From $3,599
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Small Group
Average
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(20 reviews)
Experience Overview
If you weren’t in love with Italy yet, this 13-day adventure will certainly do the trick. Starting in Florence and finishing in Naples, you’ll experience the many colours of Cinque Terre, the Amalfi Coast’s stunning cliffs, grand piazzas in Sorrento, fresh limoncello in Tuscany, and Renaissance masterpieces in Florence. With delectable cuisine at each and every stop too, this trip really is what Italian dreams are made of.
Highlights
- Walk along the dramatic scenery of Cinque Terre
- Explore medieval towns and stroll through vineyards
- Spend two nights in the Tuscan countryside while eating fresh and delicious regional food
- Hike the "Path of the Gods" on the Amalfi Coast
Trip Details
Product Code: 2251
Tour Type: Small Group
Accommodation: Budget
Transport: Private vehicle, local train/bus, walking.
Guide Language: English
Travel Styles:
Budget
Supplier Code: EIFC
Starts: Florence, Italy
Finishes: Naples, Italy
Duration: 13 days
Departures: Guaranteed
Physical rating:
Average
Includes
Activities
- Your Welcome Moment: Welcome Moment - Meet Your CEO and Group Your Foodie Moment: Limoncello Tasting, Sorrento
- Orientation walking tour of Naples and Florence
- Trip to Cinque Terre National Park
- Castello dei Bonsi hike
- Wine tasting at agriturismo
- Orientation walk in Sorrento at night
- Limoncello tasting
- Free time in Florence, La Spezia, Pisa, and San Donato Fronzano, Sorrento, and Naples
- Cinque Terre park fee, unlimited train ticket and CEO-led hike
- Lucca Guided Walking Tour
- Path of the Gods hike in Cinque Terre
- Pompeii Guided tour
- All transport between destinations and to/from included activities
Accommodation
- Hotels (10 nts). Agriturismo farm stay (2 nts).
- 12 breakfasts, 2 dinners
Transport
- Private vehicle, local train/bus, walking.
Group Leader
- CEO (Chief Experience Officer) and local guides throughout.
Price
Price per person: (Double Occupancy) $3,599 ($277 /day)
Itinerary
Day 1: Florence
Arrive in Florence at any time. Meet your CEO and fellow travellers in the evening at a welcome meeting.
Day 2: Florence to Cinque Terre
Start the day off with a walking tour of Florence seeing all of the famous sites like the Centro Storico, Giotto's bell tower, the Palazzo Vecchio and The Uffizi. It's onwards to La Spezia and Cinque Terre. On the way the group will stop in Lucca for a guided walk through this medieval town.
Day 3: Cinque Terre
Enjoy some breakfast before taking a short train to the village Romaggiore for the start of today's hike. Walk along the coastal path of Cinque Terre, a World Heritage Site and National Park. Enjoy a free afternoon to continue exploring. You could sign up for a food making class, book a boat trip, or hike any of the other coastal and inland paths that will take you all over one of the most gorgeous stretches of coastline in all of Italy.
Spend the morning discovering the five towns within the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Cinque Terre, Corniglia, Manarola, Monterosso al Mare, Riomaggiore, and Vernazza.
Should you opt out of the hike with the group and CEO, the Cinque Terre National Park pass will still be available for you to discover the five towns on your own.
Day 4: Cinque Terre
A full free day to enjoy the marvels of Cinque Terre. Opt to visit the town of Portovenere or join a pesto-making demonstration in Manarola. You could also spend some time shopping, wine tasting, cafe-hopping, and beach walking if you're craving more relaxing vibes. Kayaking, boat tours, and hiking are always available.
Day 5: Cinque Terre to Chianti Region
After breakfast, travel to North Chianti region. En route the group will stop in Pisa briefly to see the Leaning Tower of Pisa. After, continue driving through the stunning Tuscan area and enjoy an included dinner tonight with the group in North Chianti.
Day 6: Chianti Region
Wake up in the beautiful Tuscan countryside. In the morning hike through the hillside villages near San Donato Fronzano. In the afternoon enjoy an included wine tasting and delicious dinner with the group.
Day 7: Chianti Region to Naples
Travel back to Florence from San Donato Fronzano in the morning and then board a train from Florence to Naples in the afternoon.
Day 8: Naples to Sorrento Coast
Start the day off with an orientation walk of Naples. Stroll past sites like Spaccanapoli, Castell'Ovo, Castel Nuovo Maschio Angioino, Galleria San Carlo, Piazza del Plebiscito and the Royal Palace. Then the group will travel to Sorrento Coast. In the evening attend a limoncello tasting and after set out on an orientation walk of Sorrento with your CEO.
Day 9: Sorrento
Enjoy a free day in Sorrento. Maybe set out for an optional excursion to Capri island by hydrofoil and take a stroll through the town while admiring the blue water and striking limestone sea stacks.
Day 10: Sorrento Coast to the Amalfi Coast
Spend the day travelling from the Sorrento Coast to the Amalfi Coast. Pass through the towns of Amalfi and Ravello taking in the dramatic views and searching for lemon groves wherever you go.
Day 11: Amalfi Coast
Transfer to Bomerano di Agerola along the coast and begin to walk The Path of the Gods. The group will hike 8.6km to Positano and then return to our hotel to rest and enjoy free time from a long day hiking along the Amalfi Coast.
Day 12: Amalfi Coast to Naples
Leave the Amalfi Coast behind and travel north back to Naples today. Along the way the group will stop in Pompeii for a guided excursion. Enjoy an evening of free time in Naples.
Day 13: Naples
Depart at any time.
Tour Operator
G Adventures
G Adventures is an operator of small-group escorted tours. It is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with 28 offices worldwide. It offers more than 700 itineraries in more than 100 countries, and carries 200,000 travelers from 160 countries each year.
In Business Since 1990
Reviews
Kathryn B - Traveled, September 2023
Stress-free, worry-free travel with excellent itineraries.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 09/29/2023
Scott G - Traveled, October 2023
Well organized. Excursions included that we may not do ourselves
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 11/10/2023
Maureen C - Traveled, October 2023
Smaller group size
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 11/10/2023
Robert M - Traveled, October 2023
Our guide Elissa was fantastic, we enjoyed her enthusiasm and knowledge of the various parts of Italy we visited. There were a couple of sub par hotels, one in Naples and one in Florence. G Adventures did rectify the problem hotel in Naples and we appreciate that very much.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 11/10/2023
Holly M - Traveled, October 2023
Enjoyed thoroughly, although was disappointed in some of hotel choices.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 11/10/2023
Lori M - Traveled, September 2023
Based on previous trips would go with National Geographic
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 11/10/2023
Christine C - Traveled, September 2023
This was my first and only G Adventures tour. I would share my experience with friend or family about traveling with G Adventures, but everybody is different and has different needs and expectations. After speaking with others on my tour who had taken multiple G Adventures tours it also was clear that each experience was a bit different.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 11/10/2023
Jayson V - Traveled, September 2023
There were many activities we wouldn't have done with our leader. Also felt more connected to the local people and scenes of the areas we visited. Helps lower my anxiety as well.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 11/10/2023
Carol C - Traveled, October 2023
It would have been a 10 except for lodging
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 10/27/2023
Ann B - Traveled, October 2023
I was a solo traveler and there were mostly couples on my tour who tended to stick together during free time. How about offering a trip for solot travelers? Thats what I'll look for on my next tour.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 11/10/2023
Nancy N - Traveled, October 2023
CEO was wonderful, overall experience was as expected.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 10/27/2023
Susan B - Traveled, September 2023
We had a poor experience with a group leader. I reported this to your organization at the end of the first week of our travels.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 10/13/2023
Hannah M - Traveled, September 2023
The fact that G Adventures plan the logistics side of things is great. However, my experience on this trip was not great. The guide we had fo the first half of this trip (Samantha) was quite honestly the worst guide I've ever had in my life (and I've done a lot of travelling both with G Adventures and with other companies). She was a terrible communicator, lacked basic empathy for the people in our group, was entirely unhelpful when I had a medical emergency, was selfish - I could go on and on. This has very much impacted my view of G Adventures and has honestly made me much less likely to recommend G Adventures in the future.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 10/13/2023
Marilyn R - Traveled, September 2023
Too much busing and moving which was not necessary. Some hotels not great. First CEO inadequately did job. Problems arise but inadequately solved. Some Bus and hotels inadequately air conditioned.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 10/13/2023
Margaret B - Traveled, September 2023
Everyone experiences and interprets things differently.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 10/13/2023
Sally W - Traveled, September 2023
Having to drag luggage over cobblestoned sidewalks to city accomadation is not my style. Samantha, our guide, did not speak much english and did not answer our questions. Some of the hotels were wonderful , but some substandard, unclean and not secure. In the heat, it is important to pick accomadation that has airconditioning. All comunication was through whatsapp (wonderful), yet some of the hotel locations did not have reliable wi-fi. I fell it important ot know what the expecctation is the day before is important and was not porvided by Samantha . I travelled with Susan Beatty, Maggie Beatty and Marilyn Rootham. Susan spoke to the G Adventures manager on our behalf, so will not repeat it.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 10/13/2023
Roy S - Traveled, September 2023
Unfortunately we had some negative experiences that we felt could be addressed and it affected our enjoyment of the trip as well as cost us addition hotel charges to escape staying in a very bad hotel in a dangerous feeling area of Naples. Out trip was two weeks and the first week had a CEO that spoke poor English, did not consider the elderly trip attendants, rushed key events such as hikes (for no reason) and did not share any history or interesting facts about the areas we visited. Fortunately this CEO was changed out after the first week and a much better CEO was put in. The hotel in Naples was atrocious. The check in process took over an hour, the accommodations were dirty, the air-conditioning in most rooms did not work, and it was located in an area where there were significant number of homeless people, the smell of urine in the square adjacent to the hotel, and a generally unsafe feel. The first night we stayed we did not even want to walk around outside the hotel later we learned that the itineraries called for us to return to the same hotel for our final night we spoke to our CEO about any option to change, with a willingness to pay the extra fee for a change, and the CEO advised us that it was not possible because it had been previously booked and would not be changed. We were travelling with Fred and Andrea Bremner, who were equally dissatisfied and were amongst the majority of our group, who were disappointed that this was the way we would spend our final night of the tour. Ultimately Fred and Andrea Bremner, as well as my wife and I decided we were not going to stay in Naples another night because of that hotel in the area. So, at our own cost, we travel to Rome and spend the night there .
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 10/13/2023
Patricia S - Traveled, August 2023
had a poor experience with our ce0 and hotel in Naples was awful.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 10/13/2023
Chloe M - Traveled, September 2023
The tour had high potential but didn't actually deliver. The first half was better than the second half - in the second half we stayed in some out of the way towns and getting to the main attractions were a challenge (my friend and I had to cancel one of our planned excursions because it was too complicated to try and make it work). Also, some of the hotels were terrible, especially the one in Naples. We used it on the last night to store our bags but rented an Airbnb instead to actually sleep in. The one in Naples is one of the worst hotels I've stayed in ? ever. So yeah, it didn't deliver and it was clear that nobody has fully tested this tour. I felt like a Guinea pig and I really don't appreciate spending thousands of dollars testing on G Adventures? behalf.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 10/06/2023
Jessica F - Traveled, September 2023
I was disappointed in many of the accommodations, the schedule felt very rushed at some times, and like there was way too much time in places at other points in the trip. In addition, some of the plans were not worked out ahead of time, and our guide was scrambling to get things organized for hikes or other outings at the last minute. It felt disorganized.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 10/06/2023
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