A New Travel Concept

Red Travel offers a new travel concept; an innovative approach to the self-drive tour offering absolute luxury combined with the ultimate Gran Turismo experience.

Red Travel Tours are unique journeys, individually created for you to fully experience the Italian Way of Life. Each journey is a sublime blend of art, fashion, architecture, gastronomy and spectacular scenery.

Our guests will feel part of a real Ferrari team, enjoying the opportunity to personally drive the very latest models. Travelling for kilometres, accelerating through the steep, winding roads of Lazio, Umbria and Tuscany, along the route of the legendary Mille Miglia race, putting their driving skills to the ultimate test.

Behind the scenes, Red Travel staff take complete care of the Ferraris. Every morning, our guests will find their car at the entrance of the hotel, clean and polished, refuelled and fully checked, ready to begin another day of exciting driving through further dazzling landscapes.

  1 Day Roman Castle Ferrari Tour

WELCOME TO TRUE LATIUM

• Pick-up at your hotel in Rome and meeting with your Red Travel Tour Director.
  
  
• Welcome coffee in the exclusive location of the hotel followed by a dedicated Ferrari briefing, with your car scenically displayed in front of the hotel.

  Our private Tour Director, an expert Ferrari driver, will introduce our guests to the world of Ferrari; clarify the finer details of the controls, explain the differences between the various models (Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano, Ferrari 430 Scuderia and 430 Spider, Ferrari 612 Scaglietti), the peculiarities of the engines (8-cylinder or 12-cylinder) and most importantly, give guidance on how to handle the F1 paddle-gear shifting behind the steering wheel.

• Ferrari practice-drive (first contact with the Ferraris)
  
  
• 09.30: Departure by Ferrari towards the Roman Castles.
  
  

  You will leave by Ferrari heading towards the area of Roman Castles, to visit such places as Albano Laziale, Ariccia, Frascati, Castel Gandolfo and Grottaferrata. During the tour, several halts will allow driver and passenger to swap seats, if they wish to.

  Our Tour Director leads the way at the wheel of his Alfa Romeo Brera 3.2, guiding the Ferrari along the panoramic and enchanting roads of the Pontina, a road opened in the 30’s after drainage of the Pontine Marshes, which gave the name to the road. During the whole journey, the Ferraris and the Tour Director’s Alfa Romeo will be constantly in touch by mobile radio system.

  The roads carefully selected by Red Travel ensure maximum driving pleasure while enjoying the beautiful landscape of Castles of Rome and its surroundings.

• 11.30: On route, halt at Albano Laziale, for a short visit of this splendid spot, and for drink/toilette. You would be able to see Albano’s many ruins of the Roman times, as well as its churches and an enormous cistern, still well preserved, designed and built by the legion’s architect (praefecti fabrum) to provide water for the camp and the surrounding buildings.
  
  
• 12.00: The tour heads towards Ariccia, famous for its excellent roast pork « porchetta » and for its ancient burg and view overlooking Rome, and Frascati, well known for its white wine and the beautiful villas, built from the 16th century by the Popes.
  
  
• 13.00: Arrival in Castel Gandolfo. The Pope’s summer residence, Castel Gandolfo is notable for having been the place where 2 popes died in 1958 (Pope Pius XII) and 1978 (Pope Paul VI).
  
  
• Lunch in Castel Gandolfo. Restaurant suggestion: Pagnanelli with a panoramic view over the Lake of Albano.
  
  

Afternoon

• 14.30: Start of the 2nd part of the tour from the village of Castel Gandolfo.
  
  Discovery of the picturesque and the breathtaking panorama offered, with its beautiful villas, enriched by pure driving pleasure on an amazing succession of wonderful sights!
  
  
• 15.00: Arrival in Grottaferrata and visit of this town, mainly famous for hosting one of the main monuments of the Lazio region, the Abbey of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata.
  
  
• 16.30: Departure by Ferrari to Rome.
  
  
• 18.00: Arrival in Rome and the of the Ferrari experience.
  
  

• 1 day Italy by Ferrari tour on the most exciting roads of Castles of Rome
• Rome - Roman Castles - Rome by Ferrari
• Opportunity to drive the latest models of Ferrari
• Full Ferrari briefing
• Car insurance and up to 200 km of Ferrari driving
• Welcome coffee at the briefing
• Lunch at restaurant Pagnanelli (Castel Gandolfo, Lake of Albano) – drinks not included
• Red Travel staff (1/2 persons), including your private Tour Director with his Alfa Romeo Brera 3.2
• Mobile radio system (guests and Red Travel staff while driving are always connected through radio)
• Service of parking, cleaning and refueling of the car
• Photographic service; our guests will be offered a souvenir DVD of high-resolution images of the event
• For any pre- or post-tour extensions, please contact Red Travel

 Red Travel’s full Ferrari service

You enjoy the Ferrari driving while your private Tour Director and his staff take care of everything else: refueling, cleaning, parking, technical assistance…

 Not included

Airfare, transfers, fuel for the Ferrari, drinks at meal, everything not shown as “included services”.

 Red Travel cars portfolio

• Ferrari F430 Spider F1

Upon request (at extra cost)

• Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano F1
• Ferrari F430 Scuderia F1
• Ferrari 612 Scaglietti F1

Deposit for the car:

• 15.000,00 euro for Ferrari F430 Spider F1
• 20.000,00 euro for Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano F1 and Ferrari 612 Scaglietti F1
• 25.000,00 euro for Ferrari 430 Scuderia F1

 

The programmes are indicative and subject to modifications, on a day-to-day basis and with the agreement of the Red Travel Tour Director.

On request: tailor-made programmes including alternative itineraries and activities (golf, yachting, hot air ballooning, shopping tour, cooking lesson, wine tasting tour, private guided tour)