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Sunset Kayak Tour in Venice: Discovering the City’s Canals

Paddle through Venice's quieter waterways at golden hour with Nicoló and Aleksandra, local kayakers who know these canals intimately. Over 100 minutes, you'll cover 4–5 kilometres across Cannaregio and Castello, building your paddle technique in authentic Venetian channels whilst navigating under low bridges and past working rowing clubs. Expect moderate physical demands, calm water interrupted by occasional boat traffic, and a final stretch where the light turns the city pink and gold. Guides photograph you throughout and provide all gear.

2 Hour Florence Pizza and Gelato Small Group Guided Cooking Class

Roll up your sleeves in a Florence kitchen to shape pizza dough and churn gelato under guidance from a working Italian chef. Over two and a half hours, you'll handle real ingredients, learn the techniques that separate good from mediocre, then eat what you've made alongside wine or beer. It's a straightforward way to pick up skills you'll actually use again, set in the heart of the city.

2h 30mfrom AUD $133

Private Paris Landmarks Tour by Golf Cart (pickup included)

★ 5.0 (54)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

France

Private Paris Landmarks Tour by Golf Cart (pickup included)

Cruise Paris's iconic landmarks in a private golf cart over two hours, starting with hotel pickup. You'll glide past the city's most recognisable sights from a different vantage point, then abandon the cart to wander Montmartre's sloped streets, ducking into neighbourhood boutiques and soaking up the quarter's particular character. A guide steers the route and context throughout.

Pasta and Tiramisu Masterclass in Rome

Roll up your sleeves in a Roman kitchen for three hours learning to craft ravioli and fresh ribbon pasta from scratch, then master the layers of tiramisu. You'll work alongside a chef using everyday equipment, no specialist kit needed. By the end you'll sit down to eat what you've made, with wine and water included throughout.

Guided Day Tour on Private Boat to Cinque Terre private boat

A three to four-hour private boat journey along Italy's Ligurian coast, departing from Portovenere and skirting the five villages of Cinque Terre. You'll navigate past the Palmaria Islands, explore hidden coves with crystalline waters, and visit Byron Cave beneath the Church of San Pietro. Local pastries and regional wines feature throughout, with time to swim in the protected marine park before returning along the pastel-hued waterfront.

3 hours – 4 hoursfrom AUD $1167

Michelangelo’s David Early Viewing Semi-Private Accademia Tour

★ 5.0 (54)

🛕 Culture & History

Italy

Michelangelo’s David Early Viewing Semi-Private Accademia Tour

Beat the morning queues with an early-access tour of Florence's Accademia Gallery, where a knowledgeable guide walks your group of six through Michelangelo's David and companion sculptures. You'll hear the technical and political backstory of the 16-foot marble figure before breakfast crowds arrive, finishing in time for a proper cappuccino while others queue outside.

Let's make only one original onigawara in the world

Shape your own onigawara—the fierce protective tile guardians that crown Japanese temples and heritage homes—in a relaxed Kyoto workshop. Over two hours, you'll hand-model clay into a one-of-a-kind talisman from raw soil, guided by simplified techniques anyone can master. Take home your finished piece as a functional wall hanging or shelf ornament; firing and delivery follow, turning your creative session into a lasting keeper and conversation piece.

History of Hiroshima Group Walking Tour

Walk through Hiroshima's pivotal August 1945 moment and its aftermath on this guided 2-hour tour. Your guide, trained in peace studies, navigates you through the Peace Memorial Park and the skeletal Atomic Bomb Dome, unpacking survivor accounts and the architecture of remembrance. You'll grasp how a devastated city rebuilt itself as a global peace advocate, moving beyond tragedy into purposeful reconstruction.

Private (Phone) Photography Class in Park & Old Town

Learn to shoot properly with your phone while exploring Barcelona's most photogenic corners. This two-hour guided session pairs practical mobile photography instruction with a curated walk through Ciutadella Park and the Born quarter's winding medieval streets. Your photographer-guide will share camera settings tricks, composition fundamentals, and posing tips—then capture portraits of you and your companions against authentic backdrops. Ideal for families wanting to move beyond snapshots.

Premium Pizza Making Class at a Pizzeria in Como

Learn to make proper Neapolitan pizza from a working chef at an established Como pizzeria over two and a half hours. You'll shape dough, top your creation, and bake it in a traditional oven before eating what you've made alongside Italian wine or craft beer. The class operates in a relaxed, working kitchen atmosphere where you pick up genuine technique rather than tourist theatre.

Private Pasta Experience in Messina with a Local by Cesarine

Spend three hours in a Messina home learning to hand-roll three signature pasta shapes from a local cook who's perfected them over years. You'll work through each recipe at your own station, then sit down to eat what you've made alongside regional wines. Cesarine connects travellers with home cooks across Italy—these aren't restaurant chefs, but people cooking the food they grew up with in their own kitchens.

Pasta and Tiramisu Semi-Private Cooking Class with a MasterChef

Spend three hours in a professional Roman kitchen learning to hand-roll fettuccine with Alfredo sauce and build a proper tiramisu from scratch. You'll start with prosecco and antipasti, cook alongside a MasterChef Italia instructor in a group of up to six, then sit down to eat what you've made with wine and limoncello. The experience ends with a digital recipe booklet so you can recreate the dishes at home.

Historical True Crime Walking Tour of East Sydney

This two-hour walking tour uncovers East Sydney's ruthless criminal underbelly, when the neighbourhood earned the nickname 'Razorhurst' during the 1920s gang wars. You'll navigate the same streets where vice bosses, corrupt police, and murderers operated with impunity, exploring crime scenes, the former prison, and the homes of notorious operators. The tour weaves in the area's Victorian architecture, the underground jazz culture brought by American soldiers, and traces of hidden LGBT communities. You finish at Kinselas Hotel, originally a 1930s funeral parlour, with a digital casefiles eBook included.

Traditional Thai Massage 60 min at THAI MASSAGE ALURA

Receive an authentic Thai massage from certified Thai therapists at Alura wellness centre in Barcelona. This 60-minute session uses traditional techniques to release tension and improve circulation, offering the genuine experience of Thai bodywork without the flight. You'll change into provided clothing and relax in a calm, professional setting designed for all mobility levels.

Prado Museum Private & Customized Tour

Explore the Prado's masterworks with a dedicated guide in a private, two-hour tour tailored to your interests. You'll navigate the museum's vast collection at your own pace, encountering paintings by Velázquez, Goya, Murillo, Titian and El Greco. Rather than racing through galleries, this experience lets you linger with works that speak to you, whether you're drawn to Spanish Golden Age portraiture, mythological scenes or religious commissions. A professional guide contextualises what you're seeing without dictating the route.

Massage center. Professional Masseur.

This Italian massage centre offers tailored bodywork sessions designed to ease travel fatigue and tension. Qualified therapists provide everything from full-body relaxation and decontracting treatments to targeted work on feet, neck and lower back. Sessions run one hour and can be paired with posture correction exercises. The centre operates daily with flexible booking and finishes with complimentary herbal tea to extend the wind-down.

Transfer from Trieste to Venice Airport

Private transfer whisking you from Trieste to Venice Airport in roughly two hours. You'll travel in a dedicated air-conditioned vehicle, with the trip departing only when your booking is confirmed—no shared vans unless other passengers happen to be on the same flight or within half an hour of your departure window. All taxes and fees are included in the price.

Sushi Cooking Class: AKEMI's SUSHiKiTCHEN in Tokyo

Spend two and a half hours at AKEMI's SUSHiKiTCHEN learning to roll, shape and plate sushi from scratch in Tokyo. You'll discover the craft's backstory, master the language sushi chefs use, and pick up the unwritten rules of how to eat it properly. The kitchen attracts even Japanese diners keen to deepen their knowledge of a dish they thought they already knew. Finish by sitting down to eat what you've made, served alongside a drink and dessert.

Bali Seminyak Silver Class Activity and Take Your Own Creation

Spend a few hours in a Seminyak studio learning silversmithing from a local craftsperson. You'll sketch a design, shape your own piece using professional tools, and walk away with a finished ring, pendant, or bracelet. It's hands-on enough to feel like you've actually made something, practical enough that your creation won't fall apart in your luggage. The studio is air-conditioned and supplies everything except transport and lunch.

2 hoursfrom AUD $64

Saigon Slum tour and Saigon Chillspots by motorbike/ Aodai rider

★ 5.0 (53)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Vietnam

Saigon Slum tour and Saigon Chillspots by motorbike/ Aodai rider

Navigate Ho Chi Minh City's residential neighbourhoods by motorbike with a local guide, venturing beyond the tourist circuit to witness everyday life across different districts. Over 2–4 hours, you'll ride through congested streets, stop at community food stalls to sample regional dishes, and gain perspective on the economic contrasts that shape the city. Hotel pickup and drop-off included for District 1 and 3 guests.

2 hours – 4 hoursfrom AUD $23

Small group Saigon Inside Out by Motorbike for 3 Hours

★ 5.0 (53)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Vietnam

Small group Saigon Inside Out by Motorbike for 3 Hours

Explore Saigon's layered streetscape on the back of a motorbike with a local rider steering you through three hours of contrasts—colonial buildings neighbour glass towers, hidden alleyways open onto bustling markets. You'll taste street food, sip Vietnamese coffee, and move through the city like someone who actually lives here rather than someone passing through. Hotel pickups cover the central districts.

2 hours – 3 hoursfrom AUD $50

Skip the Line Royal Palace Madrid Tour Semi-Private 8ppl max

★ 5.0 (52)

🛕 Culture & History

Spain

Skip the Line Royal Palace Madrid Tour Semi-Private 8ppl max

Bypass queues and step into Europe's grandest royal residence on this 2.5-hour guided tour of Madrid's Royal Palace. With a knowledgeable guide and a cap of eight travellers, you'll explore the sprawling official home of the Spanish monarchy—a building that sprawls across 135,000 square metres and contains over 3,000 rooms. Expect lavish gilt ceilings, grand staircases, and centuries of royal history compressed into an afternoon in Spain's capital.

Scuba Diving (Basic Diver - 2 dives)

Get underwater in Spain with two guided dives designed for complete beginners, no certification required. You'll explore both confined and open water environments over two hours, discovering what diving feels like before committing to a full course. All equipment is provided. If you decide to pursue your Open Water certification within six months, your first official training dive counts toward the requirement.

2 hoursfrom AUD $234

Official Ape Dolce Vita Tour - Amalfi Coast

★ 5.0 (52)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Official Ape Dolce Vita Tour - Amalfi Coast

Ride the Amalfi Coast in a restored Ape Calessino—the three-wheeled vehicle that defined 1950s Italian cinema—on this three-hour coastal run from Ravello to Positano. Your guide navigates the switchbacks and hairpins, stopping at postcard vistas across Atrani and Amalfi whilst sharing the stories of the villages and figures who shaped this stretch of Campania. Between the vintage machine, the Mediterranean backdrop, and a proper lemon refreshment, you'll see why locals never tire of this route.

Bologna Food Tour and Enogastronomia Experience with Local Chef

A chef-led food walk through Bologna's medieval heart, tasting the region's protected-origin products and cooking traditions. Starting with coffee and pastry beneath Renaissance arcades, you'll visit artisan producers across the Quadrilatero district, eat handmade tagliatelle at a working trattoria, and finish with gelato. Three hours forty minutes with a guide who trained in Michelin kitchens and holds formal qualifications in Emilia-Romagna gastronomy.

Pere Lachaise Cemetery Walking Tour Semi Private 12ppl Max

Walk through Père Lachaise's winding cobblestone paths and discover where some of history's most compelling figures are buried. This 2.5-hour guided tour covers the eastern Paris cemetery in groups of 12 or fewer, revealing monuments and stories from Oscar Wilde to Jim Morrison among thousands of ornate gravestones. The cemetery's quiet atmosphere and architectural detail make it feel like stepping into another era entirely.

Gourmet Vegan Private Tour of Lyon 3 hours

Walk the winding streets of Croix-Rousse with a passionate local vegan guide who knows where the best plant-based food hides in France's gastronomic heartland. This 3-hour tour descends the neighbourhood's slopes with four tasting stops, revealing how Lyon's culinary scene accommodates creative vegan cooking. You'll discover family-run shops, neighbourhood cafés, and lesser-known spots that take vegetables seriously.

Skip-the-Line Rodin Tour with Artist

A two-hour guided tour of the Rodin Museum in Paris led by a practising artist who decodes the sculptor's revolutionary approach to form and movement. You'll skip queues and explore both the indoor galleries and outdoor sculpture gardens with someone who understands Rodin's methods from a maker's perspective. Small groups capped at nine people mean genuine conversation and space to linger with the work that redefined what sculpture could express.

Private Guided Tour to the Path of the Gods - Half day

A 3–4 hour private walk along Italy's Sentiero degli Dei (Path of the Gods) on the Amalfi Coast, led by a local guide. The route traces clifftop terrain above the Mediterranean, winding through wild herbs and coastal scrub with views down to rocky shores. You'll navigate siren mythology and village lore whilst discovering how pockets of the coast have kept their rhythms largely untouched by modern tourism.

3 hours – 4 hoursfrom AUD $233

★ 5.0 (52)

🧖 Wellness & Spa

Vietnam

Blue Gift Package 3

Blue Gift's therapists work through your entire body over two and a half hours, targeting tension from head to feet. You'll emerge restored, then sit down with ginger tea and fresh fruit before heading out. It's the kind of reset that leaves you genuinely lighter rather than just temporarily relaxed.

2 Hour Private Surf Lesson in Byron Bay

A two-hour private surf lesson in Byron Bay tailored to your ability level, with an instructor who reads the conditions and selects the best break for the day. You'll work with soft boards designed to help you progress quickly and catch multiple waves. Byron Bay's coastline offers ten different breaks within reach, so your instructor will match you to the right one based on swell, wind, and your experience.

Florence San Lorenzo Food Tour by Secret Food Tours

Spend three and a half hours exploring Florence's San Lorenzo quarter with a local guide, stopping at neighbourhood spots to eat your way through the district's best offerings. You'll taste lampredotto, fresh pasta, local cheeses and cured meats, finish with gelato, and encounter a surprise dish along the way. This isn't a museum tour—it's a working food market neighbourhood where Florentines actually shop and eat.

Louvre Museum Private 2-h Tour on Italian Art and masterpieces

Skip the bewilderment of navigating the Louvre's 35,000 artworks solo on this focussed 2-hour private tour through Italian and French masterworks. Your guide steers you past the endless corridors straight to the essentials—Venus of Milo, Nike of Samothrace, Mona Lisa—whilst unpacking the genius of Michelangelo, Giotto, Canova and their peers. Museum entry included. Based in Paris.

2 hoursfrom AUD $283

Paris Family Adventure- a Fun City Quest for Kids

★ 5.0 (51)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

France

Paris Family Adventure- a Fun City Quest for Kids

A 2.5-hour guided mystery adventure through central Paris that challenges families to crack clues at iconic landmarks. You'll start at the Stravinsky Fountain, hunt for secrets at the House of Nicolas Flamel and Saint-Eustache Church, decode patterns in the Palais Royal gardens, then follow the puzzle trail past the Louvre to the Seine. Each location holds a piece of the story. A bakery stop halfway through includes a pastry, and the whole thing wraps up with views of Notre-Dame and the Musée d'Orsay.

Montmartre Semi Private Tour: from Moulin Rouge, to Sacré-Cœur

This two-hour semi-private tour threads through Montmartre's hillside lanes, starting at the Moulin Rouge and climbing to Sacré-Cœur. Your local guide steers you past former artist studios, the vintage Au Lapin Agile cabaret, and Place du Tertre where painters still work outdoors. You'll sample warm bread from a neighbourhood bakery and finish with views from the basilica's steps. Small groups of six maximum keep the pace leisurely and the atmosphere intimate.

Private Cooking Classes in Rome!

Learn to make three Roman classics—ravioli, tagliolini cacio e pepe, and tiramisu—in a purpose-built kitchen in Rome over three hours. This private class keeps groups small (up to eight people) so you work at your own station with a cooktop, building real hands-on skills rather than watching a demonstration. You'll cook, eat what you've made, taste wine, and leave with printed recipes and a certificate.

Segway Tour Caruggi - 1 ora

Zip through Genoa's sprawling medieval quarter on a Segway, covering ground that would take hours on foot. This one-hour guided tour steers you through narrow cobbled lanes and past the city's most significant landmarks, giving you a genuine sense of the old town's scale and character without the exhaustion. You'll get a safety briefing and full kit before heading out with a guide who knows the backstreets well.

Tokyo City & Street Photo Workshop

Learn to photograph Tokyo's urban landscape by capturing the tension between monumental architecture and human presence. This 2.5-hour workshop guides you through Shiodome, Ginza, and Yurakucho with a professional photographer, exploring how to use composition—leading lines, negative space, contrast—to tell stories within the city's concrete and steel environment. You'll develop techniques to make compelling images of the metropolis and the people inhabiting it.

Bali: Silver Jewelry Making Class in Seminyak and Legian

Spend a morning in a Seminyak workshop learning silversmithing from local craftspeople. You'll work with five grams of pure Indonesian silver to craft a wearable piece—earrings, ring, or pendant—guided through each stage from shaping to polish. The class covers the trade's roots in the region and sends you home with a handmade souvenir that actually reflects your own effort rather than a mass-produced trinket.

The Four Seasons in Florence

Spend an evening in Florence's historic Auditorium Santa Croce al Tempio listening to Vivaldi's Four Seasons alongside Mozart and Bach performed by an accomplished ensemble. This 70-minute concert sits you in an intimate space layered with centuries of history, letting classical masterworks unfold in their proper setting. Whether you know these pieces inside-out or you're curious what the fuss is about, the night delivers genuine musical substance without pretension.

1h 10mfrom AUD $50

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