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Vacation packages to Italy
Vacation packages are a simple concept for powerful savings: you buy your airfare and lodging (or plane tickets and rental car), together at a price much lower than you could get either separately
First things first: a vacation package is not an escorted tour, where they shuttle you around Europe in a hermetically sealed bus bubble of Americanism.
With a packaged vacation, your trip is entirely your own—you just don't have to book everything (airfare, hotels, maybe rental car) independently. You get them all for less (ideally) than you'd pay if you tried to book them separately.
That is because a single company is reserving the air, hotel, and/or rental car on your behalf as a "package." Packagers leverage their buying power to secure airfares, room rates, and rental car prices at a discount, then pass some of those savings along to you (they keep some, of course; that's called "profit").
Although, in industry-speak, whenever any two travel items are booked together it is technically a "package," in practice a true packaged vacation is when you get at least two of the big ticket, high-priced, major parts of your trip all at once—usually transportation (air and/or rental car or railpass) and lodging.
There are three major kinds of these packages, each described in full on its own page:
- Air-hotel packages
- Air-car packages
- Untours (the best of the full air-car-lodging packagers)
Related pages
- Air-hotel packages
- Air-car packages
- Untours (air, hotel/villa, car/train, local support)
- Airfares to Italy (so you can get a baseline comparison price)
- Lodgings in in Italy (so you can compare package prices to doing it a la carte)
- Renting a car in Italy (same as above)
- Escorted group tours
- Active vacations (bike, hike, horse)
- Educational tours (cooking, language, art/history/cultural, study)
- Special interest & niche tours (family, seniors, student, women, gay/lesbian, religious, handicapped, singles)
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This material was last updated February 2011. All information was accurate at the time.
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