Originally Posted by
Tomphot
What do you do after you get to the Cavalieri in the early morning? Even if I don't get much sleep on the trip, I find that the best way to get over jet lag is to keep going. At the Cavalieri, that usually means dropping my stuff off and going into the city. By walking to the Hilton and taking a bus, it just keeps you going.
That being said, I love saving money when I can regardless of how much I can really afford to spend.
When I fly into Newark, instead of paying $80 for a cab into the city, I take the train for $15 to Penn Station - I stay across the street - all is good and I saved $65.
I guess I am one of those "unsavvy travellers" nothing at all super exciting
I have stayed at the Cavalieri seven times.
I arrive at FCO, I pick up my luggage, get a taxi, and get to hotel in under an hour and despite arriving as early as 900 am, on a couple of ocasion the hotel has always checked me in right away... no problem there.
I rarely suffer from jet lag since I tend to sleep for most of my flights... I just continue with the regular routine of a vacation/visit.
The example you give about Penn is fine but its by no means even closely applicable to getting to the Cavalieri is it?. The walk/shuttle/walk/shuttle etc exercise has got to take four hours and since all my visits have included my wife and my visits to Italy run upwards of two weeks there's a limit to what one can fit in a rollaboard unless you want to spend the evenings washing your socks and underwear (or alternately wear them four four days
) plus a nice suit to be worn for dinner at La Pergola aint gonna fit in any rollaboard no matter how " savvy and experienced" you are.
Now if others here are so intensely interested in my experience at this hotel
I can only direct them to the wondeful FTalk search feature.
mike