I am looking for a service that will provide transporation for 10 adults from Florence to Greve to attend the annual wine festival next September. Any suggestions or contact information would be greatly appreciated.

Can't comment on transportation, but I can warn you that there is a limit on how many glasses for tasting they sell each day. If you arrive late in the afternoon (as we did) you may be told that you can't buy a glass and hence can't taste, since you must have an official glass to do so.

Do a google for Italy Indepedent Travel Team--give Paolo my regards.

We booked a driver this summer for 3 days and he can accomodate your crew. His name is Luca and you can e-mail him at [email protected]
We had a great time with him and his rate was reasonable. Tell him maxine and Joe from NY say hello.

joeyrm7,

Coould you please check the e-mail address for hillsandtowns.com? I've tried it and it was sent back. Also tried their website,but it won't take me to their e-mail link.

Thanks very much!

Ifg it's not too late, the web site is hillsandroads.com

Joeyrm7: How did you find Luca, the driver you booked for 3 days in the summer? Where did you visit in Tuscany? I am planning our family's first trip to Italy, and it's a little scary contemplating hiring a total stranger to drive my family of 5 around Tuscany! Thanks, Joe and Maxine from New York, for any advice.

We found Luca through the hotel that we were staying at in Tuscany. To answer your question directly, friends of ours are using him next week and they make the fifth family that we (or those that used him that we referred) have recommended. My daughter is going back to Tuscany on her Honeymoon in October and will be using him again. If anything, Luca drives too slow for my Type A personality. He is very careful and extremely personable. After spending 3.5 days with him it was like leaving a friend behind. He has 2 vans, one can comfortably fit your family and the other is much larger. Luca picked us up in Florence, and took us to Luca, Pisa, Sienna, San G., Multepulciano, Multicino, Chianti and a whole bunch of places in between (please pardon the spelling as I'm too lazy to look up the proper names). We stopped off for 3 wine tastings which were excellent. Beautiful areas even if you don't drink. Some of them have optional lunches which I'm sure the kids would enjoy. Luca din't know his way around the Pisa area but once we were near Tuscany we hit his home turf. He lives just outside Sienna and I think the whole town said hello to him as we were walking througfh Sienna.
Needless to say we highly recvommend him and he is extremely flexible concerning hours and he's not expensive by U.S. standards. I'm actually jealous since we had such a great time in Tuscany last year. I hope I can say the same about eastern europe. My hope in posting on this site was to come up with 3 more Luca's for this trip.
Enjoy the trip. If you use him tell him that Joe from NY referred you.



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Joeyrm7, thanks so much for taking the time to tell me about Luca, the driver you hired in Tuscany! It's these insider tips that can really make a trip special. I hope you find your "Lucas" for eastern europe! Have you also tried the community message boards on [email protected]? (Is frommers a bad word here?!) I use that one too, and have met many experienced and helpful travellers there as well. Good luck! (You can sign up to have the [email protected] sent to your e-mail. It's very convenient.) Then you just log in and click on the community section for whatever region you wish.