Vacation packages to Italy

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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 seperately.

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:

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This material was last updated December 2008. All information was accurate at the time.

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