Originally Posted by
slawecki
my god, a poster with a bit of common sense. your reason for that choice is excellent. i do not know the place you are staying. i would recommend a cab every time you will have over half an hour walk(couple km) if you want to see specific sites. if you just want to see rome walk a bit more.
Thanks for the advice!
Originally Posted by
ksucats
That sounds like a good rate & good idea. I would kind of miss the hotel lounge atmosphere in the evenings to wind down, but could find something to replace it with. Does the apartment have a website you could post the link to?
http://www.rome-accommodation.net/ro...-fiori-3.xhtml
They are an agency that manages apartments in Rome; we thought about using a website like VRBO, but this is our first apartment-renting experience and we decided that using an agency vs. an individual owner made us feel better about the rental process. I emailed back and forth several times and my questions were answered perfectly. Also, they wanted a credit card to guarantee and I called them, because I don't send cc# via email, and the woman spoke English very well.
Originally Posted by
ksucats
The more thinking & looking around I do, the more I think Paris might be easier for us to manage. We have only made one overseas trip & that was to London last year. I am very experienced at travel within the US - have been pretty much everywhere at least once (New York close to 10 times) & have no problems getting around any where here. However, I am still pretty intimidated by going overseas & our next trip will be to a non-English speaking country. My wife really wants to go to Rome. Can anybody chime in as to which will be easier for an American family to get around.
We went to Paris 3 years ago, and I was amazed that every one we dealt with spoke English. I would ask in French (in a very bad French accent) if they spoke English, rather than just assume they did, and I never had anyone say "no!" I have no idea what it will be like in Rome, as this is my first visit there, but I can say that Paris is very easy for non-French speaking people to get around.