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Italy’s Hotel Davanzati and Hotel Posta Veglia

Accommodations Worldwide, February 2008 issue
My wife, Connie, and I visited ITALY and SWITZERLAND in late September and early October ’07 and would like to share recommendations of three hotels. • Hotel Davanzati (Via Porta Rossa 5, 50123 Florence, Italy; phone +39 055 286666, fax 055 2658252, www.hoteldavanzati.it) was a Rick Steves recommendation and, as before with tips we have used ...

Report Cards

Report Cards, January 2008 issue
From VIENNA, Austria, Oct. 28 • For EuroHotel Vienna Airport (1 Marco-Polo-Strasse, Fischamend, Austria), our reservations were made through Call Box Customer Contact Solutions (Encino, CA; 888/810-7464) on behalf of Allresnet.com (Phoenix, AZ; 800/892-2108). Since the hotel at the Vienna Airport was expensive and did not have consistently good reviews, I found this off-site location, which is ...

Umbria, unlocked and overlooked, offers backroads surprises

Features, November 2007 issue
by Arlene Wills, Lynnfield, MA Of the 20 regions of Italy, Umbria, which lies very near the center of the peninsula, is the only region without a sea coast. Relatively small in area (only about 1,500 square miles) and with less than one million inhabitants, it’s often overlooked by travelers in favor of Tuscany, its better-known ...

Boarding Pass

Boarding Pass, November 2007 issue
Boarding Pass
Dear Globetrotter: Welcome to the 381st issue of your monthly overseas travel magazine. This September, the Arctic’s Northwest Passage — between the Pacific and the Atlantic — was “fully navigable,” with sea ice melting to its lowest level since satellite measurements began 30 years ago, according to the European Space Agency. Many shippers would find the route cheaper ...

Why don’t we have that here?

Travelers' Intercom, September 2007 issue
An ITN reader suggested subscribers write in about great inventions, systems, time savers or conveniences that they have seen overseas. A number of responses were printed in the April ’07 issue. Here are a few more. If you run across a great idea, write to “Why Don’t We Have That Here?,” c/o ITN, 2120 28th ...

Italy with GCT

Travelers' Intercom, September 2007 issue
A coincidence — as the July 2007 edition of ITN arrived, I was completing a survey of comments on Grand Circle Travel’s (Boston, MA; 800/248-3737, www.gct.com) “Heart of Italy” trip, which we took May 20-July 7, 2007. I was, therefore, interested to read the reader’s letter “Add in Tour’s Extra Costs” (page 28) about virtually ...

Taking the grandkids

Travelers' Intercom, August 2007 issue
In May ’07 my husband and I took our granddaughter Laura to Rome, Orvieto and Florence. Incidentally, some guidebooks recommend getting tickets to the Colosseum at some other location to gain entry faster. This no longer helps, as the entry process involves a long security line and ticket holders are given no advantage. Once we got ...

Add in tour’s extra costs

Travelers' Intercom, July 2007 issue
Our latest venture with Grand Circle Travel, a 2-week Extended Vacation in Italy in September ’06, provided the high-quality foreign experience we have come to expect from that company. It was an interesting but leisurely itinerary through beautiful Tuscany and Umbria, with a superb guide, excellent (if not great) accommodations and meals, and arrangements along ...

Orvieto — fine wine blends with medieval splendor

Features, July 2007 issue
Orvieto — fine wine blends with medieval splendor
M. Lewis Stein, Irvine, CA Surveying the drab station and its equally unimpressive surroundings as we alighted from the train at Orvieto, my wife, Barbara, queried, “So, where is the picturesque village you promised me?” “Not yet,” I replied as I led her a few steps to the funicular that was to haul us to the central ...

Italy with Odysseys Unlimited

Tours in Review, May 2007 issue
Italy with Odysseys Unlimited
Having made several trips to Italy, I was looking for something new. I discovered the tour “Northern Italy” from Odysseys Unlimited (85 Main St., Ste. 101, Watertown, MA 02473; 888/370-6765, www.odysseys-unlimited.com). From Miami, my 14-day trip, May 24-June 6, 2006, cost $3,695 plus a single supplement of $595. On most tours I have taken, I usually ...