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🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Rome Underground Full Day Guided Tour

Spend a full day uncovering Rome's layers with a bilingual driver-guide who navigates you through the city's most significant landmarks. Over seven to eight hours in a private Mercedes, you'll move between monuments and museums at a comfortable pace, with your guide offering context on what you're seeing both en route and at each stop. A customisable itinerary means you can linger where it matters to you.

7 hours – 8 hoursfrom AUD $666

Trekking Excursion History and Nature Necropolis of Norchia from Rome

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🌿 Nature & Wildlife

Italy

Trekking Excursion History and Nature Necropolis of Norchia from Rome

Trek through Norchia, an Etruscan necropolis near Rome, where rock-cut tombs rise dramatically from canyon walls. This 9–10 hour walk descends into the Acqualta gorge, climbs through woodland to a medieval castle ruin, then explores Cava Buia—a 400-metre passage hewn into tufa stone by ancient Romans. Packed lunch with regional wine and produce included. Seven kilometres on foot across archaeological layers spanning 2,500 years.

9 hours – 10 hoursfrom AUD $366

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🛕 Culture & History

Italy

Christmas in Rome Walking Tour

A two-hour walking tour through Rome's decorated Christmas streets, hitting the Spanish Steps and Piazza Navona with a local guide. You'll learn how Romans actually celebrate the season rather than just observe it from a distance. The walk winds through central neighbourhoods packed with festive energy, finishing with hot chocolate or coffee and traditional Italian sweets at a warm spot to rest your feet.

Private Tour of Pompeii with official tour guide and skip the line tickets

Skip queues and explore Pompeii's most evocative ruins with a private official guide over two-and-a-half hours. You'll meet your guide at Porta Marina Superiore and work through the Forum's civic heart, the Amphitheatre's gladiatorial past, the House of the Faun's intricate mosaics, and the Lupanar's candid domestic life. You'll examine the engineering of the Roman Baths and finish at the Villa of the Mysteries, where haunting frescoes hint at forgotten ceremonies.

2h 30mfrom AUD $392

Capri private tour by Typical Gozzo and Taxi cabrio

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🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Capri private tour by Typical Gozzo and Taxi cabrio

A nine-hour private tour combining three hours of coastal exploration by traditional gozzo boat with a guided land tour via open-top cabrio taxi. You'll navigate Capri's rugged shoreline searching for sea caves and hidden inlets, then climb through the island's hillside villages and viewpoints. The boat skirts conditions permitting the Blue Grotto entrance; afterwards, your guide steers you through the Piazzetta's buzz, up Monte Solaro's chairlift views, and past the villas that cling to Capri's cliffs. Finish with unscheduled time wandering Via Camerelle's boutiques and craft shops.

9 hoursfrom AUD $2163

Pompei tour with a 2000 years roman dinner

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🛕 Culture & History

Italy

Pompei tour with a 2000 years roman dinner

Walk through Pompeii with an archaeologist who unpicks recent discoveries—graffiti, household layouts, everyday details frozen in ash. Then eat as Romans did two millennia ago in an authentic caupona, dining off period vessels and glassware. This is one of only three restaurants worldwide offering this hands-on historical meal. A four to five-hour blend of excavation insight and culinary archaeology.

4 hours – 5 hoursfrom AUD $275

★ 5.0 (3)

🛕 Culture & History

Italy

Teatro La Fenice Guided Tour

Step inside Venice's grandest opera house, rebuilt twice from fire yet standing stronger each time. Teatro La Fenice opened in 1792 and became the birthplace of masterworks by Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi across the 1800s. Your guide walks you through a thousand-seat auditorium famed for its crystal-clear acoustics, tracing the theatre's resurrection after flames consumed it in 1836 and again in 1996. Today it hosts over a hundred opera nights yearly alongside symphonic concerts and cutting-edge work. This one-hour tour reveals the architectural bones and operatic soul of a venue that shaped European music.

Sunset Luxury: Capri on fire

Watch Capri's cliffs turn gold and crimson from a boat anchored in sheltered waters. This three-hour evening voyage pairs a sunset aperitif with prosecco and nibbles, then transitions into a night snorkel session exploring underwater rock formations and marine life illuminated by torchlight. A skilled English-speaking crew handles all logistics, leaving you to absorb the island's geology and nocturnal ecosystem without fuss.

3 hoursfrom AUD $4163

Etna Excursion and Lunch - Wine Tasting in Etna DOC Vinery

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🍜 Food & Cooking

Italy

Etna Excursion and Lunch - Wine Tasting in Etna DOC Vinery

Explore Europe's most active volcano and the vineyards thriving on its volcanic slopes. This six-hour tour departs from Catania, Taormina, or Giardini Naxos and takes you across Etna's distinctive terrain, where you'll visit a renowned winery to taste wines and local products shaped by the volcano's mineral-rich soil. A leisurely tour suited to all fitness levels, combining geology and gastronomy.

1-Day Personal Fashion Styling Course for Women

Spend five hours in Milan learning to dress with intention. A personal styling coach guides you through colour theory, silhouette matching, and wardrobe strategy tailored to your body and lifestyle. Walk away with concrete rules for getting dressed that actually work, not fashion dogma. You'll understand why certain pieces work together and how to build outfits from what you already own. Beverages included.

5 hoursfrom AUD $1249

Small Group Tuscany Trip from Rome: Pienza and Montepulciano

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🍜 Food & Cooking

Italy

Small Group Tuscany Trip from Rome: Pienza and Montepulciano

A 12-hour excursion from Rome into Val d'Orcia's rolling hills, visiting two Renaissance towns steeped in wine and cheese culture. Start in Montepulciano, where you'll navigate steep medieval lanes and taste Nobile wines in a centuries-old cellar. Push on to Pienza, the architectural showpiece built by a 15th-century pope, sampling its renowned pecorino before the return journey to Rome. A small-group format keeps the pace manageable and conversation flowing.

12 hoursfrom AUD $397

Montepulciano Wine Tasting and Orvieto Private Day Tour from Rome

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🍜 Food & Cooking

Italy

Montepulciano Wine Tasting and Orvieto Private Day Tour from Rome

Escape Rome's crowds on this private 7–8 hour loop through two Tuscan hill towns. Start in Montepulciano, where you'll taste Nobile wines straight from medieval cellars carved beneath Renaissance palaces, then pair them with local cheese and cured meats. Head to Orvieto, perched dramatically on a volcanic plateau, to explore its Gothic cathedral and wander streets lined with well-kept medieval stonework. A private guide and driver handle all logistics, leaving you free to linger where you choose.

7 hours – 8 hoursfrom AUD $1665

Full Day Private Tour in Pompeii, Vesuvio and Sorrento

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🛕 Culture & History

Italy

Full Day Private Tour in Pompeii, Vesuvio and Sorrento

Explore Pompeii's ruins on foot, then taste regional dishes and wines that connect ancient and modern Naples. This eight-to-nine-hour private tour combines archaeology with the flavours that have survived two millennia, using food as a lens to understand how people actually lived before Vesuvius erupted. Your driver handles transport; you handle the discovery.

8 hours – 9 hoursfrom AUD $616

Taormina shore tour - for small group cruise passengers

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🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Taormina shore tour - for small group cruise passengers

Explore Taormina's medieval heart without the cruise port rush. This five-hour guided tour delivers you straight to the pedestrian quarter, leaving three full hours to wander the hilltop town's narrow streets, baroque churches and ancient Greek theatre. Your air-conditioned vehicle collects you with comfortable margin before your ship departs, so you're never racing the clock.

Cooking Course for Experienced Chefs in Milan

Work alongside a Milan-based chef for three hours of hands-on cooking instruction tailored to your skill level. Each session focuses on a distinct culinary theme—antipasti, primi, dolci, or wine-matched dishes—allowing you to choose based on your interests. You'll learn techniques you can execute in your own kitchen, take home a handbook, and finish with a meal showcasing what you've prepared.

Venice Portrait Photoshoot - Making Memories

A 90-minute private photoshoot through Venice with a local photographer who knows the city's quieter passages and hidden corners. Rather than stiff poses, the session stays relaxed and conversational, capturing genuine moments against authentic backdrops. You'll walk at an easy pace, explore neighbourhoods most visitors miss, and leave with polished images ready for printing—or simply treasuring on screen.

Crucis Saints Peter and Paul Walking Tour of Rome

Walk the ground where Christianity's foundational figures met their end. This three-hour guided tour through Rome traces the lives and deaths of St Peter and St Paul, exploring how two men from vastly different backgrounds—a fisherman turned pontiff and a privileged Roman citizen—shaped the early Church. Your knowledgeable guide weaves together pilgrimage, historical fact, and faith tradition, moving between the sites where these apostles were martyred at the heart of the ancient empire.

Vegan Charme: Typical Dinner with a Local in Monopoli

Sit down for dinner in Monopoli with a local host who cooks exclusively plant-based, using vegetables and olive oil grown on their property. Over three hours, you'll work through a carefully considered menu built entirely from what comes out of their garden. It's a straightforward evening around a shared table with other diners—no theatre, just good food and conversation rooted in what grows nearby.

Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel Tour with St Peter's Access

Walk through the Vatican Museums with a guide who knows where the crowds thin out, moving past the Pine Courtyard and Belvedere Courtyard toward the Gallery of Maps and Raphael Rooms. You'll finish at the Sistine Chapel to see Michelangelo's work up close. This 2.5-hour tour includes entrance fees and a headset so you actually hear your guide. Early slots skip the main queue; later tours join the general line with everyone else.

Private 10 hour tour to Agrigento (Valley of the Temples) from Palermo

Spend a full day exploring Agrigento's ancient Greek temples from Palermo in a private vehicle with your own driver and guide. This 10-hour excursion takes you south to Sicily's most impressive archaeological site, the Valley of the Temples, where a local expert walks you through two hours of Doric columns, sanctuaries and hilltop ruins spanning the 5th century BC. Skip-the-line access gets you straight in; afterwards, wander Agrigento's streets or grab lunch before the return drive to Palermo.

10 hoursfrom AUD $1423

Modena Balsamic Vinegar Tour & Tasting with Monica

★ 5.0 (3)

🍜 Food & Cooking

Italy

Modena Balsamic Vinegar Tour & Tasting with Monica

Step into the Malpighi acetaia with Monica to discover what makes Modena's balsamic vinegar legendary. This 30-minute tour walks you through two barrel rooms and a collection of vintage production equipment, revealing the family's signature blend of grape varieties and wood-ageing sequence. Taste your way through vinegars spanning 5–25 years, try to guess each age, and leave with two bottles: a 100 ml Saporoso and a flavoured expression. A glass of Lambrusco rounds out the experience.

Explore Venice in 90 minutes with a Local

Walk through Venice's heart with someone who actually knows the city, moving from San Marco to the Rialto and beyond at a pace that suits your legs and interests. Your local guide reads the crowd and flexes the route as you go, steering you toward genuine neighbourhood spots—the kind of café or bacaro where locals eat rather than tourists queue. You'll pick up the rhythms of Venetian life, glimpse the canals properly, and leave with real recommendations you'll actually use. Ninety minutes doesn't sound like much until you realise you've covered what most guidebooks miss.

1 hourfrom AUD $231

Private Pompeii, Horse Riding & Lunch Tour w/ Pick up included

★ 5.0 (3)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Private Pompeii, Horse Riding & Lunch Tour w/ Pick up included

A six-and-a-half-hour private tour combining Pompeii's archaeological riches with countryside pleasures. Your personal archaeologist guides you through the Roman city's streets, explaining daily life before Vesuvius altered everything. Afterwards, ride out across countryside from a working stables, then settle into lunch at a winery terrace overlooking the Sorrentine coast and Capri, sampling organic local dishes and wines. Hotel pickup included.

6h 30mfrom AUD $678

Couple or family photo shoot Polignano a Mare

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🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Couple or family photo shoot Polignano a Mare

A one-hour portrait session in Polignano a Mare that captures your family or couple moments across the town's dramatic coastal backdrops. The photographer composes each frame to reveal personality and connection rather than stiff poses, delivering 30 professionally edited images that work as a visual narrative of your time together. Built around cinematic storytelling, the shoot adapts to your group's needs and pace.

Essential Genoa Photo Tour

Explore Genoa's most photogenic corners with a local photographer guiding you through 2.5 hours of the city's architectural heart. You'll shoot Via Garibaldi, the medieval quarter, Piazza De Ferrari and Porto Antico, picking up composition basics before you start. Whether you're using your phone or a professional camera, this small group tour keeps things relaxed and intimate—no more than five of you—and wraps with a taste of Genoese breakfast.

Explore Pompeii & Stabiae – Small-Group Classic Ford Transit Tour

This seven-hour small-group tour takes you to two of Italy's most significant Roman archaeological sites. Begin at Stabiae, where you'll wander through the opulent homes of wealthy patricians, then move on to Pompeii's sprawling ruins, entombed by volcanic debris nearly two millennia ago. Travel between sites in a vintage Ford Transit, keeping the group intimate and the conversation flowing. You'll see streets, homes, and artworks that reveal how Romans actually lived before Vesuvius changed everything.

Via Ferrata Rio Ruzza

A steel-cable scramble through the Rio Ruzza gorge near cascading water, this four-hour via ferrata demands genuine fitness and nerve. You'll clip, climb and traverse rock faces with professional gear—harness, helmet, ironmongery—supplied and insured. The route cuts through a narrow canyon where spray from falls keeps things cool and slick. This isn't for the cautious or unfit; it's for climbers comfortable at height with strong legs and cardiovascular capacity.

4 hoursfrom AUD $142

★ 5.0 (3)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Christmas Walking Tour in Rome

Walk through Rome's festive heart during December with a local guide who knows the city's seasonal rhythms and stories. This three-hour circuit takes you past the Spanish Steps, Navona Square, and along Via del Corso, punctuated by stops at Pincio Gardens and St. Peter's Square to see the Vatican's Christmas tree. You'll move at a relaxed pace through decorated streets, hearing tales and context that only someone who lives here can offer. Groups stay small—just fourteen people maximum—so you won't be herded.

Cagliari: Is Cannoneris Nature Reserve Jeep and Walking Private Tour from Chia

Explore Is Cannoneris, a pristine woodland reserve near Cagliari featuring Europe's most impressive holm oak forest at 900 metres altitude. This 4–5 hour private Jeep and walking tour takes you away from city crowds through Sardinia's forested interior. Optional add-on includes visiting a working shepherd to watch traditional pecorino cheese-making, vineyard strolls, and a feast of roasted suckling pig paired with local wine.

4 hours – 5 hoursfrom AUD $215

Best of Naples Full-day Food Tour with Guided City Sightseeing & Wine Tasting

★ 5.0 (3)

🍜 Food & Cooking

Italy

Best of Naples Full-day Food Tour with Guided City Sightseeing & Wine Tasting

Spend seven hours eating your way through Naples with a local guide who knows where the best bites hide. Start in Sanità exploring baroque streets and the Fontanelle Cemetery, then hunt down fresh buffalo mozzarella and pastries in the historic centre's Greek-Roman grid. You'll taste limoncello, sip wine, sit down to lunch, and finish at Piazza del Plebiscito with coffee and sfogliatella. The tour weaves food, architecture and neighbourhood stories together—expect to walk, eat, and learn why Neapolitans are obsessed with their city.

Full day tour from History to Culinary Culture

Spend four to five hours exploring Ischia's layered past and present with a private guide and driver. This tour weaves together the island's most significant landmarks with tastings of local food and wine, giving you a genuine sense of how Ischia's history shapes what people eat and celebrate today. You'll leave with stories worth retelling and reasons to come back.

4 hours – 5 hoursfrom AUD $733

★ 5.0 (3)

🍜 Food & Cooking

Italy

Wine & Food Tour at the Vesuvius Winery

Explore a working winery on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, where you'll walk through four hectares of vineyards and olive groves before sampling three or four regional wines paired with traditional Neapolitan fare. Your guide reveals the landscape and agricultural heritage around this historic volcano, ending with a spread of cold cuts, cheeses, bruschetta and local olives from the cellar, plus digestives and desserts. The 2–3 hour experience sits between wine education and slow food tradition, grounded in southern Italian terroir.

2 hours – 3 hoursfrom AUD $325

Naples , panoramic city tour with thermal baths

★ 5.0 (3)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Naples , panoramic city tour with thermal baths

Spend a full day exploring Naples from the vantage points that reveal why this sprawling Mediterranean city captivates visitors. Your guide navigates you through the grandest squares and seafront promenades—Piazza del Plebiscito, the San Carlo theatre, Castel Sant'elmo—while Vesuvius looms across the bay. The route traces hilltop lookouts over Capri, Ischia and Procida before you slip into the Terme di Baia for three to four hours of geothermal soaking, steaming and massage, where volcanic heat flows naturally beneath the surface.

6 hours – 8 hoursfrom AUD $916

Pasta & Wine Class: Make Ravioli near the Dolomites

★ 5.0 (3)

🍜 Food & Cooking

Italy

Pasta & Wine Class: Make Ravioli near the Dolomites

Learn to shape ravioli from scratch in a two-hour class held in a local kitchen near the Dolomites. A practising Italian cook guides you through mixing dough, filling and folding the pasta by hand, then you'll eat what you've made with wine and a traditional sauce. Run by Cesarine, a network of home cooks across Italy, this session works whether you've never kneaded pasta or you cook regularly.

Private Transfer with Luxury Van from Taormina To Naples

Skip the trains and minibuses—get driven from Taormina to Naples in your own Mercedes or Ford van over 5–7 hours. Your multilingual driver handles the route while you relax in air-conditioned comfort, cables for your devices at hand and cold water on tap. No shared stops, no schedules to chase. Wheelchair accessible and straightforward for families with young children.

5 hours – 7 hoursfrom AUD $4496

Cesarine: Small Group Market Tour & Cooking Class in Catania

★ 5.0 (3)

🍜 Food & Cooking

Italy

Cesarine: Small Group Market Tour & Cooking Class in Catania

Spend five hours in Catania learning to cook two signature Sicilian dishes alongside a local home cook. Start at the bustling market where your host picks seasonal produce, then move to their kitchen for hands-on classes in fresh pasta and tiramisu. You'll prep ingredients together, ask questions freely, and sit down to eat what you've made with wine and proper coffee. It's a genuine introduction to how Catania actually eats, not a staged performance.

5 hoursfrom AUD $248

Tour of Mt. Vesuvius+Sorrento+Pompeii (Full Day)

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🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Tour of Mt. Vesuvius+Sorrento+Pompeii (Full Day)

Your private driver collects you for an eight-hour loop through Italy's volcanic heartland and Roman ruins. Travel in an air-conditioned vehicle from your hotel to Mount Vesuvius, where you'll tackle the crater rim on foot, then descend into Pompeii's frozen city—both requiring separate advance ticket purchases. Sorrento's clifftop charm rounds out the itinerary. Your English-speaking guide handles navigation, shares historical context, and stays flexible around traffic or your lunch preferences.

Cesarine: Small group Pasta Class at Local's Home in Sorrento

Learn to roll, shape and cook three signature Sorrentine pasta dishes in a home kitchen alongside a local cook who knows the regional recipes inside out. You'll work at your own station through the three-hour class, then sit down to eat what you've made with Campania wines. Cesarine runs Italy's largest network of home cooks opening their doors for small-group cooking sessions across the country.

Private Pasta & Tiramisu Class at a Cesarina's home with tasting in Pompei

Learn to make two pasta dishes and tiramisu from a local home cook in Pompei over three hours. You'll work through each recipe step-by-step in her kitchen, then sit down to eat what you've prepared alongside regional wines. This is a genuine cooking lesson with a Cesarina—part of Italy's network of passionate home cooks who teach from their own homes. Families welcome, all ages catered for.

3 hoursfrom AUD $241

★ 5.0 (3)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Rome Day Trip to Tivoli's Villas

A six-hour private drive from Rome to the hilltop town of Tivoli, visiting two UNESCO-listed estates separated by nearly two millennia. You'll explore Hadrian's second-century retreat with its sprawling ruins and thermal complexes, then tour Villa D'Este, a Renaissance cardinal's palace famous for its cascading fountains and frescoed rooms. Your English-speaking driver handles transport in a Mercedes, leaving you free to wander both sites at your own pace.

6 hoursfrom AUD $476

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