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We like to have a room waiting for us. Someone advised us once that on a trip to Italy that we could save a ton of money by not booking ahead. The cheapest rooms aren’t in the books or online, he said. You get off the train and go with one of the hawkers. Dirt cheap, he said. And that may be true, but we arrived on a holiday that wasn’t listed in ANY of the guidebooks. Not only were there no rooms, we couldn’t even drive our car down into the town (“it’s full”, the policeman said). We spent 6 hours looking for a room. That’s the only time we’ve ever done that (or ever will again).