re: See it all or stay put?

My next vacation to Europe will be 14 days in the same location. I'll probably have a rental car, but certainly train.

You can't see everything in a mid sized city in 14 days, not to mention any day trips you do.

I would try 10 days in one location, and then take a train on some day trips or rent a car. You can easily rent an Airbnb for 10 days that will be considerably cheaper then a hotel or anywhere for shorter stays. So much cheaper that you can easily go on a day trip and stay overnight in the middle of your trip and still save money with the long stay.

You could also do something like stay in one location for 8 nights, then train somewhere and fly out after a night or 2.

This is CLiche and can be complete BS, but truthfully some of my most memorable days of traveling are the down to earth local days that you don't find on any Top Ten lists. I enjoy just doing plain jane local activities.

We went to this hop farm amusement park in Kent England with our kids that was by no means a 6 flags, but just a really cool relaxing half a day family activity. That's the kind of thing you can do when you have extra time outside of just knocking out the Rick Steve's top ten: