Spain Active and outdoor Trips

Our leader was Pablo Garcia. He was very knowledgeable, skilled and had lots of patience, excellent and timely information and always made sure our needs were met. Some of the accommodation was basic, but that was okay. Breakfasts were very varied and tasty with plenty of choices. We had a great group of cyclists and Pablo kept the team spirit going. The recommendations for meals were great and we had a lot of local food/ specialty options, which was great. The itinerary was good, riding through beautiful and vast landscapes with wild life such as flamingos and white horses, small medieval villages and beautiful canals, we would have expected and liked some more roads along the beautiful coast. There was a lot of riding through flat landscape with orchards and agriculture. The equipment was good, but some of the bikes had some gear and shifting issues. The support van driver Louis, made awesome picnic lunches with fresh local foods. All in all a great trip!

The Camino Frances is the latest of many walking holidays UTracks have arranged for me in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Sicily. As usual it was a trouble-free experience, and I hope to continue walking with UTracks as long as I can.

Exceptional locations and cities in both the north and the south of Spain. Wonderful local tour guides, personable and very knowledgeable on the specific location. However, the structure and switch of Tour Director during mid tour (50% completed) was inefficient and badly planned. This was in effect, two (2) tours placed together and sequential which caused inefficiency during the tour. This should have been communicated to all the Spanish Heritage tour travelers much, much more clearly. Two SEPARATE hotels during the three days in Madrid was badly planned and structured increasing the pace, stress and frustration among many of the travelers who had signed up for the Spanish Heritage Tour. Mostly good and wonderfull, but badly planned and structured by the administration of Insight Vacation. Respectfully.

If you choose to do all of the 'optionals' then you won't miss out on anything, but you will put on a lot of miles! Wear good supportive walking shoes. You are constantly 'on the go'. Be mindful, if you do not do any optionals, then you won't see anything unless you are pro-active and feel comfortable doing things on your own. Keep in mind when figuring the cost of this tour, that the optionals will cost you extra, as well as, all lunches and many of the dinners.

It was a great tour and our guide Maria Diaz was outstanding!! This tour is actually 2 separate tours which we didn’t know when we booked. This led to some duplication and too much added free time for the Heritage tour group. That is my main complaint regarding the Spanish Heritage tour (aka Highlights of Spain and Nortgern Spain)

The tour was sold as a single unit, one group of clients for the entire trip. The trip was in fact two trips with two distinct group of people of differing demographics with days lost in the middle with no mixing of the those continuing on from the fist tour and those on the second Tour until day two. The tour Director did her best at the transition, however it was extremely difficult to manage those departing, those staying and those joining at the same time. The last two days were a waste of time in Barcelona, all the sights had been covered in the first tour and the tour director was busy looking after the second tour groups activities.