From the Cruise docks of Civitavecchia, Naples and Livorno; your private, English speaking driver will be waiting for you at the gangway exit of your cruise ship normally at 8am (this depends on your needs).
After the guided tour, your driver will drive you back in time to take your cruise ship.

We are proud to welcome you to our beautiful cities in Italy! Take one of our wonderful shore trip excursions and enjoy the best.

Our business is to make your visit at our ports of call the most enjoyable and memorable destinations of your Mediterranean Cruise.

Booking your own private shore excursion, will not only save your money but will provide you with the option of choosing unique tours for small groups, tailor made itineraries and private customizable tours. Private Family and friend Excursions.
Your enjoyment and safety are very important to us and all our tours have been designed to make your day a great one!

Cruise Companies such as Carnival, Celebrity, Princess and Royal Caribbean often carry few excursion options and for the most part they are farmed out to bus companies that can handle very big groups. Therefore, more often than not you end up shuffled on to crowded excursion tour buses and large coaches packed to maximum capacity.

Don't make that mistake, you will be glad to have chosen one of our private tours that will allow you to visit more sites in less time. Our drivers will take you up close to the sites that you are to visit without all the walking involved in a bus tour. He will go at your pace with no rushing as in bus tours.
Check our individual shore excursion pages for rates and discounts, you will surely find the tour that will interest you.

Shore Excursions:

From Port of Civitavecchia
Rome Major Highlights & Vatican.
Roman Hills & Castelgandolfo
Tivoli Garden & Hadrian's Villa

From Port of Livorno
Florence Major Highlights
Siena & San Gimignano
Pisa & Florence

From Port of Napoli
Pompeii & Napoli
Pompeii & Amalfi Coast
Pompeii & Mt. Vesuvius

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Your English speaking driver will meet you at the gang way of your ship or pick up location in Livorno with the requested vehicle to begin this day trip excursion to Siena and San Gimignano.

Siena is the embodiment of a medieval city. Throughout the centuries, the inhabitants preserved their city's Gothic appearance, acquired between the 12th and 15th centuries. The whole city of Siena, built around the Piazza del Campo, was devised as a work of art that blends into the surrounding landscape. Siena is certainly the place in Italy where the traditions and the way of life inherited from a prestigious history have been kept alive.

Then we're off to San Gimignano the famous town of the "fine towers". This mediaeval jewel is one of the main tourist attractions in the region. It rises on a one-thousand feet high hill and its towers dominate the Elsa River Valley (Val D'Elsa). Like many other towns in the area, also San Gimignano originates from a small Etruscan village (300-200 BC). It developed then into a town in the 10th century and was named after the Holy Bishop of Modena, St. Gimignano, who saved the village from the barbarians.

The town owes its wealth and importance to the fact that it was on a medieval route (Via Francigena) that linked France with Rome, and was travelled by pilgrims and merchants. Once in San Gimignano you will have all the time you need to see the highlights.

Return to the ship in the late afternoon.

EXTRA INFORMATION:

Duration of this daytrip: 9 hours.

• Comfortable walking shoes and suitable dress for an excursion.
• Please dress respectfully when visiting religious monuments; local custom requires covering knees and shoulders.
• Our driver will go at your pace and will allow all the time you need to visit the sites with NO RUSHING as in group tours.
• Siena is wheelchair accessible.
• Doesn't include Lunch, Private Tour Guide, Meals, Entrance fees and gratuities.
• Please note that the order of the itinerary might change.
• The vehicle will escort you for the entire tour.
• Our rates do not include private tour guide or meals.

PAYMENTS:

• All rates are quoted in the Euro and are only payable in the Euro currency, at the end of the services.
• Tips are not included in our rates and are not mandatory. Normal tips range between 5-10% depending on your satisfaction.

This day excursion is designed for those who wish to enjoy the highlights of the ETRUSCAN villages Tarquinia and Tuscania. After you are greeted in the port of Rome, you will proceed north east through the countryside reaching Tarquinia, located 30 min away from the port.

Here you will find the greatest Etruscan museum in the world, with well-preserved sarcophagi, paintings, tombs, frescoes from the 6th to 1st centuries B.C. and the largest Etruscan necropolis. Etruscans left very little in terms of written material about their culture and society, and much of that has not yet been deciphered, so it's mostly what they've left behind after death that serves as an open book for us to learn from. The burial chambers themselves were carved into rock in to architecturally represented the interior of actual houses of that time... creating an eternal home for soul in the afterlife while celebrating the pleasures of a human life. During the decline of the Etruscan civilization, you'll notice the frescoes take on a much darker tone - both in color and theme, with infernal demons replacing cheerful celebrations.

In no other Etruscan necropolis, and nowhere else in the world would you be able to see so many elaborate ancient frescoes so skilfully painted and so well preserved as these in Tarquinia.

The interior of these tombs contained not only fresco masterpieces, but a treasure trove of precious objects and sarcophagi that further give us a glimpse into the life of the Etruscans and their superior craftsmanship that rivaled even the most advanced ancient civilizations. To see some of these incredible artifacts, our tour continues into Tarquinia's National inside in the elegant Palazzo Vitelleschi that features some of the most significant Etruscan archaeological findings in Italy!

From here we head to our next destination: Tuscania. This part of the tour takes most of our clients by surprise because of the unspoiled countryside that you will experience at a relaxing pace.

One of the oldest towns in Italy with a history dating back 3,000 years, Tuscania was another Etruscan establishment and one of the most important crossroads of inner Etruria.

What we see now is a medieval town strategically situated hilltop, with a spectacular view of the valley that inspired poets. See the valley and countryside for yourself, and discover the breathtaking beauty that inspires not only poets, but each and everyone one of us.

From here we will visit Tuscania's two historically and architecturally significant churches: San Pietro and Santa Maria Maggiore. It may appear strange that these two fine churches are situated so far outside the town's fortified walls, but that is where the initial settlement, called Civita (City) was established, and why these two medieval churches were built here. Tragedy struck in the 14th century when the Black Death wiped out much of the town's population, and as a result, the churches were abandoned and excluded when the city walls were rebuilt. The lack of buildings surrounding these remote churches adds to the magical feel of the site, before you make your return back to the ship in the port of Rome.

EXTRA INFORMATION:

Duration of this daytrip: 9 hours.

• Comfortable walking shoes are recommended.
• You can get the tickets to sites on the spot.
• The vehicle will escort you for the entire tour.
• Please note that the driver will not enter the sites but give commentaries of what you are seeing.
• Our rates do not include private tour guide, entrance fees or meals.

PAYMENTS:

• All rates are quoted in the Euro and are only payable in the Euro currency, at the end of the services.
• Tips are not included in our rates and are not mandatory. Normal tips range between 5-10% depending on your satisfaction.

This day excursion is designed for those who wish to enjoy the highlights of Rome's surrounding countryside; TIVOLI and the VILLAS of HADRAIN and D'ESTE.

After you are greeted at the Port of Rome you will drive through the countryside to arrive at the most sought after site of the ancient Roman elites; Tivoli. In the morning you will spend some time visiting the ancient ruins and summer home of the Emperor in Villa Hadrian, the site chosen by Emperor Hadrian for his home away from Rome, a monument created to entertain the emperor and his court, before you are escorted to lunch.

Continuing on, you will arrive in Villa D'Este, the renaissance summer estate, known for its exquisitely manicured gardens and highly praised fresco paintings.

When you have completed all of your sightseeing, you will be returned to the Port of Rome.

IMPORTANT:

• We do highly recommend a private licensed guide for Tivoli.
• Tivoli is partly wheelchair accessible.

EXTRA INFORMATION:

Duration of this daytrip: 7 hours.

• Comfortable walking shoes are recommended.
• Entrance fees to both sites are approximately € 18.00 each.
• Doesn't include Lunch, Private Tour Guide, Meals, Entrance fees and gratuities.
• Please note that the order of the itinerary might change.
• The vehicle will escort you for the entire tour.

PAYMENTS:

• All rates are quoted in the Euro and are only payable in the Euro currency, at the end of the services.
• Tips are not included in our rates and are not mandatory. Normal tips range between 5-10% depending on your satisfaction.