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Hi hive,

I am going to Paris (3 days) and Italy (9 days) for my honeymoon in May & we are looking for recommendations on hotels in Paris, Venice, Rome, and Sorento.

Have you ladies ever been & do you have any recommendations on where to stay? We'd like a mid-to-upper price range. 

We stayed at the Hotel du Petit Moulin in the 3eme in Paris -- also for 3 days on our honeymoon. It was beautiful, clean, and comfortable, and it was designed by Christian Lacroix, so it's definitely not your typical hotel! It's also in a pretty central location, so we walked pretty much everywhere.

Check out my full review here. Have fun!!

For Rome, we stayed at Inn at the Spanish Steps. It's the one hotel that we splurged a little on (all of our other hotels in Italy had lower ratings). It's a great little hotel with a fantastic location!

For more about our Italian honeymoon, you can look at my posts. This one is Rome (our last stop) with links to the previous cities (Florence, Venice):

http://www.weddingbee.com/2008/07/23/the-toucans-go-on-honeymoon-part-4/

And, here's post with some food recommendations (see the comments too on this one): http://www.weddingbee.com/2008/07/28/italian-eats/

Hope this helps! :)

We stayed at the Marriott Rome Grand Flora but we used my husband's Marriott points to do so.  The rooms were very nice (although not spectacular) but they had breakfast on the rooftop terrace every morning which was really nice.

We stayed on Capri at the JW Marriott and visited Sorrento. I just wanted to chime in that it is a great idea to stay in Sorrento because you have better access to get around and visit other places.

Just came back to check on this post and I see there were a few more comments that I hadn't seen! THAnKS GUYS! Mrs Bee, I'll definitely check out your series. And Carrieitly, thanks for all of the suggestions! Its always hard to know of good restaurants to go to, so thanks!!!!!!

I'd like to second Jenny Bee's suggestion on finding a hotel in the St Germain de Pres area- it's a very nice area of Paris (I lived in a dorm and went to school in that area) and I know there are some reasonable hotels (I will dig out my notes when I get home!) Transportation on the metro or bus lines is super easy. Follow mrbee's guide- I generally had the same experience and advice to give. You'll have so much fun!