Pisa (Italy) > Reviews

Advantages: Some attractions, that tower
Disadvantages: Compared to many Italian cities not that much 2C

Pisa has a leaning tower. You must have heard of it. But is there anything else to see to make a visit to Pisa worthwhile? The problem with many cities you might visit in Italy is that there is simply too much to do in one day. Often places of interest within a city are a long distance apart necessitating a long walk or fraught taxi journey during which you miss many sites and views. Pisa however has all its main attractions including the leaning ... Read review

Advantages: You can take the famous photo where you appear to be holding up the tower
Disadvantages: Random Italians come up to you trying to push dodgy Sony stuff

...what the main attraction at Pisa is. Well, actually I have to mention it to get some points across.. The tower is, of course, breathtaking. White, leaning over so far you convince yourself it's about to topple, perfectly constructed. Unfortunately, at the moment it also has two enormous steel cables holding it up (which sort of destroy the romantic illusion) plus a building site all the way around. They're trying to stabilise it, and stop it falling ... Read review

Advantages: Beautiful tuscan city
Disadvantages: None

...perfect Italian experience. You can reach Pisa by air from stanstead with Ryanair www.ryanair.com. You can also get there from other areas of Italy by Italy's excellent (and cheap) rail network. (Florence is an hour away- six euro!) There are many good value hotels here but we found a great campsite (25 euro for a family) with swimming pool, restaurant, children's play area and bungalows for hire. I prefer to keep it short and sweet so ... Read review

Advantages: Great location, great transport links, great food, great holiday
Disadvantages: could run out of things to do on long holiday as its a small city

Had an amazing time there. Would definately recommend it. Food was lovely, ate in several restaurants over the 3 nights. Pizza's and Pastas were lovely and the icecream... if i could bottle it and take it home i would! Airport to hotel transfer was easy, painless and nice and cheap! Everyone we spoke to spoke English and this was very useful seeing as we spoke no Italian. We went out of season (in november) and everything was still open. The tower ... Read review

Advantages: Easy to get to, good base for a few days
Disadvantages: Crowded with Tourists, touts selling cheap watches

...Pisa. We arrived at Pisa airport which was only a mile out of town. I expected to find leaflets packed with info at the airport - but no. So we wandered outside and found the bus stop & I had already found out that is was apparently easy to get a bus into the centre. We tried to buy a ticket from a machine, but it wouldn't give us tickets so we asked the driver of a bus that drew up and he tried to help & had a problem, so he sold us a couple of tickets ... Read review

Advantages: Can't think of any, sorry
Disadvantages: A bit dull

...half day quick visit to Pisa from Viareggio where we were staying. We travelled by bus which was nice and easy as it drops you off directly in front of the tower attraction. What can I say about the tower? Well it does exactly as it says in the brochure, it leans. End of that review!! There are lots of market type stalls at the leaning tower all selling cheap tourist tat, but good to browse at. We had lunch at one of the many pizzerias/restaurants ... Read review

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: too many tourists

...that I do not recommend Pisa since there are too many tourists around, especially Japanese! The thing is that the tower is overrated and, partly due to its uniqueness, herds of tourists flock to Pisa. Anyway, there are quite a few cheap places to stay, since there is a large Student population in town with the University. Alberto Gronchi in Piazza Arcivescovado 1 is in a very good location and has clean modern doubles for £22ish. For food, go to "Trattoria ... Read review