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Seven Day Tuscany Cooking Vacation Holiday - ALL INCLUSIVE!

This wonderful culinary adventure offers travelers the unique opportunity to experience hands-on cooking lessons with multi-course meals in amazing farmhouse setting, as well as daily tours of local villages to shop, explore and visit historic landmarks. You'll even have plenty of time remaining in the day to breathe the crisp Tuscan air while sipping delicious local wine or read a book by the pool........and just imagine: this is wrapped up into one tasty all-inclusive package! Bellisimo!!

Location: The cooking school is located on a hilltop flanked by Tuscan cypress trees in a beautifully restored farmhouse villa.

It's the combination of good food, good friends, and good fortune that brings visitors to this land of wonderment, creating the perfect atmosphere for your magical cooking holiday.

Seven Day Cooking Program and Art Tour

6 nights & 7 Days in single/double bedrooms with private washrooms

    • All Meals with Personalized Menus Robust Tuscan Table Wine ­ Chianti (Red) & Vernaccia (White)
    • 4 hands-on cooking lessons
    • 4 Half-day excursions including transportation & restaurant meals, (art towns, medieval villages, traditional art workshops, wineries, open markets)
    • 1 Full Day Guided Excursion to Florence Transportation & Transfers from/to Pontedera Train Station or Pisa/Florence Airport
    • Daily Room Cleaning
    • Outdoor Swimming Pool
    • Hiking Trails
    • Local, organic produce
    • Authentic Tuscan cuisine
    • Extensive vegetarian, heart-healthy options available
    • Hands-on cooking classes
    • Personalized course materials provided
    • Traditional family recipes like you've never seen before!
    • Interactive, encouraging instruction, spiced with passion and humor
    • Personalized menus available

Sunday

    • Arrival and introduction to Tuscan cuisine with a personal welcome from your hosts for the week

Monday

    • 8:30 AM Breakfast
    • 9:30 - Half day visit to San Gimignano
    • Visit to the winery of San Donato and enjoy lunch
    • 4:30 - Cooking class

Tuesday

    • 8:30 AM Breakfast
    • 9:30 AM Visit to Certaldo
    • 1:30 PM Lunch: Assorted local cheeses with honey and fruit mixed salad
    • 4:30 PM Cooking class: (seasonal menu)

Wednesday

    • 8:30 AM Breakfast
    • 9:30 AM Visit to the Baroque monastery in Calci
    • 1PM PM Lunch - Salad with Savoy cabbage and beans Bruschetta with scamorza and fennel seeds, fruit
    • 4:30 PM- Cooking class:(seasonal menu)

Thursday

    • 8:30 AM Breakfast
    • 9:30 AM Art excursion in Florence
    • Lunch in town
    • Dinner back at the villa

Friday

    • 8:30 AM Breakfast
    • 9:30 AM Visit to the open market and the supermarket in Pontedera
    • 1:00 PM Lunch
    • 4:30 PM Cooking class (seasonal menu)

Saturday

8:30 AM Breakfast & departure

Price Per Person

  • 1615 €  pp per week, double occupancy
  • 1765 € per week for single occupancy
  • 1545 € pp per week for a group min. of 4 people

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2012 Calendar Dates

MARCH
APRIL
MAY
March 18 - 24
April 1 - 7
May 6 - 12
March 25 - 30
April 8 - 14
May 13 - 19
April 15 - 22
May 20 - 26
April 19 - May 5
May 27 - June 2
     
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
June 3 - 9
July 1 - 7
August 5 - 11
June 10 - 16
July 8 - 14
August 12 - 18
June 17 - 23
July 15 - 21
August 19 - 25
June 24 - 30
July 22 - 28
August 26 - Sept 1
     
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
Sept 2 - 8
Oct 7 - 13
Nov 6 - 12
Sept 9 - 15
Oct 14 - 20
Nov 13 - 19
Sept 16 - 22
Oct 21 - 27
Nov 20 - 26
Sept 23 - 29
Oct 28 - Nov 3
Sept 30 - Oct 6
BOOKING AND CANCELLATION POLICY

Booking deposit is 25% of the total per person (non-refundable)

Reservations made 60 (or less) days before the arrival date requires the payment of the full rate.

Balance due in full - 60 prior days to the date of your visit. For payments made with credit cards the client grants us permission to process the balance 60 days prior to the date of the visit.

CANCELLATIONS AND REFUNDS

Deposits are non-refundable; 60 days prior to arrival date - a 50% refund of monies paid (less the non-refundable deposit) is available. No refund is available in the client cancels the program within 60 days of the booking.

We highly advise you to purchase travel insurance in the event of emergency, illness, change in your itinerary, accident or act of God, which we are not responsible for covering.

No refunds will be provided for any non-refundable amounts paid unless the class or course is canceled by the school due to unforeseeable reasons and in this instance, we are not held responsible for anything other than refunding the monies paid, less wiring and credit card fees. Under no circumstances shall we be held responsible for any additional refunds of purchases made by the students for travel related expenses, or otherwise.

 

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