Bellagio on Lake Como with mountains behind the lake

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Let's dream it together.

City guides, local stories and homes to stay in, for destinations worth more than a visit.

City guides

Trending Destinations

Where travellers are heading now. Each guide gathers the places to see, the tables worth booking and the stays worth choosing.

All destinations

Visitors = tourist arrivals in the latest full year available: Venice 2024 (Regione Veneto), Florence 2025 (Centro Studi Turistici), Lake Como Oct 2024–Sep 2025 (Osservatorio Turistico Como), Bergamo 2024 (city), Phuket 2024 (C9 Hotelworks), Krabi 2024 estimate (Krabi Tourism Business Association).

Inside every guide

Everything you need, from arrival to the last evening

Each city guide is written to be used on the road: open it the night before, keep it in your pocket the next day.

Getting here and around

Trains, buses, taxis and transfers, local ticket prices and the apps worth downloading before you land.

The places worth your time

Our Holiplanet Picks, with opening hours and prices checked on official sources and the date we checked them.

Free itineraries

Ready-made plans for one day or a weekend, built around real opening days so you never find a door closed.

Where to eat and stay

Restaurants for every mood and hotels in the right neighbourhoods, plus full directories when you want more choice.

Day trips and free things to do

Nearby towns worth the journey, neighbourhood walks, evenings, culture and what costs nothing at all.

If you fall in love with the place

What living there is really like, the property market and the local agencies to talk to.

Why travel with Holiplanet

A friend who knows the city, and checks the details

No sponsored rankings, no recycled lists. Just what you need to make the most of every day.

Explore the city guides

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Free itineraries

Plans you can follow as they are, at no cost.

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Checked on official sources

Hours and prices verified, with the date of the last check.

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Book in one click

Direct links to buy tickets and book tours, plus directions to every place.

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Independent picks

Nobody pays to become a Holiplanet Pick.

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All in one place

See, eat, sleep, move around, and stay longer if you wish.

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In your language, online and in print

Guides in more languages, with printed editions on the way.

Florence at sunrise with the cathedral dome

Many of our destinations are places where travellers come back, stay for months, and sometimes never leave.

From visitor to resident

Fell in love with the place? Stay.

Holiplanet helps you go from a holiday to a new chapter: where to live, how to settle in, and how to invest with people you can trust, together with our local partners.

Relocate

Find your neighbourhood

Which areas suit your everyday life, how daily routines work and how to stay connected across the region.

Stay longer

Long stays and expat life

Practical guidance for long-term stays, with homes for months rather than nights through our partners.

Invest

Property and opportunities

The local property market explained, partner agencies on the ground and investment opportunities from the Holiplanet network.

Ask Holiplanet about living there

Holiplanet Journal

Stories and local tips

Read the Journal
Cover of the printed Holiplanet Como City Guide

Coming soon in print

Take the guide with you

Selected city guides will also be available in print, starting with Bologna and Lake Como, and distributed in hotels and points of interest across each city.

Tell me when it's out

Our story

In the world's most compelling destinations, the journey of a traveller and the journey of a homeowner are often the same journey, only at different moments.

About Holiplanet

For the travel and real estate industry

Grow with Holiplanet

Behind every destination there are the people who make it work. If you run a hotel, a restaurant or a local business, an estate agency, or you own a home in one of our destinations, this is where we work together.

A gondola on the Grand Canal in Venice at dusk

Hotels, restaurants & local businesses

Be found before they arrive

Your business inside the guides and directories travellers use to plan their trip, online and in the printed editions. Editorial picks stay independent.

Be part of a city guide
Real estate professionals talking in front of a window of listings

Real estate agencies

Meet buyers where interest is born

Publish your listings next to the guides of the same cities, join the partner network and get access to qualified international leads.

Become a partner agency
A sea-view villa managed by Holiplanet in Phuket

Homeowners

Your home, with hotel standards

Rent it to travellers, sell it or let us lease and manage it. More than twenty years of experience in hospitality and property management.

Discover owner solutions

Holiplanet in numbers

Experience you can build on

20+

years of experience

40,000 m²

developed

€20M+

portfolio managed

2,500+

travel agent partners