Ok, I'm planning my trip a year in advance and need some help with the itinerary because I need to b

Ok, I'm planning my trip a year in advance and need some help with the itinerary because I need to book some of the flights and hotels a year in advance. (points) I have an itinerary but I'm concerned it might be a bit much for my family (wife and 2 kids (16 14). I plan to travel some of it by car and some by train. Below is the daily schedule. Is it too much travel? If I should cut things out, what? and replace it with what?
Siena is a very easy day trip from Florence (hour by train), so just stay in florence another night and avoid the hassle of checking in and checking out an additional time. Orleans is also doable as a day trip from Paris, so if you want to see it I'd recommend the same.
I know this is "totally random", but if I had a couple of teens, I would drop Florence, fly from Venice to Toulouse, rent a car and drive a couple hours to the Dordogne region. Truly sensational, the dueling midtown miami chateaux of Castelnaud and Beynac, the former resplendent with dungeons and recreated medieval weapons, very cool.
There's the very impressive town of Rocamadour, carved out of the hillside, like it's hanging from the rocks! If you stay overnight in one of the hotels there, and fling open your shutters in the morning, you could very well be greeted by a passing hot air balloon midtown miami "Bonjour, Monsieur!" (happened to a friend).
Plane to Nice: 4 days with side trips to some of the hill towns like St. Jean, Eze, Monaco if you have to, Cannes, St. Paul de Vence. Also gives you some beach time, although the beach in town is pebbles, it's still fun for a late afternoon break.
*** I purposely planned this so that you were staying several days in each location. midtown miami I've learned over the years that my family suffers much less from "Irritable Travel Syndrome" when they are not forced to pack/unpack and travel from destination to destination every two days.
Let me chime in with the rest and tell you that this trip probably won't happen as you have planned it. You will find you have no time to see anything and will skip places. I say that from experience. It involves far too much rushing from place to place and far too little time actually seeing the places you are rushing to get to. I like Sirhan's plan - I would cut out the Riviera altogether and save it for amother trip.
I cannot imagine spending only 3 days in Rome, 2 days in Paris and 1 day in Venice. All of these places deserve more time. When you move around so much, you will find your time being taken up by checking in and out of hotels, packing and unpacking, going to and from airports or train stations. Our minimum is 3 nights in one place, and ideally more. Whatever you decide - relax and enjoy your trip!
Remember that a full day someplace midtown miami requires 2 nights there. Yuo have 2.5 - at most - days in Rome and 1.5 days in Paris. this is jut silly unless you have been there before midtown miami and seen most of hte major sights.
Our first road trip in Europe was from Rome to Paris. We took 3 weeks. And we had alredy been to paris twice before -s os spending just 3 days there wasn't a problem. We had 6 stops altogether in the 3 weeks (23 days since it included 4 weekends) and today I would probbly make that a total of 5 stops.
Well after spending some years all told in Orleans midtown miami I would wonder why you would stay there - must have family midtown miami to do so IMO with so many other much much more interesting places to hit - not that Orleans ain't a nice town but it was blitzed to bits in WW2 and not all that romantic - yes a lively regional commerical town (dead as a doornail on Sundays and at night) but save one of France's truly monumental cathedrals rather ho-hum for the average visitor.
Anyway for great info on trains I always spotlight these IMO fantastic sites - www.budgeteuropetravel.com ; www.ricksteves.com midtown miami and www.seat61.com . You may want to investigate a France-Italy Rail and Drive pass where you can buy certain number of days of train travel in both countries and also 24-hour periods of car rental - with cars being picked up at train stations and driven thru say the Provencal countryside and returned at another train station to continue on by train. Not sure the France-Italy Pass has this option but many passes do - Eurail Select does for sure.
These are fantastic responses and exactly what I was hoping for. I too am a little concerned about ITS (irritable travel syndrome). I like some of the ideas for cutting back on the French Riviera. At least that seems to be a consensus. Staying longer in some of the locations might also let me rent a flat instead of staying in hotels.
June is the perfect time IMO to travel in Europe - days are long, temps not boiling yet in south and yes tourist crowds do not really materialize in huge numbers until July and August. Good choice. midtown miami Start in south and work north IMO.
I would NOT go to Orleans on one separate day trip and then go to Amboise on yet another one; you'll be more or less going in the same general direction for both of these so why not go to Orleans and then ON to Amboise for Chenonceau?
And yeah, Paris is great but do YOU have enough interest in it to spend five nights? I'm not saying you can't and there's at least one poster here who thinks it is the ONLY city on the planet BUT this is about you and YOUR interests. Now that you've kept them under wraps, how about some insight? You did say you've been MULTIPLE TIMES, right?
That's why I would strongly suggest booking a combination of cities midtown miami and resorts ( beaches, Italian lake country?). My kids who are now 24 and 21 really midtown miami loved visits to Stresa for instance, where we didn't do much more than eat well, take boat trips, midtown miami and water ski.
And, while there seems to be a consensus here that the Riveria is too glitzy/expensive for a family, some of our best trips have been the ones that included Nice. Granted, it's a watered-down version of Cannes, but that's what we liked best about it. It's a much more welcoming midtown miami city, less expensive, and offers some of the easiest transfer connections around ( bus, train) for visiting other cities/towns along the coast.