The most common regret we hear is trying to fit in a fourth city. Depth beats coverage on almost every itinerary we have rewritten.
People come back from three cities in ten days having seen railway stations. The instinct to maximise is understandable, especially on a long-haul trip that felt expensive. It is also the single most reliable way to make a holiday tiring.
What a travel day actually costs
Checkout at eleven, transfer, wait, journey, transfer, check-in at three, then finding dinner in an unfamiliar place. That is a whole day gone, and it is a day you paid a hotel for at both ends. Two of those in a seven-night trip means you have spent nearly a third of it in transit.
The two-night rule
We try never to put a single night anywhere except a genuine transit stop. Two nights is the minimum that gives you a full day in a place. Three is where a city starts to feel like somewhere you have been rather than somewhere you passed through.
What to cut
Usually the city that is on the list because it is famous rather than because you want to go. Pisa, if you already have Florence. Ella, if the train ride was the point. The second beach on the same coast.
What you get back
A slow morning. The restaurant someone recommends on day two that you would never have found on day one. The reason you booked the trip in the first place.
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