From Rome: Day Trip to Florence by High-Speed Train

Your guide will take you to train, walks you to the city centre of Florence and shows you the highlights on the way, then meets back up at the end to get the right train home. Our guide Michaela was amazing. So thoughtful, funny and knowledgeable, really willing to go the extra mile for you. Train was lovely - clean and spacious, unfortunately delayed a bit on the way back but these things happen.

Very over-priced for what we got. All the guide, Allesandro, did was collect us at the meeting point, walked us across the road into the station and made sure we were on the right train, then in Florence a five minute walk to the Duoma, which can almost be seen from the station, gave us a hopelessly faded photocopy map and pointed the very basic directions. Then at 5:45 he walked us back to the correct train. He was friendly enough but had his ear to his mobile phone most of the time. I am sure we could buy the high speed train ticket independently and cheaper. Beware Florence, which is a nice place, involves a lot of walking - we walked about 15 miles in the day.

The trip to Florence was great and our guide, Enrico, was excellent. He was pleasant and professional and was willing to help in any way he could in order to make the most of our time in the city. I have traveled to Italy before but had never used the train system and he was so willing to answer all my questions that I feel comfortable traveling independently in the future.