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2022 Tour code: 22DMS
About the tour
Immerse yourself in the enchanting towns and villages of the sparkling Italian Riviera, a unique beauty spot. Explore the world-famous villages of the Cinque Terre, spend time in perfect Portofino and unwind in Genoa's grand plazas.
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Meet at London St Pancras and take the Eurostar service to Paris. Here, change trains and continue to the elegant city of Turin where you spend the night tonight in a local hotel.
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4.0 / 5 · 35 reviews
S Williams
Submitted 22 Oct 2021
A very enjoyable holiday, spent with a lovely supportive group of fellow travellers and led by an extremely enthusiastic and helpful tour guide in James. Beautiful scenery, with plenty of interesting places to visit on our excursions. However, it involved a lot of walking and some places had lots of steps to negotiate with steep climbs. Day 1 from London to Turin was a very long one and the journey from Paris to Turin was particularly grewelling. We didn’t finish dinner until 11:15pm that evening. The transfer of luggage on this particular holiday is a very important consideration, and those with small suitcases had fewer problems. In hindsight those that had taken a larger suitcase between them as a couple would have been far better in taking a smaller one each. The staff at the Stella del mare hotel in Chiavari where we were based for the majority of the time were lovely, and the breakfast waitress couldn’t do enough for us. It was in a good location for our excursions. Dinner is not served at the hotel as inclusive on free days, which was somewhat disappointing as we found it difficult to find somewhere else to eat at that time of the season. There were issues at the hotel in Nice concerning dietary intolerances/preferences which could potentially have been fatal. The hotel in Turin was of a higher standard than the others. Although we were only based there for one night, it would have been preferable to have maintained this standard for the duration of the holiday. This was our first European trip with Rail Discoveries, and it was a very pleasant experience overall. We are now looking forward to deciding where to go with them next. Sue & Andrew - Selsey, West Sussex.
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Peter and Alison-London
Submitted 17 Oct 2021
It was a good holiday but there was a lot of transferring from trains with luggage and it was quite intense. Our guide James was excellent, very friendly and helpful and we were with a very pleasant group of fellow travellers. The base at Chiavari was excellent with a very pleasant hotel the Stella Mare with extremely helpful and friendly staff especially our amazingly enthusiastic and cheerful waitress at breakfast and the team who served our dinner. There could have been more advance information about the steepness and inclines and steps in some of the places visited. The various towns in the Cinque Terre and Portofino were very attractive and not too busy. The organised meals were good, although some people had problems with dietary requirements despite pre-notification. The other problem was the U.K. requirement (Rail Discoveries had no control over this) for the passenger locator form to be completed prior to return and quite a few people in our group did not have access to smart phones or internet devices which the British government should consider if this system is to continue post pandemic. It caused a lot of anxiety to some of our group.
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G Griffiths
Submitted 17 Oct 2021
Needs a rethink about the amount of luggage handling
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Ken Gadsby
Submitted 15 Oct 2021
The tour manager Steve was brilliant , he made the trip
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Steve
Submitted 14 Oct 2021
Read well on paper and the days including boat trips around the bays were good, however, although a caveat is posted that certain aspects may not be ideal for less mobile, the actual up & down of steps, and certain aspects of general guided tours would be a struggle for the mobile, let alone those less able. Also lots of on and off trains with cases is less than ideal, and no mention of some coach travel needed, which is quite a surprise if you don’t travel well on coaches
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Mrs Stephanie Bird
Submitted 24 Oct 2020
Because of Covid we were unable to travel by train which was the experience we were looking forward to. However we did get to visit the part of Italy we wanted to and thoroughly enjoyed our time there.
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