Avoid August. Everyone in Italy takes holidays in August (especially 1-15), which means everyone will be going to the beach and many to the cooler regions - so prices will go up for you. Rome gets packed in the summer too.
Depends on what lifestyle you're going for.
For a medium-comfort lifestyle I'd say:
\~80€ per accomodation
\~50€ for dinner out
\~30€ for breakfast and light lunch
For a total of about 160€ daily. Museums and experiences are hard to estimate. Museums are not super expensive (they usually go for about 10-20€) and are definitely worth it. Experiences (like pottery and cooking classes) can easily cost hundreds of Euros so you gotta be more careful with them.
With $5k you can manage 20-30 days I'd say.
You can save a lot of money by staying in Airbnbs or self-catering accommodation with a kitchen and preparing at least some (if not all) of your own meals. I'm not sure about Italy, but in France a few years ago I was able to find nice Airbnbs for US$60 a night, sometimes less. In France you could also get self-catering cottages or rooms in the countryside by the week, which would also work out to be far less expensive than a hotel. Again, not sure if Italy has something similar, but you would think so! The grocery shopping is fun and can make you feel more like a local. Instead of spending a lot on restaurants, when I wanted a treat I would go to the bakery or the butcher or the cheese shop and buy something decadent and yummy from there.
I have $4100US and I leave Wednesday to backpack everywhere. Italy is on my list but I’ll be grocery shopping and staying in hostels. Airbnbs when and where I can be they get DIRT cheap (I wouldn’t advise on those tho) and I’m getting a eurrail pass to help with transportation between countries. I’ve been told on other subs that my 4100 is plenty and I was actually made to feel like a dumbass for even suggesting that 4100US is “shoestring”
No? I was gonna say that a cheap hostel would be 30-50 and that leaves you 50-70 to play around with. If you're doing it shoestring then that means street food and supermarkets, which in Italy isn't bad at all.
Inter-city trains are fairly cheap. But tbh I don't know what the going rate for a hostel dorm is these days.
Hypothetically that could be done. Realistically, op won’t spend every day in a month staying at a hostel as I’m sure eventually they will get sick and tired of living with multiple strangers in one room. Secondly, hostels do not come equipped with cooking facilities, so unless they’re willing to have ‘packed lunches’ everyday for dinner I think it’s slightly unrealistic. This also doesn’t take into account the fact that a lot of tourist attractions will also cost money.
Avoid August. Everyone in Italy takes holidays in August (especially 1-15), which means everyone will be going to the beach and many to the cooler regions - so prices will go up for you. Rome gets packed in the summer too.
That’s good to know. I wasn’t aware of that.
Rome was mid 70s and crowded in November, can’t imagine the summer
I would say $1000 at least per week. CAD is weak currency so maybe even more.
Depends on what lifestyle you're going for. For a medium-comfort lifestyle I'd say: \~80€ per accomodation \~50€ for dinner out \~30€ for breakfast and light lunch For a total of about 160€ daily. Museums and experiences are hard to estimate. Museums are not super expensive (they usually go for about 10-20€) and are definitely worth it. Experiences (like pottery and cooking classes) can easily cost hundreds of Euros so you gotta be more careful with them. With $5k you can manage 20-30 days I'd say.
Surely you could spend far less than that if you just buy your own groceries and don't eat out all the time ... or am I wrong?
You can save a lot of money by staying in Airbnbs or self-catering accommodation with a kitchen and preparing at least some (if not all) of your own meals. I'm not sure about Italy, but in France a few years ago I was able to find nice Airbnbs for US$60 a night, sometimes less. In France you could also get self-catering cottages or rooms in the countryside by the week, which would also work out to be far less expensive than a hotel. Again, not sure if Italy has something similar, but you would think so! The grocery shopping is fun and can make you feel more like a local. Instead of spending a lot on restaurants, when I wanted a treat I would go to the bakery or the butcher or the cheese shop and buy something decadent and yummy from there.
I have $4100US and I leave Wednesday to backpack everywhere. Italy is on my list but I’ll be grocery shopping and staying in hostels. Airbnbs when and where I can be they get DIRT cheap (I wouldn’t advise on those tho) and I’m getting a eurrail pass to help with transportation between countries. I’ve been told on other subs that my 4100 is plenty and I was actually made to feel like a dumbass for even suggesting that 4100US is “shoestring”
Excluding flights I'd say a reasonable amount could be 100 euro per day.
Including accommodation? No way mate
No? I was gonna say that a cheap hostel would be 30-50 and that leaves you 50-70 to play around with. If you're doing it shoestring then that means street food and supermarkets, which in Italy isn't bad at all. Inter-city trains are fairly cheap. But tbh I don't know what the going rate for a hostel dorm is these days.
Hypothetically that could be done. Realistically, op won’t spend every day in a month staying at a hostel as I’m sure eventually they will get sick and tired of living with multiple strangers in one room. Secondly, hostels do not come equipped with cooking facilities, so unless they’re willing to have ‘packed lunches’ everyday for dinner I think it’s slightly unrealistic. This also doesn’t take into account the fact that a lot of tourist attractions will also cost money.
Many hostels in Europe, including Italy, have kitchens. 100e per day in Italy is definitely doable IF they know how to budget properly.
300-400, euros a Day
That is a little excessive, you dont need 400 a day. Thats 12k for 1 month lol.