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6 Hours Private Tour of Capri with Certified Guide

★ 5.0 (2)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

6 Hours Private Tour of Capri with Certified Guide

A six-hour guided exploration of Capri's standout landmarks with a certified local guide. You'll travel by hydrofoil to the island, then navigate its compact centre, ascend Monte Solaro for sweeping Mediterranean views, and visit the dramatic Faraglioni rock formations and the terraced Gardens of Augustus. Private transport, bottled water and all entrance fees are covered. The guide shares the island's layered history and character beyond the celebrity-resort surface.

6 hours – 7 hoursfrom AUD $1582

Dining Experience at a Local’s Home in Mirano with Cooking Demo

★ 5.0 (2)

🍜 Food & Cooking

Italy

Dining Experience at a Local’s Home in Mirano with Cooking Demo

Cook alongside a passionate home chef in their Mirano kitchen for a genuine taste of Varese family cooking. Over two and a half hours, you'll prepare and eat a four-course meal—starter through dessert—with regional wines and coffee included. Your host draws from generations of recipes, offering the kind of honest Italian cooking that rarely leaves a family kitchen. No tourist theatre: just good food, conversation, and the rhythm of a real Italian meal.

2h 30mfrom AUD $142

Private Day trip from Rome to Pompeii with official guide inside Ruins

★ 5.0 (2)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Private Day trip from Rome to Pompeii with official guide inside Ruins

An eight-hour private journey from Rome to Pompeii, with your own driver and official guide navigating the preserved Roman city. You'll travel through Lazio and Campania, passing the Apennine Mountains and Cassino monastery, before reaching the archaeological site frozen by Vesuvius's eruption in 79 AD. The guide unlocks daily life in ancient Rome—domestic spaces, commerce, art—revealing how a wealthy trading hub vanished in hours.

8 hoursfrom AUD $1082

Private market tour and cooking class with lunch or dinner in Rimini

★ 5.0 (2)

🍜 Food & Cooking

Italy

Private market tour and cooking class with lunch or dinner in Rimini

Start at Rimini's local market with a cook who knows every stall, then head to their home for a 4.5-hour cooking class where you'll prepare three traditional Rimini dishes from scratch. Your host—part of Cesarine, Italy's network of home cooks—walks you through technique and regional secrets, then you sit down to eat what you've made, paired with local wines. Lunch or dinner included.

Private transfer Trieste Airport from & to Slovenian coast

Skip the queue and airport hassle with a private car waiting at Trieste to whisk you straight to your Portorož digs on the Slovenian coast. Your driver knows the route cold—roughly three hours of comfortable, door-to-door travel. Just share your flight number ahead of time so they can track any delays and adjust pickup timing accordingly.

Entry Ticket to the Domus of Stone Mosaics Archaeological Site

Step into Ravenna's Domus of Stone Carpets, where ancient Roman mosaics sprawl across a preserved archaeological site tucked into the city's historic quarter. This one-hour visit reveals the technical mastery of classical artisans through intricate floor patterns depicting everyday scenes, mythological narratives, and sacred imagery. Restoration work has revived the originals to near-pristine condition, offering an unfiltered look at how wealthy households decorated their homes two millennia ago. The site doubles as a learning hub, hosting exhibitions and sessions that contextualise the mosaics within Ravenna's broader artistic legacy.

Pompeii & Herculaneum Private Full Day Trip From Naples

A private guided exploration of two Roman cities entombed by Vesuvius in 79 AD. Walk through Pompeii's ash-preserved streets and homes, then descend into Herculaneum, where volcanic mud locked buildings in a protective seal for two millennia. Your guide unpacks daily life, architecture, and the catastrophe that froze these towns in time. Six to eight hours from Naples, with hotel transport included.

6 hours – 8 hoursfrom AUD $849

Sailing tour and lunch on board in Sorrento

★ 5.0 (2)

🐠 Water Activities

Italy

Sailing tour and lunch on board in Sorrento

A full-day sailing adventure along the Sorrento coastline, departing at 10 a.m. and returning by 6:30 p.m. You'll visit the Baths of Queen Joan—where Roman ruins sit in a sheltered bay—before anchoring in a secluded cove for lunch prepared onboard with regional specialties. The afternoon brings further swimming and snorkelling stops, finishing with prosecco at sunset. Ten hours of coastal navigation, three swim breaks, and local seafood make this a genuine taste of the Campania maritime experience.

10 hoursfrom AUD $1166

Exclusive 2,5-Hour Boat Party Experience in Monopoli

★ 5.0 (2)

🐠 Water Activities

Italy

Exclusive 2,5-Hour Boat Party Experience in Monopoli

Cruise the Adriatic coast near Monopoli and Polignano a Mare aboard a private boat stocked with prosecco, wine, and snacks. This 2.5-hour floating party takes you past dramatic limestone cliffs and sea caves carved into the shoreline. You'll anchor in turquoise shallows for swimming and snorkelling, with drinks flowing throughout. The boat is fully provisioned with a bar setup, restrooms, and a relaxed atmosphere—no forced activities, just good company and spectacular coastal scenery.

Private Transfer from ROME to POSITANO or vv

Three-hour private transfer connecting Rome and Positano along the [Amalfi Coast](/places/amalfi-coast). Your English-speaking driver handles luggage, navigates the winding coastal roads, and shares local knowledge about accommodation throughout the region. The air-conditioned vehicle comes fully insured and maintained, with onboard WiFi, bottled water, and flexibility to adjust your route if needed.

Private Boat Tour to Capri from Positano

Set out from Positano's waterfront on a private boat bound for Capri, where you'll work with your captain to shape the day's itinerary. This eight-hour coastal journey puts you in control—decide whether to anchor in hidden coves for swimming, explore sea caves, or spend time ashore on the island itself. The boat comes provisioned with water, snacks, and drinks, plus snorkelling kit if the water calls to you.

8 hoursfrom AUD $4580

★ 5.0 (2)

🛕 Culture & History

Italy

Half Day Private Tour to Ostia Antica

Step into Rome's ancient harbour without the Pompeii crowds. This four-hour private excursion whisks you 45 minutes south to Ostia Antica, where a licensed guide unlocks two millennia of remarkably intact ruins: temples, bathing complexes, intricate mosaics, and a functioning Roman theatre. You'll travel in a Mercedes minivan with your own driver, skip entry queues, and return to central Rome with a clearer picture of how ordinary Romans traded, bathed, and gathered.

Family Cooking Class in Chianti with pizza and tiramisu

Spend three hours in Chianti learning to shape and bake pizza from scratch, then master the art of tiramisù with a local certified chef. You'll work through dough preparation, sauce-making, and layering techniques before sitting down to eat what you've created. It's hands-on cookery without the pretence—just solid technique, seasonal ingredients, and a dessert that tastes far better when you've built it yourself.

Local Market Tour and Dining experience at a local's home in Lecce

Spend three and a half hours exploring Lecce's working market with a local cook, then move to their kitchen for a four-course meal built from what you've just seen. You'll watch them prepare dishes from family recipes while eating at their table—the kind of food that's been made the same way for decades. Wine and coffee from Puglia round out the spread. This runs through Cesarine, a network of home cooks across Italy who cook in their own kitchens for small groups.

Private market tour, lunch or dinner and cooking demo in Viareggio

Shop the morning markets of Viareggio alongside a local home cook, then head to their kitchen for a four-course lunch or dinner. Watch them finish a signature dish while you sit down to starter, fresh pasta, mains, and dessert paired with regional wines. This is cooking as Italians actually do it—no theatre, no shortcuts, just recipes built from generations of family notebooks and the kind of hospitality that comes from opening your own front door.

The art of the Italian Aperitivo with a local: Learn & Enjoy in Lucca

Master the ritual of aperitivo in a local home in Lucca during this two-hour workshop with a passionate Cesarine cook. You'll prepare five small dishes using regional ingredients, then pair them with prosecco or light local wine. It's a hands-on lesson in Italian evening culture—the kind of skill that travels home with you and tastes better each time you recreate it for friends.

Private Walking Tour of Rome Highlights by Night

A three-hour evening walk through Rome's most recognisable landmarks, led by an art historian who steers you away from the predictable tourist circuits. You'll navigate the city's winding streets by moonlight, pausing at celebrated fountains and piazzas to absorb their architectural detail and history. Wireless headsets ensure you hear commentary clearly even in crowded spaces.

Dining experience at a local's home in Bergamo with show cooking

Spend an evening in a Bergamo resident's kitchen watching them cook, then sit down to a four-course meal built from family recipes. You'll eat alongside your host in their home, tasting regional dishes paired with local wines. The experience runs two and a half hours and includes water, wine, coffee, and taxes. Cesarine, a network of over a thousand home cooks across Italy, arranges these suppers—it's a straightforward way to eat well and meet someone who knows the place.

Lake Garda: Dining Experience at Local's Home in Valpolicella

Cook and eat in a Valpolicella home kitchen with a local Cesarine host, working through a four-course meal built from family recipes and regional wines. The 2.5-hour session pairs hands-on cooking with sit-down eating, giving you a genuine sense of how Italian home cooking actually works—no theatre, just honest food and the people who make it. Water, local reds and whites, and coffee included.

Rome: Private City Tour in the Places of the Tosca

Walk through Rome's centre following the dramatic locations of Puccini's Tosca opera. This 2.5-hour private tour traces the passion and tragedy of the famous work across iconic piazzas, streets, and monuments. You'll experience the city through the lens of the opera's acts—moving between the sites where love, jealousy, and fate collide. Wireless headsets keep you connected to your guide as you piece together the story woven into Rome's actual streets and landmarks.

Private Market Tour and Cooking Class with Lunch or Dinner in Viareggio

Spend five hours in Viareggio learning to cook three traditional Tuscan dishes alongside a local home cook. You'll start at the neighbourhood market and specialist food shops, picking ingredients with your host, then move to her kitchen for hands-on preparation. Finish by eating what you've made with regional wine, gaining practical knowledge of how real families cook here rather than tourist versions of Italian food.

Royal Palace of Caserta. The Italian Versailles Experience

Explore the 18th-century Royal Palace of Caserta, the Bourbon dynasty's architectural triumph built to outshine Versailles itself. Designed by Luigi Vanvitelli, this UNESCO-listed masterpiece showcases soaring staircases, ornate chapels, a working theatre, and richly furnished royal chambers across three and a half hours. Beyond the palace walls, vast grounds feature elaborate fountains, cascading waterworks fed by the Carolino Aqueduct, and sculptured gardens stretching kilometres into the Italian countryside.

Exclusive Venice Experience:Private Tour on Classic Bragozzo Boat

Charter a wooden Bragozzo built in 1965 for a four-hour private exploration of Venice's northern lagoon and central waterways. Your group of up to eight travels with Captain Mike aboard a classic fishing vessel, steering past San Marco, Murano, Burano, and San Francesco del Deserto. The itinerary bends to your preferences—linger where you wish, swim if conditions allow, or sample local refreshments. You'll have the boat entirely to yourselves, no strangers sharing the deck.

Mount Etna Excursion at Maximum Altitude Departure from Catania

This eight-hour Mount Etna expedition pushes to the volcano's maximum accessible elevation of 3000–3400 metres, departing from Catania. After a cable-car ascent to 2500 metres (ticket separate), you trek across otherworldly terrain for four to five hours, navigating active craters and observing steam vents at the summit. The route includes a descent into a lava tunnel carved by ancient eruptions. Small groups of ten ensure a genuine high-altitude alpine experience rather than a conveyor-belt affair.

SkipTheLine Vatican Museums Sistine Chapel and St Peter Basilica

Skip queues and explore the Vatican's three iconic sites with a dedicated guide on this three-hour private tour. You'll navigate the Vatican Museums' labyrinth of galleries and tapestries, stand in the Sistine Chapel beneath Michelangelo's frescoes, and enter St Peter's Basilica—one of Christendom's largest churches. Fast-track tickets grant immediate access, letting your guide focus on the art and architecture rather than herding crowds.

Private Exclusive Tour of Pompeii ruins & wine tastings

Explore Pompeii's haunting streets with a professional art historian, then taste volcanic wines at a Vesuvius-region winery. This five-hour private tour includes hotel or port pickup in Naples, skip-the-line access to the 2,000-year-old ruins, and transportation in a climate-controlled minivan. Perfect for cruise passengers and independent travellers seeking insight into daily Roman life before Vesuvius's eruption, paired with locally-produced vintages.

Winery Tour in Mini Cooper Classic Cabrio wine testing and lunch

Drive south from Rome in a classic open-top Mini Cooper to the Castelli Romani wine region, where you'll tour a traditional winery in Frascati, taste three wines guided by a sommelier, and lunch on house-made pasta at a small local trattoria using regional ingredients. The five-hour experience includes hotel transport, a knowledgeable driver-guide, and a scenic route past Castel Gandolfo's lakeside setting, once a papal retreat.

St Paul the Apostle Life and Landmarks in Rome Tour for Catholics

Spend three hours tracing Paul's footsteps across Rome's most significant Christian sites. You'll visit the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, where the apostle is buried, and the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, exploring how early Christianity took root in the city. A Catholic guide provides historical context and theological perspective as you move between these monumental churches, revealing the layers of faith and architecture that shaped the faith over centuries.

Mount Etna Volcano: Private Shore Excursion From Messina Port

Scale Europe's most active volcano on this private five-to-six-hour excursion departing directly from Messina cruise port. Your own driver navigates you through Etna's otherworldly terrain—lunar slopes, ancient craters, and UNESCO-listed slopes—before returning you punctually to the ship. The air-conditioned vehicle handles the winding ascent whilst you soak in views across the Ionian Sea and, on clear days, toward Calabria.

5 hours – 6 hoursfrom AUD $298

Private Cooking Class in Chianti from Florence

★ 5.0 (2)

🍜 Food & Cooking

Italy

Private Cooking Class in Chianti from Florence

Learn to cook authentic Tuscan dishes at a multi-generational family farm deep in Chianti Classico. Over six hours, you'll prepare fresh pasta by hand, build antipasti platters, and master traditional techniques alongside a local cook. The farmhouse sits among vineyard rows and olive groves; after cooking, you'll eat what you've made and taste the farm's own wines and oils. Transport from [Florence](/places/florence) is included.

Open Water Diver course

Earn your Open Water Diver certification over four days in Italy, diving in the protected waters of Capo Carbonara. You'll learn essential underwater skills and safety protocols from a certified instructor, gaining qualifications that open access to dive sites worldwide. This isn't a tourist tick; it's a genuine entry point into a community of ocean enthusiasts who share knowledge, dive buddies and environmental respect.

Discover hidden secrets of Pompei on a Private tour with a local

Walk through Pompeii's preserved streets with a local guide who knows the backstreets and overlooked corners. This three-hour private tour moves beyond the main sights to reveal how Romans actually lived—from the surprisingly modern plumbing to the street-level graffiti that reveals everyday gossip and commerce. Your guide unpacks the 79 AD eruption's aftermath, showing how the volcanic ash froze entire households in time, creating one of archaeology's most complete snapshots of Roman life in Campania.

Private Yacht Experience Capri Vip Service

Charter a private yacht for seven hours cruising the Sorrentine coast between Capri and Positano. You'll have the boat to yourself, steering the itinerary around dramatic rock formations, sea caves and hidden coves. Your English-speaking skipper navigates the Faraglioni, Blue Grotto and Emerald Rocks while you swim, snorkel and explore two vibrant coastal towns at leisure. Lunch at a waterfront restaurant and complimentary drinks punctuate the day.

7 hoursfrom AUD $4793

Cannigione: rubber dinghy tour in the Maddalena Archipelago

★ 5.0 (2)

🐠 Water Activities

Italy

Cannigione: rubber dinghy tour in the Maddalena Archipelago

Speed across the Maddalena archipelago's turquoise shallows in a rigid inflatable boat, stopping at remote beaches and snorkelling spots scattered across this protected marine reserve off Sardinia's northeast coast. This 7–8 hour expedition covers multiple islands, letting you explore granite coves and crystalline bays inaccessible by larger vessels. Fuel and freshwater rinses included; bring your own lunch and budget separately for the national park entry fee.

7 hours – 8 hoursfrom AUD $250

Ravioli Making Class in Palermo and Dessert

★ 5.0 (2)

🍜 Food & Cooking

Italy

Ravioli Making Class in Palermo and Dessert

Spend two and a half hours cooking your way through Palermo's food culture. Start at Capo Market, where vendors pile their stalls with seasonal produce, seafood and Sicilian staples—you'll taste as you go and pick ingredients for the kitchen. Back in the cooking space, you'll shape ravioli by hand, braise swordfish with orange and mint, build caponata from scratch, and pipe fresh cannoli. Four courses, four techniques, one afternoon.

Trasferimento privato da Palermo aeroporto a San Vito Lo Capo

Direct private minivan service from Palermo airport to San Vito Lo Capo on Sicily's northwest coast, taking 60–75 minutes. Your driver meets you at arrivals and handles the coastal route while you relax in air-conditioned comfort. WiFi keeps you connected throughout the journey. The service covers western Sicily routes, with flexible pickup arrangements suited to families and solo travellers alike.

1 hour – 1h 15mfrom AUD $135

The art of the Italian Aperitivo with a local: Learn & Enjoy in Sorrento

★ 5.0 (2)

🍜 Food & Cooking

Italy

The art of the Italian Aperitivo with a local: Learn & Enjoy in Sorrento

Learn to craft an authentic Italian aperitivo from a local in Sorrento during this two-hour workshop. You'll prepare five small dishes paired with regional wines—prosecco or light reds—using ingredients that reflect the Campania coast. This hands-on session teaches you the technique and philosophy behind Italy's most beloved early-evening ritual, giving you skills to recreate it at home with friends.

8 hour exploring Florence in E-Bike

Explore [Florence](/places/florence)'s hilltop neighbourhoods and central piazzas on electric bike over eight hours, covering terrain from Fiesole's panoramic vistas down to the Arno valley. You'll pedal through the restricted traffic zone to reach landmarks like Michelangelo Square and Santa Croce, discovering artisan workshops and smaller museums between major sights. The e-bike motor handles steep climbs effortlessly, letting you cover ground that would take hours on foot.

8 hoursfrom AUD $50

Palermo Tour for Cruisers Exclusive Service

★ 5.0 (2)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Palermo Tour for Cruisers Exclusive Service

A four-hour circuit designed for cruise passengers wanting to see Palermo without fuss. You'll visit Santa Rosalia sanctuary overlooking the city, head down to Mondello's seafront Art Nouveau villas, then return to Palermo's old quarters for markets and street food. Private transport and a driver who knows the city basics mean you move at your own pace, stopping where interests you.

4 hoursfrom AUD $225

Naples Shopping & Pizza Private Escort Tour

★ 5.0 (2)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Naples Shopping & Pizza Private Escort Tour

A curated four to five hour introduction to Naples led by a knowledgeable local guide who navigates you past the tourist traps. Travel by private car to neighbourhood hotspots, learn the stories behind the city's culture and character, hunt down exceptional pizza at a genuine neighbourhood spot, and browse independent fashion boutiques. The guide handles logistics so you can focus on absorbing the rhythm of this chaotic, compelling place.

4 hours – 5 hoursfrom AUD $533

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