Globus Reviews

Accommodation in Bergen our first hotel was poor - a hot room without air conditioning, with a window high up on the wall which could not be opened making the room claustrophobic and unsuitable for habitation. This was a sour note in an otherwise excellent tour. Accommodation in the three other capital cities was very good.

It was a good tour but the tour guide was more interested in himself than his clients. At one hotel I had to sleep on a sofa bed which is very poor considering the cost of the tour. The tour includes a lot of coach travelling but the scenery makes up for the time on the coach. The tour is 100% full on from start to finish. The optional tours should ...read more be closely examined to see if the client is getting value for money.....the interaction with locals eg Sligo were great optionals but the dinner and show optionals eg Cardiff Castle were not value for money. All up it was a good tour and worth the money.

We enjoyed the tour very much and it was very well organized. The tour director and the driver did an amazing job. Some hotels were not up to standards and we thought that they were not even 3 star standards. Namely The Ambassadori in Venice was very poor and the breakfast was below average. It would have been better if we had more time to spend at ...read more Rhine Falls rather than giving 20 minutes. Georgie did an excellent job organising our tour from day one to the end of our tour. In future we will always consider Global Journeys & Globus for our tours. Thank you.

Could not speak highly enough about the tour, especially our tour director Al & our tour driver Tuti. The National Parks were fabulous, we especially liked the Bryce Canyon. Thank you all once again for your invaluable assistance & maybe we will do it again sometime.

Your consultant Georgie had her hands on the pulse all the time, letting me know if I had missed anything and helped me coordinate my holiday. I have used Global Journeys for previous travel and found your prices are very competitive with lots of discount to offer. Globus have excellent tours and their Tour Guides are very professional and helpful in ...read more anything you ask of them. The drivers are the best on the road, I wouldn't like to drive in some of the places we went... very good.

Overall found Cosmos tour very good, which was a pleasant surprise a having been on 5 Insight tours previously I thought they were miles ahead , but Cosmos were comparable.

Global Journeys were excellent to work with. This was my first overseas trip and I loved it so much that I booked a second trip while still on my first one. Globus are a fantastic company and I was told by many regular travellers that they are one of the best tour companies to travel with. I have recommended both Global Journeys and Globus to my friends ...read more and family.

Thoroughly enjoyed the entire tour. The tour guide was very informative and although the tour took in all the sights we wanted to see, there was still sufficient downtime to unwind and relax. The coach was always clean and although my husband is tall he had plenty of leg room. The hotels were of good quality but the air conditioning was not cold enough ...read more for us (a very minor critique). Our Europe trip took in several Globus tours, several transfers and extra hotel stays. We did not experience 1 problem. Well done Globus and well done Georgie at Global Journeys.

If you are energetic, you will love this tour. You are continually on the go, seeing new places and experiencing new things. The coach is excellent, with free wi-fi and very comfortable seating. The hotels we stayed at were excellent. Our tour director 'Nicholas Zenobi' was wonderful. He made our whole experience a lot more enjoyable. He was humorous, ...read more approachable, very helpful (we missed our first day of the tour due to a late arrival and lost luggage), had great knowledge of the areas we were visiting and just a joy to tour. Definitely recommend Nicholas as a preferred tour director.

We are very satisfied with the tour. The standard of accommodation was very good and the meals were fine. I'm diabetic so the buffet meals suited me as there was a lot of choice. Norway is beautiful and sells itself. We had great warm weather also which made everything sparkle. Coach was very comfortable even though it was full. The driver was in a ...read more class of his own taking us up hill and down fjiord with ease. Our tour guide Finn-Pieter was exceptional. very calm, experienced and kept everyone on tack without seeming to. The extra excursions were worth the price, however we missed going to Greig's house which disappointed a few. Overall a well thought out tour run be very capable people. Good value for money I think.

Repacking and moving on can be a bit demanding with a coach tour like this, but Portugal has the advantage of short coach times between stopovers. It proved to be a surprising and rewarding tour in many ways: educative and interesting, as well as enjoyable. Portugal is a small country packed with cultural and historical attractions. It was an eye-opener ...read more to discover that this small country pioneered colonisation of the known world (and probably discovered and dismissed Australia as a worthwhile acquisition before any other Western navigators). Henry the Navigator was the first of a series of intrepid sailors and discoverers (or, from the opposite perspective, colonising conquistadors and exploiters). They ventured as far as India and Japan before Spain and other European countries. We did all of the optional tours and thoroughly enjoyed them.

We thoroughly enjoyed our coach trip. Our tour director Helena was extremely efficient and a lovely person. She had everything running very smoothly. We were hesitant about booking a bus tour but after this one being so enjoyable we would consider doing another one. There was a good blend of places to see. If I was to criticize anything it would be ...read more the dinner on the final night in Austria - the venue was extremely crowded with lots of tour groups and the meal and service very average. Besides that we had a wonderful holiday.

Low point re food: lunch at Montenegro. Tour guide friendly, experienced and helpful. Coach driver did not make much effort to be friendly so was largely ignored by everyone. Accommodation better than I expected it to be. Overall trip was also more interesting than I was expecting.

The coach was very comfortable, with less passengers and more leg room. A mix of people and a fun group of Aussies. Hotels were good and the itinerary also, however several things that were worth doing ( like visiting Gibraltar) were optional tours and a bit pricey. The guide was a bit pushy about promoting these and I'd say he received a commission ...read more on how many he sold. One day in Madrid he said that because it was Sunday everything would be closed so we should do the tour he was promoting, but I knew from my research that this was not the case, and we had a fun afternoon in town. I loved all the places visited and enjoyed the trip. Weather was warm but comfortable.

We had a great time, saw lots. Globus experience excellent as was Georgie at Global Journeys for booking our extra nights' accommodation and the whole tour. Would recommend Globus to anyone interested in doing a British Isles tour.

Thoroughly enjoyed the cruise down the Inside Passage, however there was a lot of time spent travelling on the coach during the tour. Valdez was the highlight of the trip, very beautiful as was the cruise of Prince William Sound.

Art was a great guide. We were lucky to have someone with such great local knowledge. After extensive travel we regard this trip as one of our best ever. Although Alaska was great the ship was a bit tired, but could not fault the staff and the service which were second to none. All in all a great experience.

As much as we loved the tour, we felt it was quite rushed. As most hotels didn't allow check in until 4pm, we didn't have enough time at each destination. We would have loved to spend an extra night at Lake Louise, Jasper and Whistler. This would have made the perfect holiday.

I was absolutely delighted with the Global Journeys experience. From the time I booked the tour with Yvonne, till our Globus tour was completed in Vancouver, everything ran smoothly and efficiently. The hotel accommodation was excellent - clean, of a high standard and centrally located. There was no waiting to check in when we arrived as the room keys ...read more were handed to us as we got off the coach. I appreciated the 2 nights in most destinations as this gave us time to see the local attractions and also time to relax. The gem of the journey was Lynda Browne our Tour Director. The pride she had of her country was very obvious and she was a wealth of knowledge. Not only did she know the history and geography of the areas visited, but also the customs, foods etc. Through the tour she had local specialties to sample, recipes, quizes and film clips that made the time on the coach very interesting. And I must not forget John, our driver, who drove us safely. If all your tours are of such a high standard I look forward to doing more travelling in the future.

Great coach driver John and our tour director downtown Lynda Brown was also great. Accommodation was superb, a great tour.