Country Roads of Belgium, Luxembourg & the Netherlands

It was a great experience, first time for me to take a tour. our guide and the driver were both exceptional. For me personally I would have preferred the guides on the Optional excursions instead of pointing out places of interest and then leaving it up to oneself to actually find them again, was frustrating as I wasn’t brave enough to go on my own to seek them out. As we were staying in the beautiful Chateau it would have been preferable to have our free time back at the Chateau to enjoy their facilities or even go for a walk in the countryside, instead of in town with not much to see or do.

Brugges hotel Radisson Blu is too far from the city centre, 45 minutes to walk through not very nice area. If hotel could not change maybe a shuttle run twice a day.

I enjoyed the trip but the one thing I didn’t like was you had one excursion and the rest of the afternoon was free time which meant if you wanted to do something you had to pay for an optional excursion. The bus, driver and tour director was great. Just plan on spending a lot more money than you thought.

I enjoyed the history of the wars.

We loved the drives through country roads and the beautiful scenery. The variety of optional excursions was well-planned and appealed to nearly everyone on the tour. We felt it was a well-balanced itinerary with plenty of time on our own for shopping and dining and exploring. We never felt rushed and departure times were not too early and evening activity arrival times were not too late. Having 2 or more nights at each hotel made it a more relaxed trip.

Very relaxed pace and lots of extra activities that were all very good. Short drive times and spectacular hotel selections as well.

Good pace. Nice accomadations.

Very educational for covering historical wars and medieval cities. Food was great and so were the guides. Accomodations were great as well. Would have appreciated visiting one or two Jewish synagogues as part of the itinerary rather than as optional. The optional German city of Trier was the only part of the itinerary that I found to be uninteresting. Would recommend the trip overall.

the tour was well organized and we were well attended to by our tour director.

More choices should be included. I felt cheated on the amount of money spent on optional excursions.

There are many extra excursions that you have to pay for and you don't find out about them until a few weeks before your trip. There is a lot of walking. Some of the visits feel like tourist traps - Chocolate truffle making lesson at chocolate museum in Brussels was not a chocolate making class; cheese and clog store - owners were crude - like a tourist trap. Pay attention to the hotels, because some of them are not nice and are outside of the city vs. other tours with the same company, stay at the nicer hotels in the nice city. Tour guide was not always helpful in knowing where nice local shopping (not high end name brand stores) was and we wandered aimlessly - estra walking that could have been avoided. Need to watch tour dates because if you are visiting a city during one of their holidays or on Sunday, the stores will be closed. Ypres visit is late in the day and nothing is open - just have to wait for the Last Ceremony. Tour guide rambled a lot and was not always helpful. Chocolate museum in Brussels was busy and hard to go through with the device that you have to put on the wall in order for it to tell you stories about chocolate. Was not convenient or fun. The bus was restricted sometimes, but other times did not drop us off close to where we needed to go. We had to find our way back to the hotel - walk a long ways, taxi, or other public transportation, on at least 3 occasions. Bulk drop off at Amsterdam airport was very far away, when other tour buses were much closer. Dinner in Luxembourg at old stable and dinner in Monnikendam and dinner in Amsterdam restaurant was very good.

well planned and covered many key areas of the Cities we visited. There was sufficient personal time as well. Did not feel rushed.

Flexibility with the program adjusting to the group needs