How much spending money needed for honeymoon in Italy?

OH is in Milan right this moment, he just spent 75 euros for lunch for 2 ( had pizza & a bottle of wine) He said he was just in a regular street cafe. No idea if that is average for Italy or if Milan is just really expensive

Milan is quite expensive IIRC.

But then again Positano and Sorrento are meant to be even more expensive. Think maybe we need to budget even more then!

Uh oh

He was shocked, he last went to Milan about 10 years ago and doesn't remember it being that expensive. He's there for another 2 days so will ask him for more prices of things for you!

We went to Sorrento last September. Breakfast was included at the hotel, lunch was about 20euros as we were grabbing quick snack type things such as a sandwich or pastries, and dinner was about 80 euros for a sit down three course meal with wine in a lovely restaurant. Local wine was very cheap in all cafes, bars, restaurants, etc. We heard that taxis were expensive but never had need of one so can't comment first hand.

Mellow_Yellow - Did you stay anywhere good in Sorrento?

I have found where we are staying in Naples, just got to find something in the Sorrento/Positano area now.

Fine with villas or Hotels.

We stayed in the Grand Hotel La Pace...it was very nice, very grand looking, but I'm sure there are better out there. Appearance wise it was stunning, and the rooms were lovely, but I wouldn't say that the service or food stood out - not that it was bad though, just not outstanding.

We did, however, eat (and get engaged) in Ristorante Il Borgo...a lovely little restaurant on top of a mountain. The meal was 66 euros if I remember rightly for wine, water, starters, steak each with potatoes and veg, coffee, I can't remember if we had dessert. It was by far the best meal of the trip, stunning location, and they send a car to pick you up from your hotel and drop you back off totally free of charge - lovely place!

Aaaarrgghh I just wrote you a really long reply waxing lyrical about the Amalfi coast and I bloody lost it!!

Anyway Hotel Antic Mura in central Sorrento has a good reputation.

We have considered Hilton Sorrento Palace and Best Western Solara but both are a bit further out but better views.

When we went we stayed in a villa. This one to be exact;https://www.vrbo.com/en-gb/holiday-rentals/italy/campania/metropolitan-city-of-naples/schiazzano?vgdc=HAUK&preferlocale=true&inactivePDP=true We saved money that way by buying in food and have booze and barbecues there with the lovely views?. Down the road from there in Massa Lubrense is an amazing pizzeria where the locals go, cost us 3 euros for some of the best pizza we ever had! The best and cheapest places to eat are often off the beaten track and certainly not around Piazza Tasso! Althouh we did eat there too and it was lovely.

We're getting married in Positano in spring 2013 and absolutely can not wait to go back. We're thinking of staying here;

https://villamiragalli.com/

Sooo exciting ?

We're getting married and honeymooning in lake Garda. We're booking a half board hotel so we don't have to eat out every night, though we will eat out few nights. We're aiming to have about £2k spending money...hopefully this will be enough .....

Sorry I should add we're staying for 2 weeks so that's about £140 a day ....

Villa Miragalli looks amazing!

But lots of money for 7000euros per week. That would end up easily costing us £15k just for 2 weeks!

The Masa Lubrense villa you stayed in looks lovely, but its more expensive per week than staying in La Solara Hotel, and the hotel has a pool and access to beach.

As we are doing a bit of a tour, we will have a car with us, so not too bothered if we don't stay in the centre.

Going to Positano was definitly the most memorable holiday I have ever had, and I will never forget the sites you see at Pompei and the wonderful city of Naples.

No one ever goes there, thinking that its just full of the Mafia, but to me its so much less touristy than Rome or elsewhere of the like.

Very excited.

There are just so many places to choose from, just got to decide which ones!

Yeah sorry, those villas are for 8/10 people and as we're splitting the cost it won't be too bad ? You'll have an amazing time wherever you stay.

This time we want to go further along the coast than Amalfi to see Ravello and possibly Salerno. We're going to hire a boat for a day too. We're going to see Herculaneum as we only did Pompeii last time. We also want to see the Blue Grotto as we couldn't last time because of wind and high tide or sometihng oh and the Emerald grotto too. So much to see and do ?

If you feel like splashing out for a meal you have to go to Don Alfonso too. Most memorable meal of my life.

Not sure if this is helpful as its not mainland Italy, but we spent a week in Sardinia in August this year (Southern Sardinia). When we ate out, we would have starters and main course, with a bottle of wine and possibly a couple of coffees after. Prices ranged from cheap (£20 per person) to expensive (£75 per person). We were hugely disappointed with almost ever place we ate, except the more expensive ones. Even the mid priced places were pretty dire. (we're talking pizza dripping with so much oil it ran off the plate and barely any topping except cheese, and another that offered Lobster linguine, that came with several pieces of shell (with no meat in) and 1 piece of lobster about the size of a small prawn!)

I would budget as much as you can and eat in the best places you can afford! We holidayed in Sicily a few years ago and it was amazing, the food was absolutely incredible, regardless of budget. But I wouldn't return to Sardinia in a hurry!

Thanks for all the responses.

Last time we went there it wasn't too expensive to eat out at all, and we ate at some amazing places.

It seems expensive now, but exchange rates could change still in our favour which would be nice.

Jennyh10 - The whole of the Amalfi coast is amazing. Ravello is especially lovely.

My OH hasn't been there before, so I am so excited to be able to show him all the wonderful places that are on offer, especially Pompei and the grottos. Im sure he will be blown away as I was each time I went.