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Dear Armando

Thank you so much for your excellent guided tour of Rome for myself, Brian, Lynda and Mike. Your patience about Mike’s restricted mobility and our problems with locating a successful cash machine was very much appreciated.

This is a very good deal for you cruise people who are reading this. We were collected promptly from Civitavechia port by Salvatore our courteous driver in a lovely Mercedes van (large people carrier that would hold 10 passengers!). Armando joined us at the Vatican where he had pre-purchased our entry tickets in advance so that we did not have to queue like some independent travellers who would have waited up to 2 hours for tickets. It was lovely to be in a small group with exclusive attention from Armando so we could hear and see everything that was described for us, particularly as one of our party had a mobility disability. I would thoroughly recommend this organisation, and although we had to pay a deposit prior to booking - this made us feel that the booking was more secure. To top it all we saved more than £200 for 4 of us on the same tour provided by the cruise company.

Thanks again to Armando and Salvatore.

With Regards

Julia

Dear Armando,

Thank you very much for the wonderful tours to Rome and Tivoli. The two days we spent with you were highlights of our time in Italy. We enjoyed both the incredible sites and your wonderful service as a guide. We also really appreciated your willingness to talk about your beautiful city and country, and my husband's parents are still amazed that you were able to find them meals with no olive oil! We must also thank you for the advice to visit Basilica San Paolo Fuori le Mura. That was our final stop in Rome, and as you promised, the cloisters were beautiful and the basilica quite moving.

Thank you again for everything. We will certainly recommend your services
to anyone we know planning a trip to Italy.

Best regards, Janel, John, Bobbie, and Jerry Showalter

Dear Signor Armando,

I'm sorry it has taken me a couple of weeks to write, been very busy catching up at work and trying to get all the photos and movies from the trip together.
First I want to say our Mediterranean Cruise was great, and going with your tours was the best part of the trip. Thanks to you, we all have very great memories that will be with us for a life time. It all was so great I do not believe I can pick out a true favorite point unless it was seeing the Pope.
I will have to say going with a private tour is the only way to go, but people need to make sure they use a company like yours that provides both a driver and a tour guide. The way the two work together makes for a much better experience, and gives you the maximum tour for the dollar. The small bus gets closer to the areas for drop off, picks you up at different exit points, the tour guide adjust the day to meet your person needs, and provides easy access through the maze of people and gates. This means less walking, more site seeing, and going where you want.
In the future if you need a reference please feel free to use this letter and if requested you may provide my public e-mail address (MDR5300@yahoo.com) to individuals.
You were so personal, had a wealth of information, could read the group and hold our interest. We could tell you loved sharing your home of Rome with all of us, and by the end of the day we all felt we were saying good bye to a family member.

Thank you very much; I'm looking forward to next year!
Michael Rexroad

Dear Armando,

Thank you so very much for sending the camera and the little bag of miscellanous "treasures." You made two little boys very happy. Please let us know how you would like to be paid. Please add a fee for your extra time in getting the shipment together. We really appreciate your responsiveness.

Since we didn't have a chance to leisurely thank you, we want you to know how great it was to have you accompany us on the two days that you did. We think we had the best experience we could have had. Please use me as a reference for anyone who asks. They can e-mail me, or call me: (650)208-4841. I will only give you the best recommendations!!!

I have a friend who is thinking of going to Rome and then Positano next summer, and I told her she HAS to call you.

Our very best to you and your family!

Gerine Ongkeko, Jorge del Calvo, Andy and Lucas.

Dear Armando,

Many thanks for your email and Christmas greetings. I am sorry to report that a subscription to Wine Spectator magazine is prohibitively expensive, so I am not able to send it to you as we discussed. However, I send you my best wishes for a happy holiday season, Merry Christmas, and a new year of happiness, good health, world peace, and your family filled with love.

I still refer on many occasions to our wonderful day together--what a day! My wife was thrilled with the gifts I brought home, but was disappointed I didn't buy more aprons at the Frescobaldi vineyard, the last one we visited. We have so many friends who like to cook, she thought the apron would make good Christmas presents for them. Oh, well. . .

Hope I can visit with you again this year, probably in June if my wife is able to travel.

Best always,

Ted

Dear Armando,

Wanted to write you a note to let you know that we thoroughly enjoyed our tours in Rome and Ostia. You were so professional, wonderfully considerate of our needs. We had a great time and it was because of you. We loved you, great tour guide, friendly, knowledgeable and informative and taught us a lot about Ancient Rome.

If you should ever need a referral for your services, please feel free to use me as a contact. I would highly recommend your tours. Thank you for being extremely helpful in setting up the tours and when we actually arrived there, everything went just like clockwork.

Best regards,
Linda Caldwell

Hi Armando,

First of all let me say a big thank you for looking after both myself and the group last Saturday. Everyone is back now from the cruise and they are all saying what a wonderful day they had in Rome, thanks mainly to yourself. Everyone had a good time and they have all asked that I pass on their thanks to you.
Hope you and your family are well and look forward to hearing from you.

Regards,
Samuel Tierney

Dear Armando,

We got home last night and I am still on Italian time. :-) We hated to leave, but having been away for a month...it was time.
Thank you for giving us such a special tour of Rome and the Vatican to the, and for the hours of treasured conversation! Meeting you and hearing everything that you had to say, made the trip so unique and special for us! Your professionalism, knowledge, and most of all "warm welcome" made this is truly memorable day!
We will definitely return next September - if not before. We'll let you know when we plan to be there. In the meantime, we wish you a prosperous end of the tourist season, and a well-earned rest this winter.
Again, our heatfelt thanks for an amazing day!

Deborah & Steve Gilbert

Dear Armando,
Leslie, Joe, Bob and I want to thank you so much for making our last day in Italy so memorable. It was absolutely the best day of our vacation!

Hopefully, we will be seeing you again within the next couple of years.

Again, thank you.

Nancy Dobrin

Armando,

Scott, Josh, Alison and myself just wanted to say Thanks again to you for providing such a wonderful tour. we really had the time of our lives that day. You have great energy and were such a great tour guide.
Later that night we went for dinner at the restaurant you suggested where your friend Memo owns. It was remarkable. He took our menus away and provided us with a real Italian experience, like we were old friends revisiting.
So, thank you very much for the experience. We enjoyed it thoroughly. Also, we shall recommend you to any people we know going over for a tour of Italy.

Kelley Schmidt

Dear Aramndo,

Just a short note to thank you for helping to make our visit to Italy so enjoyable. It was a wonderful experience for us. Having you to guide us from Civitavecchia through the countryside to Rome was outstanding! Then the tour in Rome itself was just what we were looking for: to see it from the point of view of a local guide who really loves his city.
Please get in touch with us if your ever come to New Orleans or anywhere else close to us. We will be more than happy to meet you, show you our area and have you and your family stay with us in our home. Again, many thanks for all that you did to make our trip so memorable.

Mike and Janet Lucia.

Armando,

things have been crazy since we returned home, David separated his shoulder and had a birthday party for a million, but I wanted to take a minute to tell you how much we appreciated our time with you during our visit to Rome. The cruise was lovely but Rome and Venice were the best. Many thanks, Janet Lin.

ps if you ever journey here, please let us know. We would love to show you San Francisco.

Armando,

I just wanted to write and say thank you for a great tour of Rome. Rena and the boys really enjoyed our time together and the dinner recommendations. Thanks again for making our vacation much more memorable.

Clyde

Dear Armando,

I apologize taking so long to write but life has been very hectic since returning from our trip.

On behalf of the entire group, I want to thank you for making our visit to Rome so meaningful, informative and, despite the intense heat and crowds, so pleasant. You were able to enchant my teenage sons and my parents alike--no easy accomplishment! Having the head phones was a great idea and made it so much easier for my parents who sometimes had to lag back a little because of the heat and my mother's knees. I think the itinerary we covered was just about right too--and I am so glad we included the Pantheon--I am still in awe of seeing it again and I think the entire group felt the same way. So please feel free to use me as a recommendation. I will also advise our Sony office in Rome that if they need a guide for someone, they need look no further.

All the best, Ciao!

Gary Hirsch

Salve Armando!

It's Alessandra, Lisa Thomas' daughter (the one who fell down the steps). I've been meaning to email you since we got back, to thank you again so very much for your excellent tours of Rome. You gave us great insight into a wonderfully complex city, and it was a pleasure spending time with you.

As I said, I hope to return to Rome this coming spring to study, and if I do I will email you again.

Grazie mille,

Alessandra

Ciao Armando!

Hello from a very, very hot NY. I hope that you are well. I would again like to thank you for a wonderful tour of Rome. I plan to return again next summer and we shall continue our walk! But this time, I will absolutely remember to bring my hat. And, maybe the taxis will work..:)

I gave your name to Biagio and Enrico,owners of the Residenza in Tuscany. I told them that you were a delightful person and also very honest.They will refer guests to you. I spent a wonderful 2 weeks in Italy. I did not want to return to America.

Best regards to you. Please stay in touch. Be safe and well.

Ciao,

Linda

Dear Armando,

How are you and how was your holiday?
Curt and I wanted to thank you for giving us such a wonderful perspective of your amazing city.
Rome is such an incredible place… we both said it was our favorite city that we visited while in Italy.
Thank you again for making our stay in Rome so special!

Ciao !

Jennifer & Curt

Dear Armando,

i am so sorry that this thank you is so long overdue. You were absolutely the best! I think that you were probably my favorite part of the whole trip. Thanks to you, we all fell in love with Roma and cannot wait to return. I hope to see you again and find some other parts of Rome to tour with you.

I hope all is well with you and your family and your business. I recommend you highly to everyone that i know (only to people that i like!) and i just gave your email address to a friend that will be in Rome in early October. I know that it is still a busy time for you but i told her to check with you anyway.

Again, grazie mille Armando, it was wonderful to meet you and i am sure that we will see you again this winter/spring. I look forward to it.

With warmest regards,

Lisa Thomas

Dear Armando

Thank you so much for your expertise & cutting to the chase during our visit to Italy. Antonio was also an expert in Pompeii as you were in Rome. your drivers were perfect & I would not think twice to recomend you to all our friends.

Love & miss you the Amicucci Family.

Hello, Armando! How are you? We hope all is well. We're sorry that we only had a chance to send an e-mail now. We've been very busy. We had water damage in our home a few days after we arrived and by the time we recovered from that, it was the Christmas holidays, then all the rehearsals from J.J.'s performance with Opera Delaware.

Anyway, we really just want to thank you again for the wonderful time we had with you. We learned and did so much in those 2 days! You are a very knowledgeable and a very patient guide. We don't think any other guide would have sat there with us waiting for the Pope in the pouring rain! It was also wonderful that you told just when to go towards the barricades so we can get a close glimpse of the Pope. That was one of the highlights of our trip.

Our boys still talk about our trip to Italy and we'll definitely be back. We will contact you before we do.

Thanks again for the wonderful time you gave us! We hope to keep in touch. Please do the same.

Warmest Regards,
Mylene, Nandy, J.J. and Jalen

Dear Armando,

what a wonderful time we had with you. Your truly brought Rome alive for us plus all the sites we saw outside the city. I will be recommending you to all our friends and telling them about the exciting times we had with you. I am going to recommend to them that they try to spend at least 4 days with you if possible so you can have the time to show them Rome without having to hurry but if they can't I know you will show them the high lights. There is so much to see and enjoy. Your English is so good that I was able to understand everything you told Dawn and myself and therefore could enjoy the tours even more. Again let me say that in the 5 days we were with you that you became our friend and if you ever want to come visit us, our home is open to you and your family.

Jere and Dawn Hyland

Ciao Armando!

come va, mio amico? i am so sorry that i have not written sooner. i have no excuses. thank you again for an absolutely wonderful time. everyone loved you (who doesn't?) and loved Rome, thanks to you and your great tours.
Alessandra and I are already planning our next trip to Rome and to see you. do you think that there is anything left for us to tour? i hope so because i cannot come to visit without seeing you at least once or twice!
maybe you can create an entirely new tour with some of Rome's completely unknown sights!? think it over, i am sure that there is something that we must have missed.
i hope that all is well with you and your business and your family. do not work too hard, take time to enjoy the summer. i promise you that we will see you again, most likely in spring 2008. save time for me, even if it is just for a lunch or a dinner. i will keep sending you new clients unless you ask me not to. everyone that i send to you loves you also. you are the best, Armando!

take care of yourself.

Lisa Thomas

Armando,

Thank you for the wonderful tour of Rome. You provided us with a multitude of sights that I know we would not have been able to experience without your help. Even though we were able to only scratch the surface, I hope we can return some day and delve further into the interesting history of the area. Thanks for making our trip a memorable one.

Nancy Chernik

Armando,

Many thanks to you for the fabulous tour of Ancient Rome. Our group of seven women from the USA found it to be a truly wonderful experience. We appreciated your in-depth knowledge, on-time arrival and genuine welcoming spirit . We were so glad you had the time to spare to enjoy lunch with us.

Additionally, we had a really terrific tour of the Vatican with Silvio. His enthusiasm and passion for art and history made it a memorable experience. His energy was infectious and our group was all revved up for the rest of the day.

Your expertise made my first-time visit to your wonderful country a memorable experience.

If my Trevi Fountain wishes come true, I will look forward to the next time we meet.

With much appreciation,

Terese Baltes
Wixom, Michigan - USA

Hello Armando. I hope this email finds you well and looking forward to a fun holiday with your family.

I had been thinking about our trip to Italy and what a nice time we had on our two tours with you when it suddenly dawned on me that I had not really sent you a thank you note. We really had a wonderful time enjoying the sights and learning about Rome through all the information you provided. It is also nice to experience a new place through the eyes of resident. Thank you for sharing all of that with us. Thank you also for the photo I have attached.

So, best wishes for a wonderful holiday and a new year filled with happiness, good health and hope...

Warmly, "Signora" Debra, Arnie and Kevin

Armando,

Thank-you again for a wonderful afternoon. It was great to see you again and as always your knowledge of the sights and history of the city made our sightseeing exceptional.

See you again on our next visit.

As always
Charles Hudson & Robert Pergola

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Hello Armando,

Greetings from Toledo, Ohio! I want to thank you for making our time in Rome very special. My sisters, Gloria and Marcia, our friend Diane, and I had a wonderful experience and have warm feelings of the time spent with you. Thank you. Rome is a fascinating city. You presented the city to us like a gift. Thank you for your knowledge, passion, and sense of humor. Peace, Karen

Dear Armando,

thank you for such a memorable, wonderful tour of Rome. We were so impressed with your passionate knowledge of the history of Rome. Also how comfortable and how friendly you were to us. We will always remember you and if we return to Rome hope to see you again. If you should ever come to U.S.A. please let us give you a tour of California. Your tour company has a valued tour specialist. Yours truly, Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Chomo.

Dear Armando,

Jann and I want to thank you again for a wonder day last week. We plan on recommending you to everyone we know, and look forward to using you again, when we return to Roma.
Warm regards, Joan Dodd

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