Budget Trips to Ireland

The details provided by Europamundo are indeed very helpful. The itinerary was almost followed. No complaints. However, a suggestion that since people travelling are new to the places mentioned it is your responsibility to create it in such a way that they can enjoy the trip. Too many places 12 included in our 7 nights 8 days trip left little time to actually absorb the wibe of the place.

Each day was well planned out with lots to do, but also stops for bathrooms and food and breaks. The local guides were great and I really enjoyed the bus tours of each city where we covered a lot of ground in a short time.

The best part of the trip was Ireland. The trip was smooth and the place was beautiful. London Heathrow Airport was a disaster. We missed our connecting flight to Dublin. Due to the strike going on, we could not find anybody to book us on another American Flight because there was nobody at the counter. We had to pay to get a flight to take us to Dublin. Our luggage was lost as well due to this mayhem. When we got to Paris, we could not enter the Palace of Versailles or go to the Molin Rouge because there were no tickets available. We should have been advised to buy them ahead of time by the guide if she knew that this could happen.

This is not a usual tour but like a hop on hop off tour.. people joined and left our group at nearly every point along the way. We had six different tour guides not including the local tour guides. The tour was mostly Spanish speaking and the guides said everything in both English and Spanish which became annoying for both English speaking and Spanish speaking passengers.. Every optional outing was cancelled and the moulin rouge outing was booked for the 11pm show which didn’t finish til after 1am and had to be back on the bus at 7.30am.. there were children and babies on the tour which some might not like. The only time it bothered me was when the teething baby’s dirty diapers were put in the bin on the bus stinking out the back of the bus. One of the buses we were on for the uk leg of our trip was obviously designed to carry small children. The seats were tiny and the seat in front of you pushed on your knees and if the person in front reclined their seat it was only inches from your face. I couldn’t even look at my iPad as it wouldn’t fit between me and the seat in front and the air conditioner was not working on the first day.. I have never considered leaving a tour half way through before but I actually looked up renting a car to continue the tour myself.. we were taken to some places after close time like the tower of London when it would have made more sense to do the bus tour of the sites that evening and take us to the tower when it was open.. I did enjoy the tour as it was my first time in Europe and most of our guides were great but I would never book a Europamundo tour again

Overall it was a good experience with the tour however for the Edinburgh leg the bus should have dropped us to the hotel so that we could keep our luggage and explore the city without wasting time...considering everything shuts really early in these cities and we were there for just half a day having the local guide bus tour was a waste of time in my opinion...all of the information is available on Google, which is why we skipped the london and dublin city tours and explored them on our own, you guys should instead keep those optional and give us city transport vouchers maybe....Alnwick castle though optional was really good and that could be included in the tour...All the staff, both the guides Neus and Diego and the driver Lee were excellent.

The details provided by Europamundo are indeed very helpful. The itinerary was almost followed. No complaints. However, a suggestion that since people travelling are new to the places mentioned it is your responsibility to create it in such a way that they can enjoy the trip. Too many places 12 included in our 7 nights 8 days trip left little time to actually absorb the wibe of the place.