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Booking Airtickets & Accomodation (Rome)

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Easy Jet (Madrid Barajas)

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Round Trip Athens-Rome-AthensTwo persons with one luggagePrice: 193.88 euros / 248 $


Not that much ha?  And I’m pretty sure I could find a lower price.A couple we know were planning a trp to France. They said they left the booking of the ticket to some friends who traveled Europe often. That meant “We want to fly with a well known airline company”. So
they paid double money than I did. People are afraid to fly with companies they hardly know, but what they don’t understand is that if it’s meant to happen it will happen. Pay attention to news of planes crashing, it realy doesn’t matter if it is Air France, Qatar Airways or Olympic Air.  Before booking the tickets, seeing that huge difference between Easy Jet and other airline companies made me wander “How come EasyJet is so inexpensive?”, so I started searching on the internet, gone to their website, finding information was easy.  Flying with this airline you have cons and pros and I came up with many websites giving an answer to my question for example Wikianswers.      

The main cons of EasyJet is that you have to go early for check in, at least two hours ahead, they won’t wait for you and you are not given a seat, you must choose one, so the
earliest you go the better chance you have to find a good seat especially if you are not flying alone.  You don’t get meals in your trip, you have to pay water etc. The aircrafts are very small, I felt like I was in a crowded bus.  Plus I heard not to many good things if you want to cancel or change your flight.But lets think it this way: It’s not like you are flying from Athens to Australia, don’t eat anything on the plane.  Go two hours earlier, why not, you are anxious to leave anyway.  Get in, find a seat and stop complaining, you get what you pay for, the only thing that
matters is to arrive safe to your destination, easyjet provides that.
Plus you don’t pay extra taxes, easyjet says 20.99 per person and means 20.99 per person with one handbag, no 20.99 plus taxes: 50.00,  That’s a pro!!
I was very pleased flying with Easyjet and I would fly again, if sth on the way goes wrong, be sure that I’ll write about it.

Accomodation 
3 nights Double room-bed and breakfast2 persons Price: 256 euros / 326 $
 

Not that much either ha?  And I’m sure I could do better@I searched Booking.com (we all know booking.com), for the cheapest hotel with breakfast in Rome.  Of course I took a look at the not that cheap ones too, but mainly I was interested in a hotel near the center with breakfast, since
I wouldn’t stay at the room so long, only to sleep.  If you are going for more than a week you’d propably need a half board plan. 

Everyhing depends on our budget and on what we are made of.  Simply ask your self, if you can’t handle the idea of returning and admitting that you stayed on a 2 star hotel then you probably shouldn’t read this blog. 
So I found a realy nice hotel, called Cinemusic Hotel, near to almost everything I needed and I booked with confidence.  I called the hotel, I confimed my booking and everything was done and I would’t change anything.  Actually I know read someone agreeing with me in my tripadvisor’s review and I kinda liked it. I deffinetely recomend this hotel and I am planning to go again when I can afford it, because I loved Rome.

Planning the trip to Rome

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In Novermber I started searching for tickets, hotels, places to visit while in Rome.  My first idea was a group holiday, or group tour (I don’t know how you call it), but the prices seemed so huge at the time and it wasn’t just that.  I thought to myself that it can’t be so expensive. 

Group holidays tour you around the city, they book you a very nice hotel, usually with breakfast and they fly you usually with comfortable yet expensive airlines.  They advice you on restaurants, walks and shopping.  Of course there’s the matter of safety as well, you feel safe
around others in a foreign country and not so lost.

But I wasn’t traveling alone and I didn’t really care if I went in a 5star or a 1star hotel.  Thanks to my adsl line I found everything I needed on the internet and I flew with a low budget airline company named EasyJet, I’m sure you’ve heard.  So instead of paying 1200 euros per couple plus meals, shopping and optional tours that are usually a must (Vatican city usually is optional so you pay extra), I payed 960 euros per couple and I did EVERYTHING. (Icluding airtickets, accomodation, meals, shopping, tranportation and museums).

There are too many websites out there to find airtickets.  Many of them try to seduce you with colorful, bold, italic, 20 text sized banners advertising that you’ll get the best deal.  No you are not.  Firstly because there are also too many airline companies that are not shown and secondly because most of these websites charge fees. So you need to search carefully and yes you don’t have to go to an agent.  It wasn’t that hard for me to find skyscanner,I just had to google ‘airtickets’ and that was that. 

From all the websites, mainly greek websites with airticket booking, skyscanner was the only one that gave you the chance to find the cheapest and the most expensive ticket for your trip.  You can find schedules and prices and you have that choice.  The cheapest choice.  So before you go on searching for an airticket, it’s a must visiting skyscanner. 

And Rome it is

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To continue the story about the movies and their role to my life I must start with my very first trip to Rome and thank Tom Hanks in the Angels & Demons.  I never thought I could actually make it but if you’re determined to do something the universe is in your side.  So my relationship with EasyJet started like this: Oh my, only 192 euros for two return tickets to Rome…and so we went to our first European trip.  We were on a budget but I came to realize that the most beautiful things in this world are free of charge (except maybe the air-tickets)

I give you a little bit of my Rome.