Affiliate disclosure

Plain terms: booking links on this site can earn us a commission, the price you pay stays the same either way, and no operator pays to appear. The estates of Valpolicella, Soave and the Garda shore will pour for anyone who turns up with a reservation, tour or no tour.

Where the commissions come from

Buttons that open a tour page, plus any in-text link that leads to one, point to a live booking listing carrying our partner tag. The fourteen tours here are sold through GetYourGuide and Viator. When a booking follows one of those clicks, the platform shares part of the commission it already charges the operator. Nothing is added to what you pay: the cut comes out of the platform's side, so the ticket costs exactly what it would if you had found the listing yourself.

That is the whole arrangement. There is a single booking partner behind the listings on this site. No display advertising, no sponsored posts, no paid placements, and no hotel or restaurant booking links anywhere. If another partner is ever added, this page and the footer disclosure will name it before the first link goes live, not quietly after.

The parts of a wine day that earn us nothing

Worth saying plainly, because for some travellers they are the better answer. You can drive or take a bus into the Valpolicella hills, Soave or the Bardolino shore, call an estate ahead and book a cellar visit and tasting directly, and nothing about that pays this site a cent. The guides cover how to do it, including which communes sit closest to the city.

Even within the tours, we lead with what a listing actually shows rather than pushing you toward the top of the range. Published from-prices run from $34 (checked September 2026) for a winery-direct vineyard walk in Soave to $632 for a private eight-hour Amarone day departing Venice, and the cheapest guided tasting on Lake Garda starts at $52. A card never carries a number we could not stand behind.

What money never touches

• Inclusion. A tour earns a place by being real, bookable and honestly described, nothing else. Fourteen listings made the cut: Amarone half days out of Verona, longer Valpolicella days with lunch, Soave visits, Lake Garda tastings and castle cruises, an e-bike loop, winery-direct sessions and private departures from Venice, Padua or Treviso.
• Ordering. No operator has paid for a spot, and none has been offered one. When one tour heads a category, that reflects the listing itself, ratings and review counts included, all printed on the cards for you to judge.
• What we say about them. The private Valpolicella full day carrying a single review sits in the same lineup as the Ways Tours Amarone half day carrying 762, and both numbers appear exactly as published. A thin sample is never dressed up as a consensus.
• What we leave out. A tour only appears if its listing shows a fixed, checkable from-price and a bookable date. Anything vague, seasonal-only or sold through an operator inbox rather than a live listing stays off the site, even though it would have paid commission exactly like the fourteen we could confirm.
• Things we earn nothing from. Riding a rented e-bike to a cellar on your own, booking a tasting straight with an estate in Fumane or Negrar, taking the train to Verona Porta Nuova and a bus out to the hills. These still get their say wherever they beat a paid ticket.

Stars, counts and from-prices

Each rating and review count shown here is the number the live listing publishes, read directly off the booking page and confirmed on a second pass before printing. Figures are never blended across platforms, and a thin sample stays thin: the one review on the private full day is printed as one, while the 762 on the Amarone half day from Verona stand as 762.

Prices work the same way and come with a bigger caveat. What you see on a card is a current from-price, the cheapest option on that listing when it was read, and all fourteen tours publish one, running from $34 to $632 (checked September 2026). What you actually pay moves with the date, the option you pick, the group size and any add-ons, so the live listing is always the authority. Where a price is set per group rather than per head, the card still shows the per-person figure the listing publishes, and the booking page breaks down exactly what it covers before you commit.

Booking around us, if you prefer

You can skip our links entirely. Type the tour name into a booking platform yourself, or go to the operator's own website, since every listing names the company that runs it. All fourteen tours here can be found and booked without us in the chain. The comparisons, the price notes, the FAQ and the guides read exactly the same whether or not a booking link is ever clicked, and the point of all this is a day among the Valpolicella hills, not the referral.

Anything unclear: write to us. How listings are vetted in the first place is explained on the about page.