Trafalgar Reviews
The 1,795 Trafalgar reviews listed below are from past clients of Global Journeys that have travelled with Trafalgar. Each review has been individually verified by our team.
The 1,795 Trafalgar reviews listed below are from past clients of Global Journeys that have travelled with Trafalgar. Each review has been individually verified by our team.
Lightning Fast Trip of Britain & Ireland! 7
Britain and Ireland Highlights
Vinod & Regina, NSW, Australia, Sep 2017
Good overview of both countries with excellent country side views on the way. Please be ready to be on the move from one hotel to another each day with early wake up calls, maybe be tiring for some.
The Eastern European trip was excellent. We saw so many places from the old Eastern Bloc. We were on the go for most of the time, so 14 days was sufficient as we were tiring by that time. The added excursions were mostly good, but we were getting over folk dancing in the end.
We travelled in September - quite hot and humid but we had cooling showers and breezes. It was a wonderful introduction to Japan and there is so much left to see and experience again in the changing seasons. The magnificent scenery was complimented by the kindness and respectful behaviour of the Japanese people, the provision of thoughtful conveniences read more and the beautiful presentation of accommodation and food. We found the tour to have a mostly balanced itinerary with a few later starts in the morning and free time in the afternoons. There were some days that seemed busier than others and at times we suffered from 'temple fatigue', mainly due to the heat and crowds. The temples were always different however, with unique facets.
We had to change coaches and drivers a couple of times due to the train journeys and a requirement to use local drivers. The standard of drivers was excellent but we missed the attention that familiarity brings eg. a supportive arm or extra step to ease our descent from the bus. Our guide Masako was superb - always well prepared in history and interesting facts and delighted in providing local practical information to make our own discovery trips so enjoyable. We always had comfort stops at well provisioned roadhouses, where we could buy local snacks and sometimes fruit, which was quite expensive.
Our hotels were conveniently located to shops or a safe walking distance to other attractions. We particularly valued the traditional experiences in the Ryokans and Onsens, the journeys through the magnificent mountain areas (so many high tech tunnels, bridges and dams) and relished the Japanese breakfasts, which included local vegetables, omelettes, soup with rice or noodles and also small quantities of fruit.
Many thanks to Georgie at Global Journeys for her endless patience and prompt responses to our questions and concerns :). Using the internet at home was very convenient and thankfully proved to be secure too. A very successful and enlightening experience indeed!
We had to change coaches and drivers a couple of times due to the train journeys and a requirement to use local drivers. The standard of drivers was excellent but we missed the attention that familiarity brings eg. a supportive arm or extra step to ease our descent from the bus. Our guide Masako was superb - always well prepared in history and interesting facts and delighted in providing local practical information to make our own discovery trips so enjoyable. We always had comfort stops at well provisioned roadhouses, where we could buy local snacks and sometimes fruit, which was quite expensive.
Our hotels were conveniently located to shops or a safe walking distance to other attractions. We particularly valued the traditional experiences in the Ryokans and Onsens, the journeys through the magnificent mountain areas (so many high tech tunnels, bridges and dams) and relished the Japanese breakfasts, which included local vegetables, omelettes, soup with rice or noodles and also small quantities of fruit.
Many thanks to Georgie at Global Journeys for her endless patience and prompt responses to our questions and concerns :). Using the internet at home was very convenient and thankfully proved to be secure too. A very successful and enlightening experience indeed!
Great trip shame about the tour director 7
Britain and Ireland Explorer
Alian64, QLD, Australia, Sep 2017
The trip was great and we were blessed with exceptional weather. I did find some of the stops were too short and some too long e.g. St Andrews golf course. Overall however the trip was great. My biggest complaint would be the lack of information provided regarding places of interest and history and many times we passed or stopped at places of interest read more but were not provided any or very little information. The tour director lacked knowledge, professionalism and seemed very disorganised. A real shame as it would of put the icing on the cake. I have been on alternate tours (not Trafalgar) and the tour directors were excellent.
Britain and Ireland Explorer - Trafalgar Costsaver 13
Britain and Ireland Explorer
Barbara , NSW, Australia, Sep 2017
Excellent tour and good value for money. Early September meant school holidays were over so little overcrowding. Weather not terrific - drizzled most days although a few fine days towards the end. However, rain rarely affected what we were doing. Colder than I expected - range mostly 10-14 centigrade during the day (but after all it's autumn in the read more UK!). Did not wear any of the lighter clothes I had packed.
Accommodation quite satisfactory and sometimes really good - mostly outside town as one might expect for a Costsaver tour. In the Scottish Highlands we stayed in two different hotels in the same area on consecutive nights and this meant some unnecessary "doubling back". Assume this was due to a hotel booking issue. Inclusions good.
Optional Excursions OK. Did not think optional cruise on Loch Lomond had much going for it but others enjoyed it and I found cruise on Lake Windermere really worthwhile. Highlights York, Edinburgh, Lake District, Bath, Dingle Peninsula, Cliffs of Moher. Pace, as expected, lively. Mostly 7 am breakfast/bags out and on the coach at 8. Tiring at times but one or two easier paced days. Global Journeys staff very helpful and efficient - highly recommended.
Accommodation quite satisfactory and sometimes really good - mostly outside town as one might expect for a Costsaver tour. In the Scottish Highlands we stayed in two different hotels in the same area on consecutive nights and this meant some unnecessary "doubling back". Assume this was due to a hotel booking issue. Inclusions good.
Optional Excursions OK. Did not think optional cruise on Loch Lomond had much going for it but others enjoyed it and I found cruise on Lake Windermere really worthwhile. Highlights York, Edinburgh, Lake District, Bath, Dingle Peninsula, Cliffs of Moher. Pace, as expected, lively. Mostly 7 am breakfast/bags out and on the coach at 8. Tiring at times but one or two easier paced days. Global Journeys staff very helpful and efficient - highly recommended.
Well organized tour run by very experienced operator resulting in a very enjoyable holiday for our family of four. Big thank you to Yvonne of Global Journeys for managing on our behalf the booking aspect of this tour to ensure we would have a memorable trip.
Great tour director and driver and nice fellow travellers! It is how travel should be, fun and educational! 2
Northern California with Yosemite National Park
Malen, NSW, Australia, Sep 2017
The Tour director made the tour interesting and fun. For a short tour, we've seen and done a lot. The highlight for us is the Hot air balloon flight in Napa Valley which we highly recommend. We've done a lot of tours with Trafalgar before and we have been happy with them so we will definitely use them again. The same goes for Global Journeys, we read more are happy with the service we received from Madeline Lewis. Thanks.
An excellent tour, well planned as to both the tour content and timing, beautiful scenery and lots of historic content.Both the coach driver and tour guide were locals so the knowledge that they shared with us was special. We enjoyed everything about this trip.
The trip in general was very good. All accommodation with the exception of Lucerne, where we were obviously treated as second class guests, was very good. St Moritz and Zermatt very extremely accommodating. Zermatt was a lovely place with it's "no cars" and great shops and food and drink outlets. I thought 43 on the tour was too many. We had some problems read more with train bookings being spread around different carriages which caused some angst with people having to move during the trip. Most of the travel was on normal commuter trains which although the standard of trains in Switzerland in very good was a bit of a hassle at times.
Got on well with all of the fellow travellers we had a chance to get to know and will keep in touch with some. There were few inclusions on this tour. Most of the Optional Excursions were a must or the tour wouldn't fulfill it's purpose. They were mostly reasonable value with the exception of the lake cruise and dinner in Geneva which was a rip off. It was the excursion we were most looking forward to but was very disappointing primarily because it was at night but the substandard meal a service would have spoiled even a day trip. This type of trip is quite dependent on the weather. We were lucky for the most part particularly the time on the Glacier Express and in Zermatt when viewing the Matterhorn. We were not so lucky when we visited Interlaken. The Tour Director was very personable, knowledgeable and competent.
Got on well with all of the fellow travellers we had a chance to get to know and will keep in touch with some. There were few inclusions on this tour. Most of the Optional Excursions were a must or the tour wouldn't fulfill it's purpose. They were mostly reasonable value with the exception of the lake cruise and dinner in Geneva which was a rip off. It was the excursion we were most looking forward to but was very disappointing primarily because it was at night but the substandard meal a service would have spoiled even a day trip. This type of trip is quite dependent on the weather. We were lucky for the most part particularly the time on the Glacier Express and in Zermatt when viewing the Matterhorn. We were not so lucky when we visited Interlaken. The Tour Director was very personable, knowledgeable and competent.
Great trip through Switzerland 10
Country Roads of Switzerland
Chris & Douglas, NSW, Australia, Aug 2017
The scenery was amazing, just what you had seen on every postcard for Switzerland. Every where we went was splendid, green and clean and tranquil. Accommodation was excellent in quality and terrific in location.
Wonderful trip through three countries 6
Spain, Morocco and Portugal
Brian & Maureen, NSW, Australia, Aug 2017
A great trip through three countries. A little hectic due to the distance travelled in sixteen days. A well organised trip by Trafalgar, good coach, great Portugese driver who took the coach into some very narrow places and streets and a tour director Javier GalvezJ who had been doing the job for 21 years and was worth every accolade you could give read more him and more, he was the best.
Most hotels were of very high standard with only a couple were a little inferior. We had a very friendly group of 48 made up with 40% Australians. The itinerary was very full with many and varied places to see with local guides. The only negative comment I would make is that it would have been nice to have a list of the optional extras and costs much earlier than was advised. Global Journeys through our consultant Yvonne Brookes kept us well informed continually from the time we booked our tour until the time we departed. Thank you for your excellent service.
Most hotels were of very high standard with only a couple were a little inferior. We had a very friendly group of 48 made up with 40% Australians. The itinerary was very full with many and varied places to see with local guides. The only negative comment I would make is that it would have been nice to have a list of the optional extras and costs much earlier than was advised. Global Journeys through our consultant Yvonne Brookes kept us well informed continually from the time we booked our tour until the time we departed. Thank you for your excellent service.
Enjoyable and informative trip with beautiful cities visited at a good pace. 2
Imperial Europe
George & Soula, NSW, Australia, Aug 2017
Ideal length trip visiting Eastern Europe and its beautiful Imperial Cities. All hotels and sightseeing were excellent and our Tour Director, Kurt, was the best we have experienced.
We did not know what to expect in Poland but from the first day to the last we had a ball and were very impressed by what we saw. Our tour director could not have been more knowledgeable or helpful and, for the most part, the specialist guides provided interesting insights into their specialty. If anything, the tour could have taken an extra day or read more two as the schedule was fairly strenuous and we would have liked to spend more time in a few places, especially Wroclaw and Turon. Hotels were all excellent. Dinners were good rather than spectacular but that's being a bit picky. Poland was wonderful and we will return.
Country meets city the best of both worlds 10
Brandie, ACT, Australia, Aug 2017
This is a fantastic tour taking in the key sights throughout California. Highlights include the optional extra of flying over Grand Canyon, Old town San Diego, Yosemite National Park, San Francisco, and Vagas. We stayed in 4.5 star hotels and dined in some fabulous restaurants. The bus was mostly comfortable with stops every 1.5 to 2 hours in small read more city towns or rest stops. The tour guide was knowledgeable and happy to accommodate special requests where needed.
Professionally run tour. Great bunch of people. Tour leader and driver were great. I must say it was as i expected with Trafalgar.
Fabulous Holiday to Scandinavia and the Fjords of Norway 6
Spectacular Scandinavia & its Fjords
Anthony & Rhonda, VIC, Australia, Aug 2017
We have a wonderful Insight Tour Experience, travelling through Denmark, Sweden and then onto Norway and the Fjords. The tour guide and tour driver and local guides made sure we had a unique experience and learnt much about the local culture and natural aspects of the country visits. The unique experiences at the various stops and additional photo opportunities read more made the journey so enjoyable, helped by the humour of the Driver and The Tour Guide. Also, thanks to Hannah at Global Journeys for making our booking experience so delightful, her follow up was always great and timely. What a great holiday.
The weather in August was fantastic but unfortunately it was school holidays and there were a lot of tourists everywhere we went. Most of our excursions were early so as to avoid the crowds which is great if you like getting up early. This trip involved a lot of long days traveling which I know is probably unavoidable but can be quite exhausting as read more well. Tour group and director were great and we certainly did see a lot and have same great experiences. Optional excursions were excellent and worth the money.
10 Day Highlights of France & Barcelona 7
Highlights of France and Barcelona
Julie Di Cicco, WA, Australia, Aug 2017
We had excellent accommodation. Our Travel Director Giovanna was a lovely knowledgeable young lady and nothing was too much of an effort for her. Our drive Jose was amazing. He was a very competent driver and the way he handled some of those winding roads was fantastic both my husband and I felt very safe. The only thing i was disappointed with was read more the optional excursion we chose which was the Flamenco dinner & show.
I would be glad to book with Global Journeys in the future as it is hassle free and helpful. Our Insight tour was very good. The accomodation and inclusions of the tour were of a high standard.
What a fantastic trip , so well organised by Trafalgar and a big thanks to Georgie Walpole for organising it. Everything worked like clockwork with Trafalgar.
he accommodation was very good, meals were good, breakfast every morning was amazing! Wifi at every place we stayed at as well, so at the end of the day we could all stay in touch with our read more family and upload all our photos to Facebook etc
I made some fantastic friends on this trip who I hope to catch up with very soon. Our tour guide Peter Ansell was amazing and had our best interest at heart all the time, especially security and making us check every morning before we left to check our bags for wallets, cameras and most of all our passports. Our coach was beautiful, it was only 4 months old and also had Wifi. Our driver Marco, who was italian (& spoke very little English) was an amazing driver and a real gentlemen.
I personally found that this trip was long enough, as it is extremely fast paced, not for the person who wants to sleep in every morning, but rather for those who wants to lot's to see and do. I am very glad I did not choose a shorter tour though, as I would have missed so much, and I probably won't get to do it again. I added 3 days in London at the start of my trip and 2 days at the end to take in the London sights, which was all organised for me by Georgie. Some people flew in the day before and were suffering jet lag at the beginning of the trip, which was a really bad start to their holiday.
Over all this trip was amazing , and now I look back at my photos , I can almost feel myself standing up in the Eiffel Tower, or in the alps in Switzerland, or sipping champagne at Sorrento as the sun goes down. Thank you Trafalgar!
he accommodation was very good, meals were good, breakfast every morning was amazing! Wifi at every place we stayed at as well, so at the end of the day we could all stay in touch with our read more family and upload all our photos to Facebook etc
I made some fantastic friends on this trip who I hope to catch up with very soon. Our tour guide Peter Ansell was amazing and had our best interest at heart all the time, especially security and making us check every morning before we left to check our bags for wallets, cameras and most of all our passports. Our coach was beautiful, it was only 4 months old and also had Wifi. Our driver Marco, who was italian (& spoke very little English) was an amazing driver and a real gentlemen.
I personally found that this trip was long enough, as it is extremely fast paced, not for the person who wants to sleep in every morning, but rather for those who wants to lot's to see and do. I am very glad I did not choose a shorter tour though, as I would have missed so much, and I probably won't get to do it again. I added 3 days in London at the start of my trip and 2 days at the end to take in the London sights, which was all organised for me by Georgie. Some people flew in the day before and were suffering jet lag at the beginning of the trip, which was a really bad start to their holiday.
Over all this trip was amazing , and now I look back at my photos , I can almost feel myself standing up in the Eiffel Tower, or in the alps in Switzerland, or sipping champagne at Sorrento as the sun goes down. Thank you Trafalgar!
