Stockholm Walking Trips

A very enjoyable trip, good mix of city and country walking. Walks were already to moderate, only 1 involved a bit of scrambling. Our guide, Toni, made the trip with his knowledge of the countries, their history and culture. Should have booked an extra day in Stockholm as so much to see. Also a bit more time in Torku would have been good. a All stops were well selected.

A wonderful holiday, and an excellent introduction to the beauty and charm of Finland and Sweden. The guide was terrific, and I enjoyed all the walks. The first one was a bit more challenging than expected, but I understand Explore has taken that on board. It is a new holiday, and there are bound to be things that are tweaked for future trips; that said before booking I would recommend checking whether the hotels in the cities are too far out of town for you. The trip notes warn that eating out will be expensive, and it was, particularly alcohol; I would recommend being prepared for this. Would definitely recommend.

This is a new trip and so wasn’t perfect, but still it was very interesting and good fun. Highlights for me were, the Vasa Museum visit and the Aland Islands. The walks were great, including the optional walk at Mariehamn, maybe that could go into the itinerary. Least favourite parts - the guided tours through various cities, especially the Helsinki tour. The visit to Raumu also felt a long way to travel (3 hours round trip) for a short walk and rushed tour of the town. In fact there were 2 guided tours on that day and we had no time to look at either place (Turku or Raumu) in more detail. I would drop Raumu, allow time for individual exploration of Turku and a longer walk in the afternoon. This tour has lots of potential and is well worth taking.

Had a great time Antia our guide was outstanding. She added info and history to make each destination more interesting. One suggestion is to either place Oslo hotel closer to downtown sigjt seeing or give a longer time to explore the next day. We got in later in the day to Oslo and trip to tiwn was long and not near transportation and then the next day we didnt have alot of time to explore the city. Felt rushed in Oslo for those reasons and the night we got in there wasnt much to do near hotel and only reataurant near closed an hour after we got to hotel.the optional tour required 12 people but tour only had 10 so we couldnt do it. The spanish speaking had 29 so they could do it. Seems like accomodations could have been made since we didnt have enough on the tour.

The trip leader Kate was an exceptional guide. She found the perfect balance of fun, professional and informative. This was my third top deck trip and have found the better the trip leader the better the experience. The locations visited were also chosen well the only improvement would be maybe more time in fjordlands.

Was very surprised to find that People are able to join or leave a tour at any point. Fell this would be a great advantage when planning a further tour