Allow us to arrange all your travel requirements for whatever level of wine vacation you seek. As detailed in CUSTOM TOURS and SERVICES, we are experts at personalizing wine itineraries. For a very nominal consultation fee, we can offer you a series proposals, telephone consultations, and travel literature to create your ideal itinerary for any holiday, corporate retreat, special event, or celebration.

Travel aids: Please see this section in SUGGESTED LINKS.

Accommodations: We can suggest known properties in Venice, Florence, Rome, the Amalfi Coast, and throughout Italy, For tours in Tuscany, we prefer to place you in a restored farmhouse or villa, generally three or four-star property in the Sienese countryside and conveniently located for day visits to the Tuscan appellations of Chianti Classico, Brunello di Montalcino, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano or Umbrian Sagrantino di Montefalco. We highly recommend that reservations be made as early as possible, asking that you allow us to make your bookings in recommended properties once an itinerary is established. We can often negotiate a somewhat better price or different category of room.

Museums and monuments: We will suggest those major works and institutions from Italy's infinite patrimony, attend to your admissions and/or obtain your tickets to in order to avoid lengthy waiting times. If your tour is guided, reservations may not be necessary.

Tour guides: Each of our guides is licensed and a resident in that community visited. All Italian guides require a three-hour minimum payment but tours often continue to four hours. Gratuities are not included and entirely at your discretion. Guides will make all arrangements by calling your hotel beforehand, meeting you at your scheduled time, and traveling to your tour site with you by taxi or private means as the situation requires.

Transportation and transfers: Mercedes cars and coaches are generally utilized for airport and intercity transfers, water taxis in Venice. When required, private transfers or a driver are at additional cost nor included in any guides' fees. Given the conditions and costs incurred (city passes) in Italy's historic center, a taxi rather than private vehicle and driver may be preferred.

Restaurants: Proven dining establishments throughout Italy may be suggested.

Cell phones: All details regarding use of your mobile telephone in Italy will be provided upon request.