Tuscany Tour From Florence

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We are also going in May with our adult sons! We are taking the Walks of Italy Tuscany tour. We did 3 Walks of Italy tours in Rome 6 years ago and they were wonderful. I’m very much looking forward to this one.

Thanks Christine, that's good to know about Get Your Guide. I'll take a look at the link you sent.

Good to know you've used the Walks of Italy tours and liked them! Were they very large groups?

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tuscan-wine-tours.com
couple of friends did the super chianti tour, having lunch at the famous butcher dario cecchini's place. fisrt couple had such a great time, they went again. both enjoyed it so much and said dario is so so nice, watch him in his butcher shop cutting meat and he loves rock and roll music. the luncheon was yummy and seeing what else on tour was fantastic, a wonderful day.
gustowinetours.com
click the tours they have and if one interests you and your gang.
withlocals.com/ tuscany
cookly.me/ florence
under wine experiences. tuscany wine and olive oil trail with small group
winetours-tuscany.com/ chianti
they have a full day and half day tour, scroll to bottom of page and gives you info.
we did a private tour with 4 of us from florence, was about $325. i asked to go to certain places and wineries but he said no. he has the tour planned, went to places always mentioned and was so so crowded with bus tour groups doing the same thing. plus they go to places that they get kickbacks. learned real fast. took another private tour in amsterdam and he did exactly what we asked for, stopped for lunch and treated him. it was so nice
in venice we did a private prosecco tour up to the hills, so much tasting of prosecco, lunch at a family owned restaurant with so much food and fabulous tour driver that was from the area. fabulous and fun day with her.
we used get your guide 2 times in apris and really like them, easy to work with.
it's your decision with what and who you decide.
if you plan on being in rome, check out oldfrascati.com
30 minute train ride to frascati, wine growing region out in the countryside, seeing the summer popes palace and gardens, stopping at ceralli.it, family owned bakery/pizza oven.
if in venice, schezzini.it
it's a bar crawl, wine tasting, learnig history of venice and having small bites to eat (cichetti)
hope this helps you out with some thoughts. enjoy
aloha

Walks of Italy tours are typically small, depending on what you are doing. The ones I’ve been in are 8-10 people.

Wow, thanks for all the great info and suggestions! I love the idea of the bar crawl in Venice. We'll be there as well but just a couple of days, unfortunately.

Appreciate your help!

Adding to some of the great suggestions that you've already received.... I have done the cicchetti bar crawl with Alessandro Schezzini three times now! Each time I had a different family member or friend with me and each time it was great. Alessandro takes you to three different bars where you drink wine and eat cicchetti at each one as Alessandro regales you with stories, questions, laughter. The food was sufficient for our dinners each time. Also each time there were families with young adult kids along and they all seemed to be having a wonderful time. www.schezzini.it. I also have taken a couple of Walks of Italy tours out of Florence. Several years ago they were running one that went to Siena, an agritourismo (sp) where we had lunch, San Gig, and Pisa. It was a great tour. Another tour stops at three vineyards/wineries and lunch is served at one. Both were great tours.

Thanks, such great information! I'm sure this will be very helpful to others as well.

We've done two Tuscany tours with Grape Tours and have had great experiences both times! Our favorite was the super Chianti.

My only Walks of Italy tour wasn't wine-tasting but it was a relatively small group. However, what they didn't tell us was that while it was a small group, they ran several other small groups concurrently.

If I was planning for a group of four, I'd look at a private tour. It would probably less expensive than to be part of a small group tour with greater flexibility.