Budget Trips to England

It was a trip of a lifetime. My Mom and I took this trip and it was fantastic. Our London hotel room was small but overall we made it work. There were so many amazing things we saw and toured in London. The London Eye was awesome The train ride to Paris was great. Our hotel room was much bigger than London and the breakfast was so much better. Paris was amazing. Seeing the Eiffel tower was cool especially at night. The dinner we had at the restaurant at the Eiffel tower was not that great. But cool to have dinner there maybe should provide more options besides Veal. I enjoyed our free time to explore. Paris my Mom and I took a free day to walk Paris and shop. We really enjoyed the bakery tour and the optional extra event the Cabaret show with dinner and drinks. It was an amazing show. Overall we enjoyed this trip so much. And our tour manager Urban was fantastic he was so knowledgeable. We had a group of 42 which were from all over the US and we met some great people and now friends. I highly recommend this trip.

Paris was so much fun! I loved the baroque musical performance, the Eiffel Tower, the Palace of Versailles, the small marketplaces, Urban our guide did an amazing job of immersing us in the local culture and history. The bakery experience was amazing and so much fun! England was wonderful as well but we missed the highlights that I was really looking forward to experiencing we missed both castle tours because of the protests and the president of the US being in-town. We were staying in the theater district and were able to see Back to the Future musical. (The biggest negative was the hotel wouldn’t let us into our rooms until 4 pm and we had to wait all day after traveling for 24 hours.) other than the exhausting day waiting for our room the trip was amazing!

Seeing all the sights in London, eating dinner at the Eiffel Tower was a highlight. The extension to Amsterdam could have had a few more planned activities. Luckily our tour manager from home had pre-planned activities for us so that we did not have so much free time.

The tour was well planned with a lot of free time that was a nice touch. I've been to both cities multiple times. So the most memorable experience I had were trips I took by myself. However, I should correct that to say I really enjoyed the Kensington Palace tour. I learned a lot about Queen Victoria that put her in a new light in my estimation.

This tour was wonderful! The hotels were great! The tours were amazing! Colette took care of everything! The tour guides were outstanding! I highly recommend this trip for first timers and for return visitors!

I was very satisfied with both pre-trip arrangements by Collette and especially with the tour manager, Harrison. He was very efficient and made sure everyone had a good time and saw many highlights of both cities.