Explore Tour Reviews

First experience with Explore! - v impressed! Here's a good tip - the overnight bag which is mentioned in the trip notes really has to be quite small because we walk with them a fair distance and put them in lockers whilst we go out exploring. My overnight bag was too big. Eating out was much more affordable than expected and really good. Overall a ...read more fantastic trip with Explore.

I would highly recommend this trip to anyone wanting to visit a little known area of Europe.

One should do more in Moldova, possibly add another day or curtail the hours one spent on the picnic.

Great tour from start to end. Thanks. Pity some tours unavailable in teaching holiday time meaning I occasionally have to book with another company.

Great trip which more then met all of our needs and expectations. Also the tour was greatly helped by the small size of group (seven who all got on well together) and our excellent tour leader.

It a great trip that seemed much longer than the few days we were there due to a great leader, great group and packing so much in.

Here's hoping that Explore will run a Nicaragua-only trip in future, as it wasn't possible to travel there this time. There were defined 'no-go' areas, most notably in Suchitoto. It might be helpful if the specific risks were more clearly shared - it was hard to judge whether the risks were mild, moderate or severe.

The whole trip was excellent and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The only negative was the charge of ?47 for a transfer from the airport to the hotel on arrival. As this journey was less than ten minutes and provided by the hotel shuttle this charge seems excessive.

At least for us Norwegians I would say that there could have been more food on the included dinners. I hope Explore take good care of Thomas Siebert, he was, in every sence a perfect tour leader.

I hope to do another trip with Explore! It was interesting being the only American in our group, but that gave me insights into British culture since the rest of my group was form the UK. I also found the fact that all 7 of the group were single travelers a plus.

We thoroughly enjoyed this trip, even though travel stages could be rather long and tiring. The guide did his best to stop for meals and comfort breaks, often at places with points of interest

Can't fault Hadi in what he did for us. Not easy with only 4 of us. Occasionally we misunderstood his instructions. Would have benefitted by more info in trip notes. ie there are hidden taxes on tourists at hotels etc

Loved our holiday. 5 stars to all involved! On the final day in Funchal - would've liked the opportunity to do a tasting of Madeira wine (as a paid for optional add on).

We would like to thank all the staff and people we met and journied with. It was such a good introduction to Explore that we've already booked our next trip!

Underated destination. You have to visit Malta. Many thanks to our Tour Guide for making this trip so enjoyable and memorable for us.

It would be good to have a more challenging walking holiday in Madeira - longer hikes

Walk can be more "Full On" and intense. Fillipe is fantastic guide. Walks can be more full on to cover many other walks. Having a better hotel in Funchal and Porto Santo on the northern tip will really help. AT funchal having a hotel with Sauna..infact all hotels will have great advantage to recover

Really enjoyed the holiday, more walking would have been good.

Passport control at Morocco was awful, very slow and very stressful thinking you were going to miss your flight but appreciate this isn't anything to do with EXPLORE.

Overall an excellent trip. The hotel in Kiev was satisfactory, but I'd have been happy to pay more for a higher standard.