Price: 2: E $635, 4 E $729, 6: E 810, 7: E $850 Tour starts: Morning or afternoon Duration: 3 hrs
Description: Guided walking tour of Milan's highlights: Duomo (with rooftop access), Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, La Scala Opera (exterior), piazza dei mercanti, sforza castle.
Important Notes: Add-on is last supper visit (thurs, sat, sun): E $35 pp Ticket + E $165 guide and driver for an extra hour.
Includes: Hotel pick-up & drop-off; car & driver for 3 hours; entrance to duomo rooftops; headsets
Availability: Daily
Remarks: ID required; large bags not allowed; shoulders and knees must be covered.
private walking highlights of milan
Price: 2: E $358, 3 E $407, 4: E 456, 5: E $505, 6: E $554 Tour starts: Morning or afternoon Duration: 3 hrs
Description: Guided walking tour of Milan's highlights: Duomo (with rooftop access), Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, La Scala Opera (exterior), piazza dei mercanti, sforza castle.
Important Notes: Add-on is last supper visit (thurs, sat, sun): E $35 pp Ticket + E $165 guide and driver for an extra hour.
Includes: Hotel pick-up & drop-off; car & driver for 3 hours; entrance to duomo rooftops; headsets
Availability: Daily
Remarks: ID required; large bags not allowed; shoulders and knees must be covered.
Group Colosseum & Roman Forum
Group Papal Audience
Price: 2: E $1640, 4: E $1798, 6: E $1820 Tour starts: 9:30 a.M. Duration: 9 hrs
Description: Meet the driver at your hotel. You’ll visit together with your tour guide some of Lake Garda’s most beautiful resort areas, such as the Sirmione peninsula. After an approx. 2-hour drive, you will reach Sirmione, a town built on the end of an impossibly thin, appendix-like peninsula sticking out from the southern shore of Lake Garda. This pretty village has drawn the likes of Catullus and Maria Callas to its banks over the centuries, and today millions of visitors follow in their footsteps for a glimpse of Lake Garda’s prettiest place. Here you can also have free time for lunch, enjoying genuine food in a typical restaurant. After lunch meet your captain for a 2-hour private tour on the lake. You will reach Garda Island (Isola del Garda), an enchanting and unique place, that you’ll will circumnavigate to and then go to Salò passing through Barbarano. In Barbarano, you will see Palazzo Terzi Martinengo. Built in 1556 it’s the historical location of the personal and political secretary of Benito Mussolini and headquarter of the armed forces of the Italian Social Republic. From the beautiful perspective of the lake, you will see the luxurious Villa Fiordaliso and San Marco Tower. From this place, where there is a beautiful sight on the lake, they say Claretta Petacci and the Duce met secretly. In the distance you will see the Vittoriale Gabriele D’Annunzio and its park. Last but not least, you will sail in front of the Grand Hotel, the first four-star hotel of the lake that hosted Sir Winston Churchill in 1949. A real jewel of architecture of other times. Return to port and the day tour will then conclude with a transfer back to your hotel in Milan.
Includes: driver and transportation to/from Milan, 2 hour guided tour in Sirmione, 2 hour private boat tour from Sirmione Port with English speaking captain
Availability: Daily
private exploration of lake como
Price: 2: E $740, 4: E $855, 6: E $890, 7: e $990 Tour starts: 9:30 a.M. Duration: 7 hrs
Description: Meet the guide at your hotel. Stroll the streets and hit the water for a full day on and around Lake Como, one of the most beautiful lakes in Italy. Boarding a boat and exploring the coast from a different point of view. Cruise up toward the spot where the lake's three branches intersect and disembark to visit the town of Tremezzo. Nearby, you'll be amazed by Villa Carlotta and its spectacular lakefront gardens. After free time for lunch, jump on board the ferry to Bellagio, a stunning town known for its breathtaking position as the Y-intersection of the lake, and the latter known for its hilltop castle.
Includes: guide, public ferry boat tickets from Como to Tremezzo and to Bellagio, entrance tickets to Villa Carlotta
Availability: Daily
Important Info:Please note during high season select only private boat tour option especially during weekends
Changes: Guide full day + private boat on lake 5 hours at disposal
Meeting at 10 am
2 pax Euro 1.590.00
4 pax Euro 1.740.00
6 pax Euro 1.815.00
7 pax Euro 1.850.00
stop in Bellagio for lunch in Restaurant please consider +1 hour boat tour
+ 250 euro
+ euro 100 pick up Bellagio – Menaggio – Tremezzo
Appetizer on board
+ €150,00 per prosecco + snack
+ €250,00 per champagne + salame, olive e formaggio.
private como food tour
Price: 2: E $410, 4: E $940, 6: E $650, 7: e $560 Tour starts: 10:00 a.M. or 2:00 p.M. Duration: 3 hrs
Description: Meet the guide at your hotel. This is a great way to discover the beauty of the Lake Como. Your guide will give you the local insider view of the history, culture and the typical food of the area. Live a cultural and gastronomic experience strolling along the historic city center with your local guide for an unforgettable day. Admire the historic neighborhoods and taste Focaccia followed by a choice of local cheeses and prosciutto and salami with a glass of wine as appetizer in a local winery. Next, continue your gastronomic tour enjoying fresh homemade pasta or ravioli with pesto, Bolognese or cheese sauces, whichever you like the most. Time for a traditional Italian gelato and free time in Como
Includes: guide, Food, Wine Tasting
Availability: closed on sunday or mondays
Important Info:Please note during high season select only private boat tour option especially during weekends
private italian cooking class
Price: 2: E $485, 4: E $870, 6: E $1280, 7: e $1490 Tour starts: 9:30 a.M. Duration: 4 hrs
Description: Meet the Chef at your hotel and be escorted to his restaurant for the cooking class. This experience will take place inside a real restaurant, in a real kitchen. This is not a simple cooking or cooking lesson but a total full experience with a real Chef! You will enjoy an exclusive cooking class in Como with a view of the lake. Cook your way to sweet success with this Lake Como food tour. Once here, you will create a 3-course lunch that features handmade pasta and learn about the history of the recipes. You will eat what you make. As a main course you might prepare homemade pasta or risotto. The cherry on top is the dessert. After two and half hours of teamwork, when everything is cooked, let's enjoy lunch all together with good Italian wine. Your cooking teacher will introduce every dish, telling the origin and history of the different recipes and the wine's choice. Lunch will be served by the lake. After lunch, your chef will escort you back to Como by car or you will travel by ferry.
Includes: transfers to the Restaurant from como, cooking class with chef, homemade lunch
Availability: closed on mondays
Important Info:Please note during high season select only private boat tour option especially during weekends
private varenna & vezio castle from bellagio
Price: 2: E $757, 4: E $850, 6: E $995, 7: e $1020 Tour starts: tBA Duration: 5 hrs
Description: Meet the guide at your hotel and travel to Varenna by public ferry boat. You will reach the charming Varenna, an attractive village on the eastern shore of Lake Como. Varenna's picturesque lanes and old fishermen's houses are unpretentiously appealing, and some visitors prefer the town to its grander neighbors. Visit the beautiful village and then take a taxi to reach Vezio Castle. The Castle of Vezio stands out in the municipality of Perledo on the terraced and sunny slopes on the top of the hill of Varenna. Thanks to its privileged location, in the past the Castle of Vezio was used to control the communication routes towards the north. It is a walled castle structured by an irregular pentagonal curtain with a fortified square tower with battlements and a real drawbridge. Its history is very close to Varenna’s one, in fact castle’s walls embraced the hamlet of Varenna until the lake and its citizens took refuge during the attacks by Como’s citizens in Middle Ages. Here you will enjoy a full view on Como Lake and have time for an appetizer in a rustic trattoria, enjoy the real Italy! Free time and relax. Then the guide will escort you back to Bellagio.
Includes: guide, ferry tickets from Bellagio to Varenna and return, entrance ticket to Vezio Castle tickets and taxi, appetizer with full view of Como Lake
Availability: daily
bellagio/varenna/menaggio priavte boat tour
Price: 2: E $630, 4: E $745, 6: E $780, 7: e $890 Tour starts: 10:00 a.m. Duration: 3 hrs
Description: Meet the guide at your hotel. Stroll the streets and hit the water for a half day on and around Lake Como, one of the most beautiful lakes in Italy. Cruise up toward the spot where the lake's three branches intersect and disembark to visit the town of Tremezzo. Nearby, you'll be amazed by Villa Carlotta and its spectacular lakefront gardens. After, your guided tour continues to Bellagio, a stunning town known for its breathtaking position as the Y-intersection of the lake, and the latter known for its hilltop castle. Enjoy the small village of Varenna a small and wonderful town.
Includes: guide, boat tickets from Varenna to Tremezzo and Bellagio, entrance tickets to Villa Carlotta
Availability: daily
changes: Guide + entrance ticket Villa Carlotta + private boat on lake 3 hours at disposal
2 pax Euro 1.160.00
4 pax Euro 1.290.00
6 pax Euro 1.360.00
7 pax Euro 1.405.00
+ euro 100 pick up Bellagio – Menaggio – Tremezzo
private boat tour through lake maggiore
Price: 2: E $870, 4: E $890, 6: E $940, 7: e $990 Tour starts: tBA Duration: ~7 hrs
Description: Meet the guide in Stresa. With a comfortable motorboat we reach Isola Madre: the biggest island, called by the French writer Flaubert “a paradise on earth”. It is covered with an English style garden, where you will admire ancient trees and gorgeous seasonal flowers following a fanciful path across the five continents. The renaissance palace hosts many original pieces of furniture and a unique collection of puppets, sceneries and accessories. The next Island is Isola dei Pescatori, the fishermen island: we visit the old village, strolling in its narrow streets. Here you can have lunch in one of the fishermen restaurants to taste fresh fish and good wine. The last island is Isola Bella: it is a real masterpiece of the baroque style: we visit the astonishing palace, dating back the XVII century and the terraced Italian style garden. Back on the mainland, we walk on the famous promenade of Stresa, where the Grand Hotels stand side by side showing their richness and their stories.
Includes: guide, private motorboat from Stresa for transfers to Isola Madre, Isola Pescatori, Isola Bella and back, port municipal tax, entrance fees to the palaces and gardens of Isola Madre + Isola Bella, aperitif on Isola Madre with a glass of wine from their winery or an alcoholic or non-alcoholic cocktail and a platter of cheese and salami
Availability: daily
private boat tour of garda island & gardone riviera
Price: 2: E $580, 4: E $610, 6: E $690, 7: e $710 Tour starts: tBA Duration: ~2 hrs
Description: You will meet the captain at the port and depart by boat to discover this Garda Island Tour with us, a magical place where time moves by the rustle of the waves. We will reach Garda Island (Isola del Garda), an enchanting and unique place, that we will circumnavigate to then go to Salò passing through Barbarano. In Barbarano we will see Palazzo Terzi Martinengo, built in 1556, historical location of the personal and political secretary of Benito Mussolini and headquarter of the armed forces of the Italian Social Republic. From the beautiful perspective of the lake you will see the luxurious Villa Fiordaliso and San Marco Tower. From this place, where there is a beautiful sight on the lake, they say Claretta Petacci and the Duce met secretly. In the distance we will see the Vittoriale Gabriele D’Annunzio and its park. Last but not least, we will sail in front of the Grand Hotel, the first four star hotel of the lake that hosted Sir Winston Churchill in 1949. A real jewel of architecture of other times.
Includes: 2 hours boat tour, English speaking captain on board, Rocca di Manerba, Isola di San Biagio, Isola del Garda, 30 minute stop to Gardone, Sirmione
Availability: operates only from 4/1-1/31 daily
changes/add-on: Additional amount to add for sailing from:
Gargnano EURO 480.00 only for 4hrs or 8hrs tours
From Salò, Gardone Euro 250.00
From Desenzano Euro 150.00
From Bardolino, Garda, Peschiera Manerba, Padenghe Euro 200.00
private sunset boat tour of sirmione
Price: 2: E $430, 4: E $520, 6: E $610, 7: e $680 Tour starts: tBA Duration: 45 mins
Description: Meet the captain at the port. The sunset tour combines the theatricality of sunsets often present on Lake Garda, a good glass of prosecco and the beauty of our peninsula, between history and nature. Set off to view the Scaliger Castle, the Grotte di Catullo, and the place on the lake where the thermal water comes out from the bowels of the earth. This will all be on board the boat together with the captain who will be able to tell you about them and accompany you with their thoughts in past eras and stories. From the boat you will admire Villa Callas, which was the home of the famous soprano singer of Hellenic origin. The villa was purchased by Giovanni Battista Meneghini to spend family holidays on our magnificent and romantic Sirmione peninsula. In the next stop of our boat tour, you will see the remains of the Roman villa known for centuries as the Grotte di Catullo. To date, the Villa is a fundamental testimony of the Roman period in the Sirmione area and is the most impressive example of a Roman villa present in northern Italy. The Castle with its dock is a rare case of fortification intended solely for port use. In fact, the castle was not used as a residential place. The place is very suggestive and can take the visitor into an ancient and fairy-tale world.
Includes: 45 minutes boat tour, English speaking captain on board, Sirmione, Villa Callas, Grotte Catullo, Fonte Boiola, Castello Scaligero, appetizer with bottle of wine and fruit and nibbles
Availability: operates only from 4/1-1/31 daily
changes/add-on: Additional amount to add for sailing from:
Gargnano EURO 480.00 only for 4hrs or 8hrs tours
From Salò, Gardone Euro 250.00
From Desenzano Euro 150.00
From Bardolino, Garda, Peschiera Manerba, Padenghe Euro 200.00
private lake garda tour from verona
Price: 2: E $1230, 4: E $1430, 6: E $1550, 7: e $1710 Tour starts: 9:30 a.M. Duration: 8 hrs
Description: Meet the driver at your hotel. You will be transferred from Verona to Sirmione in the morning. You will have a guided tour of Sirmione to discover one of the most enchanting places in all of Lake Garda. It is so beautiful and often referred to as the "pearl of the lake". Its magical atmosphere was described by the Roman poet Catullus in the 1st century B.C. You will have free time for lunch. At about 2:00 pm, you will depart from the port castle square to tour the Sirmione peninsula. You will then head towards the Rocca di Manerba, to see the Island of San Biagio (or Isola dei Conigli) and the nearby Isola del Garda where you can admire the beautiful Villa Borghese in Venetian neo-gothic style of the Cavazza Family. You will then head towards Gardone where you will stop for about 30 minutes. Return to Sirmione. After the tour, your driver will escort you back to Verona.
Includes: round trip transfers from Verona to Sirmione, private guide in Sirmione, private boat tour 2 hours
Availability: daily
private verona walking tour
Price: 2: E $310, 4: E $380, 6: E $440, 7: e $460 Tour starts: tBA Duration: 3 hrs
Description: Verona, also known as the City of Love, is one of the most visited cities in Italy and thanks to its archeological heritage is considered a "small Rome". We will meet in Piazza Bra’ where there is a rich variety of palaces from different periods, and above all the wonderful Roman Arena, built in the 1st century A.D. and considered the best preserved amphitheater in the world. The tour continues to Porta dei Borsari. Here you can admire Medieval and Renaissance palaces such as the crenellated Cangrande I Palace, the Venetian Verona Low Court, called Palazzo della Ragione, and the elegant Loggia del Consiglio, the first Renaissance building in the Veneto Region. The Adige River is nearby and from here it is possible to admire the wonderful panorama on the opposite bank of St. Peter's Hill, the Roman Theatre, the Austrian Barracks and Ponte Pietra, Stone Bridge, our most ancient bridge. Returning to Via Sottoriva we will then head for the world-famous Juliet's house where, upon entering the courtyard, Juliet's statue and Juliet's balcony are waiting for us to relive once more the beloved story.
Includes: guide, entrance ticket to Juliet’s house, food tasting
Availability: daily
private tour of santa margherita, portofino & san fruttoso
Price: 2: E $750, 4: E $800, 6: E $940, 7: e $998 Tour starts: tBA Duration: 7 hrs
Description: Meet the guide at your hotel and explore the picturesque villages in the heart of Portofino Natural Park at your own pace. Start from the picturesque village of Santa Margherita Ligure, once called the “salotto” of the entire Gulf, famous for its painted facades, its lush gardens and villas overlooking the sea. Enjoy a panoramic trip by public boat and reach the post-card perfect village of Portofino. You'll be fascinated by the arch of colorful houses and the lovely "piazzetta" overlooking the water. Then reach by boat San Fruttuoso, an amazing cove with a medieval abbey built right on the beach, restored and protected by FAI, the Italian National Trust. You’ll fall in love with these unique towns!
Includes: guide & public boat & bus tickets
Availability: 3/1-10/31 daily
Important Info: in case of inclement weather or poor sea conditions, public boats may be cancelled and it won’t be possible to reach San Fruttuoso. Alternatively, you will visit the village of Camogli by train from Santa Margherita Ligure. you will meet at the hotel in sML or SML Rail Station, TBA.
monterosso cooking class for small groups
Price: 2: E $240 Tour starts: tBA Duration: 4 hrs
Description: A special cooking lesson to learn the secrets of the most traditional Ligurian recipes and homemade pasta. The Chef will welcome you in his cozy restaurant in the heart of the historic center of Monterosso. Together you will prepare pesto, pasta and the typically stuffed vegetables. Then you will taste the dishes prepared while chatting amiably and sipping local wine. It will be an authentic experience in which, through food, you will get to know the culture of the place and feel a little more Italian. (max 6 participants)
Includes: cooking class with chef followed by lunch
Availability: daily
Important Info: meeting point in monterosso tBA
private cinque terre tour by private boat
Price: 2-5: E $1150, 6: E $1750, 7: e $1790, 8: e $1820 Tour starts: tBA Duration: 3 hrs
Description: Meet the captain at the harbor for this private experience where you’ll discover the Cinque Terre coast away from the crowds; on board a comfortable motorboat. Departing from Monterosso you will sail along the beautiful coast of the Cinque Terre enjoying the best views of the 5 villages from the sea. You will stop to swim in the best coves and will be able to disembark to visit one of the villages. During the tour you will toast with local wine and enjoy some typical snacks such as focaccia and vegetable pies for some refreshment
Includes: private boat tour with English speaking captain and fuel
Availability: 4/1-10/31 daily
Important Info: meeting point is in front of monterosso harbor
private cinque terra hiking tour
Price: 2: E $750, 4: E $820, 6: e $860, 8: e $970 Tour starts: tBA Duration: 7 hrs
Description: An authentic private experience through this area and its people. Following our insiders' track, you will discover the most authentic spirit of the five picturesque villages, beyond mass tourism. Moving around at your own pace and avoiding tourist traps, you will visit Vernazza with its tiny harbor, walk through the famous terraced gardens in Manarola, discover the postcard-perfect marina in Riomaggiore, take a stroll through the narrow alleys of Monterosso and admire the breathtaking view from the perched village of Corniglia. Your expert local guide will make you discover the best views and suggest the places we love most to taste local specialties, perhaps a simple cafe with a breathtaking view or a fantastic restaurant at the foot of a medieval tower
(Hiking trail Vernazza – Corniglia: Distance: a little over 2 miles, Duration: 1 hr 30 min)
You can walk this path in both directions, but it is easier to start in Corniglia, taking the shuttle bus from the train station in Corniglia up to the village. It is a few minutes ride and the ticket is included with a Cinque Terre Card. After visiting Corniglia, with its lovely tiny streets with shops and restaurants, follow the signs to Vernazza. Starting in Corniglia the trail is relatively flat and you will have wonderful views descending towards Vernazza.
Includes: guide and Cinque Terre train ticket
Availability: daily
Important Info: meeting point TBA in any Cinque Terre town, or La Spezia, or Levanto train station.
EXTRA COSTS FOR DEPARTURE FROM SANTA MARGHERITA: (Euro 55.00 per person) the number of villages visited will depend on the clients' pace and preferences
