As an ambitious young traveler, I often take trips where I hop around to different cities, usually traveling by train. This is a great way to get a little glimpse of each city, and decide if any of them are worth coming back to someday.
Order of Booking
After you decide where your first destination will be and buy your plane tickets, the next task is deciding what other cities you would like to see. If you want to start in one city and end in another, there is a flight booking technique called open jaw flights, or multi-city flights. Basically you buy these tickets together like a round trip, but your arrival airport and departure airport are different. As for different destinations, I recommend staying within a 4 hour train ride, unless you are willing to spend all night on a train. Next, you decide how many days you would like to stay in each city, this will give you insight into what days to schedule your train trips. Once you have your trains scheduled and know exactly how long you will be at each destination, you can start looking for accommodations. Hostels are a great option for city hopping because many of them will hold your luggage if you arrive before check-in or if you leave the city quite a bit after check-out. After that, you get to start planning the fun stuff, like your activities. I would recommend between 4 and 7 sites or activities each day. Some sites are short stops because you see the monument or city square and then keep on moving, while other activities like museum visits, can eat up most of your day. I would also recommend looking into day trips for each city if time allows. There are always great things to do in city centers, but sometimes the coolest adventures take you slightly outside the city.
Grand Canyon NP -> Zion NP -> Bryce Canyon NP -> Mesa Verde NP -> Arches NP -> Grand Junction, CO
Venice -> Bologna -> Pisa -> Florence -> Rome
Photo by Ku00e9vin et Laurianne Langlais on Pexels.comPhoto by Laetitia Saad on Pexels.comPhoto by Igor Passchier on Pexels.com
If anyone tries a multi city trip I loved, or has been to any of the places on my future trips list, I’d love to hear about it! I would also love to hear about any other multi destination travel itineraries that are on your list or that you’ve been on!
As an ambitious young traveler, I often take trips where I hop around to different cities, usually traveling by train. This is a great way to get a little glimpse of each city, and decide if any of them are worth coming back to someday.
Order of Booking
After you decide where your first destination will be and buy your plane tickets, the next task is deciding what other cities you would like to see. If you want to start in one city and end in another, there is a flight booking technique called open jaw flights, or multi-city flights. Basically you buy these tickets together like a round trip, but your arrival airport and departure airport are different. As for different destinations, I recommend staying within a 4 hour train ride, unless you are willing to spend all night on a train. Next, you decide how many days you would like to stay in each city, this will give you insight into what days to schedule your train trips. Once you have your trains scheduled and know exactly how long you will be at each destination, you can start looking for accommodations. Hostels are a great option for city hopping because many of them will hold your luggage if you arrive before check-in or if you leave the city quite a bit after check-out. After that, you get to start planning the fun stuff, like your activities. I would recommend between 4 and 7 sites or activities each day. Some sites are short stops because you see the monument or city square and then keep on moving, while other activities like museum visits, can eat up most of your day. I would also recommend looking into day trips for each city if time allows. There are always great things to do in city centers, but sometimes the coolest adventures take you slightly outside the city.
Grand Canyon NP -> Zion NP -> Bryce Canyon NP -> Mesa Verde NP -> Arches NP -> Grand Junction, CO
Venice -> Bologna -> Pisa -> Florence -> Rome
Photo by Ku00e9vin et Laurianne Langlais on Pexels.comPhoto by Laetitia Saad on Pexels.comPhoto by Igor Passchier on Pexels.com
If anyone tries a multi city trip I loved, or has been to any of the places on my future trips list, I’d love to hear about it! I would also love to hear about any other multi destination travel itineraries that are on your list or that you’ve been on!
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