Northern Spain Reviews

The tour across Northern Spain was really enjoyable and met my expectations. The hotels were of a high standard and breakfasts excellent. Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and supported me when I was unwell. Special dinners especially those where entertainment was provided by local Basque musicians, really great.

Having done the Insight Vacations Best of Spain and Portugal tour before this trip, we can't help but compare the two. This was one of the best trips we have joined for the following reasons:
1. The pace was perfect
2. A lot of included local tours
3. Distance from town to town was relatively short
4. Cheaper food and better prices than big Spanish ...read more cities like Madrid and Barcelona
If someone asked us to choose between the South and Northern Spain for a one-off Spain tour, we would recommend the latter. The good thing here is that it included the 2 major cities of Madrid and Barcelona.

We booked Northern Spain tour on Trafalgar because it fitted in with our travel plans. The tour was great, with an excellent guide, but the accommodation didn't really suit us as we personally prefer to pay a bit extra and get a better hotel in better locations. For the price though, is was good and it enabled us to see a fair bit of northern Spain, ...read more which probably would have been too much to cover on our own.

We did a lot of walking which we liked, but I think if you had mobility issues this could be a problem. Northern Spain is very different to the rest of Spain. It is very green and mountainous, has nice beaches, as well as the best food and wine in the country.

One of the optional tours was incorrectly worded. We visited the Prehistoric Altamira Caves to see the cave paintings, but this tour is actually a museum with a fabricated cave and the drawings are all reproduced. The real caves are at a different location nearby, but we, and everyone else on the tour, booked this tour thinking that we were seeing caves not a museum.