My wife and 3 kids and I are headed to Italy and wanted to know about hotels or Villas?

We heaed to Italy in August 2007 and are staying there at least 10 days. We want to see Rome, Florence, Pisa, Capri and Lucca at the very least. Most hotels I’ve checked into cannot accomodate a family of 5. Does anyone know of any hotels or other reputable choices (Apartments or Villas)? We would most likely be based in Rome and Florence and then travel from those Locations.

If you want to be based just in Florence and Rome then you need cancelling Capri from your list. It’s a small island, very crowded in August, its rather far from Rome and to have some chance you should book in advance the hydroplane leaving from Naples port. This would be possible only If you stay at least one night in a Naples hotel, otherwise better you forget it.
My suggestion is to postpone the visit of Capri to a possible future trip in a different period of the year (better would be May-June or September). Then you could visit not only Capri but also Ischia island, Naples, Amalfi, Positano, Sorrento, Paestum,
Ercolano and Pompei (but you must remember, never in August).
On the contrary for the other towns August is right time since mostly of the italian residents will be on holiday by elsewhere. What will be for you a concrete problem is to succeed in finding an accomodation in hotel for yr family in a single room. Unless you want to afford the huge cost of a some suite I guess you’ll need to book 2 rooms also because Villas and Apartaments are usually rented for minimum 1 week.
I don’t know at this point how you prefer to split yr holidays since both sites (Rome and Florence) have so many highlight spots that 10 days would be not sufficient for just only one of them. However by assuming you’ll stay 5 days in Rome and 5 days in Florence (by train you’ll need abt 2 hours to move from to there; here is the link to check- http://www.trenitalia.com/en/index.html )
you should have time to see at least the best places. Rome has a very good service of subway connected with the most important spots.
In Florence all the top sites are concentraded in an area of abt. 2 miles per side and then it’s very easy to be visited by walking.
You can do it in 2/3 days and then go from there 1 day to Siena and San Gimignano, 1 day to Lucca and Pisa (1 day would be enough to visit both -not too many things to see- in Pisa just the Leaning Tower in the Miracles Square with the Basilica and the Baptistery – in Lucca just a few churches,there are sooooo many of.., and the Defensive Walls-Le Mura).
I’m passing you a few links for the Lazio region (where is Rome)
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazio
http://www.turislazio.it/index.php/turismo_eng
and theTuscany region (where are located Florence,Siena,Pisa and Lucca + many others)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuscany
http://www.turismo.toscana.it/new/sitoinglese/apet.htm
http://www.tuscanydream.com/english/welcome_e.html

I wish having been helpful.
Have a nice trip and enjoy yr staying in my Country.

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