03-11-2004, 04:35 AM

Two days for Rome and Venice? Good luck.

Advice: Train or flight from Milan to Venice. Not sure how long the
train takes, and you may not have the time.

There are no must-see sights in Venice except Venice. Spend your two
days walking around and eating or sipping at outdoor cafes. (Oh, OK,
see St. Mark's Square, and tour the Doge's Palace if you must. But
walking around is better. Take a vaporetto to Murano if you like to
see the best glass, and -- walk around.)

Fly back from Venice to Linate and connect to your flight home.

Forget Rome. Too many must-see sights. Even spending all your two
days there, you will miss too much,

But Venice - ah, the smallest amount of time in Venice is enough to
love it, and the largest amount of time there is not enough to have
had enough.

My opinion. YMMV.

- Walt Bilofsky

03-11-2004, 06:06 AM

In early Feb 2nd class (no reservation)...Milan to Venice was 19.16
euro...walked up to the ticket window, got the ticket, was on the
train within the hour...they run almost hourly...

Venice to Florence was 26.60 (it was a Eurostar)

Depending what time the OP gets into Milan, I'd hop a train to Venice,
return to Milan the night before his flight home.

Once in Venice and checked into a hotel I'd ride the #1 vaporetto just
for the experience of seeing Venice from that vantage point, then the
rest of the time walk and walk and walk.....

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 08:52:35 -0800, "PTRAVEL"
<ptravel88-> wrote:

    >I can't help you, there. We always buy 1st class tickets with reservations,
    >which is the most expensive way to go. My recollection is that we went from
    >Milan to Venice for about $80 each last fall, but I may be wrong.

03-11-2004, 03:55 PM

Will like to express my thanks to everyone who've rendered their
advice to my query.

Though I might trouble you a bit more for clarifying a few things ....
but not prior to having had dug up on it on my own (as has been
suggested by one of the posters ... :) .... rightfully so if I may
add)

Regards and Thanks