Kimkim Trip Reviews for Italy

Beautiful hotel and apartment!! We loved that - the location was brutal. It was SO loud, the city center stays awake all night and our apartment faced the street. No sleep in Naples for us!

Amazing! Clean, roof top bar, everything is in walking distance!!!

Amazing, great location and included a trip to Murano!! We loved Venice!!

This was amazing - being in the first group in made the day amazing!!!! The sun rose above the colosseum and it was amazing!

OMG so delicious and what a great exposure to the food of the area. Amazing day!!!!

We were lucky to be with just us and the guide - amazing!!! We loved our guide, the tour and the history!!!

This was so fun - we were exhausted from traveling but this tour showed us the side of Venice we wanted to see!

Great location

Great location

This was the best accommodation of our entire trip! I would recommend this place to anyone traveling to Venice.

Nothing prepared my emotions as we walked through the Holy Doors during Jubilee! The Vatican, along with, St. Peter's basilica left me speechless.

Our guide had the most wonderful architectural knowledge. His storytelling created images in our mind that encapsulated the height of the Roman empire.

Highlight of out trip! Our guide was a delight. He quite literally made this long commute a beautiful excursion filled with charm, storytelling, and attention to detail. Give this man a raise!!!!!

Wonderful guide

Great guide!

Ahhhhmazing guide! We were blown away by the history.

The hotel was fine - nothing exceptional or bad. It was located right by the train station which we wanted due to our travel so a little bit away from the key areas but that was our choice to be close to the train. The hotel was modern, clean, no issues.

We loved this hotel and the staff. Perfectly located just a couple of blocks from San Marco square and the Basilica and along the primary shopping district. The hotel had a canal entrance which was great for water taxis and the staff was incredibly friendly - the front desk and concierge team were amazing, helpful and extremely friendly. The room was excellent, very large and spacious and the breakfast buffet was great. We had drinks and dinner at the hotel one night and it was a great decision.

Beautiful hotel located right in the center of the central district of Bologna. We were located adjacent to the Basilica and town square and everything including shopping and dining was within a few square blocks. Couldn't have asked for a better location. While the room was a bit small, it wasn't unexpected given the older, historical nature of the hotel. The breakfast buffet was incredible, both in quantity and quality of food and the diversity of offerings.

We had a nice tour of a cathedral and the canals and some back streets of the area. It was fine, just not that much to show or discuss. We finished with a glass of wine together with the tour guide.

The guide was very knowledgeable and had a nice, self-deprecating sense of humor. We enjoyed our time in Verona for the day and the tour.

We had a great experience in the Murano glass factory. In fact, we spent so much time there (and money LOL), we missed our time for Burano. But the glass factory made arrangements for us to still go to Burano and get a tour so it worked out well.

Extremely disappointed. 20 minutes, one quick loop through a canal and back to drop off. We were refunded our money but still unhappy as we were looking forward to a nice gondola ride through Venice.

We were a little disappointed with the tour. We enjoyed the initial walk through of the city hall and square and some of the historical information but the tour of the food and restaurants didn't really get into a lot of detail on the various foods, history, why the popularity in Bologna, etc. The oil/balsamic stop was very nice but the visits to the mortadella restaurant and pasta restaurant were just volume fast food type of restaurants. We were hoping for something more quaint and local. And we finished before the gelato store was open so were given a voucher and came back on our own. The guide was friendly but just not a lot of depth into the food and wine history and specialty of Bologna.

Loved this hotel and the historical significance of its location on the property where Lorenzo the Magnificent built the art school where Michelangelo received his training. The staff was helpful and our room was very comfortable. Great location!!!

Loved this hotel and the staff was wonderful. Conveniently located across from the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore (where Pope Francis is buried). Breakfast everyday was amazing and we enjoyed the rooftop bar in the evening.

Our guide, Lilly, was fantastic. The food was great and we enjoyed her company.

Terrific tour guide - very knowledgeable.

Great introduction to Rome.

Interesting hotel, great location, spacious rooms

Great location and very cool hotel, staff friendly and breakfast buffets were delicious!

We loved this hotel. Great location, fun to have Juliet's courtyard to ourselves after hours. Room was fantastic. Very cool hotel.

Great location, staff not the most friendly. Room was TINY but we only slept there.

SUCH a GREAT location and the hotel was very comfortable! Definitely recommend

so fun to see and having a private tour we were able to get into areas and see things other tours could not.

The Dolomites are just beautiful! Our guide was fantastic!

Beautiful!

Loved this, visited two beautiful properties with amazing wine!

Great tour to get a good feel of the city. Our guide showed us some really cool things and had great knowledge about the city.

this was a bit long, could have skipped the prociutto portion

great, friendly, knowledgeable guide and the food was amazing. glad we did a lot of walking to balance the eating! :)

Perfect length of time and our guide was so friendly and knowledgeable

If you love boutique hotels you will love the Parlamento Boutique Hotel. Located on the 4th floor of a 500 year old building, the hotel is perfect for visiting all the old sites of Rome.

Lovely hotel inside the old gates of Siena.

Beautiful oasis in Florence.

Very fun hotel with a great location in Milan for tourists.

Beautiful hotel, perfect location and a very welcoming team of professionals. Room very spacious for Europe and comfortable in every way.

Excellent morning walking through 2000 years of history.

A must afternoon while in Rome. Tour was full of information with an expert navigator of history.

A must in Tuscany. We had a great evening of cooking, drinking and eating!

This was a surprise gem of a morning. Loved the local lore and the cathedral is spectacular. Guide was fantastic.

A very fun day. Balance between winery and local villages. Would suggest a change in the second Winery. After visiting Talosa another top rated winery would have been preferred.

Beautiful day with our private guide. She made the entire day so much fun.

Our private tour guide was full of information and very friendly. The extra effort in walking us back to our hotel through the ancient sites of Milan was a real treat.

Guide was amazing. Very friendly and full of fun facts and local lore.

This is such a pretty little hotel with 24 hour reception, an amazing made-to-order breakfast, and a big suite with a full kitchen. It’s off one of the main walking streets (Via Vittorio Emanuele) so you right in the middle of the action, walking distance to everything. The room had a little balcony where you can hang out and people watch. Umbrellas in the lobby, nice touch.

This was a unique little hotel. The reception desk staff was wonderful and had great ideas for restaurants and Marsala wine tours, which we hadn’t yet set up. The apartment was huge, with tons of closet space, a mini-kitchen, an iron and ironing board, a steamer, and private patio access. It’s in walking distance from the old part of town which has cute restaurants and shops. We drove over to Florio for the wine tours as it’s tough to get a taxi in Marsala. Parking was a challenge due to street cleaning one of the nights we were staying, so we had to move our car. Breakfast was excellent.

It’s a cute and clean B&B. The room was large and comfortable, the owner provided unlimited cold water and access to the refrigerator which was great. Breakfast was good with baked goods and fresh coffee, not much protein though. The location isn’t great and parking was a challenge, although we were able to walk 20 minutes to a good restaurant. If you are just going to the Valley of the Temples, there’s no real reason to stay in Agrigento, stay outside the city.

Lovely property, walking distance to everything in Ortigia, we had a sea view to watch ocean storms! The room was very small with almost no room to put two suitcases. We had a fridge and complementary water. Front desk staff were wonderful. Buffet breakfast had a great selection of food and then you can order many more items off the menu. Great coffee, umbrellas available,

Very nice front desk staff, we had a large room overlooking the water, On the third floor, our room had its own huge terrace with a separate entrance. We barely used the terrace because we were out so much. Breakfast was decent, the coffee was fabulous. Great location (but very windy roads to get there if you are driving, valet parking.

Chiara met us at the hotel and was warm, friendly and knowledgeable. This was actually a 3 hour tour and well worth the time. We covered a lot of ground, and learned so much about the history of the Mafia and today’s anti-mafia movement. While there, we learned more Sicily culture and history. Well worth the time.

This tour was surprisingly fun! These are historic salt pans that are still worked by hand, with men in the salt pans. We learned so much - how they work, how they are managed, the history of salt panning in the region, how salt is stored, etc. The tasting afterwards was crazy good, with fresh fruits, vegetables and olive oil bread to combine with different flavored salts. That was delicious. Our tour guide was wonderful, on staff at the salt pans. The store sells it all, you will want to buy salt, especially fluer de sel (“flower of salt”) which is the salt that forms a thin, delicate crust on the surface of the seawater as it evaporates. It’s the one to use for finishing and garnishing.

Sabrina was fantastic. She knew all you could imagine about Sicilian history and the history of this place. She was interesting, interested, and paced the tour well. There’s a lot to cover and it can be overwhelming.

Marta met us at the front gate and made this tour really enjoyable. She was knowledgeable about the Villa and Sicilian history, and a very nice person as well.

Sara and her husband are amazing! We had a great tour at LAeQUA including all the specialized machinery for nuts and chocolate, and made our own Modica style chocolate. They focus on fair trade ingredients and have close relationships with their suppliers. The commitment to their products and mission is infectious. This laboraty if a little bit outside of the city and well worth the drive.

Did we miss this? Didn’t see it on our last itinerary.

This was a great experience. Marco picked us up at our hotel and we were joined by another family of 5. He provided history and context as we were driving to Mount Etna, and gave us all some time to chat also. We stopped at a little convenience store to buy some water. Our first stop was a lava cave, which was fascinating, then we walked up the mountain to a dormant lava field. We ended with a wonderful lunch and winery tour at Cantine Petria. Would have been nice to have been provided water and walking sticks as parts of the climb were slippery and rocky. Marco was interesting, knowledgeable, and personable, and nice to spend the better part of day with.

Not sure how to rate this so gave it a 3. The lists provided are fine, but we used Rick Steve's book and map and the hotel map for touring. Would have be nice to get local maps from KimKim, in hindsight.

The entry ticket was in the Vamoos app, which we forgot. But it was there and pre-paid, so that was convenient.

We cancelled this when we needed to change from afternoon to morning. Gave it a “poor” to click through.

We cancelled this before we left. Only gave it a “poor” to be able to click through.

This was our favorite hotel of the trip. The lobby, bar/restaurant and room were all clean, comfortable and modern. The breakfast was delicious and had a large variety. Especially loved the bloody mary and mimosa bar at breakfast. Very close to the sights and many restaurants and shops.

The staff was helpful and informative, the breakfast was amazing, and the room was clean and comfortable. It was a few steps from the closest water bus station.

The Rome Food Tour in a golf cart was a bit confusing to us. The description we received did not match the actual tour. We expected multiple food stops and some sightseeing, but the tour mainly involved visiting a food market. Our guide was pleasant and knowledgeable, and he did his best to accommodate some sightseeing upon our request. Overall, it was still a decent experience, but not what we anticipated based on the description.

The Doges Palace and St Mark's Basilica Walking Tour in Venice was fantastic! Our tour guide, Loredana, was knowledgeable and delightful. She made the experience truly memorable and enjoyable. Highly recommend this tour.

The Pisa Half-Day Tour was enjoyable, but we found that the time scheduled for us to be in Pisa was a bit too long. We ended up taking an earlier train back to Florence, which worked out fine as no one checked our tickets. While the tour itself was nice, I would suggest optimizing the time spent for future travelers.

Very clean, spacious, wonderful breakfast, great location, comfortable bed, good shower, very helpful staff , a very nice room.

I wouldn’t miss this Tour. We had a small group of four. The tour guide was fabulous filled with information that she gave to us readily with good English and was very pleasant making our visit even more wonderful.

Beautiful location and well appointed rooms. The noise from rooms above with moving furniture/chairs was very disturbing and annoying. I would not stay on a lower floor again. Only top floor . Other than that it’s a great hotel, breakfast was great, location great and views were amazing!

Having the two bedroom apartment was great for the amount of time we were in Palermo. Lots of stairs!! The hotel staff were so incredibly kind and helpful. It’s a great location but due to its good location it is loud. Overall we loved it!!

Such a great day and way to experience the area. Enjoyed the small group and meeting travelers from around the world!

Well worth the walk and time spent strolling with Simone. He was awesome and it was a joy to talk with him and learn the history of the area we stayed in. His twist at the end with a gin tasting was perfect!!!

We did not stay here. Was very close brushing when our driver dropped us at an apt building that did not indicate it was lodging. N one greeted us. All communications were via text or phone calls as we waited to hear that the hotel had double booked. Had to lug our luggage 7 blocks to an apt . Directions to enter the outer doors let alone the apt were not clear. Apt was lovely nice we were settled.

In Travestre, where the locals live. Was a great experience… had a fantastic room with a beautiful terrace.

Charm , creativity Fort and views of Tuscany! Would stay here next time we are in country

Paid attention to our needs. Had trouble with plumbing (not unusual in Venice) resolved with ease and finesse . So very gracious. Hotel was clean mfortable and accessible to all we did.

Claudio listened to our request to see his Rome. Just a fantastic tour

The tour was fabulous. A must do. Our scheduled ride to the estate did not show up. A British couple took pity on us and brought us to the estate for the tour. We were told at the estate that we needed a driver to take us to the truffle hunting forest. Other guests took pity on us yet again and gave us a ride. Make sure a driver is assigned to the guest for the entire day eliminating the “pity part” aspect. Otherwise, that activity was enchanting.

Not sure f anyone ever said they did not enjoy Tuscany. Enchanting!

We learned so very much from our guide. She was engaging and entertained my historical questions and comment.

When can we go again? This is a must do when in Florence.

Best activity n the water! Skip the gondola rides. This is Italy. Wished we had known prior that this was a female owned nonprofit whose mission is to preserve the art f bateaux rowing.

Truly enjoyed our visit and so appreciative of the thee members of our party understand our tardiness. We had a lovely time with our guide. He was an excellent host providing food and wine pairing details along with historical perspectives. A delightful evening.