To ask for your feedback on my holiday itinerary for next year?

Yeah this!!

i couldn't imagine being so regimented and rigid. Spontaneity is so much more fun.

It's the sort of hol I would have planned when I was 26 & new to Europe. I like more countryside & adventure nowadays (30 yrs later). Hope you have a great time.

Well in that case it's almost certainly going to be nonsense as it has no idea about how long people like to spend in certain places or even how they relate to each other in terms of distance.

Someone posted a similar question about it's suggestions for Iceland and a week's holiday included 3 day trips that included 10-12 hours of travelling to visit the far north, east and south of the island.

I tried it for an area of rural Spain that I know well and it suggested using buses and taxis that don't exist to ping pong back and forth across the region to visit village A on day 1, city B on day 2, village C on day 3 that was pretty much walking distance from village A, both of which were about 3 hours travel from city B.

Plus, like others have said, planning in this level of detail a year ahead is rather odd. Yes to planning flights and accommodation if it's available and high demand but otherwise, no need to keep anything other of a running list of things you might like to do while there.

Have you booked flights already? The south of France gets stupidly busy in August, so I’d do that bit after the F1.

I think it sounds great, but I don’t think you are allowing yourself enough time with your public transport connections.

But maybe that’s because you are travelling on your own so things are quicker.
Personally, if my flight landed at 11.30, I would be planning to get onto the bus/tram at the airport at 12 at the earliest, not be already checked in to my hotel, and ready to hit the town! I would be thinking “ok, ten minutes to get off the plane and into the airport, 10 minutes to get through passport control, five minutes to find the bus stop and buy my ticket, ten minutes wait for the next bus…

And then the same with all the other trains. Presumably you’ve checked how frequent they are. But I would want to arrive at each station a bit early so that I was sure to find the correct platform etc, which does eat into timings.

Our family have to take physical disability/mobility issues into account, so I do recognise we are much slower than most. But it still blows my mind a bit that you could fit so much in!

I’m impressed with your level of activity although a realise with F1 to fit in there has to be a level of planning as those timings are set.

My holidays usually look like

flight 6am, leave home 2.30am.

Oh yeah, that’s it except remembering what time I fly home but even then I’m given a pick up time 😂

Agree with pp - there isn’t much point in going abroad and staying in a boring IBIS identical to the same one in every city. At those price points could you find something locally owned that gave you a nice and more authentic experience? Broaden the horizon a bit.

Agreed. Unless you wake up in Bellagio, the idea of getting there, actually seeing some of the town, and then also getting out seems impossible to do anything else in a day.

My recommendation for Bellagio is to arrive one evening have dinner and a stroll, stay over night, explore early the next morning and then get the hell out of there before the ferries start loading the place up!

I suppose what I meant was, why not just ‘shower’?

Ok, well, there’s another poster who adores F1 and has posted previously about this being her first solo trip to Monza, asking how to arrange a short holiday around the race, and asking with a similar attention to detail about exactly how to get to the track and away again.

I’d need a holiday to recover from your holiday!

In Lake Como I don’t think you will be able to do all
that you have planned in one day. The thing to note is the ferry times and how busy they are so there often isn’t availability for the trips you want to do.

There's a lot of travelling and your itinerary doesn't include most journey times. Working out the way to the station, getting there early to be ready, getting the train, minor delays, finding your way at the other end - these are all time-consuming and a bit tiring. So make sure your itinerary allows for them.

There's a lot of strolling around which personally I would get bored of quite quickly, but presumably you enjoy!

Ibis Budget hotels are extremely basic: fine for a one night stopover but I wouldn’t want to stay in one for a holiday. I’d look for something a notch or two higher where at least the desk is manned 24/7.

I liked the Marc Chagall museum more than the nearby Matisse museum. Those close for lunch and get really busy so planning timings would be pretty helpful actually. I also liked the Photography museum and MAMAC. There is a lot of good food everywhere but recommend this one for atmosphere and service as well as food:
www.comptoirdumarche.fr/en/#restaurant

OP, you’ve posted at least a couple of times about this trip before, if I remember correctly, including in minute detail about how to get to the F1 track. Now that you’re using ChatGPt to schedule your showers a year ahead of time, I honestly think you need to work on your anxiety. It’s a short break in the south of France and Italy, not being parachuted into Mogadishu in wartime. You don’t need to plan it like a covert ops mission.

Why does chat gpt specify ‘full body shower’?

Why full body shower before the flight? I’d save it until you get home to relax and recover from the flight