Barcelona 17-Day Tours and Trips

It was a great tour and our guide Maria Diaz was outstanding!! This tour is actually 2 separate tours which we didn’t know when we booked. This led to some duplication and too much added free time for the Heritage tour group. That is my main complaint regarding the Spanish Heritage tour (aka Highlights of Spain and Nortgern Spain)

This tour was amazing. It was well planned with a nicely balanced itinerary that included all the “must sees”, some hidden gems, cultural experiences, and free time to explore according to interests and energy. Our tour manager and bus driver worked as a team to make the trip stress free and safe for all the participants and infused FUN into the trip.

In general the trip itinerary was all that I wanted to do, however, there where many things that were foreseeable that where going to affect the trip and NO previous measure was taken, which eventually disappointed me of how it ended up being the trip. Things like the fact that Granada was going to be closed earlier and make us run to arrive on time but just let us be sitting in the hotel for a long time, or arriving very late to Fez and not having proper time to stay in the place could have been better handled. In particular, I want to complain about the fact that we were suppossed to go to Alicante, we voted in the bus about skipping this city and two of us said NO to not going to the place and our guided decided to do whatever he wanted thinking we were joking. Not happy about my complaint, Abdel Salam (the guide) wrote to me in my personal whatsapp about his dissapointment of me complaining which I believe is extremly unprofessional. The night of the 31st of December was also a huge dissapointment. And the lack of consistency and overall bad quality of the hotels was not in accordance to what you advertise in your brochures.

G adventures always deliver and I love each tour is so different and changes with the ceo and place you are in it is one of the reason I recommend g to friends and family because the experiences you have are out this world amazing

Our tour of the Mediterranean Coastal Journey, far exceeded our expectations. The tour manager was absolutely amazing! Having been thrown some curveballs, especially when the rain and windy weather caused Cinque Terre to be closed! Barbara pulled together a tour of the Imperiale Palace for the next day, with a demo on making Pesto sauce, then each of us made pesto as well. I was so looking forward to Cinque Terre, but in the long run we had a great experience in Genoa. Also, the hotel there was lovely being located on the marina, and all the shops and restaurants were just across the street. I was not looking forward to our stay in Genoa but came away pleasantly surprised. Our group of 22 turned out to be incredibly friendly right from the beginning. All the restaurants were very good, she even surprised us with a 1* Michelin dinner experience in substitution for that evening dining experience having been cancelled, so we got to eat at the number 1 restaurant in Marseilles! I have to say that Barbara was responsible for getting the group off to a great start being together, with her great sense of humor, friendliness, being firm about the start time to be on the bus :-) She went above and beyond making the last night of our tour so very special for my daughter, being it was her actual birthday. It was all just perfect! Thank you, Barbara, what tour will you be leading next season? I would consider going on it knowing how you can handle even those last-minute curveballs!

The tour was wonderful. Our tour manager, Javier, was funny and cheerful and extremely organized. I didn't know anything about the Duoro Valley and found it to be one of the most beautiful wine regions I've seen. The trip included many wonderful meals and my favorite was the one that took place in the home of a Portuguese family. Not only did they serve us a wonderful traditional meal but they made us feel welcome as if we were friends. The entire tour was fun and informative and definitely good value for the cost.