Originally Posted by
PWMTrav
Probably a few reasons ranging from checklist tourism, being somewhere often enough that a couple of days is fine because there's next time, or just not having the time off and going for 2 days is better than not going at all. Rome is a tough one though, because things are spread apart, and the big things take a while. If I were to do a tour of the forum, colosseum, and vatican in the same day, I'm not sure how I'd even get up the next day.
I could spend 2 days in the Vatican museums alone. I was supposed to be in Rome for 10 days in March, but messed up my knee the night before departure and had to cancel, so I'm trying to rebook for fall. It would be my 3rd trip to Rome, and still I have over a dozen E-ticket attractions to see.