IMPORTANT: Keep in mind this is a budget tour !!!
Basically you get transport and lodging.
Not sure why passport info was required when never verified during the tour.
Buy your own tickets and wait in line for attractions with exceptio..ns of a few, Colosseum, Venice, Vatican.
Issues with hotels: no hot water at 1 hotel, lack of options for dinner, bad food, service, pricing, bad Wi-Fi.
One family was left behind because did not arrive at meeting point on time; good and bad.Read full review
I don't know about the rest, but Gary is the best! We really enjoyed our trip. Keeping up with the schedule was tiring, but we had a great time. We were lucky to have Gary as our guide. Would do it again.
As the overview states, this is a fast-paced tour, covering a vast amount of territory over 3 countries. Expect lots of walking (4-6 miles a day) and sitting on the bus getting to your destination. Once at your destination, you will have an.. excellent time as everything is organized from the hotels, to breakfast, and sightseeing. We wished we could of had a little more free time in each destination, but the schedule just does not allow it with all the cities to see. Things to bring that will help you enjoy your stay better include a neck pillow and small blanket for the bus, poncho and umbrella for rainy days, and a Universal Power Adapter. If you forget this adapter, you will not be able to charge your phone, camera, ipad, etc. AND, be prepared to charge these at your hotel as the bus does not offer charging stations.Read full review
The communication at this company was terrrible. After we initially purchased our tickets, we received absolutely no more notification of what to do or where to meet. Not a week before our trip, or even the day of. When we didn’t find any..one who was supposed to be picking us up at the airport on time, we called the emergency number and a lady with a strong Chinese accent picked up on the other end but she didn’t understand me, I couldn’t understand her, and so she hung up on me after saying she didn’t know how to help me.
After receiving a strange call from a California number from a man with a strong Asian accent I couldn’t confidently understand, we were approached and hauled off to a bus that brought us to a hotel where we waited for 3 hours standing around before starting our trip.
On day 1, we did not see anything besides our hotel. Despite it appearing that we would start touring then and despite that we still had to pay a $9 service fee. On day 2, our itenerary stated we would see Lake Powell. We didn't even stop. For the Bryce National Canyon stop, we drove 5 hours from where we were (not including the lengthy bathroom stops because you can’t use the bathrooms on the bus) to make ONE stop at Bryce Canyon for LESS than 40 minutes.
We spent more time at Chinese buffets than at Bryce Canyon, Grand Teton, and Zion National Park combined! We went out of our way to get to some of these Chinese buffets, which resulted in more time waiting around on the bus, because the tour guide would get to eat free for bringing in a bus full of people.
Besides spending more time eating than at the actual destinations, we spent just as much time at bathrooms along the way. There is a bathroom on the tour bus but if it’s used it will make the entire bus smell like sewage. You would stop for a bathroom every 2 or 2 and 1/2 hours and EVERY female on the bus used the bathroom EVERY time so there would always be extensively long wait times for that reason. Our tour guide would specify a time to be back by the bus at and most travelers did not abide by that (and faced no consequences) and we waited for longer than expected or also, we sometimes had to wait because there were still people in line for the bathrooms since lines were so long.
Also, it may be important to note this specific tour was much more focused on Asian customers than American. My boyfriend and I were the ONLY non Asian people on the bus. There’s nothing wrong with that although, it did make us feel uncomfortable with some of the looks and reactions we got and we also felt left out when our tour guide would speak more in Chinese than English and failed to ensure we also knew what was going on. His English was not the most clear and there were multiple occasions we didn’t understand what we were supposed to be doing or what the money we were giving him was for.
Overall, if you’re looking to see a bunch of places for a very short amount of time, you don’t care about being in a bus for half the day, everyday, you love Chinese buffets, and you prefer your vacations to be a little more sketchy, this is a perfect trip for you. If not, I would suggest you look elsewhere for tour companies or even just pick a few destinations, spend however much time you want there, and be able to actually take in all the destinations for what they’re worth. Good luck.Read full review
This was my family's first time. The trip was pretty good. We enjoyed visiting all the sites. Our tour guide Jupiter was accommodating. My only disappointment was that on returning the bus driver did not drop us at the exact location where ..he picked us up. He dropped us across the street on the opposite side of the parking lot, making us having to run across the busy street with our luggage.Read full review
The tour guide Christian was great. He was very helpful and kept us on schedule. We had plenty of time at the destinations to explore and take it all in. I am the kind of traveler who likes a medium-to-fast-paced tour where some stops are q..uicker than others, so this was perfect for me. Thanks for the unforgettable experience!!Read full review
It’s our first time to do a tour bus since I’m very hands on in planning our tour itinerary. Our tour guide Jupiter was very accommodating and he’s very competent to run the tour. For a 3 day trip we became at home to each other and ..some of us became friends. What I cannot forget is to make early to go up in the bus coz if you are late you will sing a song for the group.
Kudos to this tour.Read full review
By: WELLINGTON DIAS | Thu Mar 15, 2018 at 06.24 PM
Had great time, superb tour, well organised.
The tour managers, Mr. Choung Ho and Mr. Sebastian Kondor, were great.
Good interaction and co-ordination.
Some places especially at Salzburg , Rome, Pisa, could have done with more time, wh..ile, at Milan lesser time would have sufficed.
Major disappointment was the tour co-ordinator could not manage Rome Collisseum tickets, case of being so near yet so far away.
Also there was no time to trudge up to the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Made some great friends.Read full review
The tour is amazing with extremely beautiful landscapes. The minibus is very convenient. Our guide James was the best possible guide. Very entertaîning very knowledgeable he shared with us his love for his country and we learned a lot. Ald..o he adapted our timing to make the best of each day. The b&b was very Nice and the owners very friendly. Alltogether a great tour!!! Unforgetable !Read full review