Italy with toddler and no car, homeaway site

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Hoping there may be some advice or suggestions on where to look/book for our summer holiday next year.

2 x adults 1 x 3.5 year old
Max budget inc flights £3k
Ideally fly from Bristol, or Heathrow
1 week

Our dream family holiday would be Italy, in a villa/apartment with a pool, scenery, but with some action within walking distance such as a supermarket, restaurants etc. We don't want to hire a car ideally. The nerves would ruin the excitement! Massive bonus points if there's buses/train/cheap taxi to an area of interest.

Ideally avoid large city centres but beach, lakes or countryside fab.

Flexible with month of travel, but want warmth and a summer holiday, presuming avoiding August.

Choice of Italy came from scouring package holidays and ruling them all out as not our thing. Pre-child, Italy was by far our favourite European destination and we like the idea of our son going there on his first holiday abroad.

Colleague has suggested website homeaway and said lots on there don't need cars. Anyone used this site and have feedback?

Thank you

Hi,

We go to malcesine lake garda. Beautiful town and lovely and calm with amazing views. We fly from gatwick to verona. Under 300 this time for 3 of us or around that with british airways/ easyjet. Transfer is about 100 return, meet at the airport and air conditioned car. They will provide a travel seat.

La casa cioca is a great place, own pool and the owner is amazing. Free bike hire etc. Once in malcesine you have ferries etc to take to other towns, no need for a car. You can pop to thenm supermarket etc. Swimming in the lake, ice creams etc.

Theme/ water parks on a 45 min bus ride

Often in summer entertainment in the town and lots of ice cream

I used it earlier in the year via their app to book an apartment in Brooklyn. It’s simple to search and based on only one experience, has decent properties. Payment was in 2 stages & included a cleaning & service fee. There was good detail about public transport options, reviews etc. The only thing I didn’t like was not getting the actual address in advance!
The PP’s suggestion sounds nice & Garda is lovely & not too hard with a small person. Amalfi would be my choice (with cheapo flights into Naples) - getting there is a bit of a faff (train to Sorrento then bus) but it is beautiful. If you go out of school holiday in early September the prices will be coming down & it will still be warm.

PS - forgot to say our booking isn’t till October so while I’ve used it, not stayed in the property yet!

Thank you both, very helpful.

Lake Garda sounds lovely and we've not done the lakes before so even better. I will look it up later, sounds wonderful and right up our street. Glad you had a great holiday.

@SJane48S hope you have a fab time in NYC.