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Vacation packages to Italy
Vacation packages are a simple concept for powerful savings: you buy your airfare and lodging (or plane tickets and rental car), together at a price much lower than you could get either separately
First things first: a vacation package is not an escorted tour, where they shuttle you around Europe in a hermetically sealed bus bubble of Americanism.
With a packaged vacation, your trip is entirely your own—you just don't have to book everything (airfare, hotels, maybe rental car or sightseeing) independently. You get some combination of those big-ticket items all at once and for less (ideally) than you'd pay if you tried to book them separately.
That is because a single company is reserving the air and hotel (or the air and rental car, or the hotel and local tours and sightseeing) on your behalf as a bundled "package." Packagers leverage their buying power to secure airfares, room rates, rental car prices, and local tours at a discount, then pass some of those savings along to you (they keep some, of course; that's their profit).
Although, in industry-speak, whenever any two travel items are booked together it is technically a "vacation package," in practice a true packaged vacation is when you get at least two of the big ticket, high-priced, major parts of your trip all at once—usually transportation (air and/or rental car or railpass) and lodging, or lodging and sightseeing.
There are three major kinds of these packages, each described in full on its own page:
- Air-hotel packages
- Air-car packages
- Hotel-sightseeing packages (often with transport)
- Supported independent (hotel or hotel-car package with local contact/concierge to provide advice and arrangements)
Related pages
- Air-hotel packages
- Air-car packages
- Supported independent (hotel/villa, sometimes car/train, local contact)
- Airfares to Italy (so you can get a baseline comparison price)
- Lodgings in in Italy (so you can compare package prices to doing it a la carte)
- Renting a car in Italy (same as above)
- Escorted group tours
- Active vacations (bike, hike, horse)
- Educational tours (cooking, language, art/history/cultural, study)
- Special interest & niche tours (family, seniors, student, women, gay/lesbian, religious, handicapped, singles)
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This material was last updated February 2011. All information was accurate at the time.
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