Moody Italy trip

Italy | Jun 20 - Jun 29, 2024

This hotel had a good location and great people working there. Breakfast was great!!

The Mozart was and good hotel. We were k no it in the actual hotel as they have some rooms a couple of blocks down the street. No way for the travel company to know this when they booked. Where they had us was under construction so it was a little noisy during the day and construction materials where we had to walkthrough to get to our rooms. Shouldn’t be use for anyone with disabilities, as even though it had an elevator, you had to walk stairs to get to your room. Fine for our group but not for many.

The only reason this isn’t 5 starts is that the breakfast was pretty weak compared to the other hotels and other hotels we have stayed at in italy. Overall it was very good.

The guide was great, very knowledgeable and good with people said all ages. but the directions where to find the guide need to be more specific. Either a transfer needs to be arranged or in the write up it needs to explain where the meeting actually, which was below the coliseum, not at the coliseum. Many taxi drivers don’t speak great English and many of our group had to walk about half a mile from taxi dropoff to the meeting place.

This class is for a maximum of 7 people at a time and the owner was willing to do 2 sessions once we got there, but we decided not to spend the extra time. This fact should be noted when booking. The owner said the travel company knew and should have told us. Not Kim Kim, their supplier. But the kids, which is who we picked to attend, thought it was great!! The owner was very friendly and very accommodating.

A must for anyone that hasn’t been in a hot air balloon. When I asked our group what was the favorite thing they did, almost all said the hot air balloon.

Both cities were unique so there was no overlap in info. The guide was very good at telling both the historical fact of both places and stories to bring them to life. This was a very good day.

Guide was very good and St. Marks was close to our hotel.

Once again, this was awesome. We were taught to row the boats, which was like a gondola, but made for two people to row. The operators were all women school teachers also doing this and they could row the boat without you if needed. Everyone got a chance to row both through the back canals in Venice and out in the open water. Everyone truly enjoyed the experience.