although most hotels and AirBnBs have it, it's not widely available in public spaces, especially in smaller villages. Renting or even buying a pocket wi-fi is a good investment. A local e-sim card is also an option, but that means swapping your own sim card out if your phone does not have the option of dual sim cards. 3) At restaurants, consider the house wine (vino della casa - rosso or bianca) vs branded bottled wines. A whole lot cheaper and perfectly drinkable if you just want a glass of local wine with your meal. 4) In Venice, do a Google search for the cocktail bars where mostly locals hang out and where snacks are served with the aperitifs. Bite-sized nibbles, called cicchetti, that are cheap (sometimes even complimentary) and delicious and great with your Aperol Spritz. Rome also features a number of these cocktail bars, but you have to do some research because tourists simply don't know about them. 5) Finally, something that should be fairly obvious: before arriving at your destination, check if there are any local festivals happening. I can't tell you how many times we've stumbled upon a fabulous local event that we didn't have tickets for. Hope this helps!
Coperto is an indication of how old can be our heritage: it's coming at least from early XVII-XVIII hundred when poor people (i.e. workers, countrymen, etc.) had permission to stay inside a hosteria to eat his own stuff payng a little (of course less than a lunch).
Pane e Coperto could be translated exactly with Bread and Covered
Regarding validation of tickets, the issue stems from the way train tickets work in Italy (and in many european countries). The basic fare you pay, gives you permission to ride a train from A to B, on a specific railway class, but with no link to any specific train, date or time of travel. Basically, you can go from A to B any time you want, (technically) once. This way of ticketing accounts for situations like needing to from A to B while getting off at multiple stations and re-boarding, which is a scenario that used to be a lot more common in the past. The problem with this way of ticketing is that in the past people would get on the train, evade the ticket officer (or sometimes, a ticket officer could just not check their ticket in a timely fashion) and get off the train at their destination with a fully valid ticket in their pocket which they could then use again since it was not marked by a ticket officer. Because of this, they introduced Ticket Validation, that is you need to stamp your ticket the day you board the train, so that even if a ticket officer does not come and check your ticket, it's now void for further runs and cannot be recycled. Because of the reasons behind Ticket Validation, it does not apply to any ticket that is explicitly linked to a time and date. For example, if you book a Frecciarossa ticket with a reserved seat, that ticket is bound to a specific train on a specific date and time and it does not need any validation at the railway station.
The reason why the ticket must be validated before leaving is that you can buy tickets without any marking and that they can be used at any time, especially on regional trains. To prevent anyone from reusing the tickets and to speed up checks by the controller, the user is expected to stamp the ticket before leaving.
loved this vlog❤ great info thank you so much
TRAIN TICKETS:
Tickets get validated so that you have to buy one for every trip....not just one...that you show every time.
Tickets were often 'punched' by a conductor to show validation that the trip was taken...spent...used.
Hence the old adage 'Getting your ticket punched.'
Most tickets have date of issue now, but.........tradition.
Also it used to be in England that if you missed your train, or for any reason really, you could return the ticket for your fare back.
Cheers⭐
Visiting Italy (Rome/Florence/Venice/Milan) in early March 2025 - thanks for these tips!!
Don’t forget, Venice had tourist tax some days now. You can see the schedule of this on the Venice city page. You pay online 5€ and you’ll get a code. If you spend the night there you don’t need to pay.
Also Rome has lots of really free water stations, the mineral water there is very refreshing.
@@vernonandmaryana Thank you! Staying for 2 nights so hopefully all good.
Really great info, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you! I've watched many Italy tip videos and this one is one of the most comprehensive. Highly recommend!
Thank you so much!
The validation of train ticket at train station before start is another old heritage. In the past you bought the ticket from a city to another without other restriction (as no's of intermediate trains,u.s.o) so you had to demonstrate the date you left the first city beginning the trip.
I think it was the same in Germany too: Karl Marx wrote "if to make the revolution the German workers have to occupy a trainstation, they would all buy the ticket!"
Fantastic vdeo, subscribed. We're going to Venice, Rome & Sorrento in September. Do you recommend any good restaurants on the south half of Venice, Rome or Sorrento? Thanks!
I’ll make a list and post it here. So many! Google maps is always pretty good here also for reviews. I would not eat it anything below four stars. Also, you can make reservations a lot of times through Google Maps. Also, don’t forget Venice has started the tourist tax. Check to make sure the dates you’re going are not affected. If you’re spending the night there, you don’t have to pay, but I still believe you do need to register.
bars and restaurants do not close at lunch time anywhere in Italy unless it is their day of closure.
Some of the places won’t have their kitchen open and close early. What I also mean lunch, is after 2:30. A lot of people eat around 15:00, when most places will be closed.
I also don't like this thing of having to stamp the train tickets, but it seems that since some tickets are valid for a few days if you make the trip snd don't stamp it you can use it for another!!
But you buy a ticket on line especially jn speed train this thing don't need !!
Thank you for this very good and informative video with a lot of topics. Very useful. Subscribed 😊
Awesome, thank you! More travel adventures to come! We upload every Friday 😄
@@vernonandmaryana That is great. I'll watch 🙂
i won’t forget the rose scam when we were in athens and then lady really pushed it because she’s pregnant. my dad and my husband said it’s okay just think we helped her 😩
I’ve seen those also, they also use kids, very sad how the take advantage of people.
You need to validate the ticket because especially on short trips it may not be checked by the ticket inspector and if the ticket is left blank it may be reused another time. Simple explanation
I'm coming from America. How much cash (Euro) money should one at least bring for a 10 day trip? Any advice on luggage storage at train stations?
Most places here now take card but I’d commend possibly having 400-500 in euro in cash. In case you want to go to some markets, souvenirs, street food and some bars (don’t take card). For luggage storage, most hotels have a hold for bags. Always check reviews on google. There’s a website that we used before stowyourbags that you can book lockers online.
Good information!!
Thank you!
Dear friend, because you are an honest person, you don't get there. Some "smart ones" used the same ticket several times (evading controls). For this reason in Italy we must validate the ticket
Possible reason for validation of train tickets: preventing them from being used again?
We're going to Italy in October. After staying in Cinque Terre, I was planning on renting a car from La Spezia to drive through Tuscany on our way to Rome. I don't mind driving through most cities, but I don't want to drive anywhere between Termini and the Vatican. What would you recommend to avoid tourist traffic? Is there a drop-off point outside of Rome, or on the northern end of Rome? What would you recommend?
Usually we look for parking garage in the area we want to be. That way you can avoid the craziness. There’s plenty underground garages you can park for a few days. Be careful driving in certain areas, there have locals only places, fines are high there. On google you can also see the buses and their routes with times, they’re pretty efficient here.
@vernonandmaryana yeah, I'm thinking we'll just return the rental after we're done driving through Tuscany and take a bus from there. No need to keep paying for a rental when we'll be walking most of the time anyway. :)
@@deanhatescoffeeTuscany is our favorite to drive around in. Stopping by vineyards and getting locals wines, tastings and local foods (so much cheaper than in cities) also you can stay at a lot of them. Look up agriturismo in Tuscany, they have food, pools and experiences.
Thanks for sharing. Although I have been to Italy 3 times, the info is still useful 👍👍.
I'm not a wine drinker...Do they sell liqour at the restaurants and also.. are there any liqour stores in Rome?? thank you ..liked your informal video
They have a full bar in most places. They have a lot of alcohol stores, no worries.
If you don’t validate it means you didn’t use it and can use another day. In other words, you rode for free
Well... Italy isn't all that devoted to Catholic holidays. For example, it does NOT celebrate some anniversaries (such as Ascension, Pentecost, Corpus Domini, all in May) that the Catholic areas of HARD-WORKING Germany celebrate....
What I don't like the most about Italy: they have a fetish for really strict laws and high fines.
When any minor problem in the society appears, they always try to solve it with a strict law ... which in the end is mostly ignored anyway. As a person who is used to respecting the law, you get annoyed by what ridiculously minor things they regulate and later you find out, that you are the only one really respecting this law. But if you don't know the hidden social rules, you might be the only one getting the high fine, when you start to ignore the law just like the locals do.
This is true, the amount of little rules we learn about all the time. Do you think it’s just because of Italy or also because of the European Union?
@@vernonandmaryana that's an Italian thing. I think it might be inherited from Italy's fascist past, the idea to solve problems by a haphazardly made strict law and not by slowly convincing and educating people.
@@ekesandras1481sounds like fascist America these days