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Private Tour: Cinque Terre from La Spezia
Badge of ExcellenceLa Spezia, Italy
- 6 hours 30 minutes
- Pickup offered
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Explore Cinque Terre on a private tour with a guide. Travel by boat and train from La Spezia Port and visit three charming towns. Don’t worry about train schedules, or navigating, just relax and settle in to the Ligurian lifestyle while your guide takes care of the logistics. Have time to explore on your own and choose a spot for lunch (own expense) and learn about the region’s history and culture on the guided portions of the tour.
- Explore Italy’s Ligurian coat and Cinque Terre on a private tour
- Travel by train, boat, and on foot, and see the beauty of the region
- Visit Riomaggiore, Monterosso, and Vernazza and learn about the region’s culture
- The private, flexible tour begins and ends at La Spezia Port
What's Included
- Friendly local guide (fully licensed)
- Boat transfers (subject to weather conditions, not available from 1 Nov to 15 Mar, public service)
- Train transfers
- Food and drinks
Meeting and Pickup
Pickup points
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Pickup details
If you are on a cruise: the guide will meet you AT THE PORT of La Spezia, she will be waiting holding a sign with your name at the cruise terminal --- If you are in hotel in La Spezia or arriving from another city: you will meet the guide AT THE TRAIN STATION of La Spezia Centrale (we will email you the meeting point details) --- Please let us know if you prefer to meet the guide at the port of La Spezia or at the train station of La Spezia Centrale (and if you are on a cruise please tell us also the cruise details) --- IMPORTANT: This tour is departing from the city of La Spezia. If your cruise is docking in other cities/ports (e.g. Livorno, Porto Venere, Marina di Carrara, etc.) it will be your responsibility to reach the meeting point in La Spezia (port or train station).
What To Expect
La Spezia Cruise Port
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Stazione La Spezia Centrale
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Borgo Storico di Riomaggiore
1 hour • Admission Ticket Free
Borgo Storico di Manarola
1 hour • Admission Ticket Free
Vernazza
2 hours • Admission Ticket Free
Borgo Antico
2 hours • Admission Ticket Free
Stazione La Spezia Centrale
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
- Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
- Medium amount of walking required
Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
- Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
- This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
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Reviews
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88 reviews
Ian_v, Apr 2024
Matteo was an excellent guide. He gave us a really good outline of his plan for the tour and was incredibly helpful, knowledgeable and responsive to all and any questions we had. Our tour of the Cinque Terre region was wonderful - a mixture of train and ferry journeys and walking.
Cairy_H, Apr 2024
Beautiful area and knowledgeable guide made this tour fantastic. Emillo our guide was very accommodating and interesting.
Richard_G, Apr 2024
A very good tour with an exceptional tour guide. We traveled by train and boat to get to three of the most beautiful villages in Cinque Terre. Our guide was able to show us all of the highlights of these villages without rushing us. This was just the type of tour that we were hoping for and we got it!
Jane_D, Nov 2023
Our guide Matteo was excellent. He guided us through four of the five lands. We travelled by Train (November). His knowledge of the area was incredible. It was a lot of walking up and down hills and steps so where good walking shoes and be prepared for the steepness of the terrain. Beautiful views and Matteo made a reservation at a wonderful lunch spot.
Joe_L, Nov 2023
For starters we arrived in a port that was miles away from our tour guide despite notifying the tour operator of our ship and dock. This resulted in us having to buy a bus ticket to the meeting point and riding an hour to get there. Texting and calling the whole way to be sure we weren’t abandoned. Not any way you want to start a tour and the operator of course blamed the booking agent. The tour itself was uneventful. The tour guide was nice and knowledgeable though soft spoken that made it difficult to hear all she was saying. The Cinque Terre is beautiful but the three towns we visited in the shortened time we had were pretty much the same. Then there was the worry about how we were getting back to our cruise which ultimately was only resolved by an expensive cab ride from the ending point of the tour to our port.
Response from Host, Nov 2023
Hi Joe,
I am sorry you did not have a good experience. Also I am sorry to receive a negative review for something that is not our fault and not under our control. But thank you for your feedback. This might be useful for others ----- As you are saying, instead of arriving at the port of La Spezia, where our tour starts from, you arrived in a different city and in a different port that was miles away. Our tour is named CINQUE TERRE FROM LA SPEZIA. So if your cruise arrives in Livorno or some other port or city, you will need to take transportation to reach La Spezia, and pay for this additional transportation ----- If you or your agent did not read the title nor the description of this tour, it is not our fault. On our end we do our best to make it as clear as possible (on the website's title, descriptions and in all communication) that this tour departs from the city of La Spezia and that your private guide will come to meet you at the cruise port or train station of La Spezia (not in some other city). Travellers arriving in other cities should book the tour in these other locations (or be prepared to sustain the additional distance and cost to reach La Spezia) ----- In any case, we did our best to let you have the tour even if you were coming from another town. The guide waited for you for more than one hour until you arrived. She was very accommodating and came to meet you at the bus stop to make it more convenient for you. As you are saying she was nice and knowledgeable. And despite the late start, she was able to take you to three towns and let you have a comprehensive view of the Cinque Terre. ------ To sum it up quoting your own words "the tour guide was nice and knowledgeable", "the Cinque Terre is beautiful" so the actual problem was that you (or your agent) didn't realize that your cruise was docking in the wrong location ----- I hope next time you will get to the right location and you will be able to fully enjoy one of our tours :)
Janet_M, Oct 2023
Our guide Marco was knowledgeable, fun and very accommodating to our needs. It was an amazing tour. Thank you Marco!
Debra_L, Oct 2023
Unfortunately, I have had better experiences when booking a tour through Viator.
My friend and I spent a couple of days in Cinque Terre on our trip to Tuscany, and I booked this private tour for one of our days. The description of the tour said that the itinerary was flexible, but the only flexibility we seemed to have related to when and where we would have lunch. I would have appreciated a little more flexibility in the villages that we visited and how we traveled to them, as the stairs at the train stations proved challenging, and the description said we would travel to them by train and ferry. We took the ferry only once.
We had a nice lunch at a restaurant in Vernazza, and our tour guide knew the owner. The view was great, and the food was good. But, our tour guide struck up a conversation with people at the table next to us, and spent a fair amount of time talking with them, ignoring us. That should not happen.
All in all, I am glad that we did the tour, as it gave us a nice overview of three of the villages.
However, I suggest that the tour guide assigned to the tour talk with the group to give them some options on itinerary and how to travel between the villages. In retrospect, I would have taken the train to Monteroso first, then the ferry to Vernaza and either Manarola or Riomaggiore, and then the train back to La Spezia where we started our tour. It would have been nice to have some options.
Lisa_P, Sep 2023
Our guide Sonia was wonderful! She was very accommodating to our requests and so friendly and knowledgeable. We travel frequently and she was the best guide we have had in a while ! She is special ! The cinque Terre area is spectacular!! My favorite was Manorola, but all were gorgeous! Five star tour and 10 star guide !
Simon_L, Sep 2023
Loved, loved, loved this private tour.
My partner and I spent the day with Luca and had the best time. We ended up doing all 5 villages. We weren’t able to use the ferries because of the tides but Luca made sure we were able to have amazing view points.
He took pictures for us and gave us amazing recommendations for dinner and wine tasting in Monterosso which was FANTASTIC.
Would never do Cinque Terre without this tour! We created a bound with Luca where it felt like we were travelling with a very good friend!
Denise_R, Sep 2023
Loreda was a wonderful guide. She is very knowledgeable and generous in sharing that information with the tour participants. She very efficiently guided us from one town to the next via train or boat. Our group of 6 absolutely loved this tour.
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