Amalfi Coast 7 Day Itineraries

Our family of five just got back from the most wonderful vacation in Tuscany and Rome.  Our agent crafted a set of amazing experiences for our family from the private tour guides to Florence, Pisa and Lucca; a private wine tasting lunch at the Capannelle Winery and vineyards in Chianti; tickets to the Papal mass at the Vatican; to a tour beneath the church of San Clemente to see the excavations of a byzantine and then a Roman street neighborhood; a day excursion to the Amalfi coast to visit Positano, Sorrento and Pompeii; and more! Our agent and the guides found excellent restaurants from a simple salumeria where the locals ate to some high end restaurants.  The hotels were right in the center of Florence – on the piazza della Repubblica - and Rome – between the Piazza del Popolo and the Spanish Steps.  Our agent was attentive to our plans and made excellent suggestions.  Everything went extremely smoothly.  All the guides drivers were very friendly, spoke English and were very knowledgeable about art, history and the local culture.  We saw so much every day because everything was so well planned.  Simply the best travel experience ever!

My trip was a perfect match to what my daughter and I wanted!  Our agent truly listened to what I said we enjoyed and what we wanted to do, and she put together a trip that had a lot of variety and was fun and memorable for us.  We traveled to 3 locations in Italy with another friend and her daughter, and our agent worked with all of us to find comfortable and safe accommodations in 3 cities for us, as well as family friendly tours for pre-teens and adults.  

Itinerary:

Day 1 Arrival in Venice.  Gondola ride.  

Day 2 Private walking tour of Venice.  PM visit to islands of Murano and Burano

Day 3 Travel to Rome.  Pizza making class. 

Day 4 Initially unplanned/later papal audience tickets

Day 5 Vatican Museum family tour and Colosseum family tour

Day 6 Travel to Amalfi Coast.  Tour Pompeii. .

Day 7 Boat tour around and to Capri

Day 8 Tour of Sorrento with olive oil tasting, mozzarella making demo, and limoncello tasting

Day 9 Tour of Amalfi and Ravello 

Day 10 Travel to Naples to depart : (

I have to begin by saying I've told everyone how pleased I am with Zicasso and the travel agent they recommended.  I also have to say that I was very hesitant to book my trip with a company that I had only communicated with via email.  Turns out I had nothing to worry about.

The initial response I received from my agent was immediate and continued right up until our actual trip while we were in Italy.  I let her know where I wanted to go, what I wanted to see, told her I was interested in a mix of arranged tours and time on our own.  She listened and also made great suggestions.  I honestly can't say enough about how wonderful she was to work with, along with her co-worker.

They arranged for all our hotels, transportation and tours.  Every driver and guide we had was top notch.  They made a point of keeping us in small groups, sometimes only the two of us and the guide.

Our 19 day trip began in Venice where we were met at the airport and driven to a private water taxi.  That driver walked us out of the boat and made sure we knew how to find our hotel. Our departure was just as seamless.  A guide met us in our lobby, walked with us to the water taxi, came into the train station with us and explained the board to us, pointing out our train and track number.  

We continued on to Verona, Cinque Terre, Tuscany, Florence, Naples, the Amalfi Coast and Rome.  Since we weren't in any one place longer than three days it was extremely helpful to have guides, even for just a couple of hours to orient us, which saved us a lot of time.  We had guides for a walking tour in Venice, a morning in Cinque Terre traveling with us between the villages, the Accademia in Florence, Pompeii, an Amalfi Coast drive and the Vatican in Rome.  Every one of the them was passionate and proud and we learned so much.  We had a car in Tuscany and saw many other places on our own, Lucca, Pisa, San Gimignano, Siena, Montalcino, Montepulciano.  We stayed in Sorrento, spent one day on Capri and another full day on a tour to Positano, Amalfi and Ravello, which included a short boat ride along the coast.  Spectacular.  Our only tour in Rome was the Vatican but we saw all the other major sites on our own, taking the metro, bus, taxis and walking, lots of walking.  It was the perfect mix of free time and arranged tours.

And, they also worked with our children who surprised us with a dinner in Venice for our anniversary after a gondola ride!

One great advantage to having your tour guide in the country you're visiting, you're in the same time zone.  We had one mishap with a train and were able to talk to them right away.  Other than that, everything worked liked clockwork.

I would definitely use them again and have told everyone I know what a wonderful job they did for us.

We experienced a fabulous twelve night first trip ever to Europe staying in Rome, Sorrento, and Florence with day visits to Naples, Pompeii and Herculaneum, a drive with stops and photo-ops through the beautiful Amalfi coast villages to Ravello, and a day trip to historic Siena and San Gimignano through the Chianti region of Tuscany. Our travel consultant and her colleague at the company in Rome, proved to be perceptive to our interests, resourceful in finding spot-on solutions within our budget and patient professionals as we explored various itinerary options. Both women spoke and wrote english very well to thoughtfully help us plan our itinerary for three adults with private transportation and guides. Our private guides in Rome; in Pompeii and Herculaneum; in Naples; one a Canadian ex-pat in Florence; and in Siena, informed our discovery of each locale and its many treasures.  We also did two small group tours. First, a farm/food tour near Sorrento with an incredibly informative and entertaining guide, and catacombs at Saint Sebastian with a nameless guide and small group of 9 during our Appian way visit and final full day in Rome. At times we were chaperoned in private vehicles with english speaking drivers knowledgeable of their territories. In Rome, in Naples, in the Bay of Naples Sorrento area, in Tuscany, and in Amalfi. We wouldn't hesitate to recommend this company to help others plan the vacation of a lifetime.

From the beginning stages of planning our trip to Italy with this travel agency (and specifically our travel planner) we knew we were going enjoy this trip of a lifetime.  All we needed to do was provide our budget and "wish list" and he worked his considerable magic from there! We ultimately visited Venice, Tuscany, Sorrento and Naples, enjoying everything from a haunted city tour of Venice at night, a private cooking class in Sorrento, exploring several cities in Tuscany via the use of our rental car, visiting Pompeii and attending several other small walking/boat tours in each of the locations. Our lodging included a present day working vineyard which was converted from a 17th century monastery and hotels stays in which we felt as if we had stepped out of our lives and into those of the "rich and famous"; absolute opulence!  And, as if that wasn't enough, the tour guides, hotel staff, private driver; they all deserve to be recognized for their individual love and knowledge of their city, warmth, good nature and professionalism. So much so that when the weather turned cold on our return from the island of Capri, the boat captain handed out his personal jackets and blankets to all on board!  Every site we visited and tour we attended was so very well planned and so very worth the time.  We were made to feel as if our agent planned our trip more as if he were doing so for family than clients. ..I can't imagine a better experience!

We used this Italy travel agent. Our agent was the best!!!  Love her...She was not only very professional but very knowledgeable about our requests. She herself is from Italy and was full of generous information. Every question asked  was responded too.  

We had never been to Italy before. Our family had roots from Italy and some of our relatives had visited there before. It was now our time.  It was a life goal to do this trip and we planned it as our 25th wedding anniversary, taking along with us our best friends (couple). We wanted tours that were private and exclusive to the four of us. This is the only way to go. Well worth the money cause the guides and transport people were top notch!!!  We wanted an experience that was tailored to our speed and areas that we wanted to concentrate on seeing. We wanted some fun activities too... cooking classes, farm tours, certain wineries  etc.. our agent worked extra hard to help this come true along with making suggestions for on the ground local points of interest, from restaurants to shopping to sites to see!! She stayed in contact with every stage of the way. All the tours, transfers, guides, hotels and more were seamlessly arranged.

We stayed 12 nights / 13 days. Rome to Sorrento (Positano/Ravello/Amalfi) to Florence (Radda in Chianti and the Tuscany valley) back to Rome. We use private transportation, fast trains, luxury buses and some foot work. All were an excellent way to get our travels in.  Most days planned with tours and events and some days were just to ourselves. It was a great mix.

Highly recommend this travel agency......... Thank you