Ciao and benvenuti to Untold Italy. I'm Josie. And I'm Katie and we're here to help you plan your trip to Italy.

Between us, we have many years of travel experience and we want to help you uncover your own, as yet untold stories and adventures in Italy.

Each episode, you'll hear practical advice,

tips and ideas to help you plan your own trips to the magical land of history,

stunning landscapes and a whole lot of pasta. We'll have interviews from experts and focus on

local destinations and frequently ask questions about travel in Italy. Thanks for listening

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Now let's get started on your regular dose of Bale Italia.

Chow everyone, welcome to Untold Italy.

In this episode, we're going to help you understand

accommodation options in Italy, from five-star hotels to the charming B&Bs and more. It's such a great

topic, Josie, because after your flights, accommodation is usually the biggest expense of your trip,

and you want to get it right. Yeah, Katie, honestly, accommodation for me is the biggest, most important part of the

trip and I do a lot of investigation. Obviously, with my background being a hotelier and working

for two of the biggest hotel chains in Australia, it's one of my things that I just do. So a couple

of things that I do from looking, I do a lot of investigation. That's number one. I get online, I look at hotels.

But the first thing that I do is, how am I going to get to these different places?

What type of accommodation do I want? So one of the big things that I do is I want to be close

to a train station, especially in Italy, like if we're going from Rome to Florence, or we're

going internal Italy on a train, especially if we went going from Rome to Florence or we're going internal Italy

on a train, especially if we went and we went to Cinque Terre.

When we got to Montorozo, I wanted to make sure that with four of us plus four suitcases,

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