The British Isles in Depth Reviews

A fast paced holiday but one that gave a really good overview of each area travelled to. An excellent guide who had a fantastic grasp on history and local knowledge, I really felt like I was being immersed in the local culture in each region especially with the optional activities. Pleasant and competent driver, I felt safe at all times. Loved every ...read more minute of it!

Tour of the British Isles in Depth was wonderful tour - very full on. Our guide Roseanne was excellent. Newcastle and Brighton evening meals were only just! Kensington Close Hotel is in a good location. Our bed at Kensington Close was shear torture after the tour.

Our tour was very good. Our guide Roseanne was excellent, so organized, knowelgable and approachable. She really made our tour & she also kept the large group under control and on time. We saw all the things we wanted to see and more, all hotels where good with some very good & meals where also very good. We had a most enjoyable and memorable time.

I enjoyed the tour and appreciate there are limitations on time and also Cosmos can't keep all the people happy all the time. Overall though I had a very good holiday. I am reluctant to complain but there a few minor things that I wasn't entirely happy with. Firstly being a single person it was dissappointing that there was only 2 other single people ...read more on this trip of my age group (I am 51) with a tour group number of 43. Apparently this is not unsual with Cosmos. The people I toured with were all lovely people but I may have enjoyed myself more with more people of a similar age group. A few of the hotels were placed on the outskirts of towns which was incovenient. Also we seemed to stay at some unsual places and drive straight past what I thought looked like more interesting places to visit. The tour director was a very polite and humourous man. However I think we could have been given much more appropriate and relavant info on each location we visited. It seemed to be totally up to us to find out all the points on interest on where we stopped. Overall as I said before I had a very enjoyable time. In hindsight this was a good trip to do to help you gauge what you might like to see in depth at a later date and what you may decide to give a miss.

The early morning starts took some getting used to, cases outside the door by 7am, 7.30am. Great when we had two nights in the one stop, or a later start. Buying lunch each day and sometimes our evening meal proved costly. I would also have liked a map of the various places we stopped for an hour or so, to be able to confidently move away from the coach. ...read more Three weeks was probably a little long to be on a coach, yet overall we had a great time. We covered such amazing places, it was well worth the time spent on this trip.

The tour was everything we expected and more. Our rooms in the hotels were all good once we were out of London. The one in London was a bit small but had an excellent location. There were some places we would have liked to spend more time in but understand that we did everything possible in the 21 days we had. The tour has made us hungry for more and ...read more we will probably return to do the things we missed out on. Our bus driver Mark and tour director Angela were exceptional. Would recommend this tour to anyone that has not been to the UK as you really get a taste of everything and some really excellent optional excursions are available.

We enjoyed our tour but there were a few things that we were were not happy with. Being dropped in a city in the cold and rain to walk around for a few hours (perhaps alternatives need to be made on days like this) but why do we need to spend time walking around for hours in cities? Perhaps you could visit some of the smaller scenic places along the ...read more way instead of driving flat out to get from one city to the next. Our tour director seemed to know a lot about the royals and who was married to who but are there many people that really care about that type of thing. Strathpeffer accommodation was appalling (nice old hotel though). The meals that were supplied were all quite good except for the buffet style meals.

I did the last British Isles In Depth tour of the season and had an absolutely fabulous holiday. The tour guide Matthew and driver Dai were the best. The accommodation was fabulous and we were lucky enough to have the best group of people to enjoy our holiday with. The itinerary was excellent. This was my fifth cosmos tour and have enjoyed every one ...read more of them so much that I am planning to combine 5 tours next year. I will not travel with any other group. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I spent a great 21days touring England and Ireland a trip that was filled with excitement each and every day. The hotels were great except the one in Plymouth and Brighton. A great bunch of people on the tour and everyone got on well. The Tour Coordinator Rosanee gave us a running commentary on each place that we visited, I must commend her as her knowledge ...read more was vast and to now have that knowledge is even better. We will go back to Bath and Edinburgh exciting places. I am now going to go ahead with the 19 Day Tour of Europe. Global Journeys are a great company and we received excellent service and assistance from my Tour Consultant Yvonne. To do this on your own would cost a lot more and then again you would not get the knowledge from people like Rosanne.

Now that we have been home for a while and been through the photo's, we are enjoying the trip even more than when we were there. Sorry to say we were disappointed with the trip at the time - it was too intense, not enough time to really enjoy the townships and too much time in souvenir shops (which we are not interested in). A lot of times we were taken ...read more to the outskirts of the towns so that you didn't have enough time to even walk in and have a look at the township, but when we did get to visit the towns they were great. Our tour guide did a lot of talking and repeating himself, made a lot of mistakes with pointing out positions of things (he would say to look right and the object would be on the left etc.) he said that he had been doing his job for over 20yrs so he should have had it right by now. There was one place on our itenerary that we were not even taken to and it wasn't until the day we were supposed to be going there that we were told that we would not be taken there as it was closed 3yrs before hand. Accommodation was great on the whole, there were a couple of not so good places but all in all it was fine. Meals were great bar one night when we had what could only be classed as a cheap cafe meal. We were all disappointed that we did not get the time to go into Stonehenge or have the time to do so, but glad we got to at least stop and take photo's over the fence. So yes, there were some disappointments but we would never have seen as much as we saw if we had not done the trip. We have a good idea where we would like to go back and see and I think that this is really the purpose for a trip like this one. As I said at the beginning, we are really enjoying the photo's and re-living the good times so I am glad that we did the trip.

We had a lovely 21 day tour over the UK and Ireland and would like to give tour guide Bob Kenny and driver Richard Walker high praise. Bob was very up to date with the local histories of the various places we went to which we found very interesting. To top that off he would play the appropriate music to fit in with what we saw. Richard was an excellent ...read more driver especially in the busy towns/cities and along those narrow windy tracks in Scotland and the Irish Republic.

Tour was well organised; tour guide very knowledgeable and accommodating; tour driver was highly skilled and cute! and overall I couldn't have asked for much more. Well maybe a couple of things - some stops especially those scheduled early morning (ie 8.30am) left us in places where nothing was open, couldn't even get a coffee, and out of the ten dinners ...read more provided after the third or fourth the choice seemed very familiar. ie pork, fish, chicken. All hotels were great for what they were, the up market hotels were fantastic with prices to match, and the well used but comfy ones were comfy with reasonable prices. I'm already planning my next tour and I'm positive I'll use Cosmos & Global Journeys again...all in all I knew I was in good hands.

Wonderful tour great tour guide couldn't wish for more, even the weather was good. Recommend to anyone wishing to have tour of British Isles and Ireland. Edinburgh tattoo was a great inclusion on the tour.

Flights with Royal Brunei OK but some maintenance problems such as videos not working, footrest not staying upright. Borneo airport not good place to be for any length of time. Check-in at London Airport was a shambles with a 1.5 hour wait in queue. Airport transfers were good. Hotels mostly good with some 'remote locations'. No A/C which would be problem ...read more in warmer weather. If all optionals taken (most included meals) the extra cost would be 733 pounds or $1,200. Included dinners good (some very good) except two where food and service left more than a bit to be desired. Most 'known' places included in tour which can be a bit boring especially in the first 10 days or so. Essential pre and post tour accommodation should be included in tour (as it is for US participants). Tour guide was a wealth of information, both historic and local.

The trip was great and would do another one with Cosmos in a heartbeat. Motels were fine, some more special and memorable than others but all very high standard. Rooms were warm, staff very accommodating. Food/breakfasts were fabulous at all motels. Coach driver and Tour director were a heap of fun and we all (12 couples and 15 singles) bonded very ...read more quickly. Not a problem anywhere and would consider another one, be it coach or cruise without a doubt in the future. Thank you.

Everything went well. Great tour director (Andrew Hynde) and driver (Lee Williams). Information given about the tour and history was great. Pity about Andrew's music choice. Accommodation was very good except for Kensington Place in London. Better than European tour. Thank you Georgie for your effort. Every question answered promptly and everything ...read more turned out well. One recommendation is for Cosmos to allow to book double accommodation rather than twin. They could include a cover 'subject to availability'. Our sincere thankyou for organising a great holiday for us. Look forward to further holidays.

My sister and I found our travel experience to be very positive. Having never been so far overseas before we found the tour option was a great introduction to overseas travel and an overview of areas that we may like to revisit and spend a lengthier period of time in. We met a lot of great people from all different walks of life, and both our tour director ...read more and driver were very knowledgeable and professional. I can't speak highly enough of our travel consultant Frances who took the stress out of making travel arrangements and was easy to contact for enquiries and support. The only problem with the trip, was that it was too short!

We thoroughly enjoyed the Cosmos British Isles in Depth Tour and the European Masterpiece Tour that we recently did. Everything was so well organised thanks to Georgie and Global Journeys. Everything ran very smoothly and Cosmos were very professional and well organised. Everyday of the tours was busy and we did the two longest Cosmos tours one after ...read more another so we did come home very exhausted but we saw so many different places. We would have no hesitation in recommending Global Journeys to our family and friends.

Our Tour Director Matthew Bell and Driver Andy were fantastic. Matthew was so knowledgeable and really polite and obliging. Andy was a wonderful driver and deliverer of luggage etc. The coach was always clean but the air conditioning was not working for the last part of the trip when the temperatures were really high and we were all sick with a flu ...read more bug working it's way around the coach, the lack of cool air was most distressing to all of the passengers and the crew.

The Cosmos coach was comfortable, and it did have a loo on board which we had been led to believe would not be provided. Both the tour director and driver were excellent. The standard of hotels was very good and certainly better than we were expecting, and the food was very good. The duration of our tour was 21 days, and towards the end, we were looking ...read more to its conclusion, but this does not detract in any way from the tour itself. The tour certainly far exceeded our expectations. We would certainly recommend this company and this particular tour to anybody, as the age range on our tour was between 25 and 88, and we never heard any complaints about anything at all. Three comments: we were caught unaware by the payment in total for all the optional extras on day one, as we had thought we would be asked to pay individually as the tour progressed, but we overcame that hurdle. Another comment is that for a 21 day tour, the number of nights spent in Ireland seemed excessive compared to the number of nights in England itself - eight nights in Ireland and only five in England. The tour director very kindly organised for a laundry to do some washing of our bigger items in Ireland, and we would have appreciated that service one more time. This was our first experience of an overseas trip of that kind, and as there were no dramas or problems of any kind with our tour, we would certainly recommend Global Journeys and Cosmos. Thank you very much for your assistance.