Travel Review: Luxury Italy Vacation, Rome, Sicily, Argrigento, Vatican Tour

The trip to Sicily was wonderful. But I got the sense that the travel agency was not as familiar with Sicily as they might have been. And I really did not like not knowing how much I was paying for each night's stay at a hotel, until I checked out and even then, did not often see what the nightly rate was. They would not share that with me prior to the trip, so I just got an overall fee for the trip. Additionally, one of their services that they used to book hotels in Sicily went bankrupt during the planning process and the change in fees for the hotels already booked resulting from that -  which was something like $90 - got passed onto me. I felt that it was not my responsibility but should have been picked up by the travel company.

Other than that, the hotels were lovely and all went smoothly with the internal flights from Rome to Sicily and back as well as arriving at all of the hotels with no problems with the bookings. My main point of contact was responsive and very pleasant. I felt like I had to nudge her a bit to nail down the bookings when I was ready to commit and that seemed to take longer than it should.

Our guide to the Vatican, arranged by our travel company, was fabulous and that was a huge value add.