An independent travel guide for travellers who want the best private boat experience on the Ligurian coast — without wading through hundreds of listings.
Italian Riviera Tours is an independent travel-content website operated by GAB LIMITED, a registered company based in Hong Kong. We focus on one thing and do it well: helping international travellers find, compare and choose the right private boat tour in Portofino, Genoa, Camogli, San Fruttuoso and the wider Tigullio and Cinque Terre coastline.
We are not a tour operator and we do not own boats. We are a curation and comparison guide. After you decide which experience fits you, the actual booking, payment and customer service are handled by Viator (a Tripadvisor company), the world's largest marketplace for tours and activities, whom we partner with as an authorised affiliate.
If you search "Portofino boat tour" you are met with dozens of near-identical listings — sunset cruises, half-day charters, small-group trips to San Fruttuoso — with little guidance on which one actually suits a couple on a honeymoon versus a family of six versus a group of friends. Prices look similar; the experiences are not. We read through the operators, the durations, the group-size limits and hundreds of traveller reviews so you don't have to, and we lay the differences out plainly.
Every tour on this site is a live, bookable product on Viator. Prices, durations and group limits are pulled from the official Viator Partner API.
We only feature tours with a strong track record of genuine, verified traveller reviews on Viator and Tripadvisor.
We specialise in private charters and intimate small-group boats — not crowded ferries — because that is what our readers ask for.
We tell you who each tour is best for, and when a cheaper or shorter option makes more sense. We don't push the most expensive booking.
Affiliate disclosure. When you book a tour through a link on this site, Viator pays us a small commission. This costs you nothing extra — you pay exactly the same price you would pay on Viator directly, with the same free-cancellation policy and the same Viator money-back guarantee. This commission is what keeps this guide free to use and lets us spend time researching and comparing tours on your behalf.
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