A Visit to Amalfi and Rome | November 17-27, 2024
🎟️ Activities Booked 🎟️
- Day 1 – Depart CVG ✈️ Boston 🛬 Rome
- Day 2 – Arrival in Rome
- Day 2➡️9 – Maiori Hotel Panorama (booked)
- Day 7 – Party at Corte San Lorenzo
- Day 9 – Rome
- Day 9 – Rome Hotel Artemide
- Rome Food Tasting Tour with Visit to Trionfale Food Market
- Rome Christmas Nativities and Angels Tour
- Day 12 – Depart Rome ✈️ New York (JFK) 🛬 Cincinnati (CVG)
- Day 12 – JFK Airport Lounges
Other Information
- Naples and Campania in November
- Visiting the Shrine to Padre Pio
- Rome in November
- Transportation to Rome Hotels from Train Station
- Using the Rome Metro (subway) | Tap & Go Payments
- Parking in the City of Amalfi and the Luna Rossa Garage
- Wine Windows of Florence
- Claiming your VAT refund prior to departure
Day 1 | Depart Greater Cincinnati Airport
Sunday | 11/17/24
We’ve left for Italy!
Logan International Airport (BOS)
Arrive at 6:14 pm
Depart for Rome 7:25 pm
Layover 1h 21m
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Day 2 | Arrive in Rome, Italy | Monday 11/18/24
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Rental Car Fiumicino Airport
Hertz Toyota C-HR or similar. Pickup at 9 am.
Drive to Maiori (directions)
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Anzio Beach-Head War Cemetery
The cemetery contains 2,316 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 295 of them unidentified. There is also one First World War burial brought from Chieti Communal Cemetery near Rome. The cemetery is permanently open and may be visited anytime.
Anzio Beach Head War Cemetery has Memory Anchor tours available using the FREE app for mobile phones and tablets. The tours cover different aspects of the site and the Commonwealth servicemen and women commemorated within the grounds.
The free Memory Anchor app can be downloaded for iOS and Android.
The app can be used remotely or, if visiting the cemetery, follow a path around it, reading the stories along the route. There is also a scan function to bring up casualty information from headstones. Directions from FCO → Anzio → Maiori (4h 45m).
The Battle of Monte Cassino – 18 Stories.
Amalfi Coast Hotels
Days 2-9 | Maiori
Mon. – Mon. | 11/18 – 11/25/2024
Hotel Panorama (booked)
Free cancellation until 11/11/2024
Room Type: Dependence
Breakfast and parking included.
The 40-square-meter apartment has been recently refurbished and is located at the second floor in the annex property close by the Hotel Panorama.
Check-in at the reception of Hotel Panorama, located in Maiori, Via Santa Tecla n. 8.
It is composed of a bedroom with extra-large double bed, a living room with kitchenette and private balcony with view on the village.
It is also equipped with every comfort: air conditioning, internet Wi-Fi, smart TV, washing machine, dishwasher, oven, induction cooking and all essentials for cooking. Parking was booked at €15 per day.
Parking in Amalfi
Daily and Overnight
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Day 7 | Amalfi | Sant’Egidio del Monte Albino
Saturday | 11/23/2024 | 8:00 pm
Via Ugo Foscolo 28 | Sant’Egidio del Monte Albino (SA) (map)
Phone +39 081910741 | WhatsApp +39 081910741
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Visiting the Shrine of St. Padre Pio
More information on visiting the shrine to Padre Pio
Sagrato S. Giovanni Paolo II, 71013 San Giovanni Rotondo FG, Italy
Days 9-11 | Rome
Mon. – Wed. | 11/25 – 11/27/2024
Hotel Artemide (map)
A Deluxe Room awaits on Via Nazionale, a bustling thoroughfare in the heart of Rome’s historic center.
Via Nazionale, 22 | +39 06 489911
info@hotelartemide.it | Facebook
From Termini Train Station, Hotel Artemide is just 900 meters (3000 feet) away, easily accessible by a 10-minute walk or quick taxi ride. The Colosseum, Roman Forum, and Trevi Fountain are a short walk away, and the subway is located just 100 meters (328 feet) from the hotel.
Wind: 6mph SE
Humidity: 76%
Pressure: 29.88"Hg
UV index: 2
73°F
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75°F / 55°F
75°F / 57°F
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Rome Metro (ATAC) Network
There are three lines: A, B, and C covering the City of Rome. Lines A & B meet at Termini Station which is the center of the bus, metro, and railways.
Click for more information. MAP
You must validate paper tickets or risk being fined when stopped by transit police!
TAP AND GO ON ATAC
With Tap & Go your ticket is in your wallet! With a contactless credit, debit or prepaid card that shows the contactless symbol you don’t need a paper ticket for buses, trams, trolleys, and metro lines. You may also be able to use your NFC-enabled devices (smartphones, smartwatches, wearables) if you have payment setup on the device. No need to register for ATAC unless you want an account to track your travels.
You will tap your card or device to the reader and be charged the going rate for your ticket. Each time you board or pass a turnstile, you need to tap before you go. Taps made to change between different means of transport (bus-metro/railway, metro/railway-bus and bus-bus), if made within the validity period of the ticket (100 minutes), are considered as one single tap and there will be no further charge.
REMEMBER TO TAP ON EACH VEHICLE BEFORE TIME RUNS OUT
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Roman Food Tasting Tour with Visit to the Trionfale Food Market
Indulge in a true epicurean feast in Rome with this lavish tasting of 18 different types of food during this gluttonous 4-hour eating and walking tour. Stroll around dynamic food markets, chat with the so-called Michelangelo of pizza at Pizzarium (sample a slice), munch on cured meats and cheeses at Paciotti Salumeria, savor fresh pasta and wine at an award-winning restaurant, and finish with delicious gelato.
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Christmas Nativities and Angels Tour in Rome
Meeting Point (MAP)
Basilica Parrocchiale Santa Maria del Popolo, Piazza del Popolo, 12, 00187
End point: Saint Peter’s Square, Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City
Read more here.
This tour showcases the magic of Christmas in Rome and the importance of the holiday. Learn about local traditions and legends while visiting beautifully decorated spots in the city.
The tour begins in Piazza del Popolo in front of Santa Maria del Popolo church (miraculous holy water). Admire the Twin Churches’ Christmas nativity, continue to Piazza Venezia for stunning decorations and historical anecdotes, marvel at Santa Maria in Aracoeli and the Holy Child sculpture, stop in Piazza Navona, cross the Bridge of Angels, and end in Piazza San Pietro.
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Christmas Markets in Rome (click here)
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Preparing to Return – The VAT
Purchases of many articles in European Union countries are subject to a value added tax. In Italy you may see the tax on your receipt as “IVA”.
You may claim a refund of the tax on articles that will be taken home without being used in the E.U. Here is a guide for the process.
Please watch this video about claiming your VAT refund at Fiumicino airport in Rome.
Day 12 | Depart Rome, Italy at 12:00 pm
Rome Fiumicino Airport
Delta Flight 0231 to New York (JFK)
John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)
Arrive at 4:00 pm
3h 29m Layover in the Delta Sky Club or Amex Centurion Lounge
Delta Flight 5023
Depart for CVG at 7:29 pm
Centurion Lounge at JFK
Tucked away on the bottom level of the lounge is a bar within a bar — “1850,” the Centurion Lounge JFK speakeasy. You have to know how to access this hideaway. Ask any staff person and they’ll tell you how.
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Arrive at 9:47 pm – Greater Cincinnati Airport (CVG)
Links for More Information
PACKING LIST
Water Shoes, the beaches are primarily rocky.