Cosmos Tour Reviews
The 1,984 Cosmos Tour reviews listed below are from past clients of Global Journeys that have traveled with Cosmos. Each review has been individually verified by our team.
Very informative trip 6
Wendy Chen, NZ, Jan 2016
This was my family's first Europe trip. This trip has covered a big range of places of interest. Tour guide was very knowledgeable and we learnt a lot of history and culture that we couldn't have learnt if we were travelled alone. Overall its value for money. Some accommodations were not good. Optional excursions were expensive and meals were always read more chicken. I wouldn't choose any excursion next time. Somebody stole my daughter's purse in the hotel reception in Nice. Both hotel and tour guide didn't want to do anything about it. We had to push the tour guide to ring French police by threatening that we would drop off the tour. We finally recovered a cellphone but the guide should have done better. It would help for future travellers to check the reputation of their tour guide beforehand.
From the introduction of the tour guide (Aykut), the new Mercedes tour bus, great driver - it was a great start to a wonderful tour of Turkey. The complete tour was well planned, and I would definitely do another tour of Turkey - great value for money.
The Grand Tour of France was just what I expected, everything about the trip was fantastic. Our Tour guide Clara was wonderful,so full of knowledge & enthusiasm. Everyday was better than the last. I can't fault this trip as the hotels were in great spot, the optional tours some we could not do as it was Christmas time & a lot of places were closed. read more Not Cosmos's fault. Cosmos did make up for it though on our Christmas dinner & New Years Eve. Christmas time was a great time to travel & you get to experience the holiday vibe & xmas markets & lights. Overall I had a fantastic trip & would do it again.
Tour to Prague and Budapest 3
Bei, NSW, Australia, Dec 2015
It was a nice tour and the tour guide was friendly and helpful. However, we didn't know that Cosmos wouldn't pick us up at the airport unless we pre-organised with them. We were waiting for them at the airport for more than two hours and were picked up by a wrong tour guide and then sent to a wrong hotel. By the time we couldn't find our names in that read more hotel, we couldn't find anyone to help us. We tried to call Cosmos but it was Sunday and nobody was available! We had to walk a long way to catch a bus back to airport, hoping to catch the next fixed-time pick-up. But the information desk at the airport told us the next one would be 4-5 hours later (not every 2 hours which was stated in the booklet). We had to catch a shuttle bus to our hotel. Until in the evening when we meet our tour guide, we knew that we had to organise our own way to our hotel, not waiting for cosmos coach to pick us up at the airport!. What an experience!
Great overview of Europe 2
Charlene Brindley, QLD, Australia, Dec 2015
Great Tour Guide and Coach Driver. Enjoyed the included tours. Optional excursions where excellent. My fellow travellers where a diverse group of lovely people. Although the accommodation was small in some places (and we were advised of this), overall the accommodation was good.
Very interesting part of Europe. Enjoyed Poland and Hungary and the history of these particular areas. Xmas was a great time to do this trip as we visited Xmas markets along the way, these are not to be missed especially coming from a hot climate. The accommodation was brilliant, with the exception of the Bellevue Hotel in Vienna. However this is due read more to close in the near future. People from the trip got bedbugs and the rooms (including our own) were not cleaned from the previous guests and was disgusting to say the least. Thankfully we were only here for one night. Overall a great trip and I would book Cosmos again and would definitely use Global Journeys in the future. (This was our second trip through both companies).
Memories that will stay with us for ever 3
Ultimate South America with Brazil's Amazon & Galapagos Cruise
Patrice & George Daryan, WA, Australia, Nov 2015
We had a wonderful time. The tour was excellent, we met some lovely people and saw everything that we wanted to see. My tour favourites were Iguassu Falls, ( better than Niagara more impressive and with a beautiful natural setting). Macchu Picchu in Peru was magical, everything that we had heard it would be, we were so lucky as the weather was perfect, read more (it rains much of the time there apparently!) The tour guide was great gave us lots of detailed information about the Incas, and the building and setting of Macchu Picchu. We also loved the Galapagos Islands, it was great to see the marine and land iguanas, swim with the sea lions and see the sea lion pups who were so cute!!! The blue footed and red footed boobies were so unusual, completely different from any other bird!! The wildlife was amazing!!! The giant tortoises were great, I especially liked Diego (130years old) in the Charles Darwin Centre on Santa Cruz island. The cruise ship was excellent, the food and accommodation were great and they looked after us really well. All in all an excellent tour one that will leave memories that will stay with us for ever. Not so much a holiday but a real life changing adventure.
Had a great time travelling with Cosmos on the Dixie Land Rhythm tour. Chicago was amazing and the tour guide Kristen and bus driver Rick really eager to help and really nice people. Loved the tours of RCA and Sun recording studios and anybody who lived through the music of the 60's will find the tour amazing. A great trip to see more of the USA read more other than the big cities. Highly recommended and thanks to Georgia for all her help in booking this trip. A big thanks to Global Journeys.
This is the first time that I have joined a tour group. I have preferred previously to travel independently. Our Tour Guide Kristen was very welcoming and made us all feel at ease. The ages were varied from 26 to 78 with music being our common interest. We ended up being a very cohesive group. Friendships were formed for life. The tour far exceeded read more my expectations. We went to many places that were not mentioned in the itinerary. All of these enhanced the already amazing itinerary. Our driver Rick was an excellent driver and always delivered us safely to our destinations. Kristen was extremely knowledgeable which made the tour special for me. Kristen had a really lovely manner and was able to get everyone to arrive promptly each day for our early starts. The tour took us to places that would have been other wise be unknown to the average traveller . The variety of places we went to were excellent and pleased every genre of music. Chicago, Nashville and New Orleans were an absolute surprise and I would love to travel back to these places on another tour. I am very keen now to do another tour with Cosmos in 2016 of the National Parks of USA. I highly recommend Dixieland and Rhythms to all music lovers.
This tour gave a great range of music experiences of jazz, blues, Elvis, country and western. As well it show cased the geography, history and culture of the 5 US states covered. The tour director was fabulous - organised, friendly, caring and fun. I felt safe in the hands of the competent driver as we covered 2400km (1490 miles). A fantastic holiday.
Outstanding collection of destinations, and an incredibly helpful, knowledgeable and engaged tour guide and coach driver. This was a worry free holiday.
Enjoyable tour. Tour guide Julie-Anne was fantastic. Great knowledge and went out of her way to help. Accommodation was pretty good, clean and all you could need. WiFi in all hotels a big plus. The tour itself, beautiful scenery and would have loved to stop at various places along the way. As a photographer more quick photo stops would have been nice, read more as photos from a coach don't work. Some places required more time like Bath felt rushed at 1.5 hours yet other places could have passed all together. Overall comprehensive tour that gave me a sneak peek of places I will come back to. Lovely group of people to travel with and as I was travelling by myself ended up life long friends.
Good experience & good tour guide 2
Gael & Anthony, VIC, Australia, Oct 2015
Good experience & good tour guide but due to the crowded places, was not as appealing as when less crowded. Previously been to to the area later in October, early November & found it more appealing as a lot less crowded so able to see more & spend more time at interesting places. This tour followed an exceptional tour guide so very hard to be as objective. read more Would recommend but preferably out of high tourist season.
Once again an excellent tour with great tour guide. Good excursions, hotels and coach. Exceeded expectations. Well done.
10 out of 10 for this trip! 1
Robin & Lynne, QLD, Australia, Oct 2015
Wow!!!! What another wonderful Cosmos trip. 10 out of 10 for this trip!!! Our guide Bram and bus drivers Raphael and Antonio were the best!!! They all could not do enough for us the whole trip. This trip is quite a long trip but if you want to see a lot of Europe this is the trip for you. We combined it with the 25 day UK trip which may have made it read more seem a bit long. This was our 6th Cosmos trip and as usual with all our Cosmos trips they are the best, such good value, so well planned, great hotels, excursions etc etc. Booked with Michelle from Global Journeys, they are so good to deal with!
The Greek countryside is beautiful and green. The tour director Maurio was very courteous and helpful and informative and hotels were comfortable with good buffet breakfasts included. The cruise of the Greek islands was magic - only shortcoming was not enough time in Santorini - but we had spent 4 nights staying on the island so were satisfied we had read more enjoyed Santorini. Too many optional extras to purchase building the cost up significantly. The optional extras in the trip to Olympia and Delphi should have not been paid extras but should have been included in the sightseeing of the stadium and the ruins of Delphi as they were the main reason we were touring those places. Overall a great experience and a very enjoyable trip.
Will definitely tour with cosmos again 2
Penny & Beck, NSW, Australia, Oct 2015
We really enjoyed our tour of Spain and Portugal - it was just right to get a fabulous taste of these regions. Our tour guide Estefania was amazing - really fantastic, and the local guides that managed our optional excursions were also very good. The hotels were a very good standard and mostly situated in good locations. We really liked the flexibility read more on tour, we could leave the group and explore on our own when we liked, or opt in for the group excursions- best of both worlds. We would certainly recommend Cosmos tours for great value and will definitely tour with them again.
Was an amazing experience! The icing on the cake, that made the whole tour, was our very informative, intelligent and funny tour guide, Graeme or Aziz . Without him, the tour would have been rated Good. But with him, it was excellent. Our 2 previous Cosmos tours in the USA, were quite ordinary, due to the slackness of the Tour guides. Will definitely recommend this tour!
Overall we enjoyed the trip. Must commend the driver's excellent driving. There was never a moment our safety was compromised. Smooth from start to finish. The tour guide is very well versed in the areas' history. However tends to be too detail and serious that many of of the travellers were seen dozing off including my husband! A little bit of humour read more would be great. He reminds me of my high school History teacher trying to cram all the historical dates into our heads!
Japan was more impressive than we expected 2
Brian & Joan , NSW, Australia, Oct 2015
Japan was more impressive than we expected. The tour was very good and comfortable with only 20 on the coach. Maybe the only negative was that some days were a bit full on and the tour could be a few days longer to offset this.
