You tuned in to this video to get travel tips and
that's what I'm going to deliver, as soon as I getting scammed so to speak on taxis and I think
most of that comes from people getting into what they think are taxis but they're actually getting
into another type of ride service, not an official taxi. How do you tell what is an official taxi
from a unofficial taxi? it's really pretty easy. The official taxis, for one, they say taxi on the
roof and number two they're white, typically, and they also have the rates and stuff on the doors.
If you're getting into a sedan that's unmarked, usually a black sedan or van, those are usually
ride services but they're not the official taxi and they will charge you 2,3 and 4 times as much
as an official taxi. One time I did take one from the Termini train station to Piazza Spagna where
I'm at now, and again it's not metered so when we got there it was about, let's say it's about 2
miles. They charged me €40. I've since taken a taxi and the taxi was just under 10 so yeah it
was four times the regular official taxi price. To get a taxi in Rome, just have to find a
taxi station. But it just got a lot easier with a new app called FREENOW. The FREENOW app
you just put in where you want to go and the app knows where you're at, and a taxi will be to you
within 3 to 4 minutes and you'll be on your way. The trick to getting into the Vatican without
a line is you get here at 8:00 in the morning when it first opens. At 8:00 in the morning
there's no line whatsoever you can just walk on into the Vatican and you don't have
to deal with the big [Music] crowds. [Music] You need to make a choice. You want to get up
early and get to the Vatican and avoid the line or get here in the afternoon and stand in line.
by the looks of this it's at least an hour and a half wait you don't need to skip the line tickets
to get into the Basilica, you just need to skip the line advice, and that's what I just gave
you. Hey I'm back! It's 8:00 a.m. Friday and uh look where's did the line go? You might have
thought I was giving you some bum advice. That line it's just really short. You can get
right in here in the morning and uh yeah I just saved you 2 hours instead of standing
in line now you can go enjoy the day in Rome! Why would you want to stand in line while
you visit Rome I don't know but a lot of people do. They obviously don't subscribe to
my channel because they know better if they did. We're at one of my little favorite finds here
recently it's called pizza M'PO. It's in uh near the Vatican and if you're on a budget this is a
great place. It's a great stop. The pizzas are great. You can eat a lot of good food in Rome for
less than $20 a day. What I would say if you're on a budget avoid restaurants. Restaurants going to
cost you quite a bit more in fact you're you're going to spend probably more than 20 just on one
meal. But in Rome you can get pizza you can get uh all kinds of street foods. you can eat at the open
markets, you can eat in the supermarkets and uh $20 goes a long ways. Still get great food and not
spend too much. I mean that's the way to do it. In Rome there are 2500 "nasone" that's
what these public drinking fountains are called. They they're like noses coming
out. Water's flowing the water's great here and it's safe to drink, it's free and
literally they're all over Rome.[Music] Beware of big Pockets! pickpocket in Rome does
happen unfortunately and I have a whole video about how to avoid being pickpocketed while you're
in Rome but on this video Let's just say when you're in crowded areas like this, at the Spanish
Steps, or in other areas like Trevi's fountain or in the Subway or at the Termini train station,
just pay special attention when you tour Rame. Only carry one credit card and enough cash for the
day so if it does happen you won't be completely, you know, wiped out or devastated. you can
regroup and it won't be that big of a deal for you. When you get ice cream here's the tip. Always get the Panna. That's the cream on top.
It's so good and unless you ask for it, often times they do not give it to you so that's
my tip whenever you get ice cream in Rome, always ask for the cream. it's called La panna.
Without it it's just ordinary with it it's extraordinary. Another tip is travel with
a carabiner. They come in handy for so many things. When I when I travel, I have my bag
here. I like to put it on my bag and then I when I'm eating and I don't want to forget
my bag I just clip this to my belt so that has clipped to my belt I don't have to think
about it and that way when I leave there's no way that I'm going to forget my bag.
If you forget your bag you might as well have had it stall and made a better
story than just forgetting your bag somewhere. Good morning Rome Italia! that's where
we're at Rome Italy that was a tribute to Robin Williams I guess. Anyway um this tip is going
to save you some stress maybe even some money if it doesn't happens to you. Which it did happen
to us. My wife's passport was stolen and we ended up having to go to the US Embassy to get that
replaced. It was 125 euros we were there with another 40 or so people getting their passports
replaced. People lose them they are stolen so it's best not to tour the city with your passport.
Leave the passports in your hotel in your Airbnb put them in your safe if there's one but don't
tour with them. There's no need to you just take a picture of your passport and in the case of an
emergency you have that and that works just fine and uh yeah keep that passport safe and save the
headache of having to go to the US Embassy in the middle of your vacation. Yes! that's a good advice
I would say. Take it for what it's [Music] worth. The first rule of thumb when riding riding the
Metro is to not take your personal luggage onto the Metro when you're arriving in Rome from
Termini or from the airport. Take a taxi, they're not that expensive and it'll save you a
lot of hassle. I see people all the time taking their bags onto the metro and if you're an Italian
that's one thing. You kind of know you're the lay of the land you kind of know where you're going
but when you're a tourist you're a little bit disoriented you're a little bit lost and and uh
pickpockets can sense that then when they see that you're distracted with luggage you become a
prime target. So you're in Rome and you're ready to get on public transportation and you need to
get tickets um a ticket is €1.5 and here's how the tickets work a bus ticket is good for 100 minutes
meaning if you go out and take the bus go shopping and come back and it's been less than 100 minutes
you only need one ticket if you go into the Metro once you go into the turn Styles you're good as
long as you stay down there but once you come up out of the turn styles to the surface again if
you want to go back down on the Metro even it's been less than an hour or less than 100 minutes
you have to purchase another ticket. There is a new thing in town called tap and go and with tap
and go you no longer need to have tickets you can just use your credit card as your ticket and the
way that works is at every Metro station right on top of the turn Styles there's a little receiver
you just tap it with your credit card and it charges you and the gate opens. if you're on the
bus you walk to the front of the bus and there's a screening English it says tap and go on it and
you tap it it turns green acknowledging payment and you're good to go. Here's the beauty of tap
and go. Every time you get on a bus or Metro you tap right and no matter how many times you tap
the most is going to charge you in 24 hours is €7 in 48 hours is 12.5 euros and in 72 hours is
€ 18. it's going to automatically give you the best available rate depending on how many times
you tapped. That's great news you no longer have to decide do I need to buy the three-day pass?
or do I need the one day pass? am I going to use the Metro as much as I think? I am now you
just tap every time and it's going to give you the best available rate the only caveat is you
cannot use the same device or same credit card with two different people. If you're going to use
the same credit card you can do that but you need to have it on two separate devices. like you your
wife or whoever could have it on their phone and you could have their actual credit card or you
could both have it on your separate phones but you can't you use the same phone or same credit
card to make two separate purchases because it's tracking you individually and that's just how that
works. There's no reason not to have a ticket, you've got one in your pocket. Just use it and it
makes getting on the bus or Metro so much easier. No longer do you have to hunt for a place to buy
the tickets or stand in line when you finally do find a place. If you do still want to buy tickets
the way you get those is at a Tobacco any place that sells tobacco products in Rome sells
Metro and bus bus tickets and the way you know is you're walking down the street you'll
see these T's like on top. Sometimes they're in bars and sometimes they're just tobacco stores
but if they have a "T" which stands for tobacco that means they're an authorized distributor for
the uh bus and Metro tickets and that's where You' get them. if you're at the stations you can go
in there's a ticket office in most of the Metro stations and then there's also electronic
kiosk where you can put your credit card in tell how many tickets you want and it'll print
out you know tickets for you to use that way. [Music] Another tip, never get on the bus or Metro without
a ticket they will fine you and the fines are steep now they don't check every time maybe only
10% of the time but if you get caught without a ticket the fine is like € 100. I have seen people
try to talk their way out of it I mean they spend 10 minutes, you know arguing hey I didn't know I
don't speak Italian whatever they don't care and they will fine you. They have very thick skin
they've heard it all if you're on the Metro or a bus you need to have a valid ticket. so the way
you do that is you have a ticket first of all and you need to validate it when you enter into the
bus tickets for the bus are good for 100 minutes so if you validated it on your first bus won't
validate a second time you just need to know let's say you got on at 3:00 you need to know roughly
100 minutes from now you're going to need another ticket. If you're on that bus or a different bus,
let's put it that way if you're on the Metro a little different because you're going to use the
ticket it's going to validate when you go in it's going to open up the the Turn Style for you but
then you need to take that ticket because where they check on the Metro is when you're exiting
the metro and again they don't check every time but if they do check it's going to be at the turn
styles on the way out. And again don't get caught without a ticket it will cost you and uh it's
best just use Tap & Go. That's a tip on this video as well um but if you're using paper tickets
just make sure you have one and make sure they're validated! I'm going to show you how to save
time and money this one. Using High-Speed Rail in Italy. High speed rail is awesome! You
can get to Rome or from Rome to Naples in less than 1 hour where before high speed rail it was
around 3 hours. You can get from Rome to Florence in just over an hour and a half. That was like 4
plus hours before. High-Speed Rail is definitely the way to travel but it is more expensive. But
with the advice I'm about to give you I can save you at least 50% on your tickets and this is
how you do it. let's look on the app today is November 1st so let's go here to November 1st
and look at the pricing. If you book the day of or one or two days out your pricing is going
to be fairly expensive okay going the cheapest rate I can can find here today from here to
Florence is €49 okay and there's others that are 59 euros depending on the time of day and which
train you take. If I book out a bit in advance, there are so many tickets they allow for every
train at discounted prices, but they sell out ,so in in High season they sell out you know even two
three weeks in advance. In low season sometimes 3, 4, or 5 days in advance to get the full savings.
I'll show you here I can book out basically a week from now which is November 8th and I'll search
the same. This is for the same trains, searching, okay now look at this if want to take an early
train out like 5:40 in the morning pretty early you can get there each way this is each way is
$12.90. Under 13! but for a regular ticket I mean let's let's face it 5:40 is not very appealing
to to get to the train station I have to get up at 3:00 in the morning to do that so you can
get a ticket for around 26 depending 22 there's there's quite a few here to choose from and if
I went out a little bit further let's just see I don't know it's going to change much this
is to the 15th. okay oh yeah there actually are some pretty good savings you have a 7:25am for
$9.90 going out another week you've got uh 7:40am for 12.40 euros so you got a 8 55am for $21.90 and
then the rest of them are around 23 or 24 euros.So booking even in offseason, going out two weeks,
does save you additional .In High season remember a lot of people travel in High season book those
tickets you know as soon as you can book them 3 weeks in advance four weeks in advance it'll save
you a lot of money. Here's the trade-off though, if you do not show up to your train or you miss
your train let's say you're getting a taxi and it shows up late to the station and the the train
parts without you you just lost your ticket. They will not rebook you for free, they will not
rebook you at all. You're going to have to buy a new ticket. If you paid full fair you paid the 50
or 60 euros for the ticket and you miss the train they will rebook you for free, on the next train,
no problem. But um that's kind of the trade-off you just need to be on time to the train station
so you don't miss your train and it won't be a problem. But you need to know that, and that is a
good tip! book your tickets early and save money!
