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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the Fall - New Year you should have a good range of open bookings (if they're taking them that early) for both flights and accommodation. 
Paris is always a good stop, and it's between London and Italy. You could always take trains, at least between London and Paris and then fly, as the [b]further south you go the worse the trains get[/b], but the Eurostar is excellent. [/quote]

Uh, that's not correct.  In fact other than High speed 1 which was built for the Eurostar, the UK trains are slower than most on European mainland.  And the TGV from Paris to as far south as Bordeaux and Marseille and Montpelier is ridiculously fast and comfortable.  Spain has significantly revamped their trains and they are great now between the major cities.  Finally, the mainline routes in Italy are excellent as well, with super frequent fast service all the way from Naples-Rome-Florence-Milan, as well as most of the way from Florence-Venice, and across the north from Venice-Verona-Milan-Turin.[/quote]

OP here - We wanted to add Paris to the list with the idea of using London as our hub and taking the chunnel to Paris, but then remembered the Olympics are there next summer.  As I mentioned we're looking at early June so maybe it won't affect us that much since the games don't start until late July? [/quote]

I think you will be totally fine at that time.  There may be some minor issues/closures/etc for the preparations- things like maybe you can't walk over one of the bridges over the Seine because it's being used to stage/prep for the opening ceremonies.  I would stay away from Paris probably within 2-3 weeks on either side of the Games, but other than that it should be fine.  In 2012 the total number of visitors to London actually dropped compared to 2011 because so many people booked away from London altogether for that summer, and there are normally so many "normal" tourists that the Olympics folks just basically replaced them during the period around the games.[/quote]

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