look at the trip I put together [and can't go on]
 

I'm not making any guarantees this will work. I can't go so I'm not putting any more time into it.

A couple of years ago we did go on a repositioning cruise to Venice that was amazing and inexpensive. [i'm not giving up the word - amazing]
So here is the cruise
click here

Next sign up for this credit card and pay $89 for a 50,000 miles.
click here

Next sign up for the flight from Rome to Tampa
The flight only uses 20,000 miles. Get 2 tickets.
Here’s a sample of what 50,000 miles can get you by using American Airlines’ Award Map tool click here
Read more: http://www.johnnyjet.com/2015/01/ear...#ixzz3Smbb9tRR

So for $600 per person plus tax you can go on a 16 day cruise ending in Rome and than fly home to Tampa. [when we went we bumped it up to balcony]

How clever you are! Now if I could just stay over there for 15 days for another $600...

Maybe----
The other day there was a thread looking for people to trade their TV home with some friends from Denmark. I think you could look at home exchange dot com you might find a trade.

We landed in Venice and using trains went to Florence and Rome over the next 9 days before flying home.
That was more than $600.