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Amalfi Coast & Naples
More regional experts joining as we grow. Your itinerary always goes to the one who knows your route.

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Every line marked KEEP, TWEAK, or REWRITE.

Below is an illustrative example — a real review is longer, with more line-by-line detail. Your itinerary comes back annotated in the same format: what to keep, what to fix, what to replace.

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Excerpt · 10-day Italy · Rome / Florence / Cinque Terre
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As submitted

Day 3 · Florence

Pick up rental car in the morning. Drive to hotel near Piazza del Duomo. Lunch at a restaurant on Ponte Vecchio. Afternoon at the Uffizi.

Day 4 · Florence → Cinque Terre

Sunday. Morning regional train to Cinque Terre. Hike between two villages. Return evening.

Day 6 · Rome

Colosseum in the morning — walk-in tickets. Afternoon walking tour through the Forum.

Expert review

Day 3 · Florence
Rewrite
Hotel is inside the ZTL. Driving into the Duomo sector triggers an automatic €83 fine per camera. Cross two sectors on the same trip and that's two fines, not one, plus €20–50 admin from the rental company. Call the hotel before you arrive: most register your plate for a 24-hour window. If yours can't, park outside the ZTL and taxi in.
Rewrite
Ponte Vecchio restaurants are the worst tourist trap tier in Florence. Coperto on top, warmed-over pasta, house wine that isn't Chianti. Walk four minutes to Trattoria Cammillo on Borgo San Jacopo: same day, half the price, actually good. Closed Tuesday and Wednesday.
Keep
Uffizi afternoon slot is smart: mornings are the tour-group wave. Better still, since January 2026 entry after 4pm costs €16 instead of €25. Book on uffizi.it, not the resellers.
Day 4 · Florence → Cinque Terre
Rewrite
Sunday regionals run reduced frequency. Florence to Monterosso is about three hours each way even on a good run, with a change at La Spezia. Six hours in transit for three on the ground. Move it to a weekday or drop it. Lucca is 90 minutes away and doesn't have the ferry and hike whiplash.
Day 6 · Rome
Rewrite
Walk-up tickets exist, but barely. Only a sliver of daily capacity, and in summer they're gone by 9:30am. Book on ticketing.colosseo.it, the official operator since 2024. Tickets release at 9:00 Rome time exactly 30 days ahead, and the good slots go within hours. Your €18 ticket covers the Forum and Palatine too, within the same 24 hours.
Tweak
The Forum walk is right, but do it in reverse. Enter from Via di San Gregorio (Palatine Hill side) instead of Via dei Fori Imperiali. Same ticket, no queue, downhill the whole way. You'll finish at the Colosseum exit ready for lunch, not baked in the sun.

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What we check

Six failure points that ruin Italian trips.

1

ZTL zones

Restricted driving zones in Rome, Florence, Bologna and most historic centers. €80–335 per entry depending on the city, and drivers rarely trigger just one. They arrive by post about six weeks later.

2

Train reservations

Frecciarossa requires a seat reservation. Miss it, buy the whole ticket again at walk-up price.

3

Museum bookings

Colosseum, Uffizi, Vatican, Last Supper: all sell out months ahead. AI recommends them without warning.

4

Restaurant traps

The places AI suggests next to famous landmarks are usually the tourist traps locals warn about.

5

Overpacked days

Three cities in three days looks fine on paper. In practice: exhaustion, transit, and no vacation.

6

Coast & ferry timing

Amalfi buses, Cinque Terre trains, Capri ferries: season and weather matter. AI doesn't know that.

Capri · The Amalfi Coast

This is what your review is protecting. The trip you booked eight months ago.

The ferry that actually runs the day you're there. The restaurant that isn't the tourist trap next door. The morning you arrive at the Blue Grotto before the crowd. Every mistake we catch is a moment like this you don't lose.

Gil, founder of proof.travel, walking through Parma
Gil · Parma

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"DIY itineraries look great in the planning stage. The reality is different — closed spots, brutal August heat, restaurants no local would touch. This is Italy, done properly."
Gil G. Founder
20 years running luxury Italy travel. Reviews delivered by Giulia M. (Rome & Central Italy) and regional experts in Puglia, Sardinia, the Dolomites, Milan, Piemonte, Parma, Bologna, the Amalfi Coast and more.

How it works

Three steps. Twenty-four hours.

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An expert in Italy reads it

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03

You get it back annotated

KEEP / TWEAK / REWRITE marks, with the actual fix. Your itinerary structure stays the same.

Travelers say

Fines dodged. Days saved. Trips that actually work.

They caught a ZTL zone error that would have cost us €300 in fines we wouldn't have known about until we got home.

BEKKI · MD, USA

Flagged a train reservation issue on day one. Saved us from being stranded. Worth every minute.

ANDREA · BC, CA

Told us to cut two cities. Best advice we got. We actually enjoyed Milan instead of rushing through it.

BOB · VA, USA

The Sunday train schedule warning saved us from being stranded in Cinque Terre. Specific, fast, accurate.

MICHELLE · NY, USA

Two ZTL zone errors caught in Florence before we even landed. The fines would have arrived home six weeks later.

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Questions

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Is this a real service or another AI tool?+

A real service. Your itinerary is read by one human expert in Italy: Giulia M. in Rome, or the regional specialist who covers your route. The 30-second automated scan is the intake. The review itself is human.

What if the reviewer changes my whole itinerary?+

They won't. The review preserves your structure: the cities, the days, the pace you built. We annotate what to keep, tweak, or rewrite. You decide what to change.

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What happens to my itinerary after?+

One expert reads it, then it's deleted. We have no reason to keep it.

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You submit, we work, you get it back within 24 hours. Usually faster. If our reviewer is going to miss the window, we tell you before you submit.

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Italy only. We do one country properly rather than every country badly.