Tips for our Italy honeymoon in April? Here's our current outline!

Sounds like a fun trip! Not sure if you had specific questions you wanted to ask (looks like a sentence was cut off). Enjoy yourselves for sure, and read up on etiquette/basic Italian phrases if you don't already know them.

From my experience, I only spent one day in Florence and about 5 days in Rome and it was enough. I definitely want to go back, but I don't regret the time allocation! The train rides go pretty quick in Italy, although I can't speak for the ferry.

Awesome! We did Italy for our honeymoon in March of this year...started with 4 nights in Rome. Does the company you're booking with include tours/activities? We did everything on our own...found and booked through TripAdvisor. First night we did a walking food tour from the Campo de Fiori, which I highly recommend...helped get our bearings of the area around our hotel, and get some more ideas of food we wanted to try. Next day we did a Vatican tour, and day after we did Colosseum/Forum tour. Last day we just wandered on our own.

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Oh gosh it did cut off! I can't even edit the post, so I'll comment with the questions below! THanks!

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The questions:

Does it make more sense to go from Rome to the Amalfi Coast, then to Florence - or go from Rome to Florence, then down to the coast.

We have 7 nights to share between Florence and the Amalfi Coast - how many would you give for each? We were leaning towards 2 in Florence and 5 on the coast, but would love some recommendations and advice.

Should we do Venice instead of Florence? Venice just seems SO far North, and I've heard from multiple people that they wouldn't spend more than a night there because it's so expensive. I would love to see Venice but I think it's just too far - perhaps a day trip to Venice while staying in Rome would be good?

And lastly! On the coast, which city should we stay in - as of now we're considering Positano and Sorrento. We've been leaning towards Positano, but I know Sorrento is easier to get to from the train.

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The company only includes transfer to the hotel/airport and breakfast thsoe four days in the Rome Hotel, so we'll be doing our own tours and such! We are BIG foodies, that's my main drive for visiting Italy tbh lol, so I will definitely look into that! You didn't feel the food stops on the tour were too touristy, did you? ANd was it reasonably priced?

Where else did you travel in Italy after your four days in Rome?

For some reason the questions didn't post! Here they are

Does it make more sense to go from Rome to the Amalfi Coast, then to Florence - or go from Rome to Florence, then down to the coast.

We have 7 nights to share between Florence and the Amalfi Coast - how many would you give for each? We were leaning towards 2 in Florence and 5 on the coast, but would love some recommendations and advice.Should we do Venice instead of Florence? Venice just seems SO far North and it's so expensive. I would love to see Venice but I think it's just too far - perhaps a day trip to Venice while staying in Rome would be good? But I worry Florence isn't romantic enough compared to Venice.

And lastly! On the coast, which city should we stay in - as of now we're considering Positano and Sorrento. We've been leaning towards Positano, but I know Sorrento is easier to get to from the train.

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No, not too touristy at all...here's the link...we had 5 food stops, so for the cost it was dinner too, plenty of food - https://www.tripadvisor.com/AttractionProductReview-g187791-d11452224-Small_Group_Rome_Food_Walking_Tour_Trastevere_Campo_de_Fiori_Jewish_Ghetto-Rome_La.html

After Rome, we did 4 nights in Parma, and 4 nights in Venice. Parma was also all about the food...we did a half day food tour to a cheese factory, ham (prosciutto) factory and balsamic vinegar place. Then another day there we did a pasta making class. If we could have worked out the tour schedule, we probably could have done at least one less night there.

I see your other questions now...I'd been dying to go to Venice for years, and actually cried as we pulled into the train station. I've been to Florence twice, and don't love it (I know tons of people who do, so take my opinion with a grain of salt) so we skipped it this trip. If you're definitely doing Amalfi, Venice is very far north...it would be maybe 4 hours on the train each way from Rome? Not a day trip kind of thing...and there's more than plenty to see in Rome.

Other random thought...if the company can give you options about where you fly out of, see if Naples is a possibility. Its so much closer to Amalfi...you could do Rome, Florence, Amalfi, home. Florence is a little north, so opposite where you'd be headed for Amalfi, but if you can fly home out of Naples, you wouldn't have to backtrack a second time.

Wonderful!!! We did Italy for our honeymoon as well! What kind of trip do you two want? Florence really is lovely and because it’s a larger city it’s much easier to find foodie advice on where to eat than in the Amalfi Coast. The coast can be very relaxing because it’s made of kind of small, cliff side towns. Positano is a great place to stay because it’s a hub city with a lot of connecting ferry routes and there’s a lot to do just in Positano if you end up not wanting to or able to leave (for example, if the waters are too choppy the ferries may stop running, so you can take the bus but it’ll be very crowded and slow). I’ve heard good things about Sorrento, but I think you’ll be spending an hour or more each way getting from Sorrento to a different Amalfi Coast town, right?
For tours in Rome and Florence, look up Walks of Italy and Through Eternity tour groups. There are loads of excellent places to eat in both cities. In Positano if you want to splurge on a super romantic evening, look into a meal at La Sponda within Le Sirenuse hotel.

Haven't honeymooned there, but I've spend almost two months collectively in a town near Rome, so I have a few things to add!

It depends what you want to do exactly, but if you want to hit the highlights of Rome, I'd recommend doing a hop-on/hop-off bus tour. I'd recommend CitySightseeing - I used them three times in Rome and once in Paris and have always been happy with them.

If you want a day-trip to a small less touristy town, I HIGHLY recommend Orvieto. It's been my home base both times I went to Italy, and it's truly my favorite place. It's in between Rome and Florence and the train stops there, so it's super easy to get to, and it's just incredibly scenic and feels authentically Italian. Le Grotte Del Funaro is a great underground restaurant there, and you can visit Pozzo De San Patrizio and climb down stairs all the way to the bottom of a well for some really cool views.

In Florence, definitely make sure you see the Duomo and climb the tower if you want some great views (most clock/church towers you see you can probably climb up for a small ticket price). There's also a cool marketplace near the middle of the city that's pretty huge if you want to pick up souvenirs for folks back home.

Make sure to get some gelato, and at least one "café" if you're a coffee/espresso drinker, be willing to go a little further away from big attractions to look for restaurants, and most importantly, have fun! I'm super jealous haha

What travel company are you going with? We’ve been looking at perillo

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We went with great Value vacation. It doesn't really plan our time there, just gets us to and from and four nights in rome.

My husband and I did our honeymoon in Italy and we had the time of our lives. We did Rome, Amalfi Coast and Caserta Italy. My husband has family in Caserta. Lot's to see in Italy! We were spur of the moment and kinda winged everything which was awesome!