I tend to meticulously log my expenses and as I was doing it for my upcoming USA trip I figured I might as well post the details of my relatively budget trip to Italy earlier this spring.
Milan (04/21 Fri) [105€]
11:00 – 12:00 Plane Lunch 8€
13:55 – 14:55 Bus 5€ (Malpensa Airport -> Milan)
15:00 – 16:00 Hotel – Milano 71 Apartments (5/5) 52€
16:00 – 17:00 Food – Luini Panzerotti (3/5) + Cioccolati Italiani (4/5) 10€
17:00 – 20:00 Sights (3/5)
20:00 – 21:30 Balley (4/5) 30€
Florence (04/22 Sat) [98€]
09:25 – 13:30 Bus 23€ (Milan -> Florence)
13:30 – 14:00 Hostel – Plus Florence (4/5) 30€
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch – Trattoria Za Za (4/5) 30€
15:00 – 19:00 Sights (5/5)
19:00 – 20:00 Dinner – Pizzaman Via dell’Agnolo (3/5) 15€
Rome (04/23 Sun) [182€]
08:55 – 13:10 Bus 18€ (Florence -> Rome)
13:10 – 14:00 Hotel – Il Talismano – (3/5) 55€
15:00 – 18:00 Colosseum (5/5) 54€
18:00 – 20:00 Sights (4/5)
20:00 – 21:00 Dinner – Da Francesco’s (4/5) 55€
Rome (04/24 Mon) [95€]
10:00 – 13:00 Vatican (2/5) 65€
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch – I Pizzicaroli (2/5) 16€
14:00 – 16:00 Sights (3/5)
21:00 – 22:00 Plane Dinner 4€
Total: 480€
Visual novel & other stuff impressions 
2/5 Vatican?!
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It ended up being just a fancy museum of art with more people per square meter than a Tokyo rush hour train. Most of that artwork can be viewed on the internet from the comfort of your home, so I felt like I wasted my time for the most part. Though I also happened to get a really boring guide, so maybe the experience could have been improved with someone who could have told me something actually interesting about the place when we waited in the neverending lines.
I only really enjoyed visiting the humongous St. Peter’s Basilica at the very end that had mummies of former popes and stuff.
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And St. Peter’s Basilica is free to visit 🙂 So if you’d just skip the guide and went directly there it would be 65 euro less. But why you did not visit Roman Forum and Palatino hill/gardes? IIRC they are included in the Colosseum visit ticket as well. No time?
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Roman Forum and Palatino hill were included in the Colosseum and I did visit. I kind of merged them together in my mind, too.
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You’re the Pierro Scaruffi of the Western eroge fandom.
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