Budget Trips to Sweden

The tour was not expensive compared to other tour agencies. In short it was affordable. It encompassed a lot of cities and places. It got a lot of free time for the tourist or guest like me after the guided city tours.

It was partly guided and partly non-guided. The trip was okay. Only that, we were given short time to do the side trips and the visits to some places like the Stockholm Town Hall, Royal Ship Vasa, Soumenlina Island, Turaida Castle, Trakai Castle, Hill of Crosses, Rundale Palace and others. At least, additional 30 minutes should be given more to the alloted time. Just walking to some of these places takes time already. There are more free time after the city tour, so the tour guide or the one responsible for scheduling such trips should adjust the time so that there would be enough time to finish these places and take good and thorough pictures.

A great bang for the buck.The hotels were excellent as were the morning breakfasts. The tour guide was the best as were the local guides. The bus driver did a great job of getting us from place to place.

We covered many countries and saw a lot of neat palaces, churches, castles, buildings, and towers that are steeped in history. I also liked the fact that we were given lots of free time to explore cities on our own.

I enjoyed many parts of the tour and thought Carolina was a very good guide. I would have liked to have been able to access a more detailed itinerary from the website prior to booking so that Id have known the we only had a few hours in Oslo, which I felt was far too little time. The tour guides in Oslo and Stockholm were clearly knowledgeable, but their English language skills were lacking somewhat. My largest complaint about the conduction of the tour was the final day in Stockholm in which we had a guided tour for the whole group that ended very abruptly. I had not signed on for the extra/optional second part of the tour, but Id assumed I would be dropped off at the hotel after the initial part of the tour concluded. Instead we were essentially abandoned without any notice or explanation in a part of town that was a few miles away from the hotel. I would have appreciated it if wed been told in advance that we would not be returned to the hotel so that I could have planned accordingly. The hotel selections were very good, and the breakfast included with those hotels was very delicious.

Was very surprised to find that People are able to join or leave a tour at any point. Fell this would be a great advantage when planning a further tour