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.
Good bunch of friendly people to travel with. Tour guide was very professional and friendly. Enjoyed the trip immensely. The scenery was beautiful, excursions were worthwhile.
Includes everything you would want to see in Greece 3
Grecian Fables Idyllic
Danielle, WA, Australia, Sep 2015
A wonderful tour that includes everything you would want to see in Greece, highly recommend! The tour guides and tour directors where beyond amazing and where a wealth of knowledge. They really made each day very special.
If our hotels are going to be out of town, then I would rather them be further out of town but with better amenities than just far enough to make visiting town difficult but with poor amenities. Also, every hotel should be family friendly. In some hotels they were obviously a cramped two-person room made even more cramped with an extra bed for a child. read more In Pompeii (which for me was going to be the highlight - it's the whole reason we picked that tour) the coach driver got lost and we turned up 30 minutes late. The local tour guide very clearly cut down our time in Pompeii because he had other tour groups to cater for. So we spent ages just sitting outside the ruins drinking orange juice and doing nothing. Then when I get on the coach again I found out that a few of the other tour passengers got to go back inside and look at the ruins during this time. No one told us. I was very upset as was my family. These things aside I loved the tour, but it does upset me that the key thing I wanted to see on the tour was ruined.
Everything on our bucket list was ticked off! 8
European Cavalcade
Fiona & Corey, QLD, Australia, Sep 2015
Our European Cavalcade experience really was the trip of a lifetime. Everything on our bucket list was ticked off!! We had a fantastic tour guide, Esther and very safe driver Mario. They contributed to a very memorable trip. We saw a lot more in 18 days than we would have expected. We skipped queues, and were at places early enough to see what was important read more before the huge crowds. We did nearly all the optional tours which we recommend because then you experience everything there is to do in that location. The pace was great. We went as a family with teenage children and had plenty of free time. It is surprising how much free time you have to relax or explore on your own. Esther was very knowledgeable, informative and helpful, and we learnt more on this trip than we did in all our years of school! Mario kept the bus impeccably clean and we felt safe with his driving. The accommodation ranged from average to fabulous. We always had a comfortable bed and clean room/ensuite. The included meals were good, and the optional tour meals were exceptional. The group we travelled with all got along and have each become friends and we hope to keep in touch. Overall we highly rate this tour and would do it again and again.
Tour Director and Driver were excellent and very experienced 3
Iconic Rockies and Western Canada
Peter & Rhonda, WA, Australia, Sep 2015
Tour Director and Driver were excellent and very experienced. They had a good knowledge of the area. The tour was well organised, and there were adequate comfort stops. There was a good range of optional extras, though we only chose to do two, which were both great. The included meals were all of a good standard.
Thoroughly enjoyable experience all round! 3
Best of Devon and Cornwall
Doug & Judy Corder, QLD, Australia, Sep 2015
A thoroughly enjoyable experience all round! We appreciated our agent, Yvonne Brookes' excellent service and our Trafalgar tour director Maria exceeded our expectations with her knowledge of the area and interesting commentary throughout!
I had an excellent experience. As someone with a Greek background, it was probably unusual that I would choose a Greek tour but as a solo traveller, I found it an excellent way to see more of Greece and was guided by a professional and knowledgeable tour director, driver and local guide. All accommodation and breakfasts as well as included meals were read more of an excellent standard and the pace of the tour was organised well. In particular, our director/guide, Sandra always timed our visits well so that we would be one of the first groups to arrive at popular spots and allowing us to have a more thorough and less rushed visit than if we had arrived later in the day. This also meant that we largely avoided the midday/afternoon heat in open places without much shade. I unfortunately became ill with an ear infection on one of the days but I was looked after promptly, taken to the doctor and monitored by both the guide and driver for the remainder of the days of the tour. It was an excellent tour, I met some lovely people and I came away with an enriching experience.
Didn't have to worry about anything except getting back to the coach on time. Everything went like clockwork. Saw and did a huge amount of countryside, towns, cities and sights. Didn't have as much time as I would have liked in some places , but given the amount of territory covered it was a small trade off.
Pleasantly surprised by the organisation 4
Glimpse of Europe
Sally Hoskins, VIC, Australia, Sep 2015
We knew this was a quick paced tour but still pleasantly surprised by the organisation and efficient way the tour was done. We travelled vast distances in a few days, saw so many exciting things and the coach was extremely comfortable. We were taken to interesting places and shown hidden treasures - had fun though in some places a bit rushed due to read more time constraints. The only suggestion I have is that if we could have had the list of optional trips when we booked the tour? Some of us missed out on some optional tours due to other tours that we pre booked for the free times, others had to forego pre booked tours to go on some optional tours. The tour director Ashley Burton Brown was very informative, patient but efficient and fun! Georgie Walpole at Global Journeys was a great help with our two bookings - Britain & Ireland Panorama & Glimpse of Europe. Without Georgie's help we would probably have looked elsewhere.
A great trip. Be prepared for long drives and not a lot of downtime but still enough for plenty of laughs and good times with new friends. Our tour director Pascal was eager for us to experience all that we could from our trip. We loved it. Some of the hotels were very average at best. The food was also not as good as we were expecting. You need to read more allow some downtime in Paris after the tour finishes. Overall, great value for money.
Tour director was a very knowledgeable person 2
Scenic Scandinavia and its Fjords
Joan & Greg, NSW, Australia, Sep 2015
We very much enjoyed our time away. Particularly impressive was the quality of our tour director - a very personable and knowledgeable person. We consider ourselves very fortunate to have had her.
The tour was thought out very well 4
Highlights of Spain and Portugal
Marina & Arkadi, VIC, Australia, Sep 2015
The tour was thought out very well - we visited many Spanish beautiful cities and villages. However the hotels, we stayed with, were located quite far from city centers, what significantly reduced our possibilities to explore those places. In the most important ancient cities, like Toledo and Cordoba, we stayed only for couple of hours, that definitely read more was not sufficient to get a feel of the place. At the same time significant time was allocated for launches and other breaks. Our opinion was that tour organisers should have concentrated more on sightseeing, rather than on dinners. The tour director was a great person, but not very knowledgeable, so he could not provide a real important and interesting information about the visited places. Over all the tour was good, but not as great as our previous tour with Trafalgar around Scandinavia.
Generally a well organised and enjoyable tour. Hotels were generally of good quality, however the location of some were too distant from main centres which limited touring of these areas.
We had a wonderful tour with a very knowledgeable and entertaining tour director. The coach was very roomy and comfortable. It was advertised as having WIFI, but for whatever reason it was unavailable the entire time. All locations were very beautiful and we were lucky enough to take an optional float tour down the Snake River through the Grand Tetons. read more This was a highlight for us. Hotel accommodations and meals that were offered were for the most part excellent. I think the only exception was the Old Faithful Inn. The Inn is very beautiful but is an older inn and the rooms were comfortable but with basic facilities. Each day we had many tour inclusions and the tour director added a few more in when he could. He also made sure that there were plenty of restroom stops. We were exhausted by the end of each day and slept well each night. Both my husband and I agree that if we ever had the opportunity again, we would not hesitate in joining another Insight Tour. Also Michelle at Global Journeys was excellent and very helpful with getting our tickets to us early as we were going to other places on the US before joining our tour. We highly recommend Global Journeys!
We thoroughly enjoyed our Insight tour of Ireland and would only travel with Insight for all future tours. Everything about an Insight and Global Journeys experience is professional, enjoyable, comfortable and hassle free. We had the most awesome fun with our tour companions, and the Insight Tour Director fostered a sense of camaraderie and fun within read more the group. He also shared his wide knowledge of Ireland's history and it's charms readily and interestingly. My next tour will be with Insight Tours and booked through Hannah at Global journeys. Thank you again Hannah!
A good opportunity to get to know fellow travellers 2
Northern California with Yosemite National Park
Jenny & Brian Mickleson, NZ, New Zealand, Sep 2015
Our tour highlights - Nappa Valley Wine Train Excellent. Lake Tahoe, Yosemite National Park, Monteray very very good. Also of course San Francisco. Old Sacramento a waste of time, too long spent there. There were too many opportunities for souvenir shopping and they were pushed so much. We really enjoyed the very good quality accommodation and appreciated read more arriving at an early time so we could relax and enjoy our surroundings. The happy hours provided at some of the hotels were appreciated especially by the New Zealanders and Australians because of the currency difference. A good opportunity to get to know fellow travellers.
After the grandeur of Russia, the Moroccan sights seemed more ordinary. We did enjoy the easier pace and the chance to travel in the Sahara. We also enjoyed shopping in the souks. We enjoyed the dinners and the belly dancers and the buggy ride. Our Tour Director, Najib, was very helpful, when needed, and even helped to get us things at better prices. read more One small criticism - many of us could not understand everything he said, because of his accent.
The sights we saw were amazing 3
Country Roads of France
Paula Russell & Stephen Lamond, NSW, Australia, Sep 2015
The Tours was very good, Michael our guide was fantastic, very passionate about his job, and could answer all questions thrown at him - The sights we saw were amazing (it would have been nice to have had a bit more time in Nice to allow for some personal time, it say 2 nights but we didn't arrive until after 5Pm the first day. We were also disappointed read more we didn't visit the casino in Monte Carlo as advertised. These are small negatives but for the cost of the trip we were happy with what we experienced.
Highlights were Lake Bled and Slovenia 2
Highlights of Eastern Europe
Tony, VIC, Australia, Sep 2015
The tour mainly concentrated on the big cities and this is fair enough given the countries visited and the time available. However it confirmed my preference for the smaller places and the country. Highlights for me were Lake Bled and Slovenia generally.
Places visited were most interesting and enjoyable 2
Highlights of France and Barcelona
Frank & Virginia Knowles, NSW, Australia, Sep 2015
The tour and places visited were most interesting and enjoyable. We were sorry to miss the final night Dinner in order to board our cruise. The reason for taking the tour was to give us a leisurely trip from Paris to Barcelona - this it certainly did. We particularly enjoyed our Dinner in the french countryside at the establishment run by the 80 yr read more old lady, sorry I have forgotten her name. Our Tour Leader David Moore was friendly, sincere, knowledgeable and hard working. (We only arrived home yesterday as we had a 3 week cruise and 3 days in Barcelona. Now need another holiday.) Many thanks Yvonne.
