Italy · Local knowledge · Your taste
Your flights and hotels are booked.
Now the part only a local can fill in for you.
The lessons usually arrive on the flight home. Yours arrive before you pack.
Your itinerary
What we check
- ✓ Restaurants — open hours, closed Mondays, reservation requirements
- ✓ Trains — Frecciarossa reservations, real journey times
- ✓ Driving — ZTL zones (€80–335 per entry, rarely just one), realistic travel times
- ✓ Museums — opening days, ticket pre-booking
- ✓ Walking distances — actual vs. AI claims
- ✓ Neighborhoods — tourist traps, local alternatives
A ZTL error in Florence, caught before the trip — the fines would have arrived by mail six weeks later.
From our reviews
Personal details removed before review · read by one expert in Italy · deleted within 90 days
Your first recommendation is free.
Once you submit: instant scan, then your expert review by email within 24 hours.
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- A local who has planned hundreds of Italy trips
- We don't rebuild your trip
- You see the review before you're billed
- Nothing booked through us, no commissions
What goes in the days
The ferry that actually runs the day you're there. The morning you arrive before the crowd.
What a review looks like
Every line marked KEEP, TWEAK, REWRITE, or ADD.
An illustrative example. A real review is longer. Yours comes back annotated the same way: what to keep, what to tweak, what to reconsider, and what to add.
That was three days of one itinerary.
Yours is probably ten.
Same format, same level of detail, back within 24 hours.
The handful of things that actually catch people out in Italy — trains, ZTL, timed tickets, fees and pacing — are all written up here.
How to plan an Italy trip properly →How it works
Three steps. Twenty-four hours.
Come home glad a local was behind it.
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You're not paying for a check. You're paying for what goes in the days.
Start with one free recommendation. If it's useful, a local reads the whole trip.
Send us your Italy itinerary. A local sends back one thing you wouldn't have found on your own — a restaurant worth walking to, a morning that works better reversed.
Not sure which part needs it? We'll pick the day that most needs someone who knows the area.
- ✓Read by a real person in Italy
- ✓Back within 24 hours
- ✓No card, no catch
A local who knows your region reads every day of your plan — where to eat, what's worth the detour, what to skip, and the timing that makes it work.
You see the review before you're billed. Find one issue or none, and it's $29.
See what's included ↓
- ✓Your schedule and your taste, untouched
- ✓Reads every day, flags what matters, adds depth where it counts
- ✓Back within 24 hours
- ✓You see the review before you're billed
No plan yet? A local builds your day-by-day itinerary from scratch, around what you actually want — not around what ranks well.
See what's included ↓
- ✓Full day-by-day, built for you
- ✓A local professional, start to finish
- ✓Back within 24 hours
Your local also reads the plan you already built, and says what won't work. That comes with it.
A ZTL sector is €80–335. A high-speed train without a seat reservation means buying the ticket again.
Either one costs more than the review.
A growing network of locals across Italy.
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Runs tours, events and stays across Piedmont and Northern Italy. Knows which local spot actually delivers.
Outdoor specialist. Knows the trails and timing that turn a stop into the best part of the trip.
Born and raised in the region. Turns local knowledge into routes guests wouldn't find on their own.
We're onboarding a resident expert for this region.
Slovenian by birth, Sicilian by heart. Almost 30 years living in Sicily — still finding places that surprise her, corners that make her fall in love with the island all over again.
Founded by
Gil Gottfeld.
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"DIY itineraries look great in the planning stage. The reality is different: overpacked spots, ZTL, tourist traps, long routes to nowhere. Missing all the authentic, beautiful and charming Italy."
More about Gil ↓
20 years running luxury Italy travel. Reviews delivered by local experts across Rome & Central Italy, Puglia, Sardinia, the Dolomites, Milan, Piemonte, Parma, Bologna, the Amalfi Coast and more.
Questions
Everything travelers ask before submitting.
Is this a real service or another AI tool?+
A real service. The instant scan is automated; the review itself is done by a local expert in Italy, overseen by our founder. No AI writes your review.
How many itineraries have you reviewed?+
We're new, and we'd rather say so. You'd be among our first, which is exactly why the founder personally oversees every review right now, at pilot pricing. That attention gets harder to promise later.
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.
What if it wasn't useful?+
You see the review before you're billed. If it isn't useful, we don't bill you.
What happens to my itinerary after?+
Your personal details are removed before review. One expert reads the itinerary, and it's deleted within 90 days. We have no reason to keep it longer.
How fast is 24 hours, really?+
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.
What formats do you accept?+
Paste text, drop a Google Doc link, or upload a PDF. If it's a spreadsheet, that's fine too.
Does this cover other countries?+
Italy only. We do one country properly rather than every country badly.