Greece and Italy Tours and Trips

Our guide, Sapfo, was truly excellent. Without doubt the best group leader you could wish for. She was interested and engaged with everyone in the group. She was knowledgeable. She was super organized and nothing was a chore. Our group dinners every night were a big success. Her restaurant choices were excellent. Our driver, Georgiou, was also really great. He kept the Mercedes mini bus immaculate. He was a careful and considerate driver and you always felt safe even on the tight back roads of the Mani Peninsula. Itinerary is good except that Monemvasia should be included as part of the tour proper and Sparta dropped from the itinerary. Make sure you take the optional extra of visiting Monemvasia if offered. It is well worth it. Overall I would say the tour is best described as “very full on”. A lot of the ancient and medieval sites have many many steps and some of the stones are very polished from so many people stepping on them over thousands of years. So I would recommend wearing hiking shoes if you have them also also bringing walking poles if you have them. Both will help with climbs, of which there are quite a few as I say. Overall the accommodation was ok (but not brilliant) except for Hotel Galaxy (they need to axe Het Galaxy). The Pantheon City Hotel was the best. Our group got on well, and I think that was in large part due to our guide Sapfo.

We loved everything about this trip. Our tour guide was amazing, the tours were informative with a little more free time than we’d like but made the best of our time in each city! The hotel was subpar, we found some black mold in our room and bathroom but other than that the vacation was wonderful!

The itinerary for the first 3 days was too light with not much to do, but after that the tour was great. Valentina did a great job as tour manager. Venice, was beautiful, as was Florence, Romagna, Orvieto, and San Marino. The excursions at the glass factory and cheese making school were very interesting. The wine resort was beautiful.

We loved the entire tour, partly because my family immigrated to the US from Sicily in 1910, so it had deeper meaning than just a vacation. Our tour guide (Davide Iosia) was absolutely phenomenal and added a lot of extra value to our group. He made special accommodations for us to spend more time in Cefalu, where my family came from, and we climbed the Rocca di Cefalu for a bird's eye view of the town. It is a memory of a lifetime for me and Davide made it happen. We will never forget this trip.

The tour was amazing! I most enjoyed all the visits to the local farms, learning about the work they do and just listening to them; being immersed into the cultures and everyday life.

We especially enjoyed the visit to the winery/farm & also the family who makes the fresh mozzarella/pizza. Both those events were very special. Christian Cueva made our experience exceptionally good as a tour manager. He was caring, knowledgeable & professional, along with truly caring about our experience.