We are doing the Heart of Italy tour this spring and want to make the most of every day. Does anyone know approximately what time breakfasts are on his tour so we can maybe see some sights before?
It varies by the hotel's breakfast hours and the tour schedule for the day.
On average, you'll need to meet the group for the day's activities around 8:30 or 9.
You can have breakfast at any point from when the breakfast opens to when you meet the group.
Welcome to the forum! On tour days, the timing generally goes like this: hotel-provided breakfast buffet is open approximately 7 - 10 am or thereabouts, but the tour group is leaving the hotel for the day (or moving hotels) by around 8 am. So breakfast will not limit your ability to do some independent sightseeing, but the tour itself likely will.
I checked my photos from the Heart of Italy tour that I took in 2019. We generally had to be ready to leave the hotel anywhere between 8 am and 8:45 am. Breakfast was available at least one hour before we were to leave the hotel.
After taking numerous RS tours, I agree with KC. Unless you are a very early riser and get out before breakfast, and some of our tour members have been, there’s not going to be a lot of time from when breakfast opens til the time you’re off for the day. From our experience, most of our tours have started off the day between 8 and 8:30 and there have been days that it’s been earlier. Breakfasts generally have started at 7 and I know on the Village Italy tour we just were on, we were consistently asked not to be there earlier. The one nice thing about these tours is that they generally allow you quite a bit of free time on your own during the day.
Our 3 RS experiences (not Heart of Italy) are the same. There's no breakfast meet up time. You are on your own to make your way to breakfast. You will be told what time the breakfast buffet opens up and closes (it always closes well after your group activities begin) at the hotel restaurant ;and what time you need to be ready to depart for the day which is usually 8 or 8:30am. I've almost never seen a departure as late as 9am, except for a rare situation.
... so we can maybe see some sights before?
Not sure what you mean by 'see some sights', but I doubt any tourist sight would be open before breakfast.
If you get up really early you could walk around the town, but you wouldn't be able to 'go in' to anything.