Italian coast recommendation

[Florabella]

Can anyone advise me on an Italian holiday. I want to try and go somewhere I can get a cheap Easyjet flight, then the train to a coastal town. For one adult and three children. Trying to make it as cheap as possible, but my elder daughter really wants to go to Italy

www.residenceoliveto.it/en/home We stayed here when dd was little. Flew into Nice and got the train. Genoa would also work. 5 mins to the beach and there is a water park there. Plenty of restaurants and a weekly market. We got the bus to some of the other local towns like Loano.

Liguria is super beautiful, especially towards France. You can't do much wrong there. Be sure to visit cinque terre! Is very crowded, but super beautiful.

The lakes are lovely too, plenty of family resorts on Garda but don't discount the others eg cheap flight to Milan and Como ... it was surprisingly reasonable

Lake Garda. Fly to Verona, get the train to Desenzano. Or Como (plane to Milan or Bergamo)

Puglia is still relatively cheap, but the infrastructure for tourists is still very much in its infancy and you'll have to do all the organisation yourself.

The coast around Sorrento is lovely, though Sorrento itself is a dive.

I live in Italy and would holiday on the lakes.

Fly to Pisa or Florence, then train to Cinque Terra, definitely! Wonderful place to be.

I'm off to Cinque Terre next Saturday. Not sure it's somewhere I would recommend for kids though.

Desenzano on Lake Garda is lovely though.

The Amalfi coast is exceptionally beautiful - as a PP has said, avoid Sorrento though (lots of very unattractive hotels and very busy). Flights to Naples are usually cheap although accommodation along the coastline isn’t and I’d book early. Amalfi is lovely as a base. Getting around could be easier (trains run from Naples to Sorrento and then it’s a bus to one of the villages or towns) but if you are confident travellers or just we’ll prepared, it’s fine. It won’t be your cheapest option but the coastline is just something else.

if you would consider non mainland, take a look at Sicily. EasyJet fly into Catania and then you can get a train in less than an hour to either Syracuse or Taormina. Taormina is the more popular destination and is lovely - do a Google. It’s a very popular wedding destination as it’s very pretty! Accommodation isn’t that cheap though. Syracuse was my favourite - there isn’t a beach there (they have swimming platforms) but you can get buses to nearby beaches. The old part of the city, Ortigia, was the Western capital of the Greek empire and it’s gorgeous. Accommodation and eating out are all really reasonable. It’s not a typical fly and flip beach holiday destination if that’s what you want but it’s full of history.

We’ve stayed on the Italian Riviera in Sanremo. It was nice - used to be very popular a hundred years ago with the jet setting aristo circuit and has gone gently to seed. I prefer the French Riviera but it’s a nice area and won’t break the bank - we got there by train from Nice but easier to get there from Genoa which has an airport.

Horses for courses but I’d avoid the Lido di Jesolo like the plague. It’s often marketed by tour companies as an affordable beach destination right next to Venice. While it might be cheap, it’s just a sand spit with ageing 3 star hotel after hotel. I hated it!

Excuse all the typos!