Spanish Wonder

Yes but the travel guide and driver made this the most memorable trip

The tour director, bus driver, and the local specialists were very good and helped to maximize the Spanish experience.

good selection of places to see

There are an obscene amount of tour buses in Spain; including and especially Trafalgar. There is no way to enjoy the sites when herded like cattle in, through, and out of the stops/sites. It is impossible to appreciate Spain with too many people converging on one spot at the same time. If you take your eyes off your “herd”, you lose sight of them and find it almost impossible to see them amongst so many other people. Cannot hear through the Vox radios due to so many other tour groups converging. Cannot see out of the bus windows due to reflection 90% of the time. This is no way to travel and Trafalgar is as much to blame as the other tour bus groups. There were multiple Trafalgar buses converging on each other as well as other bus company’s. No wonder the citizens of Spain are so irritated and angry. I would be too! Tour bus companies, like Trafalgar, need to reduce the number of tour buses/groups significantly. One of the hotels we stayed at (Silken in Seville) was subpar at best. We had to haul our luggage on and off the bus and up and down to our room. The rooms were dark, dirty, depressing. We paid full price for this! Other hotels were bad as well, but Silken was the worst. We should get a refund for the two nights stay at Silken (at the very least). Prisoners have better accommodations. My husband and I just wanted to enjoy a special trip in our golden years. What a waste of our hard earned/saved money. Don’t go, don’t go, don’t go. I don’t blame our tour guide or our bus driver who did their best…..I blame Trafalgar. Shame on Trafalgar!!!

My family and I enjoyed the trip. We saw a lot for 8 days and the group were all very friendly. Our TD Guy was very helpful as well. He made the trip more fun and enjoyable.

Excellent Great Tour guide

Itinerary was fantastic with a really good travel director and driver.

Some of the trip was a bit rushed. There was no time supplied for shopping is some places that was better than where we stopped. A couple of the hotels (Barcelona) was not great. Not everyone is able to climb into a bathtub and the service was not up to scratch. You should supply showers that you can walk into as not everyone is able to pole vault into a high bathtub. The food and restaurants provided were very good. our guild was excellent! Love it.

The itinerary was busy and very informative. We visited many main cities with several stops in between. This allowed us to learn as much as possible about Spain and decide which areas to return and explore further.

It would have been nice if we had some free time to explore the surrounding area "see the area like the natives". I realized we were told we had free time when it was lunch time but then it was very limited. I'm talking about free time after lunch for the rest of the day. Also, I noticed some people physically could not walk up a steep path that was of stone and I am not sure if the description of this tour stated the physical needs of a person on the tour. We signed up for this tour base upon where we were going. In all fairness was extremely organized. I spoke to the front desk at our last hotel in Barcelona and asked if he has many Trafalgar groups at that hotel, he replied, " every weekend" but is the most organized. I have organized groups and projects for a living and there was no way of knowing everything about all of the people in his group. So, if we decide to we may go to Spain with you all again, if there is something like "come to Spain and see it like a native?" We didn't realize that Trafalgar was a British company. We made reservation 6 weeks prior to traveling, so we were surprised that everyone spoke English, we thought we could practice our Spanish, which we did. So, we made the best of it and had meals with people from other countries, which was great experience.

Sometimes we felt rushed, especially when we had an included dinner, however we did see many beautiful things. We took many of the optional trips, that was our choice. In the future we may just do the included trips so we have more free time. Our travel director was excellent, as well as our bus driver . I would recommend Spanish wonders to anyone interested in seeing a large part of Spain. It is a beautiful country full of history and wonderful people.