Rome • Vatican ~ St. Peter's Basilica • Florence
10 Days - Our prices include airfare from your hometown and exclusively 4 or 5 star hotels everywhere
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Trip Includes
- A Catholic priest will be with the group to celebrate Mass. Daily Mass is available.
- Round-trip airfare from your hometown connecting to a gateway city to fly overseas is included. If your city has a direct flight to your destination, we will guarantee a direct flight as long as it is available.
- Airport Taxes, Security Fees, and Fuel Surcharges!
- Exclusively 4 star hotels in downtown areas.
- All breakfasts and all dinners. Wine is included with all dinners.
- Transportation with luxury bus.
- All entrance fees to all the sites.
- All tips to everyone involved in the tour.
- The tour fees for our guides. Our tour guides are well educated, caring, and professional. Most of them have their PhD's in Church history, archaeology, philosophy, languages, or Theology.
- Luggage handling. Please pack light, one piece of luggage and one carry-on.
- We limit our group to a maximum of 24 passengers, unless the priest on the trip requests a larger group. Small groups with a 5 star service in 5 star hotels.
- If you are traveling alone and you allow us to find you a roommate, you don't have to pay the $900 single supplement. If you wish to have your own room and you are not open to the idea of rooming with another passenger, then $900 is what you pay for single supplement fee.
- Dress casually all throughout the trip. Shoulders and knees should be covered when visiting Basilicas or churches.
- Wheelchair can be provided for those passengers who cannot walk, with prior notice at registration for $150. A traveling companion has to push the wheelchair throughout the trip.
- At the time of registration, as a part of the total balance, a non-refundable $500 (hotel and airfare deposit) is due in the form of a check. For example, if your trip costs $3,700, when you sign up and you pay the $500 deposit, your balance would be $3,200 and is due 4 months before departure date. If you sign up after the final payment due date or at the last minute, you must overnight the entire cost of the trip immediately.
Trip Does Not Include
- Lunch
- Insurance ~ The total trip cost is non-refundable, so we recommend trip insurance to protect your investment.
Trip Itinerary
Day 1: ~ Departure from USA.
Day 2: ~ Arrive in Rome. Drive to Florence. Visit the Duomo, Medici Chapel, Giotto's tower. Dinner and Overnight in Florence .
Day 3: ~ Continue exploration of Florence. Visit the Uffizi, Santa Maria Novella, Galleria dell' Accademia home to "the David". See the Ponte Vecchio. Dinner and overnight in Florence.
Day 4: ~ Drive to Rome. Visit the Basilica of Paul Outside the Wall, Quo Vadis and Tre Fountaine. Dinner and overnight in Rome.
Day 5: ~ Visit Basilica of St. John Lateran, Scala Sancta, Santa croce in Gerusalemme and the Colosseum. Dinner and overnight in Rome.
Day 6: ~ Mass at Basilica of St Mary Major, Enjoy a walking tour of Rome including the Pantheon, Treve Fountain, with adjustments to the priority of the Confirmed Scavi Tour. Dinner and overnight in Rome.
Day 7: ~ Attend the Angelus Papal address at St. Peter's, then visit the Pontifical North American College. Free time. Dinner and overnight in Rome.
Day 8: ~ Visit the Vatican Museums, Attend Christmas Eve Mass at the Vatican. Dinner and overnight in Rome.
Day 10: ~ a Blessed Christmas Day. Free time for prayer, devotions, and celebrations. Dinner and overnight continue in Rome.
Day 11: ~ Our private bus brings us to the airport in Rome to fly back to USA.
Please note: We do our best to ensure that all sites listed in this itinerary will be seen. However, due to scheduling conflicts, or other circumstances beyond our control, sites may be visited on a different day than listed. Since we have several different trip configurations touring at the same time, it is likely that groups on different tours will be combined when their itineraries overlap in certain areas.