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Italian Delights

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Journey through some of Italy's most stunning destinations including Rome, Venice and the Italian Riviera, on this exciting 12-day tour!

Journey through some of Italy's most stunning destinations including Rome, Venice and the Italian Riviera, on this exciting 12-day tour!

Tour overview

Start Point
Rome
End Point
Rome
Accommodation
11 Nights(3 & 4 star hotels)
Meals
11 Breakfasts1 Lunch5 Dinners
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Summary

This Italian tour is la bella vita distilled! Explore Pompeii in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius. Experience the magical Cinque Terre villages and Italian Lake District. Visit Verona and San Marino! Enjoy free days in Rome, Amalfi Coast and Venice. Eat pasta, drink wine and see Italy like a local!

Included

  • 11 Nights (3 & 4 star hotels)
  • 11 Breakfasts | 1 Lunch | 5 Dinners
  • Air-conditioned coach
  • Fully-guided tour

Everything you’ll want to Know

Where you'll stay

Hand-picked hotels throughout

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Day-by-day itinerary

Where you'll be and what's on each day

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Experiences

What's included and what you can add

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Our Tour Leaders

The people who make it work

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21 YEARS ON TOUR

“THE BEST PART OF A GROUP TOUR? THE GROUP.”

JAKES MARITZ, CO-FOUNDER

BOOK WITH CONFIDENCE

All the flexibility to book on your terms.

  • GUARANTEED DEPARTURES

    Your tour is going ahead. Every single one, guaranteed.

  • FLEXIBLE BOOKING

    10% secures your seat. Pay the rest with interest-free instalments or all at once.

  • FREE DATE CHANGES

    Plans change? We've got you. Get in touch and we'll help you work through your options.

  • 10-DAY MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE

    Changed your mind? We'll refund every penny.

  • 24/7 SUPPORT

    Need us? We're there. Day or night, on the road or off it.

Tour Highlights

16 Included Experiences

  • Discover Rome on a guided walking tour
  • Enjoy a welcome dinner in Rome
  • See Mount Vesuvius and explore the ruins of Pompeii
  • Visit Montecassino
  • Explore Assisi
  • Visit San Marino
  • Experience Venice
  • Visit Verona
  • Spend a night in the Italian Lake District
  • Explore Cinque Terre
  • See the Leaning Tower of Pisa
  • Discover Florence with a local guide
  • Taste Italian wine
  • Visit San Gimignano
  • Discover Siena
  • Farewell dinner in Rome

Included Experiences

Optional Experiences

Not sure how to spend your free day? Explore the city on your own, or choose from these handpicked optional experiences designed to show you the best of the region.

Unless marked as "Pre-Book", all optional experiences can be booked directly with your tour leader on tour, payable in cash or by card in the stated currency. Prices and availability are subject to change.

Tour map & itinerary

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Day by day itinerary

12 days itinerary trip from Rome to Rome visiting 2 countries

Start Point
Hotel in Rome | 10:00 AM
End Point
Hotel in Rome | 10:00 AM

Accommodation

We partner with a range of hand-picked hotels in each destination. The hotels listed below are those we stay at most frequently. However, you may stay at different hotels of a similar standard. 

All rooms are twin share with private, en suite bathrooms. Solo travellers will be paired with another traveller of the same gender. Single supplements are available upon request at checkout. A confirmed list of hotels is emailed to all travellers prior to their tour departure. To extend your stay in Rome, click here to book pre and post-tour accommodation through our partner Booking.com.

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BV Oly Hotel (or similar)

  • Rome
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BV Oly Hotel (or similar)

  • Rome
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Warmthotel (or similar)

  • Rome
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Warmthotel (or similar)

  • Rome
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Grand Hotel Salerno (or similar)

  • Salerno
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Grand Hotel Salerno (or similar)

  • Salerno
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Hotel TH Casa Leonori (or similar)

  • Assisi
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Hotel TH Casa Leonori (or similar)

  • Assisi
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BV Grand Hotel Assisi (or similar)

  • Assisi
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BV Grand Hotel Assisi (or similar)

  • Assisi
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Hotel Venezia (or similar)

  • Venice
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Hotel Venezia (or similar)

  • Venice
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Hotel Stazione (or similar)

  • Italian Lakes District
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Hotel Stazione (or similar)

  • Italian Lakes District
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Hotel Terme Pellegrini (or similar)

  • Tuscany North
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Hotel Terme Pellegrini (or similar)

  • Tuscany North

The reviews are in

4.7 out of 5241 verified reviews
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    Jennifer

    So much more to see and do than listed

    Our tour guide Leti was beyond amazing. Her knowledge, energy, helpfulness, and the extras she helped facilitate made this trip so much more!!! We saw places and things we didn't even know were on the tour as well as the extra time and experiences Leti provided to take this trip over and far beyond any expectations we had. I am so grateful for this amazing trip and the memories I have of this beautiful country.
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Traveller Stories For This Tour

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Addy

Australia
Florence
Very enjoyable tour. Tour guide fantastic, good accommodation and great travel companions
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HH

Chicago,IL
Cinqueterre
Our guide and our bus driver were great. Of course Rome is amazing with all the history, but I loved Positano, Capri, Venus and Cinqueterre.
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Bec

South Coast NSW, Australia
Venice will steal your heart!
Vinnie our tour guide was wonderful. Beyond helpful, funny, kind, knowledgeable and communicated our daily events timely and with detail. As for Italy, well what can you say but breathe taking at every turn. A feast for the eyes and the soul!
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Miggy

Los Angeles, California
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If you want to do a lot and like a face-paced way of traveling this is a tour for you! You get to tick many boxes with this tour! You see the highlights of italy at its best!
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A.J.

Queensland, Australia
View from one of our hotel rooms
This tour is amazing for seeing the main highlights of Italy. A lot is packed into the tour and the days are long but so much fun. The people on our tour were amazing from the tour leader... to the driver ... and all the fellow travellers. By the end we felt like one big family
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Lisa Hayes

Hatfield, Pennsylvania
Beautiful sites and scenery
" Best vacation ever", is what we keep repeating over and over to friends, family and coworkers. Expats Italian Delights 12 day tour Itinerary to Italy was everything we could have imagined and more. It checked off all the boxes for sites, food and accommodations, guide and driver. Marty was our absolutely energetic and fantastic guide, who amazingly was able to meet all the needs of 50 people from all ages and walks of life effortlessly with her down to earth charm, knowledge base, professionalism and organisational skills. Our driver Dario was experienced and kept us safe and on time throughout the entire tour. I cannot say enough about these two individuals, except that Expat is a very fortunate company to have them on board! They certainly made our trip of a lifetime possible!!! We were also blessed to be grouped with the best individuals that anyone could possibly imagine meeting and spending time with from all over the world. I have definitely made some lifelong friends and will always cherish my wonderful trip, memories and experiences!!!
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Mark and Angie

London, Ontario
Coliseum Rome
This is a fast paced multi city tour of Italy. The bus travel was an easy option, no lugging suitcases from train to hotel, as the bus provided door to door service. The driver Dario was top notch and the tour guide Kevin was the best we could hope for. Friendly, informative, caring and entertaining. Both were exceptional. Kevin guided us thru many destinations and he was a wealth of information. The itinerary had a great mix of cultural and culinary delights and had enough free time to enjoy beaches and shopping. We enjoyed many of the supplementary excursions and didn't feel pressed for time. We thoroughly enjoyed the tour, our first thru Expat, but not our last!
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Bronsyn

Seattle, WA
Cinque Terre
This was an incredible experience that I thoroughly enjoyed! The pace was fast, but I expected that and appreciated getting to see and experience so much in 12 days. Kevin was a great tour guide, knowledgeable, organized, and enthusiastic. I enjoyed getting to know the other people on the tour and sharing an adventure. It was a great group! I will likely book another tour with Expat Explore.
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Janine

San Diego, CA
Florence
This tour is a great value, and our tour guide, Roma, is a sweetheart! Taking the last date of the season allowed us to enjoy Italy with fall colors and fewer tourists, but the trade-off was that it gets dark so early now.
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Lyn

Tampa, Florida
Lynda and Bill Petit - Lake Gardo
This was a fantastic Funtastic tour! and I really have to give credit to our tour leader Roma Mackeviciute! She was very organized. She gave a complete review and any instructions - then she repeated the instructions before we got to the location and when we got to the location. Given full information enabled tourists to be effective and cooperative tourists. Roma also laughed a lot! Who can't have a great time when you're laughing all the time. Hotels were really good to ok - rooms were the luck of the draw? Seating rotation on the bus was good but you still sat by the same people front and back. Loved the history of an area prior to each stop. Tour guide in Rome EXCELLENT! Tour guide in Pompeii - really? he wore white and beige? You could never find him. Tour guide in Florence - she definitely needed a mic system for the ears. Loved the locations/stops. Loved the coffee!! Loved the country of Italy.

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