CICERONI Travel Traveller Reviews

The travel arrangements were excellent both to and from our destination and also during our movements around the area by coach. All our visits to country houses ran smoothly and well, and the catering offered at all was either excellent or very good. The Dryburgh Abbey Hotel was quiet and comfortable with spacious bedrooms,and the staff were anxious to please, but the catering there was quite disappointing. If you had offered a rating of 'Very Good' above, I would have chosen that category. Our holiday was somewhere between 'Good' and 'Excellent'

I have travelled with Ciceroni Travel many times before. Their holidays are always well organised, extremely interesting and in congenial company. The programme of visits is always very comprehensive and wide-ranging. Dr. Tom Duncan has such an in-depth knowledge of his cultural and fine arts subjects that these visits are very rewarding.

Excellent cross section of important houses and gardens of the area. Most enjoyable.

Consistently excellent - well-organised, instructive, entertaining and always 1st class.

Excellent guide and the most interesting houses visited and glorious gardens. A special treat to have access to places not normally open to the public

Excellent in all respects

A guided tour of a number of the great houses and their gardens in a largely agricultural and very beautiful part of Scotland.

A very efficient organisation - every detail from booking,joining details, hotel arrangements and guiding, all very satisfactorily dealt with.

We spent effectively 5 days in the Tweed Valley of the Borders visiting wonderfully furnished aristocratic mansions and their extensive gardens in gloriously sunny and warm weather.The scenery is quite unspoiled and impressive. Tom Duncan provided his usual expert and amusing commentary on all visits.

Very efficient.

We visited several outstanding houses and gardens in the Tweed Valley,Scottish Borders,some not open to the general public, with guided tours outlining the key architectural features of the houses, their history and contents. The weather was glorious,and all the arrangements excellent

Very good attention to detail, excellent personal service.

We had a most interesting and stimulating holiday with Ciceroni Travel. Our guide was very professional and knowledgable. My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed our time in Verona. The hotel was quiet and comfortable, our daily programme were most varied and educational - we visited museums, villas, gardens, and attended world class operas. All in all, we had a wonderful time. The restaurants we went with them and the ones they recommended were excellent. We'll definitlely join them again.

As I have described above, our tour operator were absolutely excellent. They were considerate, knowledgable about the history and culture of Italy, and most of all, we had a fabulous time. A really good company to go with.

I arrived knowing no one, and felt at the end that I had spent five glorious days with old friends. The sites selected were obviously chosen with care, with two excellent meals in private villas making us forget we were tourists. The tour was perfectly paced, with breaks coming just when we were ready for them. I am looking forward already to another tour with Ciceroni. l

Our guide James Hill is truly a fount of knowledge - it pours out of him in a sparkling and delightful way. He copes effortlessly with the unexpected, is invariably cheerful and upbeat, and has an instinct for turning strangers into friends. He is the ideal Cicerone.

A mixture of villas, churches, vineyards and gardens- all well worth visiting. An excellent hotel near Verona

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After several very damp trips to Italy we were disappointed that two of our three operas in the Arena were rained off after the second act. Other than that, the churches, villas, gardens and wine were all splendid.

We have become Ciceroni regulars and consider them exemplary operators.