Choose
a festive 'CHRISTMAS IN ITALY' sightseeing holiday, Italy.
Highlights: Liguria's
Levante Rivieras - Genova - Seaside towns & fishing villages
- Camogli - Portofino - Santa Margherita - Cinque Terre. |
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Christmas
with an option for New Year too on Italy's beautiful and mild
Ligurian Riviera, to enjoy a Christmas with a difference.
This
festive break offers a leisurely christmas week during which
you can relax or sightsee as much as you wish. Daily itineraries
are available and range from leisurely strolls around some of
Ligurias' most beautiful Riviera resort towns, to full and half-day
self-guided walking itineraries along some of the Rivieras' most
scenic and often unknown stretches of coast.
Description: Spend Christmas and
possibly the New Year too on Italy's beautiful and mild Ligurian
Riviera. Enjoy a relaxing week just pottering around or walk
as many of our self-guided itineraries as you wish, to discover
better the Italian Riviera. Daytime temperatures during the winter
rarely drop below 12 degrees C, with 14/16 degree maximums possible
even on New Year's day - under a blue sky and a winter sun, it
is not so uncommon to see 'odd' people taking a swim.
Ideal: For those who'd like
to get away to somewhere different for the festivities, to relax
but have the possibility to better explore the Levante Riviera
and resort towns should they wish. Leisurely strolls around coastal
towns or full-day, moderately paced walking tours. |
Holiday starts: Fly
to Genoa or Pisa airport. Convenient railway services to resort
village from Pisa and Genoa airports. Airport transfers from
Genoa (1h30) and Pisa (2h15).
Whats Included: Airport transfers from Genoa. Excellent
food and half-board accommodation in an elegant 3 star hotel
in one of the Levante Riviera's most beautiful seaside resorts,
self-guide packs for your chosen daily itineraries.
Whats Not Included: Flight tickets, train travel
to and from your chosen daily itineraries.
Duration: 4, 6 or 9 nights - XMAS plus New Year extension.
Plan to arrive in the afternoon/evening of the 24th. Christmas
Eve is the main, most celebrated festive dinner in Italy, so
arrive early and allow yourself time to settle in. |
Hotels: You will be staying
in the resort village pictured above, next to the beach at the
elegant 3 star hotel pictured to the right. It is extremely
well situated for much of the Riviera coast and just over 1 hour
from Genoa airport.
To read what people wrote about this holiday and others offered
by Xtrallusion, you might like to visit our testimonial pages. |
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Levante
Riviera Christmas
- Independent, self-guided walking holiday itineraries, Italy. |
Holiday Structure:
Arrival: Plan to fly on the
24th December. We meet you and take you to your hotel.
Departure: Plan to fly out in the afternoon on your departure
day. |
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24 Dec
Transfer
day. After meeting you, we take you to your hotel in the seaside
town pictured to the right. There will be a short briefing about
your holiday itineraries and time to settle before dinner. Arrange to arrive at the airport in
the afternoon or early evening.
Christmas
Eve Dinner, Italian style at the hotel. |
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26 Dec
Free
day to do as you please or,
- take a light & leisurely, self-guided visit to Genoa, and see the historic centre, the
port and perhaps even the impressive aquarium or,
- take a light & leisurely, self-guided trip to Camogli.
Dinner at the hotel. |
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Click the picture
for photos of Camogli. |
27 Dec
Take a light & leisurely, self-guided trip to Santa Margherita
and Portofino or,
- have a free day to do as you please.
Dinner at the hotel. |

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the picture for photos of Portofino. |
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Christmas Itinerary:
6 nights half-board & 5 full days €725pp* (euros) |
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28 Dec
Transfer
day for those staying 4 nights.
For those staying longer, free day to do as you please or,
- take a self-guided walking trip along the Cinque Terre or,
- perhaps a self-guided sightseeing day trip to Milano.
Dinner at the hotel. |
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Click the picture
for photos of the Cinque Terre. |
29 Dec
Take a day trip Pisa or,
- have a free day to do as you please.
- Dinner at the hotel. |

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the picture for photos of Pisa. |
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Christmas &
New Year Itinerary: 9 nights half-board & 8 full days €990pp*
(euros) |
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30 Dec
Transfer
day for those staying 6 nights.
Free day to do as you please or,
- take a light & leisurely, self-guided trip to Camogli or,
- take a shopping trip to Genova.
Dinner at the hotel. |
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Click the picture
for photos of Genova. |
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01 Jan
Free day to do as you please or,
- take a leisurely afternoon stroll around the quaint beach resort
of Levanto to start the New Year or,
- for those preferring something more energetic, take a half-day
coastal walk from your resort town.
Dinner at the hotel. |
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Click the picture
for photos
of this beautiful Levante Riviera coastal walk. |
2 Jan
Transfer
day. Plan to fly out in the afternoon. |
Please note:
- You need not be especially fit nor used to regular walking
for the visits to Liguria's seaside resorts, which are typically
leisurely strolls around the resort centre and promenade.
- For those wishing to do some of our full and half-day self-guided
walking itineraries, a reasonable level of fitness is required
and you should at least be fairly used to regular walking.
- All of the daily itineraries above are suggestions and can
be changed with any of our itineraries described in Italian Riviera
Walks & Italian Riviera Towns.
* Prices based on 2 people sharing a double
room, otherwise a single supplement applies. Flights not included.
- 4 nights: B&B costs Euro 460pp, HB costs Euro 595pp.
- 6 nights: B&B costs Euro 565pp, HB costs Euro 775pp.
- 9 nights: B&B costs Euro 725pp, HB costs Euro 1045pp. |
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