Personally, Lake Como. Part One - A voice note from the lake

"I promised myself I wouldn't become
one of those people."

He did anyway.

Why “Personally”

In 2020, Pierluigi and Meriem set out to share Lake Como's actual soul, not the postcard version.

For them, welcoming you was never just a job. It’s a mission to make you feel at ease, cared for, and genuinely connected to the place around you. That human touch, not the view, not the itinerary, is what they consider true luxury.

So when you reach out, you won’t find a catalogue of standard tours. We listen first. We ask what you actually want, then curate around your schedule, your pace, your people. A cooking class with a local chef. A private cruise across still water. A walking tour through history that isn’t rehearsed.

Every guide, chef, sommelier, and captain is handpicked, not assigned. Local, genuinely local, and chosen because who they are matters as much as what they know.

No formulas. No cookie-cutter days.

Just Lake Como, intimately, authentically, personally yours.

Man speaking into a smartphone while seated beside a smiling woman on a lakeside terrace
The Lake Como James got to know.

Everything in the video, available to you, privately, on your own time.

Villa Pizzo Walking Tour

Private Boat Tour, Cranchi E26 Classic

Cooking Class with Lake View, Como

Private Boat Tour, Classic Wooden Boat

Villa Pizzo Walking Tour

A 17th-century lakeside estate, still lived in, rarely opened. Walk its gardens and rooms with a private guide who knows the merchants, aristocrats, and noblewomen who shaped its history. Available on request, for travel agents only.

Family walking outside a villa with open shutters and a flowering potted plant

Private Boat Tour, Cranchi E26 Classic

8 metres of timeless elegance. Vintage soul, modern refinement. Your captain, your route, your pace. From a swim to a full-day crossing to Bellagio. The boat that doesn’t demand permission.

A family rides in a speedboat across sunlit water on Lake Como

Cooking Class with Lake View, Como

A local chef’s terrace above the water. Pasta made by hand. Tiramisù. A view that makes home cooking feel like a different life entirely. The kind of morning you’ll still taste weeks later.

Woman in an apron holding a lemon on a terrace overlooking a lake and hills in Italy

Private Boat Tour, Classic Wooden Boat

Once built to slip under Venice’s bridges. Now yours for an afternoon on Como, spacious, elegant, unmistakably Italian. The boat that turns heads, then lets you disappear into the moment.

A motorboat with two people on Lake Como, with mountains in the background at sunset
The story doesn’t end with James

He said he'd send the contact. He did.

“So yeah, I promised myself I wouldn’t become one of those ‘you have to go’ people. But yes, unfortunately, you have to go. I’ll send you the contact.”

He sent it to a friend. They’re coming to Lake Como this September.

This is where their story starts.

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