The Aeolian Coast · Italy
The Tyrrhenian Fortnight
Twelve days for two, with the middle week left empty on purpose
The shape of it
The honeymoon version of the Aeolian week: fewer moves, later mornings, a private boat on call, and no schedule in the middle.
Written for two people who have just spent a year organising something and would like not to organise anything for a fortnight.
Three bases in twelve days, two of which you stay at for four nights. One arranged thing in the first week, one in the last, and a deliberately empty middle where a boat is available whenever you want it and nothing is booked.
Everything that can be private is private: the transfers, the boat, the table at the far end of the terrace. What cannot be — the island itself in the first week of September — we schedule around rather than pretend about.
- Length
- 12 days, 11 nights
- From
- €7,900 per person
- Best months
- June, and September to early October
- Season
- Summer, Autumn
- Format
- Private departure
- Party
- Two travellers
- Pace
- Three bases in twelve days, two of them for four nights
- Travel styles
- Honeymoons and two, Coast and islands
Per person sharing, for two travellers in late September. June is similar; August is not offered. Dates and prices shown are indicative demo content. Confirm everything with your own operations before publishing.
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The itinerary
Written as it would actually run. Select a day to see where you are, what you are doing and where you sleep.
Day 1
Arrive, and go no further
Met at Catania and driven to the coast for one night. Dinner is booked and nothing else is.
- Private transfer
- Dinner on the harbour
- Night
- Milazzo, a small harbour hotel
The country you travel through
Where you sleep
The places we use on this trip
Included
The days worth flying for
What is included
- Eleven nights with breakfast, in the best rooms we can hold
- All private transfers, by car and by boat
- A boat on call for two days, taken whenever you like
- The Stromboli night boat
- Restaurant bookings for every evening you want one
What is not
- International flights
- Most lunches and dinners
- Travel insurance
Who plans this journey
Elena Fioravanti
Founder, Mediterranean · planning since 2011
Elena ran a fourteen-room hotel on Salina until 2011, which is where most of the Aeolian network came from: the skippers, the caper growers, the two families whose houses we still use in August.
She plans the Italian journeys herself and will argue with you about the order of the islands. She is usually right, and she will tell you when she is not sure.
Known for: Getting travellers onto Alicudi and Filicudi in the first week of September, when the boats are full and the beds are not for sale.
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