The Experience.
HOTELS & VILLAS
From discreet city palazzos to countryside retreats with three rooms and a kitchen garden. I know which properties deliver on their promise and which ones look better in photos than in person.
Celebrations
Your first trip as a married couple, or a milestone that deserves more than a standard holiday. I plan these with extra care, because some trips only happen once.
EXPERIENCES
A private truffle hunt in Umbria. A wine tasting in a cellar that's been in one family for six generations. Cooking with a Sicilian grandmother. The moments that make the trip worth talking about years later.
Meet Your
italian INSIDER
ITALIAN BORN ✦ LONDON BASED
Ely Montalbano
Before I ever planned a trip, I already knew which coastal towns go quiet after August, which hilltop restaurants don't take reservations but should, and which lakes are worth the drive and which ones aren't. That knowledge doesn't come from research. It comes from a life lived there.
Now, based in London and working with clients who want more than a beautiful hotel, I plan travel for couples who expect the details to be right. Every trip I plan is built around what I know personally, not what a brochure tells me.
Italy is my speciality, but the world is my range.
Ely grew up in Italy before making London home.
