Northern Italy Including Cinque Terre

It was a wonderful trip - did not feel the need to see Parma ham or Parma cheese. Would have rather had opportunity for more time in Cinque Terra.

Great guide and driver. Milan hotel was not central to anything and not a great facility. No real time was spentin cinque terre or lake como and trip should be same length of time but with 2 or 3 less places to visit.

Excellent experience from beginning to end. The organization and attention to detail is greatly appreciated especially when travelling overseas. Our tour guide and driver went over and above to ensure everyone was happy and taken care of. I have already referred Trafalgar to friends and family.

If you like looking at beautiful lakes this trip has a lot of that. You spend a lot of time on boats, especially if you do the optional experiences. The tour director and bus driver were very good - as I have come to expect. All the local specialists were excellent. The downside for me was that the included activities and optional experiences were very similar. Because the cities we visited were relatively close together they didn’t vary much. It just felt like too much of the same thing . The prosciutto factory and cheese factory tours were the notable exceptions and very enjoyable. The optional farm dinner, while pricey, was a definite highlight of the trip and very worthwhile. The hotels all had comfortable beds BUT their air conditioning was very poor. The hotel in Parma had no working a/c the first night. This was a huge problem given the 100 degree heatwave with humidity that lasted the whole trip. This was my 4th Trafalgar trip and the least enjoyable. Still it’s Italy!

We visited an amazing number of venues and saw beautiful country. The weather was quite hot in August.