We will be staying for 2 nights in Siena and would love to have someone take us by car for 1.5-2 hours to explore the Crete Senesi Drive or similar drive.
we are not seeing anything like that through viator. How do we locate someone?
thanks for any tips.
ToursbyRoberto.com
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I don't know if they would be willing to do a private tour for 1.5 -2 hours, but we had booked three private tours with this company for 2022, before we cancelled the Tuscany portion of our Italy trip. And they were extremely gracious when we cancelled.
We used https://tuscanyexperiencetours.com/ with Andrea Natali. when we wanted a driver in Tuscany. He was amazing. Andrea is a good driver and fluent in English. He is very knowledgeable on all kinds of things in his beloved Tuscany. He has great ideas about special sites or vistas. I loved that he has a ton of information at his fingertips about Tuscan history in general. He’s good company to have around and a total professional.
thank you!
I would highly recommend Fiorenza Bettini. She lives near Siena and can arrange a tour to your liking. You can reach her at https://gowithflotuscany.com/. We met her through her mother when we are in Tuscany in 2018. During the pandemic she held Zoom tours spotlighting local vendors. A few weeks ago, we were staying in Florence and I reached out to her to curate a trip for us. She worked on creating the perfect itinerary that combined history, architecture, food, and wine.
Since she works out of Siena, I would reach out to her to see if she can create a few hour tour from Siena. Note that if you do the Crete Senesi Drive (we did that on our own in 2018) and you stop and see anything, it is more than a few hours.
Another vote for Toursbyroberto.
I know that Tours by Roberto is recommended by RS but I personally found him to be quite rude and dismissive on our day with him when participants asked questions. Perhaps we caught him on a bad day. But if I were to go again I would book elsewhere.
