Venice For Rookies: Experience
Venice With Locals At Locals’ Prices
From Mama Margaret’s Italy Travel & Food E-newsletter, December 7, 2011
The amazing 171 page e-book, Venice For Rookies tells you everything you’d ever want to know about enjoying Venice, and gives lists of things you never realized you wanted to know. Venice resident Bianca Reyes writes in excellent detail only of places she’s been. She helps you experience Venice with the locals at locals’ prices and save money.
She loves food so gives delicious details on food and wine spots . Many of her lists show an incredible variety of ways to save money in Venice.
Reading this e-book will make you want to stay in Venice for weeks just to experience all of Bianca’s tempting, fascinating recommendations!
She divides her book into these main topics :
- the basics: top 20 things to do, 14 things to do before you leave, a short city history, eight ways to arrive, luggage storage, getting around cheaply, Internet service, when to go, top festivities by month, weather.
- 18 accommodations’ savings: how to get a hotel room for two for about $35, how to get your 5th night free, some four star hotels that sometimes have good discounts. Choices run from a former nuns’ palace to a splurge for a stylish Venetian romantic paradise.
- “do as the Venetians do” like Venice’s noise policy & tipping
- Dining: what foods are in season and when, six types of dining options, average prices and recommendations in the neighbourhoods in four price ranges. I loved the list of cicchetti bars like “Casanova’s Finger Foods” (he wrote about this spot) and restaurants like “where gondoliers eat”.
- Drinks: quick Veneto wine summary, in depth guide by neighbourhood to 21 “baccari”— pubs-- with local snacks and sometimes music.
- Shopping: includes great tips on how to tell the difference between glass made in Murano and in China and where to get hand crafted masks instead of mass produced ones
- “see and do” includes discount passes, huge variety of places to experience
- night life: a short section since Venice has very little
- “rookie lists”: 10 top tours like “learn to be a gondolier”, 13 ways to enjoy Venice for free, 10 “Venice only” experiences like wearing high tide water boots, 10 cool Venetians like Peggy Guggenheim, 18 Venice facts (illegal to ride a bike there).
- “rookie tours and legends” in Venice’s six quarters with 30 pages that reveal dark parts of Venice’s history with tales like “The Newlyweds and the Skull”.
- day trips mini guides: Padova, Verona, Jesolo, Euganei Hills
- a glossary
- rookie hints, a summary of her hints sprinkled throughout the book
- rookie savings, a summary of her ways to save money in her book
Highly recommended if it’s your first time or one of many times exploring Venice!
Available at travelforrookies.com for $9.99. An amazing price for all the savings and insider experiences you’ll gain!
