Splendours of Italy Reviews

We had not realised the tour started right on Easter when we booked it - lesson learned, it was busier than normal and itineraries were changed. Despite this, the 12 days were fantastic, great group of people aged between 20 - late 70's, everyone got on so well.

Mainly I would say thanks to our wonderful Tour Director Giacomo who was just so accommodating, ...read more patient, passionate about his country, empathetic to our needs, he really brought us all together as one big family. As with Costsaver tours you end up paying more because of the Optionals, however, at least you can decide if you want to do them or not. This was our third Costsaver tour and we highly recommend this company.

Our Tour was well planned and we saw many wonderful sites and learnt about the history of the beautiful country we visited. Our holiday was enjoyable mainly through our Tour Leader Franco and our wonderful driver Vito. The hotel accommodation was good and the food excellent, especially the breakfasts. I would certainly recommend a Trafalgar tour in ...read more the future.

We were both very pleased with the way in which the tour was conducted and the places that we saw. We thought that we would be 'in' some of the places. ie in Rome city however it was possibly best that we were located outside of the cities. I just think that needs to be better understood prior to the tour and obviously the reasons why you would not ...read more want to stay in the heart of some of the bigger cities (apart from the additional costs). The tour guide and the bus driver were both very good. The tour guide obviously has to handle a lot of different personalities including ours, and she handled this really well. We felt that there were some people within the group that should not have been on this type of tour as they had real difficulty with walking. Once again the tour guide assisted them quite well but it did annoy ourselves as well as other members of the group as it was very well spelt out that walking would be required with the tour. The tour guides knowledge was exceptional, she provided us with a lot of info not only on the guided tours but as the bus was driving. Some of the meals at some of the hotels were very basic, the best meals were where we paid extra and they ended up being great nights. Personally we would pay a little more to get a better evening meal. A couple of the hotels were located in areas where you could not go out and shop or buy anything, nothing wrong with the hotels but you could not do much else in these locations. Might sound as though we are complaining a lot but this is not intended, as stated we really enjoyed the overall tour and the people that we met. It was a very good group. I found Yvonne to be extremely helpful with providing all details re the tour and also with a number of questions that I had. We got a response very quicky and it made the tour hassle free, thank you. We would definitely recommend using Global Journeys for anyone going on a tour, very professional.