Travel To Rome Italy

Half Day Tour From Rome | Rome Day Trips | Ancient Ostia Rome Tour

iwellbc — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:24:44 +0000

On a trip to Rome the ancient Ostia port is often overlooked by travelers visiting Rome even if the harbour of Ostia Antica is often compared to the city of Pompeii for its beauty with mosaics and columns everywhere! The Ancient Ostia Rome day tour is a great day trip from Rome to enjoy a day off from the hustles and bustles of the Etenal City of Rome.

16 miles southwest of Rome the ancient city of Ostia was Rome’s main commercial port. A short drive from Rome the superb and well-preserved archaeological excavations of Ostia offer an excellent idea of the daily life under the Roman Empire. A guided tour of Ostia is an easy half day tour from Rome for families visiting Rome with teens happy to leisurely wander around the Roman theatre, the impressive Roman Forum, a large baths complex and residential villas with greenery courtyards.

Since 1997 Nancy Aiello Tours ( www.NancyAielloTours.com ) offers its valuable guests visiting Rome, Italy the most comprehensive selection of private Rome city tours, walking Rome tours, Rome Museum Tours, Vatican and Sistine Chapel religious Rome tours, Rome by-night Rome tours, Rome culinary tours and private Rome cookery lessons, and highly customized private Rome tours escorted by dynamic and experienced certified official Rome tour private guides.

Fist timers in Rome, families visiting Rome with kids, senior citizens traveling to Rome eager to experience Rome in full will be assisted during their Roman holiday with the highest level of customer service and courtesy.

Professional Italy Tour Planning Company Nancy Aiello Tours provides comprehensive and enjoyable private Vatican and Rome Tours, Rome Day Tours, Rome Excursions escorted by Qualified English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Hebrew and Chinese speaking Licensed Rome Tour Guides.

For your entertaining and informative private guided tours of Rome please, contact Nancy Aiello Tours at info@nancyaiellotours.com

Nancy Aiello Tours launches its new Luxury Shopping Rome Tours with Russian Speaking Rome Guides

iwellbc — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:24:17 +0000

Your Shopping Tour of Rome will be the highlight of your travel to Rome.
Russian guests will enjoy a great Rome shopping experience with a Russian Speaking Rome Personal Shopper at their side, discovering Rome shops and boutiques including Rome best jewelries, made to measure tailored clothing and furs, luxury watches, the most sought after leather bags and accessories from the best Made in Italy brands.

Nancy Aiello Tours specializes in deluxe private tours of Rome with Official Licensed Russian Speaking Tour Guides including private transportation with fully licensed and insured a/c limos with private drivers to discover not only the most famous Rome landmark sites but also the lesser known and off the beaten path Rome’s treasures. Nancy Aiello Tours private Rome tours are designed for the discerning Russian travelers looking for unforgettable Roman Holidays and wonderful Rome shopping experience.

Since 1997 Nancy Aiello Tours advises leisure and business Russian travelers with the finest, most comprehensive tailor-made private Italy tours combined with Personalized VIP Travel Services to experience and enjoy the Italian life and style as the Italians do!

Nancy Aiello Tours and its team of Russian Speaking Official Rome Tour Guides draw on extensive local knowledge to provide detailed & customized itinerary planning in Rome to enjoy art, local food, well-being, golf and Ferrari rides. These include airports and ports of call welcome, recommendation of hotels or other types of accommodation in Rome, private transportation and logistics arrangements, personal Rome shopping tours with Russian speaking Rome guides and information on the hottest bars, restaurants and events in Rome.

Nancy Aiello Tours Private Rome Day Trips to Ancient Ostia, Private Rome Excursions to Assisi & Orvieto, Rome Day Trips to Pompeii, Luxury Day Tours to Tivoli Gardens, Rome Day Tours to the Roman Castles, the shopping designer’s outlets and the scenic Tuscan countryside are an ideal way to extend your Roman Holidays.

Rome shopping Day Tours from Rome with your personal Russian speaking Official Tour Guide are an opportunity to enjoy Rome ancient sights, beautiful countryside, excellent Italian food and Outlet malls and factory shops in and around Rome with our local official Russian speaking tour guides and private transportation with licensed drivers.

Please, contact Nancy Aiello Tours to learn more about their comprehensive & enjoyable private Rome tours personalized with your private Russian speaking guides for you and your beloved party.
For your Private Guided Russian Tour of Rome, Italy contact Nancy Aiello Tours at info@nancyaiellotours.com

Professional Italy Tour Planning Company Nancy Aiello Tours provide comprehensive and enjoyable private Vatican and Rome Tours, Rome Day Tours, Rome Excursions with English, Spanish, French and Russian speaking Licensed Tour Guides, and offers tips for travelers visiting Italy which are available at http://italytravelista.com

Travel To Italy at Your Own Pace with Nancy Aiello Tours. Customized Italy Tours combined with Private Italy Travel Services. # # #

Tour Rome In 2010 | Private Tours Of Rome Led By Official Rome And Vatican Tour Guides

iwellbc — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:25:09 +0000

Based in Rome, Italy Nancy Aiello Tours specializes in providing high quality private Rome and Vatican tours and travel related services with an emphasis on Italian culture, food and lifestyle, tailored to suit Rome travelers’ personal interests, requirements and needs.

Nancy Aiello Tours of Rome are private, highly personalized, informative and entertaining for leisure, business travelers and family with children who want to get the best of Rome and the Vatican during their Rome vacation.

Visit www.nancyaiellotours.com to book a private, multigenerational family and cultural strictly private tours of the Vatican, Rome, Italy with flexible itineraries.

Our selected team of official Rome and Vatican tourist guides as well as our transportation fleet of fully insured a/c Mercedes Benz limousines, minivans and luxury buses, ensure that our private Rome tours and services maintain the highest quality standards.

Rome and Vatican tours and Italy events are offered year-round, and our rapid response to queries even outside normal business hours can handle Rome last-minute requests.

Nancy Aiello Tours is dedicated to provide the Italy vacation of a lifetime for discerning corporate and leisure clients who truly know the difference.

Since 1997 Nancy Aiello Tours (www.NancyAielloTours.com) offers its valuable guests visiting Rome, Italy the most comprehensive selection of private Rome city tours, walking Rome tours, Rome museum tours, Vatican and Sistine Chapel religious Rome tours, Rome by-night Rome tours, Rome culinary tours and private Rome cookery lessons, and a wide range of highly customized private Rome tours escorted by dynamic and experienced certified official Rome tour private guides.

Nancy Aiello Tours VIP Italy travel services include air-con fully insured deluxe Mercedes Benz limos, pick-up and drop-off at the doorstep of their Rome accommodation (hotel/apartment), Italy private transfers, Rome airport transfers, Rome transfer to/from Civitavecchia port of call with English speaking licensed drivers.

Professional Italy Tour Planning Company Nancy Aiello Tours provides comprehensive and enjoyable private Vatican and Rome Tours, Rome Day Tours, Rome Excursions with English, Spanish, French, German, Russian and Chinese speaking Licensed Rome Tour Guides, and offers tips for travelers visiting Italy at Nancy Aiello Tours’ Blog http://Italytravelista.com

For your entertaining and informative private guided tours of Rome please, contact Nancy Aiello Tours at info@nancyaiellotours.com

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Travel Rome Tours For Families With Children | Choosing A Family Rome Tour For Your Private Roman Holiday

iwellbc — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:27:57 +0000

Rome, Italy is the perfect destination for the whole family. Rome is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful cities in the world and its artistic, historic and cultural heritage remains vast up to these days. Palaces, monuments and museums, such as the Vatican Museums and the Coliseum are amongst the world’s 50 most visited tourist destinations.

Planning a trip to Rome rich in history, art and culture requires careful structuring of your time and needs. Deciding on the places you don’t want to miss when visiting Rome with your family might be overwhelming at times. Your family trip to Rome can be customized to suit your preferences and taste by Nancy Aiello Tours, providing strictly private Rome tours designed to meet the needs of travelers who like to travel Rome, Italy at their own pace ensuring your private guided Rome tours are comfortable, informative and fun for everyone in the family.

Depending on what your family is like and what you want to do when visiting Rome, you may want to consider signing up for family friendly Rome private tours customized to your kids’ ages and interests so that when in Rome your familyescorted by qualified official Rome and Vatican tour guides and first-class comfort, can focus on fun, discovery and quality time together.

Nancy Aiello kids friendly Rome tours and day trip from Rome are adapted to the interests and abilities of kids of all ages from toddlers to teens to satisfy the curiosity, energy-levels and attention spans of multiple generations.

Since 1997 Nancy Aiello Tours (www.NancyAielloTours.com) offers its valuable guests visiting Rome, Italy the most comprehensive selection of private Rome city tours, walking Rome tours, Rome museum tours, Vatican and Sistine Chapel religious Rome tours, Rome by-night Rome tours, Rome culinary tours and private Rome cookery lessons, and a wide range of highly customized private Rome tours escorted by dynamic and experienced certified official Rome tour private guides.

For your entertaining and informative private guided family tours of Rome please, contact Nancy Aiello Tours at info@nancyaiellotours.com

Tour Rome with Your Kids – Enjoy Your Rome Family Vacation with Nancy Aiello Tours

iwellbc — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:25:40 +0000

Nancy Aiello Tours of Rome are the perfect getaway for families who want to experience and share happy Rome travel memories.

Rome is a very child-friendly Italy travel destination to be enjoyed by families and children together at their own pace.

What makes Rome so kid-friendly is that it is filled with parks and baroque squares surrounded by gorgeous fountains and gelato shops helping keep the whole family
happy.

Nancy Aiello Tours of Rome offer a wide variety of private family-friendly Rome tours for keeping kids active and entertained with Licensed charming Rome Tour Guides eager to have the whole family engaged and involved in taking part in learning about Rome wonders.

Nancy Aiello Tours of Rome with kids are designed to turn your Rome vacation into lasting memories, always fully customized for you and your beloved family.

Since 1997 Nancy Aiello Tours advises leisure and business travelers with the finest, most comprehensive tailor-made private Italy tours combined with personalized VIP travel services to experience and enjoy the Italian life and style as the Italians do!

Nancy Aiello Tours and its team of Official Rome Tour Guides draw on extensive local knowledge to provide detailed & customized tours of Rome.

Please, visit Nancy Aiello Tours to learn more about its informative & enjoyable private Rome tours personalized for you and your beloved party.

For your Rome Tour with Kids, contact Nancy Aiello Tours at info@nancyaiellotours.com

Travel To Italy at Your Own Pace with Nancy Aiello Tours. Customized Italy Tours combined with Private Italy Travel Services.# # #

United Kingdom – London: Free Pocket Travel Guide By Flashbooking

iwellbc — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:24:18 +0000

Useful tool Flashbooking staff has put at travellers’ disposal is the London Pocket City Guide: this free travel guide of London contains, just in a few pages, all the essential information and very good suggestions about the Great Britain Capital as shopping areas and markets, Museums and Art Galleries, budget restaurants and cheap accommodations, classic itineraries you can’t miss, transports and a lot more.

Flashbooking.com is a young dynamic hostels-booker that provides students, independent travellers, backpackers, conscious tourists, families etc. with an online secure booking service.

A growing database of selected budget accommodations worldwide from cheap hotel deals, Cheap Hostels London, B&B, apartments, campsites and guesthouses is easily available online with all relevant information about location, description, contacts, prices, instant real availability, customer ratings, facilities and pictures.

In particular Flashbooking.com provides a large accommodation offer in London where there are plenty of budget solutions in youth hostels, typical British Bed and breakfast London and budget hotels.

In Flashbooking website you can also get a quite exhaustive list of London Events as well as the main festivals, exhibitions, concerts and cool things to do and see in other top European cities.

Moreover, for anyone that owns a personal website, the travel guides (Rome, Amsterdam, Paris and more coming on soon!) come for free and can be used as an extra travel resource for theirs users.

We are looking forward to finding the best accommodation for you on your next trip!

Five Travel Tips for Florence

iwellbc — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:27:17 +0000

1 The Uffizi Gallery Tip

The Uffizi Gallery contains some of the most important and greatest art collections in the world. It is also the world’s oldest museum. Most tour guide books and online travel sites will urge you to ensure that a visit to the Uffiizi is included as part of any Florence vacation, no matter how short. What most of them fail to tell you, or at least stress with sufficient emphasis, is that without a pre-booked ticket, you may not be able to visit the Uffizi at all!

My wife and I had a three day holiday in Florence at the beginning of April 2005. We had planned on visiting the Uffizi Gallery and as soon as we checked in at our hotel we telephoned the gallery to purchase tickets. After several attempts without our calls being answered, we asked the hotel reception to do the booking for us. They explained that it was nearly always difficult to get through on the booking line and that our three day stay might not provide sufficient notice to make a booking possible. Despite this, the hotel staff were most happy to keep trying whilst we enjoyed the other wonders of Florence. We decided to check out the situation for ourselves the next day but discovered queues that hardly seemed to move, stretching for an enormous distance around the area of the Uffizi. Queuing all day was certainly not the way we wanted to spend our time in Florence, so we decided to leave things in the capable hands of the reception staff whilst we enjoyed the other attractions that we had come to see. The following evening, we were informed that after many fruitless attempts at getting through on the booking line, success had finally been achieved but only to receive information that all tickets were sold for the following day. We consequently missed out on seeing many of Florence’s greatest art treasures and our top travel tip for anyone visiting Florence on a short stay vacation is to book tickets for the Uffizi Gallery online some time before their holiday.
2 The Inside Tip for the Duomo

Another of the wonders of Florence not to be missed is the Duomo. Actually, it is impossible to miss this magnificent building because it dominates the city and can be seen from virtually everywhere. Savour the views of it whilst enjoying a coffee at one of the cafes in the surrounding piazza. Walk around it, pausing every now and then to appreciate it from every aspect. View it from more distant, elevated, positions around the city. This was once the largest cathedral in the world and even now, nearly six hundred years after it was built, it is the fourth largest. Florence always insisted on everything being the biggest and the best but what really makes the Duomo unique is its dome or “Cupola”. When Fillipo Brunelleschi undertook this masterpiece of renaissance architecture, no one believed that such a dome was possible. The secret had been lost for over a thousand years but Brunelleschi travelled to Rome to unravel it by examining the dome of the ancient Pantheon.

My tip for the Duomo is to ascend this incredible feat of engineering. You can do so by entering a stairway that leads up inside the dome, between its inner and outer shells. When you reach the top, you can step outside onto an external gallery that provides magnificent views of the city and the surrounding Tuscan countryside. This gallery was never finished however, so your views are restricted to northerly and westerly directions.
3 Palazzo Vecchio – David’s Copy Tip

Perhaps the next most famous landmark of Florence is the Palazzo Vecchio. Once again, it is a building worth enjoying from every aspect on the outside before entering to explore its fascinating, art filled, interior.

My tip for the Palazzo Vecchio is to spare a few minutes looking at the pollution-streaked COPY of the world’s most famous statue, realizing that although the original Michelangelo’s David is safely inside the Accademia, the copy is standing just where the original once stood.
4 River Arno Cross Over Tip

This tip is to retreat from the busiest tourist attractions of the city centre and to cross the Arno river via the Ponte Vecchio. The crowds on this wonderful, historic bridge will probably be even more tightly packed than in the central Piazzas you have just left but within a hundred metres of the other side, they will have thinned out and you can explore the delights of the Boboli gardens and the Palazzo Pitti before walking up the meandering paths to the Piazzo Michelangelo which stands on a beautiful hill overlooking Florence and its surrounds.
5 A final Florence travel tip – Avoiding “Stendhal Sydrome”

Florence has so much beauty that every year, there are a few tourists who have to be treated at local hospitals for a condition known as “Stendhal Syndrome”. Symptoms range from feeling faint to complete exhaustion. Stendhal was a French tourist whose nineteenth century tour of Florence overloaded his senses so much that he collapsed with these symptoms.

My final travel tip for a short vacation in Florence is not to try to pack too much in. Even if Florence’s wealth of art treasures, beauty, and architectural achievements don’t actually send you running for medical help, they can easily overwhelm a tourist who fails to heed this advice.

Top Ten Travel Destinations

iwellbc — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:25:13 +0000

Naming top ten travel destinations could prove easy, but how relevant such a list is, that is debatable. This article refers to the most popular locations identified or recognized starting from the statistics made with international travel agencies, and on the basis of travelers’ reviews posted on various web pages.

To many tourists, Latin America is the perfect place to go on holiday: there is the beauty of cities like Rio de Janeiro and the mystical attraction of Peru and the ancient Maya and Inca cultural remnants. The cultural impact, the leisure activities combined with favorable climates, make this part of the world become the holiday destination of millions of tourists from all over the world.

Europe deserves its good name for the great sights it offers to travelers: Paris, Rome, Venice, Spain’s Arab treasures and the misty lands of Ireland and Scotland, and these are just a few of the things that make the old continent one in the top ten travel destinations. Palma de Mallorca and Ibiza require a special mention here, as they complete the list of exotic resorts in the European part of the world.

The Egyptian Pyramids and Morocco mark any foreigner who visits them, and travel agencies sell thousands of touristic packages for holidays on to the North of Africa. One of the features of African resorts consists in the constant touristic push and a magic harmony in the mixture of cultures that mingle so much in the crowded North-African cities. Whether you choose a well known resort or a more discreet one, this part of Africa will always rank among the top ten travel destinations.

Moving further on to the distant countries of the Far East it is impossible not to notice the fascination with Nepal and the ancient Buddhist temples on the roof of the world. It is the Nepalese capital city, Kathmandu, with its thirteen hundred years of history that embraces most of the tourist crowds. As for the climbing of the Everest, very few courageous people dare to challenge their limits on the crests of Himalaya.

Last but not least, lots of great sunny islands can be included in a top ten travel destinations list: Bali, Jamaica, Crete, Hawaii and many others, which is why the list proves virtually limitless, as so are the beauties man and God created. It goes without saying that the places that you take most to the heart are those you’d also like to visit, and therefore, anyone can create a list of top ten travel destinations.

A Great Weekend in a Rome Apartment

iwellbc — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:28:46 +0000

For the longest time my wife had wanted to visit Italy, so finally, for our 20th anniversary, I decided to surprise here with a long weekend trip to Italy, I had trouble deciding between Venice and Rome. I remember she had always wanted to visit the Piazza di Spagna, since seeing some pictures in a magazine a few years ago, so I eventually decided upon Rome. I wanted everything to be perfect for this anniversary, twenty years is a long time to be married and I wanted to make this something special. I looked for a luxury hotel, something that would provide us with privacy as well as comfort. Purely by accident I found a short term rental website, which specialised in luxury Rome apartments What I read changed my mind, and I just knew our own private apartment was the way to go, this would allow us more space and freedom than a conventional hotel, and provide us with privacy, in a home from home kind of atmosphere.

The apartment I chose was truly stunning, it had a large balcony, which gave a scenic view of much of the city, it is appointed lavishly, and has every luxury I could have imagined. Best of all, it was located only a few footsteps from the Piazza di Spagna, which my wife would adore. I am sure she will also enjoy shopping in this delightful neighbourhood. Personally I am looking forward to eating real authentic Italian food, in such great restaurants as Nino, and the informal fish restaurant Quinzi e Gabrielli, which I have wanted to visit for a long time, as it is owned by an old friend of mine.

On the morning of our anniversary my wife was taken totally by surprise when I told her to pack a bag, we were leaving for Rome in a few hours. Being only a short plane flight from London, it only took us a short time to travel. The Rome apartment I had chosen turned out to be far better than I had hoped for, the beautiful furnishings and luxurious decor made us feel very special, my wife loved it. She was also quite taken with the fully equipped kitchen, and talked about trying out some real Italian cooking, although we were far too busy enjoying the charming sights of Rome for here to ever get around to it.

I would thoroughly recommend that anybody visiting this jewel of a city, consider a short term apartment rental, it really is a great way to spend your time away from home, offering privacy and freedom in much greater quantities than found when staying in a hotel. We had a fantastic anniversary, and we are planning to return again to Italy next year, maybe to Venice this time, and I will definitely be looking for an apartment as our accommodation on this next trip. I booked our free Rome apartment through a website, it was painless and simple, and I am glad I decided to give it a try.

A Great Weekend in a Rome Apartment

iwellbc — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:28:46 +0000