An American recently described her trip to Italy as a “horror movie”. Here’s how to avoid its mistakes.

In 2013, I went to Italy to attend Thanksgiving. It was a strange option, but I knew that Italy is better in the fallPartially due to low prices and smaller crowds. I spent two weeks in the back throughout the country, and on the day of Thanksgiving, I found myself on a train up to Busitano.

At that time, the crowds were almost as thick as they are now in this amazing coastal city, and I enjoyed some wonderful walking in the quiet streets and empty beaches. How things have changed.

These days, Positano appears to be another world of what you faced in 2013, yet social media will think it is a strange and quiet paradise waiting for it to visit it. Do not be deceived.

What is Busitano, Italy really

Regina Simmons, 38, had long dreamed of Busitano’s visit, Italy. It is captivated by the Tiktok Dreamy clips that display the quiet corridors, the sunbaths that were recommended by the sun, and the local population suffering from the market, was the mother of Las Vegas imagining a calm escape on the coast of Amalfi. But after a 10 -hour trip across the Atlantic, she and her family found themselves in a completely different fact.

“In the videos, everything looks empty and calm,” Regina told UK headquarters mirror. “In real life, there were many people. It was just bananas. We were overwhelmed.” It has proven mobility in the narrow and successive streets of Positano. “Everyone was uniting. Half the crowd was climbing, and the other half pressed it – I felt like a complete madness.”

The social media version of Positano has turned into a “horror movie”

Regina, who owns a series of restaurants, has formulated its Italian italian line based on the romantic images that I saw on the Internet: quiet streets of gravel, market booths full of fresh products, and panoramic views of the crowds. But from their first moments at a crowded train station – “Like a horror movie,She said-the truth of travel in the peak season.

Besides her husband, Dan, 46, and the daughters of Sofia, 16, and Kamila, 13, Regeina also visited Rome and other high traffic destinations during their summer trip. Although the landscape was amazing, the huge volume of visitors often spoils magic. “There are hundreds of beautiful videos for Positano that inspire you to go,” she said. “This year he feels that he is especially modern – so many of my American friends are traveling to Italy.”

Regina’s experience reflects an increasing choir of travelers who suffer from contrast between online coordinated content and facts on the ground for global hot points-especially during the summer when Italy appears to be the destination of everyone’s dreams.

How to visit Italy in the right way

Italy is one of the most wonderful (delicious) countries in the world, so I will never tell you not to visit Italy. In fact, I will go to northern Italy on a picnic in Dolumite next month, then return to Venice in late October. However, there is a correct and wrong way to visit Italy.

If you want to visit Italy in the right way (meaning, without facing the largest possible number of crowds), here is what to do.

Choose the right destination in Italy

Remember the real estate logo “site, site, site”? Well, this applies to travel as well. If you want to avoid crowds, choose a site that is not the first place that anyone is looking for.

Even if you are ready to visit hot points like Positano, think about putting yourself elsewhere and visiting this day. I was driving myself in Naples (Naples) and took the train down, but you can also find smaller cities outside the Positano receiving fewer visitors.

Choose the perfect time to visit Italy

Italy is one of The worst places in Europe to visit in the summerNot only because of its crowds and high prices, but also because of the heat facing many of the country.

A friend will only warn me Visit Italy after September 10This is what I strongly encourage you to do. My journey in late November to Italy did not have fewer crowds, but in early December, I had to enjoy some holiday decorations without Christmas crowds that would soon enter.