Taormina-Syracuse. Excellent day trip. - Very interesting tour with lots of history. Christy is excellent! Knowledgeable and great language skills. Highly recommended.

Nice day! - Nice visit to Siracusa and Noto. The guide was friendly and cultured and the day was interesting and rewarding.

Excellent excursion to Noto and Syracuse - Very nice perfectly orchestrated day. The visit of Noto, although short, allows to visit the lively streets as well as the main monuments of the city (including its magnificent cathedral). The discovery of Syracuse, its market and the “Isola di Ortigia” will remain great memories! Thanks to Christy and Santo who are both excellent guides, very human and perfect connoisseurs of their island.

Expert guide! - Christian was excellent on yesterday's tour to Noto and Syracuse. Really interesting and insightful. Thanks very much 👍

Excellent guide & very interesting - This is the second time we have taken this trip. The first was last year & just me and my husband. We enjoyed it so much that we did it again although this time with our daughter. We had hoped that we would get the same guide again & we were really pleased that we did. The trip itself was well thought out and well paced & the guide, Christy was fantastic once again. He’s such a fountain of knowledge and is clearly passionate about his work. He effortlessly switched between English, French & Italian languages and was keen to answer any questions any of the group had. It was really hot when we went so he minimised the time we spent outside in the sun & also split the group with the local guide Santo when in Syracuse which was helpful in the heat. If you enjoy Ancient Greek & Roman history and also enjoy finding out more about Sicily I would highly recommend.

Too little Syracuse - Guide Christy is really great. Our regrets that we couldn't enjoy the city of Syracuse any longer, abandoned too much glass for the archaeological park.

Very Long day lots of walking - We found this trip extremely long and tiring. It took nearly an hour to do all the pick ups but we were grateful of our hotel pickup so not complaint about that just wanted to let people know. The ride to syracuse was totally filled with the guide explaining all we were seeing in four languages. This got very wearing then at the archaeological site again a queue to pay for our tickets and then the guides split us into two groups so only two languages but still took ages standing in 35 degree heat waiting for our explanation. In The end we broke away and just read the information by each part by ourselves. Back on the bus for more talking to ortigia. Very long walk onto and around the island and far too long explanations. Glad of our hour free time. More explanations again in four languages in the way back to the bus. Then onto noto with talking all the way. Noto was lovely town and so pleased we went there but also that we were left to ourselves to wander. 3 more hours on the bus until we were dropped off and he only talked for 1/2 hour much to our relief . I’m not complaining about the guide as he was passionate about his island I just want you all to know just how it is. It was 13 hours we walked over 6 miles in very high heat and was exhausting .

Long day - felt at times we were being herded - We booked this trip in the UK before arriving in Sicily. We rang the number as requested on ticket to confirm time and pick up. After several calls someone got back and said pick up would be 8.05am. I then got a WhatsApp saying pick up 7.20am. Confused but got to pick up point by 7.20 and yes coach was there.we would have missed it had we listened to phone information. On the coach were several nationalities and the older guide (never got his name) was fluent in all languages. However his information on where we were going, how long etc. left a bit to be desired. We went to Noto first which wasn’t as itinerary said and were allowed an hour. The guide liked the sound of his voice and bellowed when some older customers couldn’t keep up. We then went onto Syracuse where he took off at such a pace some had trouble keeping up - no information on what we were going to do. After a route march of about 20 minutes we got to the square where guide informed us we had an hour for lunch before meeting a local guide. This local guide Santos took us into church gave us a 5 minute talk and we were then route marched to the natural spring and then back to coach, our guide again bellowed when people didn’t keep up. On the coach there was no indication given we were stopping again (most of us thought we were going back to Taormina). We stopped and guide said get off and guess what Santos popped up again to take us to the ruins. By this time many of us were exhausted and hot after the route march through Syracuse so didn’t pay the 16.5€ to get in. After an hour Santos took us back to coach where our guide was and we finally started 75 mile journey back. We both felt the lack of communication, warmth and personality of the guide had a downer on the day.

Shame on this trip. We saw nothing but running - Christie's Guide NUL . He made us run. We haven't seen anything from Syracuse. A shame. My husband and other people who could not walk fast were left behind and could not visit the park. The guide didn't care about his group. He talked a lot on the bus but nobody understood what he was saying. He didn't care. We regret this excursion when it was our dream to discover Syracuse. SHAMEFUL. Besides, very dirty on him.

Check the details including cost of entry to sites, how many people on the tour, how many languages are spoken by guide - To start we got caught up in traffic due to roadworks which probably could have been checked, if at least let the passengers know what was happening. We were 1/5 hours late to the first site. The guide was cranky and edgy, telling people to shut up and hurry up. It was not particularly enjoyable to have to kidding to monologues on the bus in 4 different languages with no way to escape, and inability to chat with other passengers family or friends. One lady fell on the bus and it took the passengers yelling out for the bus to stop for her to get up before it was even noticed by the guide or driver. We were told to hurry up at every site because we were running late - people were scrambling to take pictures and racing back so as not to be snapped at by the guide. This is the tour company’s responsibility for putting him under that sort of pressure. After 3 hours he said his voice was going, he was tired and stressed, and smoking while talking to the group which was also completely inappropriate and there were children on the tour as well. All in all the beauty of the sites was fully devalued by the unprofessionally organised trip and the guide under so much pressure