Review: Anniversary Trip to Italy & Greece, Rome, Florence, Pompeii, Venice, Positano, Athens, Crete, Pantheon, History & Culture

One of the things I really enjoyed was that all of our hotel rooms had excellent views. For example, in Rome, our window looked out right onto the Pantheon, which was next door, and in Florence, we could see the famous basilica from our room. Our specialist had also told all of our hotels that we were celebrating our anniversary, and they all went out of their way to congratulate us and make us feel special.

I also really enjoyed all the private and small group tours they arranged for us. Our tour guides were extremely knowledgeable and were able to give us the history of the things we were seeing in an interesting and engaging way. These were also set on a really lovely schedule, so we did not have tours on days we were travelling between cities.

I have to mention all the transfers as well - all of our drivers were on time if not early, and many took it upon themselves to act as tour guides as well, giving us some history of the areas we were driving through. Our drivers in Crete were especially amazing! It was a family-run company: one daughter picked us up from the airport and another daughter took us back, and their father took us to our tour. On the way, he stopped and showed us many native plants and animals, and bought us pastries from his favorite pastry shop. On the way back, he took us to an olive press just because he thought we would enjoy it - and we did! He really went above and beyond, and he showed us such a lovely time that the drive was almost more fun than the actual tour!