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Tour Code: ITIEA
Tour Length: 11 days
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Flavours of Italy
Highlights
- Rome
- Bomarzo
- Tuscan Experience
- Greve
- Vignamaggio
- Florence
- Tuscan Countryside
- Pisa
- Venice
- Secret Venice Experience
Hotels
Villa Pamphili (2 nights)
Palazzo Ognissanti (4 nights)
Continental (3 nights)
What's Included
Sightseeing Highlights
- Rome: Sightseeing tour includes views of the Forum and Colosseum plus visits St. Peter's Basilica. An evening drive which ends at Piazza Navona and enjoy homemade Italian ice-cream or a drink.
- Tuscan Experience: Basic principals of Italian cuisine and a lesson on how to get by in Italian. Purchase fresh produce to use at our cooking lesson in a restaurant, where a local chef will help us prepare lunch. We also select a Chianti to enjoy with our meal.
- Greve: Visit a wine and olive oil outlet, tasting a variety of Chiantis and extra virgin olive oils.
- Vignamaggio: See the villa where the Mona Lisa was born and 'Much Ado about Nothing' was filmed.
- Florence: Sightseeing on foot includes a visit to the Accademia where we see the restored 'David' by Michelangelo, plus we see Piazza Signoria and the marble Duomo.
- Tuscan Countryside: Stop to visit an olive-oil mill for tastings and a delicious lunch.
- Pisa: Pisa Visit the Square of Miracles to see the Cathedral and famous Bell Tower.
- Venice: Enjoy an orientation on a canal cruise by private launch along the Giudecca with views of St. Mark's Square, the Byzantine Basilica, Doges' Palace and the Bridge of Sighs. Visit one of the city's oldest workshops and witness a demonstration of the ancient art of Murano glass-blowing.
- Secret Venice Experience: Experience Enjoy a guided commentary on our cruise along the Grand Canal to Rialto Bridge and a walking tour through the 'Calle'.
- Scenic drives into northern Lazio and the hills of Umbria, through the vineyards and fields of Tuscany and into the Chianti Hills.
- Where Trafalgar considers that our excellent audio system will enhance the commentary made by our local guides, making your tour of a city clearer and more entertaining, it will be included.
Dining Highlights
- A Welcome Dinner and drink in a Trattoria with your Tour Director in Rome
- 9 Buffet breakfasts
- 2 speciality restaurant lunches, participate in the preparation in Florence and at an olive-oil mill in the Tuscan countryside
- 1 three-course dinner in hotels
- 3 local speciality restaurant dinners at a Florence restaurant, in a farmhouse restaurant and at a canal side restaurant in Venice
16 meals in total (see day-by-day itinerary)
First Class Travel Highlights
- The services of one of Trafalgar's top professional multi-lingual Tour Directors.
- A qualified local city guide in Rome, Florence and Venice.
- Chauffeur driven on Trafalgar's luxury air-conditioned motorcoaches with reclining seats and washroom.
- Rome Fiumicino Airport Transfer is provided on Day 2 and Venice Airport Transfer is provided on Day 11.
- A pamphlet on Tuscan cuisine including the recipes made on this tour.
- You'll stay in twin-bedded rooms with private facilities.
- All hotel service charges and tips, baggage handling fees and local taxes included.
- Plus a stylish travel bag and wallet containing tour documents and helpful information.
Airport Transfers
Airport Transfers Transfers on arrival at Rome Fiumicino Airport will operate at 09.30, 12.30 and 15.30. Passengers arriving later should make their own way to the first hotel. Return transfers from the last hotel will arrive at Venice Airport at 08.00.- London Gateways: Transfers can be expensive, particularly between the Airport and central London. When you book your tour with Trafalgar your transfers to and from the airport are included. It's that simple. Trafalgar has included a Free transfer to and from your airport and Central London.
- Important — Please Note: Passengers will only be entitled to transfers to and from London Airports providing the following conditions are met:
- You are staying at a London hotel, booked by Trafalgar, on the night of your arrival and the night prior to the date of your departure.
- Flights are either booked by Trafalgar or detailed information on flights is provided by your Travel Agent not less than 21 days prior to departure.
- Only one included transfer both inbound and outbound per tour is included by Trafalgar. Transfers are by express train to a Central London Rail Station.
- Heathrow Airport: Inbound transfers operate between 06.00-21.30. Outbound transfers are timed to connect with scheduled flights departing between 08.00-23.00. Transfers will be by coach. Gatwick Airport: Inbound transfers operate between 06.00-12.30. Outbound transfers are timed to connect with scheduled flights departing between 08.00-23.00. Transfers will be by express train and coach. Transfers outside these times will be at the passengers own expense.
- In the event of unforeseen events (road or rail works, demonstrations, strikes) Trafalgar will not be held responsible for delayed or cancelled transfers.
- No refund is available for passengers not utilising this service.
- Why not upgrade to a Hotelink transfer from the Airport to-the-door of your Trafalgar London hotel" (please ask Trafalgar or your travel agent of the additional upgrade price per person when booking)
- European Gateways: With Trafalgar all passengers will receive complimentary arrival and departure transfers on the scheduled arrival and departure day of their tour at the times specified below. Please ensure your Travel Agent reserves your flight to co-ordinate with the transfer times shown.
- Trafalgar Bonus - Passengers who book Trafalgar's Land+Air package and who arrive or depart outside of these specified times on the scheduled arrival and departure day of the tour will also be provided with a transfer.
- Passengers arriving before or leaving after the scheduled tour days are not entitled to a transfer but may book and purchase one through Trafalgar providing that they also purchase the additional pre and/or post tour hotel night(s) from Trafalgar. Please ask for prices of transfers at the time of booking your extra night accommodation.
- Land only passengers arriving or departing on the scheduled tour arrival or departure days but whose flights don't coincide with the listed transfer times below may also book and purchase these transfers. Flight details must be provided to Trafalgar not less than 21 days before the flight departure.
- Click here to see scheduled transfer times.
Explore Hidden Treasures - New for 2007
- Leisurely guided walking Tours of around 30 minutes duration into the very fabric of the city included in Rome, Florence and Venice.
- Click here for more information
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