Custom Italy Family Vacations, for Every Generation
Family trips to Italy planned around the youngest and the oldest traveler. A private driver for the week, guides who hold a child’s attention, and afternoons left open for gelato.
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Planned Around the Youngest and the Oldest
A family trip to Italy works when everyone has a day they will talk about. The eight-year-old who stood inside the Colosseum. The grandmother who watched the boats come in at Sorrento. The teenagers who made their own pizza in a Neapolitan kitchen and ate all of it.
We design each custom Italy family vacation around the people traveling. The children’s ages shape the guides, the length of a museum morning and the hotel with the pool. The grandparents shape the pace, the transfers and the extra assistance at the airport. Then we arrange it end to end, so the parents can enjoy it too.
One call, and the whole family is looked after.
Tell us who is traveling, from the youngest to the oldest. We build the pace around them.
Rome and the Amalfi Coast
Rome by electric tuk-tuk past the Colosseum and the Vatican. Pompeii with a guide who brings the streets to life. A private boat to Capri with swim stops, and a Naples street food walk from fried pizza to sfogliatella.
We base families in Sorrento or the countryside above it, so the coast is close and the evenings are calm. Best for families with children of every age seeing Italy for the first time.
Abruzzo and the Towns Families Came From
Walk the streets of Pacentro with three generations together. Watch Sulmona’s confetti makers shape sugared almonds into flowers. Cross Campo Imperatore, the high plateau they call Italy’s Little Tibet, and picnic by the Tirino River.
Tell us the town your family came from, in Abruzzo, Campania, Calabria or Sicily, and we build the trip around it. Best for multigenerational families going back together.
Sicily and Puglia
Palermo’s markets for arancini and panelle, Monreale’s gold mosaics, chocolate in Modica and the Greek Theatre in Taormina with Etna behind it. In Puglia, whitewashed Ostuni, the Baroque of Lecce and the cave houses of Matera.
Long days, warm sea and food children love. Best for families who want culture in the morning and the beach in the afternoon.
Lake Como, Parma and Venice
A boat across Lake Como between Bellagio and Varenna. Parmigiano Reggiano and prosciutto where they are made, and a pasta class with Parma home cooks. A gondola in Venice and St. Mark’s with a guide who knows how to keep a ten-year-old curious.
Best for families who travel through their stomachs, and for summer, when the lakes are cooler than the cities.
Sample Family Vacations to Start From
Open one, change the nights, choose the hotel style for your family and add what you love.
Best for families seeking history, coastal beauty, and authentic southern Italy
Rome by tuk-tuk, Gaeta by the sea, Pompeii, Capri and Positano by private boat.
Best for families seeking ancient history and coastal beauty
Pompeii, a pasta workshop on Vesuvius, the Vatican Museums and a day on Capri.
Best for families seeking ancient history and Tuscan hill towns
The Vatican with a private guide, the catacombs, Etruscan Tarquinia and medieval Cortona.
Best for families seeking art, food, and scenic variety across northern Italy
Lake Como, Parma tastings, a pasta class, three Cinque Terre villages and a gondola in Venice.
Best for families seeking culture, coastline, and hands-on discovery across Sicily
Monreale, Agrigento’s temples, Modica chocolate, Etna and a cooking class in Taormina.
Best for multigenerational families reconnecting with Abruzzese heritage
Pacentro, Rocca Calascio, Sulmona’s confetti and Campo Imperatore for three generations.
Hands On, Not Hands Off
A lemon grove on the Sorrento peninsula, with limoncello for the adults. A mozzarella demonstration still warm from the vat. A pizza class where everyone eats what they make. A swim off a private boat in a cove below Capri.
We build one or two of these into every family trip, and keep them short enough that nobody gets restless.
Open an Adventure. Make It Yours.
Every sample adventure on this site is a working plan, not a brochure. Open one and shape it the way you would with a planner across the desk. Nothing is booked and nothing is charged. When you send it, an Italian-born planner calls to talk it through.
Change the nights
Add a night in Florence, take one from Venice. Every stop has its own plus and minus.
Choose the hotel style
A five-star in the historic center, a countryside estate, or an apartment for three generations. We name the property once we know your dates.
Add what you love
Food tours, a private boat day, a cooking class, the Vatican before the crowds. Interests are matched to each city.
Save it, then send it
Save the adventure to My Adventures, come back to it later, and send it to a planner when it feels right.
A Pace That Suits Everyone
One driver for the week, so nobody hauls luggage through a train station. Hotels where the family can be together. Mornings for the big sights, afternoons at the pool or by the sea. Assistance at the airport for grandparents who need it, on every flight.
Days split easily: the teenagers climb Vesuvius while the grandparents take a boat, and everyone meets for dinner.
Start With a Conversation
Three quick answers and your details. An Italian-born planner calls you within one business day to listen first, then sketch the trip. Prefer the phone? We are in Houston, on Central time.
Plan Our Family Trip
Three quick answers and your details.
Family Vacation Questions
We plan around the people traveling, starting with the youngest and the oldest. Children’s ages shape the guides we choose and the length of a museum morning. Grandparents shape the pace, the hotel location and whether we arrange assistance at the airport. From there we build the route, the nights in each place, the hotel style and the days we arrange, and refine it with you until it fits the whole family.
Very much so. Italians welcome children everywhere, from the trattoria to the piazza in the evening. We choose guides who tell the Colosseum as a gladiator story, keep museum visits short and early, and build in hands-on days: a pizza class, a mozzarella demonstration, a lemon grove walk, a swim stop from a private boat. Afternoons are left open for gelato and a rest.
Yes. We regularly plan for families of twelve to fifteen across three generations. We look for hotels where the family can be together, connecting rooms or apartments, a private coach or minivans with one driver for the week, and days that split easily, so the teenagers can climb while the grandparents take a boat.
Yes. Heritage trips are among the most meaningful we plan. Tell us the town and the region, and we arrange the route, a local guide and time in the streets your family knew, often in Abruzzo, Campania, Calabria or Sicily. Our Roots of Abruzzo adventure is a good place to start.
Most families travel in June, July or around spring break. In summer we pair the cities with the sea or the lakes, start the sightseeing early and keep the afternoons free. Late spring and the Thanksgiving week are quieter in Rome and Florence, and still mild in the south.
Tell us once and we pass it on. Guides know where the plain pasta and the best gelato are, cooking classes adjust easily, and reserved restaurants are told in advance about allergies and preferences. Italy is generous with simple food done well, so even cautious eaters usually go home asking for more.
Bring everyone. We will handle the rest.
No obligation. A planner calls within one business day.