June 3rd, 2024
This year we were so excited to go to Italy for our family vacation! We drove to Orlando Monday evening and stayed at a Marriott by the airport for their park and shuttle service (much cheaper than airport parking):
June 4th, 2024
Tuesday morning we found this globe at the hotel and scoped out our travel plans:
We took a shuttle to the airport and flew from Orlando to Toronto, Canada.
On our first flight to Toronto, Canada. We weren’t able to print all of our boarding passes here for the next flights so stay tuned as the drama unfolds. We had a bewildering and bedraggling experience at Customs in Toronto.
We had a delay here giving us a 6 hour layover.
6/05/24
Wednesday in the wee hours of the morning we flew to Frankfurt, Germany and finally to Verona, Italy. We were told we had to go get our luggage at baggage claim and then go back through all the check points. I almost got trapped outside of the security check point because I went back out to go dump out water bottles and my passport and boarding pass were at the security checkpoint with the rest of the family:
The girls were highly impressed with the extras provided by Condor:
The meal was actually good! We had a nice 7 hour flight to Frankfurt, Germany. We had to go through customs again. Although it was a bit intimidating it was better than the Toronto customs experience. We also had a security check point again. The flight was delayed so we had to go right to our gate. We were very concerned about our luggage getting to Verona because were were told it was labeled as going to Frankfurt but when scanned it would go to Italy. We got on the flight:
We made it to Verona:
But our luggage didn’t. There is a flight tonight so hopefully we get our luggage tomorrow! We got a taxi to our Airbnb which was also an adventure. Apparently stop signs are optional and lane changes require little forethought. He was very friendly and we made it safely to the Airbnb:
We walked to a market and then a Bakery!:
Decisions decisions. . .
We also stopped for some Gelato!:
The Airbnb has a tiny lift:
Up we go:
During this travel adventure we had to go through the Security Checks three separate times and three customs checks. Our luggage is still in Frankfort although it will be boarding a 10pm flight to Verona. We are so excited for another Beck Family Vacation Adventure!