Sometimes getting a flavor of a place is the best way to figure out what you want to see and do the next time you visit – and for those trips, an organized package tour can be a great idea. There’s a Go-Today.com 9-night package trip to Italy’s most popular and most visited cities offered right now that starts at just $1,169 per person.

There are several departure dates for this package trip, and they have different price tags – the cheapest ones (at least as I’m writing this) that have that low $1,169 starting point are in November or December 2008, or January or February 2009. Yes, Italy will be a little cooler then – but it will also be less full of tourists (yourselves included, of course), so it could be the perfect time to visit.

This particular package deal includes your flight from the U.S. to Italy (prices quoted are including flights from New York, so you’ll have to check out the deal specifically to see what the price is if you’re flying from a different city), 3 nights in Rome, 3 nights in Florence, 3 nights in Venice, all train trips, and breakfast each day.

There’s no date by which this deal has to be booked, but the number of spaces on each tour is obviously limited – so in order to get a spot on the date you want to travel, you’ll want to book as soon as possible. Besides, if you don’t get a place on one of the $1,169 tours you may end up paying nearly $2,000 for the same trip at another time of year! Don’t let that happen to you! Read up on the details and book your trip today.