BACKGROUND--My wife and I were celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary we are both in our early 50's.

TRAVEL TO PORT--We booked our own one way airfare via Aer Lingus...LAX to Dublin, Ireland and then on to Rome, Italy. We landed Friday evening Oct. 26 and took a cab to our hotel...expensive but what are you going to do?

HOTEL--We booked the Hotel Victoria online. A very nice hotel off of the Via Veneto. 10 minute walk to the Trevi Fountain, 10 minutes to the Spanish Steps and about a 20 minute walk to the Colosseum. Read more