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julie279
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Tours in Italy
My fiance and I are going to Florence and Rome for our honeymoon the end of October. We already booked the flight and are booking hotels soon. We are arriving in Florence on Monday 10/22 early in the afternoon and are taking a train to Rome on Thursday 10/25. Our flight leaves Rome the morning of Tuesday 10/30.
We are looking into doing some small (day or less) tours in each of these cities. I was looking online and there are a lot of companies that offer these types of tours that I have never heard of. Not that they necessarily would be bad or cheat us or anything like that, but I have some concerns about using a company I don't know. Maybe I'm just being paranoid. Does anyone have any experience with tours like this in Florence and / or Rome? What company did you use? What tours did you like? I am feeling a bit overwhelmed with all the different options!
We are looking into doing some small (day or less) tours in each of these cities. I was looking online and there are a lot of companies that offer these types of tours that I have never heard of. Not that they necessarily would be bad or cheat us or anything like that, but I have some concerns about using a company I don't know. Maybe I'm just being paranoid. Does anyone have any experience with tours like this in Florence and / or Rome? What company did you use? What tours did you like? I am feeling a bit overwhelmed with all the different options!
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Re: Tours in Italy
do you need hotel recs or recs for anything else? october is an AWESOME time to visit!!!
I will look into walks of italy - thanks!
We're going to Rome and Florence too (along with Capri and Venice), and we might do a few tours too.
For some of the tours, it's actually cheaper to book with Darkrome than to just do the activities themselves. For example, it's cheaper to do the vatican tour than to pay for the vatican museum itself and with the tour, you don't have to wait in line.
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I will look into all of your suggestions. Trip Advisor is a great idea - I don't know why I didn't think of that!
[QUOTE]Thanks everyone. We have decided to stay an extra day in Florence because after talking about it we both really would like to do a wine tour somewhere in Tuscany. So, a day long wine tour is a possibility. I will look into all of your suggestions. Trip Advisor is a great idea - I don't know why I didn't think of that!
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if you're going to do a whole day then do it yourself!! yuor hotel will be able to hire a driver for you and can take you anywhere you want to go for as long as or as short as you want and you wont be with others-so do your research! the chianti section of tuscany is close to florence and, imo, has the best wines and towns. i suggest radda in chianti and greve. radda is a super cute town (stayed there for a week) with a few enotecas and shops-and the views are breathtakng, amazing tunnels through the city walls. very very small. greve is right down the road. between them there are a ton of awesome wineries. bran caia, verrazzano, riseccoli. all excellent. thre's a place called casa monti that also has pork products and olive oils. amazing. i shipped a ton home from there.