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Cooking, Wine & Pampering Tour At A Lovely Villa Near The Amalfi Coast
Get a free private transfer from your arrival Italy airport to your 1st night’s hotel in the same city or its train station when you book this tour for 2012 by May 23. A value of $100-300! (new customers only)
Special Low Season Tour Price for May and June Tours: A total value of 800 Euros approx $1080 CAD/USD
Indulge in a dream-come-true cooking, wine and sightseeing adventure in Sorrento, Capri, and the Amalfi Coast. Stay at a lovely four star boutique villa hotel on 5 ½ acres with park, pool, gardens and vast views over the Bay of Naples. Just 10 a minute walk from Sant’Agata Sui Due Golfi and 25 minutes by bus to Sorrento. Peaceful but close to town.
In the hotel’s state of the art kitchen with individual work stations, cook with joyful teacher, Carmen, passionate about food all her life. At each cooking class dinner, a wine connoisseur guides you through your tastings of Campania’s best wines. Visit a warm, hospitable farm family who make excellent olive oil and mozzarella. Tour their farm and taste their cheeses, olive oil and limoncello. A genuine Italian experience! Explore the magnificent Amalfi Coast with its winding roads hugging the hillside that falls steeply to the azure sea: colourful Positano, lively Amalfi and stunningly beautiful Ravello.
Includes:
- Private pick-up & drop-off at Naples airport or train station between 8:00 – 20:00 (supplement will added for an early or late arrival and departure)
- 6 nights accommodation with breakfast buffet
- 3 hands-on cooking classes
- 3 wine tastings with 3 cooking class dinners
- Excursion to Amalfi Coast with guide
- Excursion to Capri
- Excursion to Pasta and chocolate factory
- Visit and tastings with farm family
- 3 lunches (including tasting lunch at farm)
- 5 dinners including local wine, water, coffee
Not Included:
- 2 lunches
- 1 dinner
- beverages consumed outside meal times
6 Night Itinerary
Day One
Private group transport from Naples airport to your villa hotel. Get settled. Relax on the estate or take a short walk into Sant’ Agata, a typical town.
Meet Carmen for your week’s “get to know you” orientation. Savour your welcome dinner in the hotel’s elegant restaurant.
Day Two
Every morning enjoy a delicious breakfast buffet.
Visit a farm owned by a local family, long time producers of excellent olive oil and mozzarella cheese. Tour their farm, sample their fresh mozzarella that the mother makes, taste their olive oil, drink their limoncello and experience a slice of authentic southern Italian life with a friendly, hospital family.
Return to the hotel to relax in your peaceful refuge or explore for the afternoon.
In the evening, your first cooking class with Carmen! Dine on your creations with good local wine.
Day Three
Leave at 9:45 on the public hydrofoil to explore the legendary island of Capri, weather permitting. Lunch on your own in Capri. Return to the hotel about 4:00 p.m.
In the evening, have fun cooking with Carmen in your class and chatting around your dinner table as you eat the dishes you make and drink local wines.
Day Four
At 9:00 your driver takes you to discover the magnificent Amalfi Coast and visit very beautiful Ravello, pretty Amalfi and busy, colourful Positano.
Lunch is on your own.
After a long day, relax back at your villa home.
In the evening, enjoy a wonderful dinner in a top quality restaurant.
Day Five
9: 30 am Meet your friend, Carmen for your cooking class. Over lunch and wine, congratulate yourselves on your Neapolitan cooking talents.
Afternoon free to relax on the estate, poke aound Sant’ Agata or explore Sorrento and beyond. Dinner is on your own.
Day Six
At 9:00 am depart for a visit to a chocolate and pasta factory followed by lunch.
6:00 pm Join Carmen for a half hour class on how to make Neapolitan pizza dough. Leave the dough to rise for about two hours.
At 8:00 enjoy your Neapolitan pizza dinner. The real pizza!
Day Seven
After breakfast, reluctant departure for Naples airport or train station.
