Glimpse of Europe Reviews

This tour is as described. A quick glimpse and historical account of Europe. Firstly, this is the second tour that my husband and I have taken with Trafalgar, booked through Global Journeys. If you are one who doesn't fare too well on long drives, then this tour is not for you. There are 2 days where all you do is drive through Europe in your coach. ...read more We had Bern, as our tour guide. She was fabulous. Loved to chat, but was very personable, friendly and very much approachable and knowledgeable of all areas visited.

Day to day consisted of time lines, mostly early, but this was to ensure you missed peak hour, got to spend more of your free time in locations and beat all the other tour buses to the rest stops/services. Hotels, look, going via a costsaver trip, there are costs saved to ensure the tour is within the budget you set. All places were clean and for my husband and I, were very spacious. However, European rooms are generally smaller. Most complaints come from American travellers. We were in Europe during their heatwave. Europe is not prepared for hot days. More often than not there are no air conditioning units and one of the hotels ran out of fans (literally fans were sold out in one of the areas we stayed). Most locations are safe to leave your window open when going to bed but we didn't.

We did all the optional experiences. Some couples went off and did their own thing. We knew that if we didn't join the optional experiences, we would have just stayed indoors and missed out on seeing and experiencing unique experiences for that location. Highlights was certainly the folklore evening and going up to the top of Mt Pilatus. The Arc De Triomphe and Eiffel Tower were amazing. Paris was certainly cleaner than I had been told. I didn't find it dirty at all.

Food. I'm lactose intolerant. Again, this is something that is very foreign in Europe. Patience and understanding is required, as they will offer alternatives which include other dairy or you will literally get three slices of orange and 2 slices of tin pineapple on your plate for dessert. If you have no limitations, you will have plenty of options.

A comprehensive journey, despite being called a 'glimpse', with a coach group of approx 45 persons. The organisational abilities of our guide, Kyle, created the framework for a smooth, trouble free journey. As we travelled through different countries, areas, provences etc, Kyle's historical knowledge completed the overall picture as he narrated in a ...read more clearly understandable manner. All rest stops and overnight stops were timed perfectly, and our driver gave precision service and the travel group contained no 'personalities' to hinder our progress.

This trip was awesome, we don't usually do tours, however after touring with Trafalgar, would highly recommend them. Our Tour Guide Roderick was brilliant.

From the time we arrived at London Reception Centre and until we were dropped off at the end of our amazing journey we were extremely impressed with the friendly, efficient and professional staff. Our tour guide Roderick De Groot was fantastic and ensured the entire group on our tour were included and cared for. Our coach driver Christian was exceptional ...read more with his relaxed, confident and precision driving which delivered us safely to the many places we travelled to during the entire trip. I would highly recommend this trip to anyone keen to see lots of things in a short timeframe. Thank you to Global Journeys for promoting this tour. Also special thank you to Yvonne Brooks for providing professional, efficient and caring service and support. All the best to the entire crew and organisers that have contributed to providing us with the "journey filled with a lifetime of wonderful memories". I will certainly look forward to seeing your tours on offer and travelling with you again someday soon.

We knew this was a quick paced tour but still pleasantly surprised by the organisation and efficient way the tour was done. We travelled vast distances in a few days, saw so many exciting things and the coach was extremely comfortable. We were taken to interesting places and shown hidden treasures - had fun though in some places a bit rushed due to ...read more time constraints. The only suggestion I have is that if we could have had the list of optional trips when we booked the tour? Some of us missed out on some optional tours due to other tours that we pre booked for the free times, others had to forego pre booked tours to go on some optional tours. The tour director Ashley Burton Brown was very informative, patient but efficient and fun! Georgie Walpole at Global Journeys was a great help with our two bookings - Britain & Ireland Panorama & Glimpse of Europe. Without Georgie's help we would probably have looked elsewhere.

Everything was catered for and our Tour Director was brilliant. The accommodation was better than I expected for the cost.