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Grand Tour of France Reviews

49 Grand Tour of France reviews from past travellers that booked with Global Journeys.
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Second trip with cosmos 1 , NSW, Australia, May 2023
France is great, lots of historic buildings and gardens, just marvellous. Unfortunately public toilets are very few in my view. Learned how to use their public transport which was on time mostly. Hotel accommodation was not great, really small rooms, some air-conditioning wasn't working. Tour director was good, tried to cheer us up with her singing ...read more too. We made some good friends, trying to keep in touch with.
Fabulous France 1 , QLD, Australia, May 2023
This was the 1st of 3 tours booked with Georgie at Global Journeys. This is a fast paced, busy tour. There were 44 of us on this tour including 6 solo travellers of which I was 1. Some hotel rooms I had a single bed in a small room with barely enough room for my suitcase on the floor. However, clean rooms and hot showers and usually fabulous breakfasts ...read more made for a pleasant stay. We saw and did a lot, be prepared to explore by yourself as sometimes to see anything of the town you were staying in you had to venture out by yourself or with fellow travellers.

Several times we were at locations early in the morning (before 10am) and sites and shops were not always open. Lunch breaks were sometimes rushed trying to fit as much sightseeing in as possible as well as lunch, shopping and finding bathrooms! Very good Tour Director: Camille (fun and full of energy) who always provided maps and marked them up with directions. Coach driver: Tom, very safe driver, very clean coach.

I really enjoyed the French countryside, My favourite place was Chenonceau chateau in the Loire valley. Paris at the end of our tour was extremely busy. I felt this tour provided a great introduction to France.
Interesting trip of much of France   1 , WA, Australia, Oct 2022
I really enjoyed seeing so much of France until I became ill and had to leave tour. The countryside was so pretty and we saw so many interesting sites. It was nice to go out independently and sample local meals at restaurants or at patissieries etc. I met so many nice people on the tour and I missed them all when I had to end tour early. Only real ...read more complaint besides one not very good included meal was it got a bit hectic at times though there was time to rest on coach or at the hotel. Also I was prone to getting lost but once I got local SIM card I had Google maps which helped. I have a lot of great memories of the tour.
Grand Tour of France 1 , VIC, Australia, Jul 2022
Great tour provided by Cosmos with informative tour director and excellent driver. Great included sights as well as optional inclusions.
Grand Tour of France 5 , QLD, Australia, Oct 2019
Our Grand Tour of France was excellent, the tour operator was very good and the coach driver was also very good. The tour itself was very interesting, Normandy landing beaches, Monte St. Michel a lovely island Abbey then down through the wine country. Nice and Monaco were wonderful and back up to Paris. This would be a great tour for anyone wanting ...read more to see a lot of France with value for money.
Great trip 3 , VIC, Australia, Sep 2019
Worry free booking by Georgie at Global Journeys. Everything organised like clockwork. We had a small group of 26 people on tour and the trip was further enhance d by an excellent tour leader Elsa and a fantastic driver Andre. Thanks Georgie.
Wonderful France 4 , SA, Australia, Sep 2019
I have been to France before with Cosmos (booked through Global Journeys) but this tour gave me a good insight into the whole of France. All the places I visited were beautiful and interesting. I went in September, good time of the year as it was not too hot and the group size was only 26. Small group, good mix and all got on well with lots of laughter. ...read more Our French tour leader had a wealth of information; this gave me an in depth knowledge of France. Will definitely go with Cosmos and book through Global Journeys again.
Fabulous tour around France 2 , QLD, Australia, Aug 2019
Our trip was absolutely fabulous, we had a fantastic holiday. We were lucky to have 37 amazing people on the trip. Most were Australians and Americans. The Tour Director was 11 out of 10 and so was the Driver. The trip was reasonably paced and we saw all the sights we wanted to and more. Included meals were good and all optional excursions were good ...read more value and enjoyable. Most of the accommodation was good except for the Ibis these rooms were very small, thankfully it's only for one night.

I think this Cosmos trip was definitely value for money, I don't think we could have had a better time, even if we paid more. Our booking through Global Journeys was very smooth, with no problems at all. This is my second Cosmos trip and my second booking through Global Journeys, and I would use both again for future travel.
14 Day Grand Tour of France 6 , NSW, Australia, Jun 2019
We enjoyed the tour. Would book with Global Journeys again. Also with the tour operator, Cosmos. Everyone thought it was one of the best tours they had undertaken. The weather was hot so would consider going in a different month.
Grand Tour of France 2 , VIC, Australia, Jun 2019
I loved this tour. A friendly inclusive group of 30 from five countries contributed greatly to my enjoyment, as did our wonderful tour director, Alice, and extremely skilled and likeable coach driver, Tom. We covered so much of France during this tour and I was very happy with the pace, as it more than met all my expectations in seeing and experiencing ...read more as much of this great country as possible over two weeks. Many varied and unforgettable moments.
A wonderful trip highlighting the best of France 1 , NSW, Australia, Jun 2019
We thoroughly enjoyed this tour! Our tour leader Alice was marvellous, extremely organised and so helpful and friendly. Our driver Tom was excellent, very capable and safe. We had a great group of fellow travellers, a friendly and happy group, always on time! The tour took us to so many beautiful places, lots of gorgeous villages and towns and spectacular ...read more scenery in the Loire Valley and on the Riviera.

Some of the tour hotels had really tiny rooms, also the aircon wasn't always working and we struck heatwave conditions for several days! We had some excellent meals, especially on the optional dinners. The optional excursion to Monaco and Monte Carlo shouldn't be missed, also the visit to the delightful hilltop village of St Paul de Vence. The lovely towns of La Rochelle, Honfleur and Sarlat were so picturesque, as was the unforgettable Mont St Michel and the Normandy beaches.

Our experience with Georgie from Global Journeys was excellent as always, very efficient and helpful, including a notification of an itinerary change.
France sampler in 14 days   2 , QLD, Australia, Jun 2019
We packed in many highlights in this intense and fun tour. Excellent tour director Camille and a great group of fellow travellers. Accommodation was usually value for money with some on the periphery of the city and the Ibis had a basic micro sized room and bathroom.
Wonderful, comprehensive tour of France 0 , Victoria, Australia, May 2019
We very much enjoyed our tour of France, especially seeing many of the little villages not normally included on tours. Our tour guide Peter was knowledgeable and made the journey fun & enjoyable, as did our fellow travellers. Our first driver was very skilled and performed some incredible feats in very narrow streets. He was always very ready to help ...read more people down that last steep bus steep! (A little foot stool would have been helpful to many & made exiting a much safer exercise!)

The accommodation however was not good! When we stayed at Ibis hotels, the rooms were very small & minimally equipped & the meals were uniformly terrible. They were also located far outside the main township's so it was difficult to get to any alternative eating establishments or to investigate the attractions of the towns. As this was a universal complaint of fellow passengers, I am sure they would rather pay a little more for the trip in order to stay & especially to eat, elsewhere, or at least to be situated somewhere where there were alternatives - even fish & chips or hamburgers would have been better! We were so disappointed that we would be unlikely to travel again with them if they could not guarantee "No Ibis!"

GJ. Thanks for your feedback Anne & Desmond. Cosmos do have sister brand (Globus) which does offer upgraded accommodation, generally closer to town and with more inclusions, but then you pay more. Glad to hear with the exception of your meals and accommodation that your trip was enjoyable. All the best.
Grand Tour of France 8 , VIC, Australia, Sep 2018
This was a wonderful trip. We had a wonderful driver Angelo, our tour director was a bit indecisive at times which did cause some confusion. There was a mix of people from different countries which made things very interesting. The tour contained more walking than I had anticipated and some days were very long especially the day that we visited Carcassonne, ...read more Nimes, Pont Du Gard & Avignon. Two hotels did not offer portage which we were not informed of until we arrived and this was hard with a couple of lifts and our luggage.

We stayed in the city of Toulouse but did not see anything of Toulouse. In the Chateaux Country I would have liked to have spent more time at the Chateaux and less time in the town of Ambroise. Hotels were good and the included meals I thought were very good. We went on all the extra excursions and thought that they were good value for money but more explanation needed about the time slots especially on the Paris sightseeing Tour.

However, we saw and did some wonderful things. Bordeaux, Rocamadour, Provence and the French Riviera, and of course Carcassonne and some wonderful villages we went through were the highlights. Also a special delight was Beaune where we had some free time to wander around this lovely town.
Seeing the best of France 3 , NSW, Australia, Jun 2018
We agree that it was a good time of the year to be doing our holiday as the weather was fine and very clear for the whole of our trip, this is a plus for getting max enjoyment. The organisation of the tour in regards to where we went and when was very good. The tour leader we had was very good and her knowledge of the country and all parts of the trip ...read more was outstanding. She tried hard to gel the 37 people from all places and countries around the globe.

The bus driver Angelo was outstanding, I salute him and rate him 15 out of 10. Accommodation was very good and we did not have any complaints and it was very appropriate for the requirements. Overall we saw a great deal of France and in a lot of circumstances it was very inspiring and gratifying to be able to see and witness some of the places and monuments in France. We would thoroughly recommend this trip to others as a way of seeing a lot of what France has to offer.
Grand Tour of France 3 , VIC, Australia, Jun 2018
It was very well organised and our tour director Katarzna was great. I knew it would be a busy tour, I think maybe it could be a few days longer. Possibly a night in the Dordogne area and a night in Provence.
14 wonderful days in France 6 , WA, Australia, Aug 2017
We totally enjoyed our Cosmos tour around France. It contained a comprehensive and varied set of experiences from the towns visited. We were shown the 'mustn't miss' places and found plenty of interesting tidbits during our free time walks around the towns eg Eric Satie's home in Honfleur Although there is always more to see we felt the time given ...read more was adequate and the guide gave enough background information for us to understand what we were seeing. The bus was kept clean including the windows and we returned with a wonderful set of photos taken both during the stops and en route. We will definitely look at more Cosmos tours. Our booking through Global Journeys was totally trouble free and they accommodated our need to receive the documents early.
Grand Tour of France 0 , VIC, Australia, May 2017
Wonderful trip. Hotels were good but the included meals left a lot to be desired. Tour guide was very caring and diligent. Actual tour gave us a good overview of France. Most enjoyable.
Grand Tour France   4 , NSW, Australia, May 2017
Global Journeys were very good to deal with. French cuisine was a great disappointment. Vegetarian diet was beyond their expertise. Due to the stated hotel in one place being full we went up market, great. One of the Ibis hotels hardly had enough room for a couple, but overall accommodation was good. The tour guide often departed from the schedule, ...read more which sometime was a benefit and sometimes was not. We had to pay 35 Euro for a cab for one stop that we skipped that we felt was important, as the one making the schedule also thought. The two bus drivers had incredible skill.
Busy...but awesome 4 , NSW, Australia, May 2017
Lots to get through on this trip. Many friends made and our tour guide was helpful. Highlights were St Michel, Nice and the surrounds.
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