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Visit in Pompeii - Pompeii Private Tour with Ada

🛕 Culture & History

Visit in Pompeii - Pompeii Private Tour with Ada

Ada's private walking tour of Pompeii reconstructs Roman life through archaeological evidence and storytelling across the site's major zones. Over two hours, your authorised guide—fluent in English, French, or Italian—navigates you past preserved homes, forums, and everyday artefacts, building a tangible sense of how residents lived before Vesuvius. Tours can be tailored to your interests, whether focusing on domestic spaces, commerce, or public life. Minimum four participants required.

2 hoursfrom AUD $316

Cooking Class in an Italian Family Home : Pasta & Wine near Lecce

🍜 Food & Cooking

Cooking Class in an Italian Family Home : Pasta & Wine near Lecce

Cook fresh pasta by hand in Enza's countryside home near Lecce, learning traditional Salentine recipes passed down through her family. This 3.5-hour evening starts with prosecco and homemade antipasti, moves into the kitchen for hands-on pasta-making, then settles around the dining table for a proper meal with local wine, live music, and genuine conversation. Finish with homemade dessert and limoncello.

3h 30mfrom AUD $148

Private Tour explore Vulcano Island by Kayak & Coasteering

🐠 Water Activities

Private Tour explore Vulcano Island by Kayak & Coasteering

Paddle around Vulcano's volcanic coastline on a two-hour kayak adventure suited to all abilities. You'll navigate sea caves sculpted by ancient lava flows, swim through thermal waters warming the island's bays, and explore hidden grottos accessible only by water. Equipment and safety gear provided. Choose your intensity—gentle paddles for first-timers or technical routes for experienced kayakers seeking caving and wild terrain.

2 hoursfrom AUD $300

Rome: Hands-on Fettuccine, Ravioli & Tiramisu Cooking Class

🍜 Food & Cooking

Rome: Hands-on Fettuccine, Ravioli & Tiramisu Cooking Class

Roll up your sleeves in a Rome kitchen to build three pillars of Italian cooking: hand-rolled fettuccine and ravioli, plus tiramisu layered with mascarpone and espresso. Over three hours, a chef walks you through dough work, filling techniques, and assembly, explaining the reasoning behind each step rather than just the motions. You'll cook together, ask questions, taste your own food at a shared table, and leave with usable skills and a clearer sense of why these dishes matter in Italian culture.

3 hoursfrom AUD $115

Sassi di Matera guided tour with Giulio

🛕 Culture & History

Sassi di Matera guided tour with Giulio

Walk through Matera's ancient Sassi district with a local guide who knows the neighbourhood's layered history. This 2–3 hour tour takes you past the carved stone dwellings, church façades and hidden corners that make the area distinctive. You'll stop at key landmarks and hear stories that rarely make it into standard guidebooks, giving you a genuine sense of how people have lived here across centuries.

2 hours – 3 hoursfrom AUD $25

Lake Como Private boat tour from Bellagio with a local

🐠 Water Activities

Lake Como Private boat tour from Bellagio with a local

Explore Lake Como's shoreline from Bellagio with a local skipper who knows the lake's quieter corners. This 1–2 hour private boat outing takes you past grand lakeside villas and mountain-framed coves reachable only by water. Prosecco and bottled water come aboard. You'll set the departure time that suits you, and pick-up can arrange from Bellagio town centre or nearby villages like Varenna, Tremezzo or Menaggio.

1 hour – 2 hoursfrom AUD $483

The Florence Pottery Experience: Factory Tour & Masterclass

🍜 Food & Cooking

The Florence Pottery Experience: Factory Tour & Masterclass

This two-hour pottery experience transports you from Florence's crowded centre to Montelupo Fiorentino, a village that has been shaping ceramics for over seven centuries. You'll tour a working factory where Salvatore and his team handcraft every piece, then take a seat at the wheel yourself to create something tangible to take home. Your finished work gets fired, glazed, and shipped worldwide—a genuine souvenir born from your own hands rather than a shop shelf.

2 hoursfrom AUD $183

Ghisallo Pilgrimage - Road and E-bike Tour

🏔 Adventure & Sports

Ghisallo Pilgrimage - Road and E-bike Tour

Ride from Bellagio to the Madonna del Ghisallo Cycling Chapel on the official Giro di Lombardia climb—a route that's challenged professional cyclists since 1919. This 3.5-hour guided tour on either road or e-bike winds through switchbacks with Lake Como views at every turn, finishing at the sanctuary dedicated to cycling's patron saint and the adjoining museum housing over a century of Italian cycling artefacts and memorabilia.

3h 30mfrom AUD $283

Photoshoot Experience in Palermo

🛕 Culture & History

Photoshoot Experience in Palermo

Spend 90 minutes exploring Palermo's historic core with a professional photographer who'll guide you through centuries-old quarters, baroque piazzas, and hidden architectural gems. You'll roam from Teatro Massimo's grand façade through labyrinthine side streets, pause at the four-cornered Quattro Canti crossroads, uncover quiet angles around Piazza Pretoria and the cathedral, then finish at La Cala's waterfront. Leave with professional-grade images of moments you'll actually want to revisit.

1h 30mfrom AUD $133

Cooking class in a villa with Palermo view

🍜 Food & Cooking

Cooking class in a villa with Palermo view

A three-hour cooking class set in a Palermo villa where you'll prepare dishes using vegetables picked fresh from the instructor's garden. Work in the kitchen with views across the city, then sit down to eat what you've made while taking in the surrounding landscape. Most ingredients come directly from the property, connecting you to the food from soil to plate.

3 hoursfrom AUD $192

Private Tour - City Center

🛕 Culture & History

Private Tour - City Center

Walk through Rome's historic core with a knowledgeable local guide over two and a half hours. This private tour threads together the city's most iconic landmarks—from the Spanish Steps down through the Pantheon to Navona Square—revealing layers of Roman, Renaissance and baroque architecture. You'll move at your own pace, hearing stories that connect ancient ruins to the streets you're walking, with entry tickets included.

2h 30mfrom AUD $192

Sassi of Matera: complete tour for up to 15 people

🛕 Culture & History

Sassi of Matera: complete tour for up to 15 people

Navigate Matera's layered past with a guide who connects the dots between its hewn churches, cathedral and inhabited caves. This three-hour tour covers the Sassi district's most substantial monuments—the Cathedral, Madonna di Idris rock church, San Giovanni in Monterrone, and a lived-in cave dwelling—without the trial-and-error of exploring alone. Groups up to 15 people move together through streets carved into pale limestone, uncovering how people built and worshipped within these ancient formations.

3 hours – 3h 15mfrom AUD $75

Tour in the ruins of Pompeii with an archaeologist

🛕 Culture & History

Tour in the ruins of Pompeii with an archaeologist

Walk through Pompeii's frozen streets with an archaeologist who unpicks the city's final hours. This 2.5-hour private tour navigates beyond the main drag to reveal domestic spaces, shops, bathing complexes and civic centres where temples once dominated. Your guide reads the site's material evidence—frescoes, mosaics, plaster casts of those caught in the 79 AD eruption—to reconstruct how ordinary Romans actually lived. Routes adapt to your pace and interests, whether you're bringing kids or chasing newly excavated areas.

2h 30mfrom AUD $467

Ancient Pompei in the afternoon

🛕 Culture & History

Ancient Pompei in the afternoon

Explore Pompeii's remarkably preserved ruins during the late afternoon when visitor numbers drop and golden light transforms the ancient streets. This two-hour guided tour skips the midday crush, letting you wander the excavations with fewer people and better photography conditions. Your guide interprets the haunting remains of this Roman city frozen by Vesuvius's eruption nearly 2,000 years ago, revealing how ordinary residents lived before catastrophe struck.

2 hoursfrom AUD $350

Private Homemade Meal with a Private Chef in Rome

🍜 Food & Cooking

Private Homemade Meal with a Private Chef in Rome

Cook a two-and-a-half-hour meal with a Rome-based chef whose traditional Italian recipes have earned global recognition. Work through several dishes side by side in a home kitchen, learning techniques rooted in family tradition and regional history. You'll prep, cook, and sit down to eat what you've made, with the option to take away the recipes or purchase the chef's published collection of family narratives and dishes.

2h 30mfrom AUD $125

Private Walking Tour of the Squares and Fountains in Rome

🛕 Culture & History

Private Walking Tour of the Squares and Fountains in Rome

A guided walk through Rome's grand piazzas and baroque fountains, tracing the city's arterial streets from Piazza del Popolo to the Pantheon. Over three to four hours, you'll navigate the triangular hub where twin churches frame the ancient Flaminio Obelisk, then drift towards the Spanish Steps' hustle before reaching the sculptural drama of Trevi Fountain. The route weaves through Piazza Navona and lesser-known squares, revealing how Romans engineered their city's monumental core. Your guide does the talking; you do the walking.

3 hours – 4 hoursfrom AUD $317

Ravioli & Tagliatelle Cooking Class at a Local's Home in Positano

🍜 Food & Cooking

Ravioli & Tagliatelle Cooking Class at a Local's Home in Positano

Step into a Positano home to learn pasta-making from a local cook steeped in family tradition. Over three hours, you'll pick vegetables from the garden, roll out ravioli and tagliatelle by hand, and discover the regional techniques that make each shape matter. Cook two pasta dishes from scratch, then sit down to eat what you've made alongside wine and homemade liqueurs, picking up recipes and stories you'll actually use at home.

3 hoursfrom AUD $250

Milan: Pasta Tiramisu Cooking Class in a Chef’s Home(Small Group)

🍜 Food & Cooking

Milan: Pasta Tiramisu Cooking Class in a Chef’s Home(Small Group)

Learn to make fresh tagliatelle and tiramisu in a Milan chef's home kitchen over three and a half hours. This is cooking as it happens in Italian homes—no stations, no theatre, just you and a professionally trained chef working through technique and ingredients together. You'll taste estate oils and aged vinegars with artisan bread, then cook two pasta sauces from scratch and assemble proper tiramisu. Wine pairs throughout, with non-alcoholic options available.

3h 30mfrom AUD $128

Pasta and Tiramisu Making Class with Fine Italian Wine in Rome

🍜 Food & Cooking

Pasta and Tiramisu Making Class with Fine Italian Wine in Rome

Learn to hand-roll ravioli and layer tiramisu from Roman chefs in a three-hour class near the Colosseum. You'll shape pasta dough, stuff it with care, and craft the classic dessert from scratch, then sit down to eat what you've made alongside carefully matched Italian wines. Groups stay small—just ten of you—so there's real attention from your instructors.

3 hoursfrom AUD $165

Pizza and Gelato Making Experience with Fine Italian Wine in Rome

🍜 Food & Cooking

Pizza and Gelato Making Experience with Fine Italian Wine in Rome

Learn to shape Neapolitan pizza, churn gelato, and fry Roman supplì across three hours in Rome, guided by practised cooks. You'll work with your hands through each stage—mixing dough, building toppings, mastering the gelato balance—before tasting everything alongside poured Italian wines. It's a proper apprenticeship in three iconic Roman and Southern Italian dishes, not a passive watch.

3 hoursfrom AUD $165

Best of Pompeii - 2 hour Private Tour with Alex

🛕 Culture & History

Best of Pompeii - 2 hour Private Tour with Alex

Explore Pompeii's frozen Roman streets with Alex, a local licensed guide fluent in English. This two-hour private tour cuts straight past queues and into the daily routines of residents whose homes, workshops and forums were preserved when Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. Walk through bakeries, amphitheatres and family dwellings to understand how ordinary Romans actually lived—architecture and artefacts tell stories that textbooks can't.

2 hoursfrom AUD $132

Private Cruise on Lake Como with Luxury Motorboat from 1H to 4H

🐠 Water Activities

Private Cruise on Lake Como with Luxury Motorboat from 1H to 4H

Speed across Lake Como's glittering waters aboard a restored 2024 Colombo motorboat piloted by experienced captains who know every cove and villa. Your skipper shares local stories and celebrity lore gathered over years on the water. Choose your own pace—swim in secluded bays, sip prosecco mid-lake, or simply take in the Alpine backdrop and Belle Époque architecture. One to four hours available.

1 hourfrom AUD $533

The Cooking Lab - Authentic Food Experience

🍜 Food & Cooking

The Cooking Lab - Authentic Food Experience

Spend three hours in an Italian kitchen learning to cook traditional dishes alongside someone who's cooked this way since childhood. You'll prep, cook, and eat together, working through the fundamentals of genuine Italian food. The session includes all equipment, a welcome drink, a full meal you've made yourself, and local wines to match.

3 hoursfrom AUD $175

Rome: Private Colosseum Photoshoot with Local Photographer

🛕 Culture & History

Rome: Private Colosseum Photoshoot with Local Photographer

Work with a Rome-based photographer at the Colosseum for a personalised 90-minute portrait session. Pick your route—the amphitheatre alone, or branch into Capitoline Hill or Roman Forum vistas—and the photographer adjusts pacing and posing to suit you. Whether you're solo, coupled up, or celebrating an engagement, you'll walk away with 20–50 polished images delivered within two days, plus a year's access to your private gallery.

1h 30mfrom AUD $75

Games & Treasures Hunts Tour in Rome

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Games & Treasures Hunts Tour in Rome

A 2-hour romp through Rome's centre that turns sightseeing into a competitive game. You'll solve riddles and answer questions about landmarks as you navigate the city, earning points and competing for prizes. The Pantheon entry is included, making this ideal for families wanting something beyond standard guided walks. Kids aged 6+ and adults alike stay engaged rather than passive.

2 hoursfrom AUD $145

Sorrento Food & Wine Tour - 'Taste of Sorrento'

🍜 Food & Cooking

Sorrento Food & Wine Tour - 'Taste of Sorrento'

A three-hour culinary ramble through residential Sorrento that bypasses the tourist circuit. Your guide shepherds you between neighbourhood establishments where you'll taste several regional dishes—think aubergine parmigiana alongside local wines—each with stories about the traditions that built them. Everything comes from seasonal, local stock. Homemade puddings and limoncello round things out. Walking distances between venues are short; food is the real focus here.

3 hoursfrom AUD $192

Rome 3-Hour Evening Vespa Sidecar Tour with Gourmet Pizza Tasting

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Rome 3-Hour Evening Vespa Sidecar Tour with Gourmet Pizza Tasting

Ride through Rome's evening streets in a vintage Vespa sidecar, stopping at landmark plazas and hidden corners whilst a licensed guide shares the city's layered history through wireless headsets. This 3-hour tour wraps up with gourmet pizza tasting at Vico Pizza&Wine. You'll sit passenger throughout—no driving required—making it an effortless way to cover ground and absorb Rome's character without the usual tourist shuffle.

3 hoursfrom AUD $250

Rome: Early Morning Trevi Fountain Photoshoot & Iconic Landmarks

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Rome: Early Morning Trevi Fountain Photoshoot & Iconic Landmarks

Catch Rome's golden hour at Trevi Fountain and beyond with a professional photographer who knows the city's angles and light. This early morning shoot—available as a single-location session or a multi-landmark tour—pairs expert posing guidance with fast turnaround. You'll walk away with 20–70 edited images delivered within 48 hours, stored securely online for a year.

1 hourfrom AUD $108

Mozzarella Experience with Tasting in Vico Equense

🍜 Food & Cooking

Mozzarella Experience with Tasting in Vico Equense

Work alongside Maestro Casaro Antonio at a century-old mozzarella dairy nestled in the Sorrento Peninsula's green hills. Over two hours, you'll pull fresh curd, learn traditional cheesemaking techniques hands-on, and taste the warm, delicate results straight from the vat. This Vico Equense operation has been crafting fior di latte since the early 1900s, and you'll leave understanding exactly why.

2 hoursfrom AUD $148

Luxurious Photoshoot in Venice

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Luxurious Photoshoot in Venice

A 90-minute professional photo session capturing you across three distinct Venetian locations, blending iconic landmarks with a lesser-known local spot. Your photographer guides you through the city's most photogenic corners, then delivers 45 carefully edited images that distil the character of Venice into keepsakes worth revisiting. The session suits all fitness levels and works around your schedule.

1h 30mfrom AUD $500

Pizza, Gelato & Suppli Cooking Class by Colosseum

🍜 Food & Cooking

Pizza, Gelato & Suppli Cooking Class by Colosseum

Master three pillars of Italian street food in this three-hour cooking class near the Colosseum. Work alongside a local chef to roll and shape Neapolitan pizza dough, churn silky gelato from scratch, and fry golden supplì—those crispy Roman risotto balls filled with melted cheese. You'll taste everything you make, paired with Italian wines throughout.

3 hoursfrom AUD $165

Rome Hotel to Civitavecchia Cruise Ship Port Private Transfer

✈️ Transfers

Rome Hotel to Civitavecchia Cruise Ship Port Private Transfer

Your driver meets you at your Rome hotel and takes you directly to Civitavecchia cruise port in a private Mercedes, no waiting around. The 90-minute journey uses licensed vehicles with port access clearance, so check-in is straightforward. Vans hold up to 8 passengers with corresponding luggage space. Drivers speak Italian primarily with basic English. Book by providing your hotel address, ship name, and embarkation time.

1h 30mfrom AUD $558

Civitavecchia Cruise Ship to Rome PrivateTransfer

✈️ Transfers

Civitavecchia Cruise Ship to Rome PrivateTransfer

Skip the port queues and taxi lines—you'll be collected directly from your ship at Civitavecchia and driven straight to Rome in a private air-conditioned van. Your licensed, security-cleared driver handles the 90-minute journey, leaving you free to relax after disembarking. Vans fit up to 8 passengers, with generous luggage allowance scaled to your group size.

1h 30mfrom AUD $558

UFFIZI Private Tour in Florence Italy

🛕 Culture & History

UFFIZI Private Tour in Florence Italy

This 1 hour 45 minute private tour takes you through the Uffizi Gallery with a licensed guide who unpacks the masterworks and the Medici dynasty that bankrolled Florence's artistic explosion. You'll stand before Botticelli's iconic paintings, Leonardo's delicate Annunciation, and Michelangelo's sole venture into panel painting—each work explained in the context of Renaissance ambition and patronage. Timed-entry tickets included; headsets ensure you hear every detail.

1h 45mfrom AUD $254

Rome City Highlights & Hidden Gems: Vespa Sidecar Guided Tour

🏔 Adventure & Sports

Rome City Highlights & Hidden Gems: Vespa Sidecar Guided Tour

Tour Rome's iconic landmarks and lesser-known corners aboard a vintage Vespa sidecar with a professional driver and local guide. This three-hour circuit navigates cobblestone streets past the Colosseum, Roman Forum, Pantheon, Spanish Steps, Piazza Navona and Baroque fountains, then swings through Campo de' Fiori and Largo Argentina. You'll ride in either the sidecar or as a passenger behind the driver, alternating positions at stops to share the view.

3 hoursfrom AUD $248

Rome: 3 Hours Private/Group Golf cart Tour with hotel pickup

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Rome: 3 Hours Private/Group Golf cart Tour with hotel pickup

Roll through Rome's grand monuments and backstreet corners in a private golf cart over three hours, stopping at the Colosseum, St. Peter's, and the Roman Forum before pulling up to a traditional gelateria for gelato. Your English-speaking driver steers you through layers of history, pausing for photos and walks that let you absorb each neighbourhood at your own rhythm. Hotel pickup included. Suits first-timers and repeat visitors alike.

3 hoursfrom AUD $454

Professional Lab Pasta Experience

🍜 Food & Cooking

Professional Lab Pasta Experience

Learn to roll and shape fresh pasta using techniques passed down through generations at a working Roman pastificio. This three-hour class teaches you to make ravioli, tagliatelle, and fettuccine from scratch, finishing with a meal of your creations paired with wine. Run by two siblings who inherited their grandmother's methods, the workshop sits in their actual pasta shop where they've earned recognition in Italy's most respected food guides since opening.

3 hoursfrom AUD $107

Olive Oil Tasting and Experience (The Original in Sicily)

🍜 Food & Cooking

Olive Oil Tasting and Experience (The Original in Sicily)

Spend three hours on a Sicilian olive estate learning how quality extra virgin oil moves from grove to glass. Walk through working groves, watch the extraction process, and develop your palate through structured tastings that break down positive flavours and common faults. Finish with a traditional Sicilian lunch where regional dishes are paired with the estate's oils, plus local wine and coffee.

3 hoursfrom AUD $293

Rome Fiat 500 Vintage experience

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Rome Fiat 500 Vintage experience

Cruise Rome's iconic streets in a restored Fiat 500, the squat little car that defined la dolce vita. Over 2.5 hours, a local photographer captures you against the city's most photogenic backdrops—fountains, ochre buildings, cobbled piazzas—while you stop mid-tour for gelato or a cornetto and cappuccino at a proper gelateria. You'll leave with professional shots and the sort of joy that only comes from driving a machine that's been turning heads for six decades.

2h 30mfrom AUD $215

Private Tour - Capitoline Museums

🛕 Culture & History

Private Tour - Capitoline Museums

Explore Rome's oldest public museum collection, established by Pope Sixtus IV in the 15th century across the Capitoline's three palaces. This 2.5-hour private tour guides you through Roman sculptures, Renaissance frescoes, and archaeological treasures whilst framing views of the Roman Forum below. You'll encounter masterworks by Bernini and Algardi, bronze portraits of emperors, and the legendary She-Wolf statue—essential context for understanding Rome's classical past.

2h 30mfrom AUD $217

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