Cultural ItalyReviews of culturalitaly.com

Highly recommended! Wonderful and stress free trip!

Roberta was an excellent agent. She helped plan 14 days in Italy for our family tour group of 18 persons - excursions were planned for each day. All coordination was spot on as planned and described. The selected tour guides and coach drivers ranged from good to excellent - most were excellent. I will single out one particular driver who went above and beyond. For family history reasons we scheduled a day trip from Bologna to Cento. Nothing was easy and there was very little tourism infrastructure. Our driver whom I knew only as Massimo spoke some English and he became our interpreter, tour guide and advocate so that we could see all the family landmarks. With Massimo’s help,!that day was as special as we’d hoped it would be. Accommodations were typically good. The booking was not very transparent so I cannot claim the accommodations were worth what we paid. On a few occasions the preselected rooms were not available when we arrived, in these cases the hotel management would upgrade us.

Cultrual Italy, through Marcella Lucenti, arranged a truly beautiful and specutacular trip to Italy for us. We spent a fantastic three weeks. We began in Milan, went to Cinque Terre, then Tuscany (including Florence, Chianti and Siena), then Naples (including Pompeii, Sorrento, Amalfi and Ravelo) and then Sicily (Siracusa, Noto and Taormina). The pacing of the trip was magnificent -- we never felt as if we were being rushed or that we had to stick to any particular schedule. Marcella arranged wonderful guides for private tours in each city/region, along with awesome wine tours and excellent hotels. A couple of times along the way, we discovered new things to try, and Marcella jumped right in (from San Diego) and made them happen. We couldn't be more pleased and we really can't wait to call Marcella for another Italian adventure.

Accommodations, local guides and drivers were all outstanding. Timely, informative, friendly best describe every local contact. Well done to Cultural Italy!!!

Our week in Italy was flawless. Trains, transfers and hotels. Thank you so much.

Pia was excellent. It was like working with a friend who lived in Italy and new all the best places to visit. Pia planned our trip perfectly and we had an amazing time. Thank you for everything Pia.

I love Cultural Italy. They have planned two wonderful vacations for us and we have recommended friends to them as well. I wholeheartedly recommend them! Luana is the best!

Cultural Italy was a great choice. Our agent, Luana, was very knowledgeable, particularly when it came to hotel choices with respect to their location and amenities offered. She arranged for private transfers from airports to hotel and train stations and it made the trip less stressful for us. The negatives on the trip we encountered were mostly unavoidable, i.e., massive crowds of tourists that delayed tours despite the no waiting in lines tickets. My advice would be to arrange for private one-on-one tour guides if you can afford it. Luana also made herself available when needed and was very responsive to my many emails.