Cinque Terre Tours: Every Booking Compared, With the DIY Price Beside It

La Spezia: Cinque Terre Tour by Boat to Riomaggiore and Monterosso

With over 3,400 reviews this is the most-booked boat tour out of La Spezia: an 8-hour return ferry with a guide aboard, choosing either a Portovenere-Monterosso-Vernazza route or a Riomaggiore-Monterosso-Vernazza one. It is not wheelchair accessible.

Monterosso: Kayak and Snorkeling Tour

Carnassa runs this two-hour kayak-and-snorkel outing from a beach bar in Monterosso, gear included. It is capped to swimmers under 220 lbs and is off-limits to anyone with a bad back or a child under 6.

Monterosso: Cinque Terre Day or Sunset Boat Tour with Aperitif

A small motorboat runs out of Monterosso with a skipper and an on-board aperitif, in a morning, afternoon or sunset slot. Riders over 95 or under 13 are not accepted, and there is no stop to get off in any village.

Cinque Terre Hybrid Boat Tour from Monterosso

A three-hour cruise on a hybrid, lower-emission boat out of Monterosso, with a Ligurian stuffed-focaccia aperitif included. A €10 fuel surcharge is collected in cash at boarding and is not part of the listed price.

a mandatory €10-per-person fuel surcharge is paid in cash at boarding, on top of the listed price

Private Boat Tour in Cinque Terre from Monterosso

Cinque Terre Sea Tours charters a traditional Ligurian gozzo boat just for your group, with a Cinque Terre pesto and focaccia tasting plus wine on board. It costs more per head than a shared cruise, but nobody else is on the boat.

From Porto Venere: Cinque Terre Villages Boat Tour

I Ragazzi di Nakupenda's Porto Venere departure spends four hours cruising past the Cinque Terre villages by sea rather than stopping ashore, with prosecco and a snorkeling kit included. It's the pricier of this operator's two boat tours listed here.

La Spezia: Cinque Terre Guided Hiking Tour, Manarola to Corniglia

Shore Emotion leads a 3-hour trek along the coastal path from Manarola to Corniglia, with the Cinque Terre Card for the connecting trains built into the price. It rules out children under 8 and anyone with heart or back problems, since the path is uneven in places.

Vernazza: Hike the Heroic Vineyards with Local Wine Tasting

Eroico Vino combines a short, steep hike up the terraced "heroic" vineyards above Vernazza with a tasting of three of its own wines and local snacks. Part of the price goes toward restoring the dry-stone terrace walls the vineyard is known for.

Monterosso: Cinque Terre National Park E-Bike Tour

EbikeIn takes small groups on a 4-hour e-bike ride through the National Park above Monterosso, ending with focaccia and a glass of wine. The garage meeting point is a short walk from Monterosso train station, with directions given at booking.

Classic Cinque Terre by Train and Boat

Veronica F. guides small groups village to village on the regular local trains and the seasonal boat, but the train and boat fares are not in the tour price, roughly 34 to 47 euros extra depending on the season. Budget that on top of the listed rate.

train and boat tickets between villages cost extra, about €34 (low season) to €47 (high season) on top of the guide fee, paid to the guide on the day

Vernazza: Pesto Making Class with Wine and Food Tasting

Cinque Sensi's class in Vernazza pairs a hands-on pesto lesson with three local wines and a plate of cheese and focaccia. Book the lunchtime slot to add gnocchi made with your own pesto, plus a liqueur and chocolate to close.

Cinque Terre: Authentic Pesto Cooking Class and Wine in Manarola

CURIOSEETY's Manarola workshop is the shortest and cheapest pesto class on this site, an hour of hands-on mortar-and-pestle work finished with a wine and focaccia tasting rather than a sit-down meal.

Cinque Terre: Gnocchi and Pesto Cooking Class with Sea View in Riomaggiore

Cesarine's Riomaggiore class ends with a full sit-down meal of the gnocchi and pesto you made, overlooking the sea from a terraced hillside home. It has the smallest group and the highest rating of the cooking classes on this site.

Volastra: BarCa Wine Tasting in Cinque Terre and Pesto Class

BarCa pours three of its own Cinque Terre wines in a cellar above Manarola and folds a pesto-making lesson into the same two hours. The village of Volastra sits well up the hillside, so it is not step-free.

Vernazza: Wine Tasting and Scenic Vineyard Tour

A small family winery, Cheo, walks small groups from the Vernazza post office up into its own terraced vineyard for a tasting with a sea view, then back down. It's a shorter, cheaper outing than the guided vineyard treks sold as hikes.

Florence: Cinque Terre Day Trip with Optional Hiking or Pisa

Walkabout Tours' day trip is the best-reviewed way out of Florence, with over 6,000 reviews, and lets you pick all 5 villages, a guided hike from Corniglia to Vernazza, or 3 villages plus Pisa. The coastal boat leg only runs late March to October and is swapped for the train otherwise.

Florence: Day Trip to Cinque Terre with Optional Street Food

Ciaoflorence's day trip adds an optional Ligurian street-food tasting, focaccia, fried seafood and limoncino, on top of free time in all four mainline villages. The semi-independent option is cheaper but leaves the boat ride and park ticket out.

From Florence: Cinque Terre and Pisa Day Trip

City Wonders combines two villages, Monterosso and Vernazza, with an afternoon in Pisa on one 12-hour day from Florence, guide and train tickets included. All passenger names are required at booking to issue the train tickets, so add them before departure day.

From Pisa: Cinque Terre Small Group Tour with Wine Tasting

BellaItalia Tour picks up in both Pisa and Lucca for a 9-hour minivan day covering three villages and a wine tasting, with lunch and gratuities included in the tour but not the base price. It is the only Pisa-departure option scraped for this route.

Milan: Cinque Terre Full-Day Guided Trip with Cruise

Z V SRL runs the main group day trip out of Milan, a 13-hour round trip with a boat leg from La Spezia to Manarola built into the route. It's the longest of the day trips on this site simply because of how far Milan sits from the coast.

Genoa: Full-Day Boat Tour to Camogli, San Fruttuoso and Portofino

Golfo Paradiso's ferry is the region's biggest-reviewed boat product by far, over 4,400 reviews, and the only one on this site that reaches San Fruttuoso Abbey, tucked in its own cove and unreachable by road. Pick the route that matches how many stops you want.

From Genoa: Boat Tour to Portofino with Free Time to Explore

This is the direct route to Portofino from Genoa, a scheduled ferry with two hours of free time in the harbor town before the boat back. Show up 30 minutes early at the ticket office at Ponte Spinola, since Italian rules require a paper ticket even with an e-ticket.

Sestri Levante: Boat Tour with Aperitif and Snorkeling

Sestri Sea Service runs this four-hour cruise from Sestri Levante with an on-board aperitif and a snorkeling stop along the coast toward Portofino. A per-person fuel levy is charged on top of the listed fare.

a fuel levy is charged per person on top of the listed price, paid to the skipper

Lerici: Kayaking Tour to Tellaro and the Hidden Coves

ASD Kayakbuenaonda paddles small groups from Lerici to the fishing village of Tellaro and its hidden coves, with a full safety briefing before setting out. The 4-hour version covers more coastline than the 2-hour one for the same guide and gear.