Italy Trip 2022 - Day 3 - Tuscany and Pisa
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
- On the third day of our 20th anniversary trip to Italy, we left Venice via Ferry and took a bus to Fattoria il Poggio for a Tuscan wine tasting. From there we headed to Pisa, Italy and climbed the famous leaning tower of Pisa. We ended our travel day in Florence where we checked into the Grand Hotel Mediterraneo with our Gate 1 travel group. I really wanted a proper florentine steak, so we headed to Ristorante Natalino for a steak and chianti classico.
Thank you so much for offering to answer my questions Kevin! It's greatly appreciated. I was wondering how you managed to get tickets to climb the leaning tower of Pisa. When I looked into booking tickets in advanced online, I noticed it was a time entry. I was afraid to book something now and miss our time window. Were you able to book tickets in advance that day or did you manage to purchase them onsite? Also, we have an 8:00 dinner reservation in Florence that night. I was wondering around what time you guys arrived in Florence that day. In your opinion, do you think we would make our dinner reservation in time or do you think we should reschedule? Thank you again for all your expertise!! I'm sure I'll have more questions for you 😊
I booked the tickets in advance. It seemed like it wouldn't be possible to do it unless I did so because it books up full. Based on other people's Gate1 videos/pics I saw, it looked like they were there between 3-4pm, so I booked our tickets for 3:15pm. That morning we hit a traffic jam and the day's schedule got pushed back. I emailed the Pisa ticket office and asked if we could move our reservation back from 3:15pm to 4:45pm, and they were able to do so. I figured it was better to take a chance at being able to climb the tower than potentially losing $50 for missing our time. We got to the hotel in Florence about 7:30-7:45pm. We had reservations for a rooftop bar at 7, so we missed out on that, but our dinner reservations were for 8:30. You might be OK with 8pm dinner reservations. I think Gate1 doesn't like to provide times for things in case things like traffic jams happen and they have to adjust the schedule - but it makes it difficult to plan when you're trying to get the most out of your trip!
@@kkozlen This is super helpful! Thank you so much Kevin!! 😀
@pygmypuff85 I was wondering if you had already taken your trip and was curious how everything worked out?