Am planning a trip fm london to florence in late nov/beg dec. was wondering if anyone can give advise on the best way to get there(air /train). also, any suggestion on the accomodation (any decent affordable hotels to recommend?) Love art and shopping, heard of the great designer outlets, any info on this?? thks.

Lenore.

I wrote a long reply (too long to post) suggesting two fine routes and hotels, only
to find your e-mail address is invalid. Sorry I wasted my time.

If you want the reply, please tell me by e-mail, as I do not see replies on this
newsgroup.

Larry at Morro Bay, California (seaotter #six at a o l dot com)(no spaces in
address)

Larry wrote:
    > I wrote a long reply (too long to post) suggesting two fine routes and hotels, only
    > to find your e-mail address is invalid. Sorry I wasted my time.
    > If you want the reply, please tell me by e-mail, as I do not see replies on this
    > newsgroup.

I thought you had agreed to stop this. If you don't want to post your answer, don't
bother to tell us you have one.

Barbara

lenore29 wrote:
    > Am planning a trip fm london to florence in late nov/beg dec. was wondering if
    > anyone can give advise on the best way to get there(air /train). also, any
    > suggestion on the accomodation (any decent affordable hotels to recommend?) Love
    > art and shopping, heard of the great designer outlets, any info on this?? thks.

For getting there, I suggest you check out Ryan Air, which has flights to Pisa I
believe, which is fairly near to Florence. Their website is
www.ryanair.com

Barbara

Barbara Vaughan <[email protected]> wrote:

    > For getting there, I suggest you check out Ryan Air, which has flights to Pisa I
    > believe, which is fairly near to Florence. Their website is
    > www.ryanair.com

Let us add that Pisa is only one hour by cheap train from Florence, and the trains
leave directly from Pisa airport.


-- ----------------------------------------------------- Luca Logi - Firenze - Italy
e-mail: [email protected]

You could consider the Ryanair flights from Stansted to Pisa. There are direct trains
from Pisa airport to Florence. The evening flight may arrive too late for the last
train from the airport to Florence. In this case, you can get the city bus to the
main Pisa station, where there are more trains to Florence. Or you could spend your
1st night near Pisa station, where there are several modest hotels, and go on to
Florence, after a quick visit to the tower next day.

--
Andrew Nightingale of Cambridge (UK)

Larry wrote:
    > I wrote a long reply (too long to post) suggesting two fine routes and hotels, only
    > to find your e-mail address is invalid. Sorry I wasted my time.
    > If you want the reply, please tell me by e-mail, as I do not see replies on this
    > newsgroup.

Why do you not see replies on the newsgroup? The purpose if to reply to the
newsgroup, not the individual.

On Sat, 24 Aug 2002 10:33:04 +0000, lenore29 <[email protected]> wrote:

    >Am planning a trip fm london to florence in late nov/beg dec. was wondering if
    >anyone can give advise on the best way to get there(air /train). also, any
    >suggestion on the accomodation ....
As well as flights to Pisa check out Go's flights to Bologna. This is only about an
hour by train from Florence, and flights are often cheaper. Website is
www.go-fly.com. (Do not be tempted by Ryanair's
flights to "Bologna" as these are actually to Forli, much further away) As to
accomodation www.itwg.com is a good site.

I'm not aware of designer outlets in Florence, but there are many stalls in the market, and shops near it, that sell leather goods - bags, coats, jackets, etc, that are great value. The market is just across the main road that runs down the side of the basilica(cathedral).

    > Am planning a trip fm london to florence in late nov/beg dec. was wondering if
    > anyone can give advise on the best way to get there(air /train).

Rather than go to Pisa and get the train to Florence, you could try a direct flight.
I think Air France and BA do LHR to Florence. I went a couple of years ago from
Stansted with SAS but they have gone bust. Their parent airline, SwissAir, might
still do it.

Ist step, do a search on www.google.com

Ian Millward Edinburgh

"Ian Millward" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
    > > Am planning a trip fm london to florence in late nov/beg dec. was wondering if
    > > anyone can give advise on the best way to get there(air /train).
    > Rather than go to Pisa and get the train to Florence, you could try a
direct
    > flight. I think Air France and BA do LHR to Florence. I went a couple of years ago
    > from Stansted with SAS but they have gone bust. Their parent airline, SwissAir,
    > might still do it.
    > Ist step, do a search on www.google.com
    > Ian Millward Edinburgh
SAS have not gone bust, and Swissair was never their parent. Do you mean Sabena?
Both Sabena and Swissair went bust. I believe we now we have SN Brussels and Swiss.

Martin

SAS is Scandanavian Air Service and (i) I don't believe they have gone bust and (ii) the don't have a parent airline - 50% is jointly owned by Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and I think that the rest is publically owned.

Perhaps you flew with Sabina, they DID go bust, and they were functionally a subsidiary of SwissAir.

... Anyway, SwissAir went bust!

<<Do you mean Sabena? Both Sabena and Swissair went bust. I believe we now we have
SN Brussels and Swiss.>>

Whatever.

Ian Millward

No, details are important. You would be p***** off if, for example, someone recommended that you flew US Airways when they really meant United Airlines.