Italy Vacation Review: Sicily, Taormina, Mount Etna, 10-Day Trip

We had a marvelous 10-day tour of Sicily arranged through Zicasso’s trip consultant. Our tour plan was ideal for activity level and allowed changes to take into account our special interests.

The process of selecting one of the several boutique hotels presented in each city or town was good, since we could screen each of the hotel websites and even choose a room to then advise our travel agent. We stayed in each hotel for one to three nights, leaving for a day or half-day excursion. Each was unique, including one with our room in a family palazzo. Each generous breakfast was unique to the hotel’s region.

All the drivers were punctual and provided comfortable vehicles to our hotels and tour sites.

Our English-speaking guides were extremely competent at each town or site we visited, with walking tours lasting approximately two hours. Adequate free time was available to explore the towns on our own, with shopping streets and selected dinner restaurants easily within walking distance.

Communication with the staff at our travel company was via WhatsApp and they kept in constant touch with us throughout. They immediately provided us with a new driver when the designated one became suddenly ill. Not a blip!