Hello Italy!: Best Budget Hotels in Italy, 16 Italian Cities

by Margo Classe

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 096539445X
• ISBN13: 9780965394451
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Wilson Publishing (CA)
• Length: 351 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Charming Guide to Italy

Margo loves to travel and write about her experiences. In this guide she gives useful Italian Phrases for Hotel Reservations, tells you where to find bookstores and explores centrally located hotels in 16 Italian cities. Travelers all over the world trust the Hello guides and the first part of this book is filled with wonderful letters from people who also read books by Rick Steves and Fodor. They love how Margo personalizes the experience by giving tips on where to shop for groceries, where to find Internet cafes and even where to do your laundry. She explains why less is more when thinking about luggage and I was smiling as I read about her adventures with suitcases on cobbled streets and running through the rain. If you want to take a trip without relying on travel agents or want to make your trip more affordable, then Margo's books have a lot to offer. Even travel agents rely on her books! This is her tenth book in the series and she wrote her book about Italy while traveling with her husband. So romantic! You can select hotels bases on the number of people or fun things like "fabulous sea view." The chapter on Florence is very entertaining. You can choose from walking tours to day trips and the list of bookstores also has the times they are open. There are amusing details about restaurants and Margo explains where to find the best sandwiches, although the owner is a little brusque. The list of "unusual things to pack" make your trip so much more comfortable and enjoyable. The unique thing about these books is that Margo and her husband pay for all their expenses, so you get the real and honest approach and none of the hotels or restaurants have paid to be included in this book. The pictures throughout the book make this a charming guide with a wonderful personal approach and a sense of adventure. ~The Rebecca Review

Very Helpful

This book was very useful while planning the hotels for our trip to Italy. I recommend at least looking through the options and comparing prices on the internet.

Margo Classe books ---always a great help.

Have used almost all of Margo Classe travel books through out the last 5 years and love them. Not only do they have great information about budget hotels but Margo has included wonderful, very useful informtion on what pack for the trip and needed tools for finding the hotels.

Showcases centrally located hotels of superior charm

Now in an updated and expanded fourth edition, Hello Italy! The Best Budget Hotels In Italy by Margo Classe showcases centrally located hotels of superior charm and elegance in sixteen Italian cities. Here is a reference to the best budget minded accommodations to be found in Rome, Venice, Florence, the Amalfi Coast, Cinque Terre, Santa Margherita, Siena, Lucca, Cortona, and elsewhere throughout the Italian peninsula. a highly portable "take along", Hello Italy! is enhanced with useful Italian phrases for making hotel reservations, provides reliable restaurant recommendations, offers hotel websites and email addresses, provides expert travel and packing tips, even recommendations for laundromats, bookstores, and sights to see. If you are planning a budget minded vacation or business trip to Italy whether for one, two, three or four people, then begin laying out your accommodations with the invaluable help of Margo Classe's Hello Italy!