Trans-American Adventure Reviews

We met in NY then did 23 days across to LA via Cody Yellowstone etc. My husband was especially apprehensive about the coach, other passengers, and the content. However, we were delighted with a coach that was 4 months old and Eric our driver cleaned and polished everything on the coach every day. Doris was OK as a guide and the other passengers were read more excellent. We have life long friends. We loved America, the places we went to with the tour. Some of the optional extras we wouldn't do again especially the fake Mississippi river cruise boat and very average meal. Plan to do another tour with Global Journeys if ever we can afford it, the Spain Morocco Portugal is top of my list! Thank you, and we can definitely recommend you!

With 23 days on a tour bus we didn't know how we would enjoy it, but to our delight we loved every minute of it and we weren't ready for it to end. It was a perfect blend of cities and beautiful national parks. Even the amount of organised activites and free time worked extremely well. The tour guide made even the smallest thing exciting and was very read more well organised. She handled the challenges that occasionally presented themselves in a very professional way and her knowledge of the places we were visiting was excellent, right down to the perfect movie on the bus relating to the area we had just visited. We had a great bunch of fellow travelers from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and England, some of whom we are still in touch with and with ages from 20s to 70s it was a lot of fun.

Had a great time traveled 10,171kms and saw some spectacular scenery, even got to see a grizzly bear cross the road in front of coach. Best value trip we have ever been on, hotels were excellent. Thank you Cosmos for a wonderful trip and a big thank you to Frances for all your help. Will definitely use Global Journeys again.

The tour was excellent! It was very well organised. It covered a lot of amazing cities and the best scenery. Everybody was happy and amazed at how beautiful the country is. I was happy with the food and service. I would like to travel with you again because you to know the best places to take us to and your experience is next to none.

It was very well organised. We were fascinated by the scenery and so much to do and see. The tour guide and the driver went out of their way to help us. It was the best trip so far. Thank you Frances for organising everything for us.

Thank you Frances for helping us with everything that we needed. My brother and I are eternally greatful to you. The tour was very well organised . It was perfect. We didn't want it to end. The hotels were very comfortable. The food provided was very nice. We saw the most important touristic places. The views and sceneries are out of this world. The read more coach was very comfortable. The driver was so nice and polite. The tour guide and the driver went out of their way to please everybody. I will never forget this trip.

The tour was very good and we had a brilliant tour guide in Scott and a great driver in Eric. We saw so much and the only part which for us Australians and English on board was a rather long boring day was the touring around Washington visiting the war cemeteries as visiting so many became rather tedious and time could have been better spent touring read more around Washington. Yellowstone Park could all have been seen in one day and then perhaps the long drive from there to next town could have been halved by staying overnight somewhere else. When we booked our tour we were not informed that shuttle pick up was included and as we didn't get our tickets until 2 weeks before we left, (Ed. This is standard from Cosmos) we only discovered it then but we had already booked our own shuttle. Some of the people on the coach trip informed us they had had a shuttle provided to pick them up at New York as well so that was rather disappointing that this information was never given to us. The New York Hotel - Holiday Inn Express Times Square - was not very good. Good location but our room was never cleaned properly and we had to keep asking for soap and towels. We were there for 6 days and the floor was never vacuumed. The restaurant area is so tiny and badly set up so that everyone congregates in one corner trying to cook toast and get cereal and never enough seating for all the guests.

Was a great trip - made even better by great our tour guide Scott and driver Eric. The only couple of things from a non American point of view was that the visit in Washington of all the cemeteries was just too much and everyone on our coach complained that after 2 we didin't need to see any more! Visit to Jacksonville was not something one could get read more excited over - perhaps just make the Yellowstone National Park a one day trip. Recommending to our friends who intend to take this trip this year.

The tour was excellent and the tour director was especially efficient and thorough, providing detailed information and maps on all places we visited. She was even on hand to see tour members off on optional extra excursions. The whole experience exceeded my expectations.

I thoroughly enjoyed the tour and found it to be excellent value for money. The variety of places visited from big cities to attractions in the west such as Cody, Pierre and Mount Rushmore. Yellowstone National Park was a great highlight, where we were lucky enough to see numerous bison, a black and also a grizzly bear plus numerous other wildlife in read more the area as well as the the magnificent scenery. Frances, the tour director was most attentive and efficient and the driver, Nancy was excellent. I have been on several Cosmos tours and would thoroughly recommend them as I have always thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

Thought the tour was good. Some of the optional tours seemed to be a bit vague (the tour director didn't have the correct or enough information about some of the optional tours). I would have liked the last evening meal (an optional event) to be included in the cost, so that everyone attends. That would have given us the chance of all being together read more to say 'farewell'. Wouldn't it be great if 'gratuities' were included in the cost... tipping is not something Aussies want to be bothered with. A 'fun' name tag that could be worn for the first few days (optional) as it is difficult to learn everyone's name. Other than one hotel (Chicago) all the hotels were excellent! Thanks, Yvonne, you answered any questions I had promptly. (GJ: Prepaying tips is an option on all tours. If you'd prefer this, let us know and we'll include it in your quote.)

Wonderful tour of a Wonderful country. Tour director France Wray and driver Don Knight worked very hard to ensure no problems, Frances kept everyone well informed. Don drove over 4,000 miles, which is a long way to be responsible for soo many peoples safety, not to mention loading cases on and off! Accomodation ranged from excellent to very good, only read more motel which was uncomfortable, not even a chair in the room, was Red Roof Inn in Chicago, but it was in an excellent position, so I suppose cant have everything. Breakfasts every morning would have been nice, would not have added a great deal to overall cost. Air conditioning on bus was too cold, and air vents could do with some maintenance. Not enough time in Las Vegas. So much to see, another day or two wouldnt have made much difference. Most bitter dissapointment though was being taken to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. Grand Canyon is one of the wonders of the world and cant understand why you would take tourists to the North Rim.