HOW MUCH DOES A TRIP TO ITALY COST? BUDGET AND REFERENCE PRICES

Italy is my country (and Rober's second house) so, as you can guess, we know it pretty well hehe. Yes, it's great luck, really. Although I always say that if I were not Italian, I would like my country even more (I guess we all complain about what we have at home). Anyway, a trip to Italy can be one of the best experiences ever and to help you plan we have thought to answer the million dollar question: How much does a trip to Italy cost?

We take as reference a basic 8-day itinerary with a low-cost budget, but with the odd little whim. And as always, we will divide expenses into flights, transportation, accommodation, food, tickets and various. Here it goes the budget of a trip to Italy:

Arriving in Italy, if you travel from Spain or anywhere else in Europe it is VERY cheap. There are low cost flights from practically every city and there are often offers (it is not uncommon to find flights for € 30-50 i / v).

The cheapest airports of entry to Italy are usually:

• Bergamo (to an hour from Milan, in the northwest of the country)
• Bologna (a couple of hours from Venice, in the northeast of the country)
• Pisa (one hour from Florence, in the center of the country)
• Rome (capital of Italy and destinations as few).

Although there are also flights to other cities in the north (Trieste, Treviso, Venice, Verona, Milan, Turin ...), and from the south (Naples, Bari, Palermo, Catania, Alguero, Cagliari ...). Come on, that flights are NOT a problem.

Once in Italy, if you want to visit different cities and have to make internal displacements, you will have4 possibilities (depending on distance and offers):

• Train
• Bus
• Internal flights
• Car rental

Train

There are two train companies: Trenitalia and Italotreno. The good thing is that the trains arrive at the main Italian destinations and that sometimes they make quite convenient offers, especially if you buy them in advance.

You will have to book long-distance trains, while regional ones that cover shorter distances can buy them directly at the station (remember to ring them on the machines before boarding the train).

Bus

It is perhaps the cheapest way to move between Italian cities, but only if you find offers with Flixbus (yes, there is a € 5 bus ticket!). The only bad thing is that the times are sometimes quite rare and obviously it is slower than traveling by train.

Internal flights

For a one-week trip, we do not recommend taking internal flights. But for you to get an idea, it is not difficult to find offers for about € 20 each way. You know, use the Skyscanner website to buy the different routes and airlines.

Car rental

Depending on the area you want to visit in Italy, it can be an excellent idea to rent a car to explore it further. If this is your case, check out our guide to rent a car and drive in Italy, with tips for renting a car in Italy.

Our last trip through Italy was a roadtrip through Sicily and the car rental for 15 days left us for about € 200.

The accommodation is probably the point that will make your travel budget vary, more than anything because it is the biggest expense ... Or not ?. Of course, if you do couchsurfing, the price will be € 0. But in general you can find decent hotels in medium-sized towns and cities for around € 40-50 per night. While in more famous cities the price rises to about € 50-80 a night.

Without doubt the most expensive city to stay is Venice, although with a little luck you can find very good deals. Here we tell you how to find cheap accommodation in Venice.

Another page we always recommend is Airbnb, although in Italy it is often cheaper to book a hostel or a hotel instead of an Airbnb apartment (although it depends a lot on the city). Here we leave you a € 25 discount for your first reservation.

Good news! Eating cheap in Italy is not only possible, but it is very, very simple. How? Take advantage of the main Italian streetfood. And while it is true that pizza is the undisputed queen, there are many other options to save on food (snacks, ice cream, tramezzini ...) that are around € 2-5.

Also at noon there are quite a few restaurants with menu offers for about € 10-12. Keep in mind that the normal thing in Italian restaurants is to charge an amount of “coperto”, which is around € 1.

These are the reference prices of menus and dishes in a restaurant:

• Pizza in pizzeria: between € 5 and € 10.
• Pasta dish: between € 6 and € 10.
• Main course (meat or fish) between € 10 and € 15.
• Ice cream: between € 1 and € 2.
• Capuccino: € 1.5. Coffee only: € 1. In cafeteria
• Beer and Spritz: between € 2.50 and € 3.50.
• Glass of house wine: between € 1 and € 2.
• Snack with food buffet: about € 10.

Italy is known as the "Belpaese", and wherever you go you will find countless attractions, some paid but others also free! Among them the free tours (free tours, where you just have to leave a tip) that are increasingly widespread in Italian cities:

• Rome free tour
• Venice free tour
• Milan free tour
• Florence free tour

Among the places of payment, in many cases you can buy tickets at the moment, but there are some that we recommend book in advanceWell, they usually run out. Also booking online will save you having to queue tedious and waste time. These are:

• The Uffizi and La Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence
• The Colosseum, Forum and Palatine of Rome
• St. Peter's Basilica and Vatican Museums
• The Last Supper of Milan

But as we told you, if you travel on a low cost budget, do not fear, there are many things that can be enjoyed without paying a single euro. We leave you a list with the posts that, for the moment, we write about Italian cities:

Obviously it depends on what you do and how long you will be. But let's take the example of the typical trip to Italy: arrival in Milan and visit of Venice, Florence and Rome over 8 days.

Itinerary

It is an itinerary that can be done perfectly with fast train connections. You know, as soon as you know dates book as soon as possible to benefit from discounts!

• Milan 1 day, enough time to get to the city and see the Duomo, the Galleria of Vittorio Emanuele and take a few spritz in the Navigli area.
• Venice 2 days, the first day dedicated to exploring the city and the second to see what we have left over some of its islands.
• Florence 2 days, half a day is lost on the trip from Venice, so we have a day and a half to see the essentials of Florence.
• Rome 3 days, just time to get to know the main things of Rome, but if you like to kick it may give you time to see it - almost everything.

Flights

If you are lucky enough to live in a city with combinations of Ryanair or other low cost companies to Italy, the flight booked well in advance can leave for around € 50 round trip.

Total: € 50 per person

Accommodation costs

Clarification: we have looked for double rooms in booking with a month view (prices may not be maintained).

• Milan: 1 night at Guest House Minas: € 49.
• Venice: 2 nights at Alloggio Ai Tre Ponti: € 135.
• Florence: 2 nights at Cestelli Hotel: € 160.
• Rome: 3 nights at Hotel Giamaica: € 150.

Total: € 490 (€ 245 per person)

Transportation expenses

Thinking that all the displacements would be done by train (reserving them one month in advance in Italotreno), the expenses would be:

• Transportation between the airport and the city: € 10.
• Milan-Venice: € 9.90.
• Venice-Florence: € 15.90.
• Florence-Rome: € 18.90 (in the afternoon there are trains for € 9.90 but we recommend you get up early to take advantage of the day in Rome).

Total: € 54.70 per person

Food expenses

We recommend you to make breakfast at the hotel (when possible) and thus save a little money. Also make the meal strong at noon (it is when there are more offers) and at night have some dinner or take advantage of the appetizer offers (for about € 10 you have a drink and a buffet of informal meals).

Calculate about € 20 per day / per person (€ 10-12 at noon and about € 10-8 for dinner and snack, aupa those ice creams!). Obviously, the price can be reduced if you only eat outside once in a while and cook in the accommodation or strips of street food. But come on, € 20 a day seems like a real average.

On the other hand, if you want to stick your whims and always eat in restaurants, calculate about € 30 per person / day.

Total: € 160 per person

Miscellaneous (tickets and personal expenses)

This depends exclusively on you: if you only want to enjoy the free attractions of the city, free tours and punctual tickets, calculate about € 5 per day for tickets and personal expenses. Total, € 40 personal expenses.

If you want to enter at main attractions from each city, you would have to add:

• Duomo Milan: € 3 + € 9 if you want to climb to the terrace (yes you want!).
• Basilica San Marco Venice: € 3 to reserve the ticket without queue. Free pass.
• Uffizi Museum Florence: € 24 in high season.
• Duomo Florence + dome: € 18.
• Colosseum, Roman and Palatine Forum in Rome: € 19 skip-the-line ticket.
• Vatican Museums: € 21 entry without queue.
• Free tour in Venice, Florence and Rome (€ 3 × 10 in tip concept).

Total: € 167 per person

Total

We leave you a summary table with the different concepts of expenses per person:

Therefore a 8 day trip to Italy, visiting the most important, you can go out for a few € 677 approximately per person. On average you would spend, all inclusive (from the plane to the whims) some € 90.83 per day.

Not bad if you think you will enjoy one of the most beautiful countries in the world (it shows that I am Italian, eh hehe).

We hope you have clearer now how much does a trip to Italy cost, with this base budget of an 8-day trip to Italy, visiting the most important.

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