Private tours, bespoke itineraries and curated journeys in Rome and Italy.
From the Colosseum to the Caravaggio churches, from cacio e pepe in a Testaccio trattoria to aperitivo in a sun-drenched piazza, Rome truly is the Eternal City.
At Do Not Disturb, we match you with one of our dedicated Rome luxury travel experts who designs a tailor-made itinerary around how you want your time away to feel. With deep destination knowledge and meticulous planning behind the scenes, we transform complex travel into something effortless and entirely your own.
No city on earth asks more of your senses or gives more in return. Rome is three thousand years of history worn as everyday clothing, a place where the ancient, the baroque, and the bracingly contemporary exist in the same street, sometimes the same building.
It is also, and this matters, one of the great places on earth simply to be. To eat well, to drink slowly, to walk without a plan and find something extraordinary around every corner. Do Not Disturb creates expertly crafted itineraries that allow you to experience Rome without the rush, and with the kind of insider knowledge that makes all the difference.
See Rome through a modern lens. Modern Rome: Art, Design & Aperitivo is a Do Not Disturb experience revealing the city’s evolving creative spirit — from hidden studios and private galleries to an aperitivo shared above the skyline.
Step into the light and shadow of Caravaggio’s Rome. From hidden chapels to private collections, Caravaggio’s Rome is a Do Not Disturb experience that reveals the artist’s genius as it was meant to be seen — intimately, quietly, and in place.
Experience Rome’s culinary artistry in complete ease. From private gardens to hidden terraces, Roman Dining in Style is a Do Not Disturb moment where food, setting, and connection come together in perfect harmony.
Explore the Colosseum before the crowds with early-access family tours in Rome. A calm, engaging way to experience ancient history, curated by Do Not Disturb.
A private sunset dinner on Lake Garda aboard a restored wooden boat, with lake fish and regional wines as the light drops behind the Alps. Arranged by Do Not Disturb.
A private early morning visit to the Grotte di Catullo in Sirmione with a specialist guide at the first entry of the day. Arranged by Do Not Disturb.
A morning at the Aquaria thermal spa in Sirmione, where the Fonte Boiola spring feeds outdoor pools with views across Lake Garda to the Alps. Arranged by Do Not Disturb.
A private boat crossing to Isola del Garda with a family-guided visit to the Borghese Cavazza villa and botanical gardens, accessible only by water from April to October. Arranged by Do Not Disturb.
A private early morning walk through Varenna before the ferry groups arrive, covering the Passeggiata degli Innamorati, Villa Monastero, and the village streets. Arranged by Do Not Disturb.
A private early morning visit to Villa Carlotta, covering the Thorvaldsen frieze, the Prussian rooms, and the botanical gardens before the ferry groups arrive. Arranged by Do Not Disturb.
A full day on Lake Como by private wooden boat, from Bellagio to Varenna and along the western shore, with a captain who knows the villas and their histories. Arranged by Do Not Disturb.
A private early morning visit to Villa del Balbianello, arriving by boat before the crowds, with a specialist guide covering the gardens, the loggia, and Guido Monzino's collection.
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Rome is the only city in the world that was once the capital of everything. At its peak the Roman Empire stretched from Scotland to Mesopotamia, and the city at its centre built accordingly.
The Colosseum, the Pantheon, the Forum, these are not ruins in the conventional sense. They are load-bearing structures of Western civilisation, still standing in the middle of a city of four million people who buy their coffee at the bar downstairs and complain about the traffic. That collision of the monumental and the mundane is what makes Rome unlike anywhere else on earth.
The art alone would justify the journey several times over. The Vatican Museums contain one of the greatest collections ever assembled, culminating in the Sistine Chapel, which no amount of prior knowledge quite prepares you for.
The food is also a major draw. Roman cuisine is specific, confident, and entirely unconcerned with trends. Cacio e pepe made properly, with nothing but pasta, cheese, and black pepper, is one of the great dishes of the world. So is carbonara, so is coda alla vaccinara, so is the Jewish-Roman tradition of frying artichokes flat until the outer leaves shatter like glass.
The city eats late, drinks well, and takes the whole business of the table more seriously than almost anywhere else in Italy.
What Rome asks of its visitors is patience. Not the patience of endurance, but the patience of attention. The city gives more the slower you go, and the traveller who builds in time to sit, to wander, and to return to the same piazza at different hours will leave with something the rushed visitor never finds.
The scale of it still surprises people. You can study the photographs, know the history, and still turn a corner in the centro storico and find yourself unprepared for the reality of the thing.
Do Not Disturb arranges private early-morning access before the crowds arrive, with expert guides who bring the gladiatorial politics, the engineering, and the social world of ancient Rome to life in ways the standard visit simply cannot.
An entire state within a city and one of the densest concentrations of art and architecture on earth. The Vatican Museums build through galleries of maps, tapestries, and classical sculpture to the inevitable crescendo of the Sistine Chapel. We can arrange private after-hours access when the crowds have gone and the silence makes the frescoes feel like a private audience.
Away from the landmarks, the most important thing to do in Rome is eat the way the city actually eats. A neighbourhood trattoria, cacio e pepe made to order, house wine in a carafe. A supplì from a counter in Testaccio, eaten standing up.
Rome contains more Caravaggio paintings in situ than anywhere else on earth, hanging in the churches for which they were painted, in the light for which they were designed.
San Luigi dei Francesi in the centro storico has three of them, depicting the life of Saint Matthew, in a chapel so dark that you feed coins into a light box to see them properly. Santa Maria del Popolo has two more, including the Conversion of Saint Paul, a painting so radical in its composition that the church initially rejected it.
Rome beyond the tourist centre is a different city, and two neighbourhoods in particular reward those who make the effort. Testaccio is the city’s old slaughterhouse district, now home to its best food market, its most honest trattorias, and a nightlife scene that operates well below the radar of most visitors.
On the Aventine Hill, in the garden of the Knights of Malta, there is a keyhole in a gate. Look through it and you will see, perfectly framed at the end of a long avenue of hedges, the dome of St Peter’s Basilica.
It is one of the great small pleasures of Rome, costs nothing, requires no booking, and is consistently overlooked by the crowds a few hundred metres away at the Circus Maximus.
Rome has a classic Mediterranean climate, which in practice means hot, dry summers, mild winters, and two shoulder seasons that represent the best times to visit by some distance.
April, May, and early June are ideal. Temperatures sit between 65 and 75 degrees Fahrenheit, the light is extraordinary, and the city has not yet filled with the summer crowds that make the Colosseum and Vatican feel like endurance tests.
Late September and October deliver much the same conditions on the other side of summer, with the added advantage of the new season restaurant menus and a city that feels like it has exhaled after months of heat and tourists.
July and August are intense. Temperatures regularly exceed 95 degrees Fahrenheit, the centro storico is at its most crowded, and many Romans leave the city entirely for the coast. Those who visit in summer should plan around the heat, with early morning starts, long lunches indoors, and evenings that begin late and go longer than planned.
Winter is mild by northern European standards and genuinely underrated. December through February brings temperatures in the low fifties, occasional rain, and a city that belongs almost entirely to its residents. The queues disappear, the restaurants fill with locals, and the Pantheon on a quiet Tuesday morning in January is a completely different experience from the same building in July.
Rome’s main international airport is Leonardo da Vinci, known as Fiumicino, located around 30 kilometres southwest of the city centre. Direct flights operate from New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia, with journey times ranging from nine hours from the East Coast to twelve or more from the West.
Several major carriers serve the route, with Alitalia’s successor ITA Airways, Delta, American, and United all operating transatlantic services. Business class on a transatlantic flight to Rome is worth the upgrade, arriving rested makes a material difference to the first day.
From the airport, the Leonardo Express train runs directly to Roma Termini in 32 minutes and is the fastest and most reliable option. Do Not Disturb arranges private transfers for clients who prefer to be met at arrivals and taken directly to their hotel without navigating public transport after a long flight.
Rome is two and a half hours from London by air, with multiple daily departures from Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, and several regional airports. British Airways, Ryanair, easyJet, and ITA Airways all serve the route, making it one of the most competitively priced city break flights in Europe.
For those who prefer to travel by train, the journey from London to Rome via Paris on Eurostar and TGV takes around eleven hours and is a genuinely enjoyable way to arrive, crossing France and the Alps before descending into Italy.
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