When is the best and inexpensive time to travel to Rome?

Question

we would like to travel to Rome for 2 weeks from San Jose or San Francisco, CA but everything is over $1400 each airfare ticket so when will the best time to travel

Answer 1

A great time to be in Rome is at Thanksgiving.  The weather is cool and not too many tourists.  Try Priceline.com.  I once got a $400 round trip airline ticket to Madrid at Thanksgiving.

Answer 2

i'm italian...rome is always quite expensive but it's really beautiful...you should see it..

Answer 3

I had the same problem when I started planning my trip in October.  I found that I can get into other European cities much cheaper, then take RyanAir into Italy.  Your might try Madrid, Paris, or another city in Italy.  A flight on RyanAir can be as little as $20.00.  I am flying into London and my flight to Bologna will cost $10.00 plus $10.00 for my luggage.  Once in Italy, everyone uses the trains.  

If you need to fly directly into Italy,  US to Bologna was the cheaper rate when I was first looking.  Have fun.

Answer 4

We were in Rome in March and it was beautiful.  It didn't rain at all, it was nice and cool and the tourist attractions weren't really full.  I hear this is the same in September & October.  Also, if you have issues with airfare I would highly suggest checking out cheap flights from LA to NYC and a separate flight from NYC into Rome.  I just saw on southwest they had flights from LA to NYC for $79 each way.  Also, check out Gate 1 travel agency.  I went through them.  For my fiancee and myself we went to Venice for 2 days, Florence for 3 days and Rome for 4 days (I booked Rome as a separate land only package).  It included airfare from NYC, transfer from the airport in Venice to the hotel (although not necessary now that I know), train ticket from Venice to Florence, transfer in Rome to the airport, and all our hotel rooms for less than $2100 total.  The only downfall was we flew Alitalia.  The seats were TINY, the food terrible and they were off schedule the whole trip.  But it was worth the money.