Best of Italy (Small Groups, Preview 2022, End Rome, 11 Days)

11 days
Start and end in Rome
4.4
19 traveler reviews

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Curated to ignite your sense of adventure
Fully Guided
An experienced guide will be with you for the entire tour
Guided in English
Group Size 20 - 24
All Ages Welcome
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Highlights

  • Explore Vatican treasures and Sistine Chapel
  • Picnic at Machiavelli's Tuscan estate
  • See Michelangelo's David in Florence
  • Gondola ride with serenade in Venice
  • Discover ancient Pompeii with a local expert

Itinerary

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  1. Introduction
  1. Day 1 Welcome to the Eternal City of Rome
  2. Day 2 Vatican City and Rome with a Local
  3. Day 3 Tuscan Hills & Medieval Florence
  4. Day 4 Florence, Birthplace of the Renaissance
  5. Day 5 Pisa to Venice, the Queen of the Adriatic
  6. Day 6 Venice and the Magic of La Serenissima Relaxed Start
  7. Day 7 Assisi
  8. Day 8 Sorrento on the coast
  9. Day 9 Capri, the Isle of Dreams
  10. Day 10 Pompeii, frozen in time and on to Rome
  11. Day 11 Arrivederci Roma
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Customer Reviews

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  • Best of Italy (Small Groups, Preview 2022, End Rome, 11 Days) reviewer 1
    · July 31st, 2024
    Great tour meant lots of friends. Our tour guide was amazing, Funny, very knowledgeable and nice. Our bus driver was great, have no complaints what so ever. The ages we're all the way from kids to 8 to elder
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    Insight Vacations commented on this review
    We are grateful for your valuable feedback. We appreciate your support of Insight Vacations and are honoured to have you as our guest. The dedication of our On the Road Teams is invaluable to our company, and we greatly value their contributions. We are... Show more
    Trip date: July 2024
  • MM
    · May 29th, 2024
    Wonderful Tour. Locations were beautiful.
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    Insight Vacations commented on this review
    We appreciate your valuable feedback and are delighted you enjoyed this extraordinary itinerary. Thank you for choosing to travel with us, and we look forward to journeying with you again.
    Trip date: May 2024
  • FH
    · June 7th, 2023
    Not given the VIP Luxury Gold package. Hotels and meals were not the Authentic Italian cuisine we were expecting. Advertised as providing guests with incredible once in a life time experience. We did not get what we paid for. We were grouped more than once with a much larger group. Dining and accommodations were crowed. This was our third trip with Insight and it will be our last.
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    Trip date: May 2023
  • Best of Italy (Small Groups, Preview 2022, End Rome, 11 Days) reviewer 4
    · May 25th, 2023
    The first hotel in Rome Romanico Palace Hotel was a dump, dirty and dingy. When arriving in Rome after a long plane ride, I would have expected a nicer hotel for the money we paid. Also, we paid a premium for a small group (20 people) but ended up with the larger group (60 people) on several occasions such as breakfast in two hotels that was chaos BTW and some tours. When we pay extra to be in a smaller group, I expect that this would be honoured by Insight. We were disappointed and didn’t get what we paid for.
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    Insight Vacations commented on this review
    Thank you for your feedback during your time in Italy. We were also concerned to learn that some of the hotels fell below your expectations and did not meet the high standards we are recognised for, and we would like to apologise for any discomfort... Show more
    Trip date: May 2023
  • L
    · October 26th, 2019
    The quality of the hotels could have been better. They were clean but very outdated. Especially for the price paid. Very poor quality city tours in each location with minimal information on things to do with our free time. Did not know about the optional excursions until a couple of weeks before the trip which were of course more money. Our travel agent never informed us of this. I believe that for the money paid it should have been a better quality tour.
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    Insight Vacations commented on this review
    We are certainly very pleased to read that your time in Italy was a memorable one. However, we acknowledge your comments on the accommodations and Optional Experiences offered and we will be sure to send it to our team for further review. Nonetheless,... Show more
    Trip date: October 2019
  • Best of Italy (Small Groups, Preview 2022, End Rome, 11 Days) reviewer 6
    · October 23rd, 2019
    I'd give 6 stars if I could ! It was a trip of a lifetime..we were so excited about the iconic sights we saw and had forgotten about other wonderful events and locations; as the tour around Capri; the inside Venice tour etc. The driving was excellent and the tour guide Elena was wonderful....we will cherish the memory forever !!
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    Insight Vacations commented on this review
    Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the Best of Italy tour with Insight Vacations. We are very happy to hear that you enjoyed your time on the road. Even more, we are proud to learn of the immense effort put in by our staff to ensure a seamless and... Show more
    Trip date: September 2019
  • T
    · October 9th, 2019
    We absolutely LOVED our tour with Insights Vacation and would highly recommend it! Our tour began in Rome where we meet Caroline (our tour guide) and Antonio ( our bus driver) as well as our fellow travelers. It was a wonderful tour, so fun and so many amazing things to see. Yes there was a lot of walking but we expected that and started walking at home months before we left. So the walking was no problem for us, plus you must walk to see the sights, so worth it. Yes they do charge extra for extra excursions, we didn’t mind this as we wanted to get the most from this trip. Just a little side note: you could be standing in one location in the city and the tour guide would walk you around the block, where much to your amazement is a massive church or other historical sight. If you didn’t know to look for this, if it wasn’t on your radar, you would not have known it was there. That was why having the Tours and tour guide’s was worth the extra cost. Also not everyone did every tour, several went out on their own to explore or do what they wanted to do. We loved the tour guides as they were so knowledgeable and nice, and most times funny as well. Also for us, not having to mess with maps and taxi’s and finding what we were looking for was another big plus of being on the tour. Each morning we awoke, knowing this is where we are going, this is what we will be seeing and this is what we will be doing, this is where we stay, where we eat, it was all laid out for us.
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    Insight Vacations commented on this review
    Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the Best of Italy tour with Insight Vacations. We are very happy to hear that you enjoyed your time on the road. Even more, we are proud to learn of the immense effort put in by our staff to ensure a seamless and... Show more
    Trip date: September 2019
  • Best of Italy (Small Groups, Preview 2022, End Rome, 11 Days) reviewer 8
    · April 30th, 2019
    Absolutely fantastic tour! I loved every minute of it! Really gave me a chance to relax and take in all the amazing sights.
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    Insight Vacations commented on this review
    We are very pleased to hear that your time on the Best of Italy tour was a memorable one. On top of that, we hope that you were able to go back home with some amazing memories of Italy and we look forward to welcoming you back in the near future for... Show more
    Trip date: June 2018
  • AB
    · April 9th, 2019
    And our tour and itinerary was fantastic along...
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    Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the Best of Italy tour with Insight Vacations. We are very happy to hear that you enjoyed your time on the road. Even more, we are proud to learn of the immense effort put in by our staff to ensure a seamless and... Show more
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    Trip date: March 2019
  • K
    · March 15th, 2019
    Amazing trip to Italy!! Chris and the local...
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    Insight Vacations commented on this review
    Thank you for informing us about the wonderful time you had in Italy with Insight Vacations. We are delighted to hear that your Travel Director went above and beyond to make your time on the road a memorable one. Furthermore, we are without a doubt... Show more
    Trip date: March 2019

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