Travel Review: Italy Honeymoon, Venice, Siena, Florence, Cinque Terre, Maiori, Rome, Wine Tasting, 14-Day Tour

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Jeff C.

10.16.2019

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Which Country (Countries) did you visit on this trip?

Italy

Your overall comments on the trip and the travel company:

We went to Italy for our honeymoon and it was absolutely incredible. It was a 2 week trip that took us to Venice, Siena, Florence, Cinqueterre, Maiori (near Amalfi), and Rome. We worked with this company and could not have been happier with our selection. Our trip planner was fantastic to work with and did a great job planning our trip. We were originally skeptical about working with a travel agent as we thought we could plan it all ourselves, but we are so relieved that we decided to work with our trip planner. It took absolutely all of the stress away from traveling as he took care of it all - from arranging private tours with really great tour guides to door to door transportation across the 6 hotels we stayed in throughout Italy. He even arranged for several dinners and lunches. Each time we changed hotels he arranged for a driver to meet us at the hotel to take us to the train station and as we got off each train another driver was waiting for us to take us to our new hotel. He also provided all of the train tickets. The greatest thing about working with our trip planner is that he is very responsive. We had one day where we were worried that some bad weather might disrupt our travel plans, so we reached out to our trip planner via the App and he was able to quickly respond and let us know he would help us out with any changes we'd need to make if weather caused us to miss our original scheduled train. He stayed in touch throughout the day to check in on us and confirm we were still on schedule. It was very comforting knowing that our trip planner was so accessible if we needed help. When a boat tour that our trip planner had arranged for us was cancelled due to rough surf, he refunded the cost of the tour to our credit card within 3 days of us getting back home. We'd definitely recommend this company to anyone traveling to Italy and will use them again when we return!

What were the most enjoyable or memorable parts of your trip?

One highlight was our trip to Siena. The company got us a room at a castle built in the middle ages that has since been turned into a 4 bedroom B&B. It was like going back in time staying here and had absolutely gorgeous views of Siena and the surrounding countryside from the castle towers. The owner also operated a restaurant on his farm a few miles away and arranged for an employee of his to drive us back and forth from the castle to the restaurant (we didn't have a car). The meal there was awesome as we ate in the field as the sunset. It was exactly what we pictured when we booked a trip to Tuscany! In fact, every part of our trip to Tuscany was memorable from our tour of Siena to tasting wines in Chianti to our 2 night stay in downtown Florence. We'd highly recommend our Florence hotel. It was very modern and had a great courtyard with a pool - a nice oasis from the busy city. And the restaurant we ate at in Florence was one of our best meals in Italy. Another memorable moment was an absolutely incredible dinner we had at the restaurant in Maori. This restaurant is in an old tower on a jetty that has incredible views of the Amalfi coast and was one of the most delicious dinners of our lives. A couple also got engaged there that night and ordered fireworks which only added to the incredible environment.

If you could take your trip again, what would you do differently?

If we could do it again, there isn't really much we would change. The travel day from Cinqueterre to Maiori was pretty long (about 10 hours door to door), so if we could have engineered our trip differently (maybe fly into Rome and out of Venice instead of the other way around) to avoid that trip it would have been nice. We only did 2 days and nights in Rome, which felt like we were just scratching the surface so we wish we had more time to spend there. Our trip planner recommended more time in Rome, but we told him we only wanted to do 2 nights because we were dead set on having more time by the beaches. We probably should have listened more to his recommendation on that. We also wish we could have had more time to explore the smaller towns in the Tuscan countryside. But ultimately, we don't know what we'd trim off our 2 week trip in order to get more time in either of those places. So my best advice is to go for 3 weeks or a month if you can!

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Travel Review: Italy Honeymoon, Venice, Siena, Florence, Cinque Terre, Maiori, Rome, Wine Tasting, 14-Day Tour

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