The hotel in Barcelona, Frontair Congress, was a very bad hotel. Hotel staff were rude. The room was dirty. The hotel in Lyon, Campanille, was also dirty and small. The breakfast was bad. Basic spoon, fork and plate were not available.
As for the guides, we were very happy with Abdel, Spain guide, and Diego Bueno, our Interlaken, Grindelwald and Lucerne guide. Both of them were empathetic on our needs. Their English was good. We understood them the entire time. Angeles, our guide in France, was nice but we barely understood her English.
Over-all, we were very happy with the Novotel hotels we stayed in, both in Madrid and Paris.
The Roma Hotel in Lisbon hotel staff Fernando Leite was extremely unprofessional and rude. I was the only person waiting for service on 11 Nov, and he did not serve me, and not even greeted me for about 10 min. When my wife Ann went to ask the other staff in the room, he loudly scolded my wife. Then Fernando claimed the room was not readyand later I find out that it has, and eventually the other staff in the room checked us in.
I liked this tour because of how indepth it was and the amount of historical sites we visited. The bus tour guides where very informatative about each place we visited and where very well organised, also i also liked the amount of local tour guides that where used.
Meeting people of other nationality with the tour group was educational and created a friendship even only for less than a week. Its a small world after all.... thank you for the experience
I don't like planning trips and couldn't find a time that worked to travel with a friend, so decided to go on a group tour, and this trip was a great choice! I was really impressed with the organization of the trip, I loved the mix of planned activities and downtime, and I'm really glad I went.
Bring long bus days and not able to use the toilets on the buses whilst travelling with children was very inconvenient. Having stops of only 20 mins at the Berlin Wall then going on to have hours in places of nil importance was disappointing. Overall it was s good trip.
The tour was very fast paced. However, it included walking tours, boat tours and panoramic bus tours so there was plenty of time to relax while listening to the commentary about what we were visiting. Maria was our tour guide from Prague to Berlin. She was amazing. She was very knowledgeable, polite, and patient. I have been on many tours and Maria is one of the best tour guides that I have encounter. Most tour guides tell you were are traveling to a city and then tell you when we get there. Maria told us so much information about the places we were visiting. For a guide as young as she is, she is very exceptional at what she does.
Europamundo has a very unique way of conducting tours. Its amazing how they have travelers joining the tour or leaving a tour to join another group that is going to a different place. I have never experienced that type of tour.