Europe trip, fantastically organised & conducted

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pranabpradhan's review of Star Tours UK

“Europe trip, fantastically organised and conducted”

★★★★★

written by pranabpradhan on 09/07/2017

This is my second experience with Star Tours. And again they delivered, bang on. Extremely happy with the Historic Scotland package which I opted for in June 2015, this June 2017 I took their Best of Europe (BEST) ex-London June 06.

The trip, right from the time we boarded till the time we said our good byes, everything went off smooth as silk and hitch-free. The coach was great and comfortable, and our tour manager very friendly, polite, extremely courteous, eloquent, jovial, accommodating, loaded with information and slickly smooth in conducting the entire trip and all parts therein. He at times went out of the way to make sure all guests were looked after and attended to. His personal touch was what made this trip seem almost homely! On the very first day he made sure that everyone got acquainted with each other by conducting a 'self-introduction' 'ice-breaking' session on the coach; thumbs-up to him!!! This was a great idea of getting to know other members of the group. He gave out his instructions very clearly and all in our group (we were a great gang!) cooperated with him and the entire itinerary was smooth sailing, no hiccups or delays anywhere.

The itinerary is rather packed and at times feels a little rushed, but when you reminisce at the end of the day you feel extremely satisfied having been to and experienced so many places and things which one would never have been able to do on one's own. All headache is taken away and all parts of the itinerary are covered as detailed in the brochure, no 'hidden terms and conditions'. A few parts did appear a little frivolous (like the visit to the perfumery in Paris) and that time could have been utilized for visit to other sites. Maybe inclusion of a city tour in Germany would then call it as an 'authentic' visit to Germany than just a drive-through through the Black Forest.

Food was good; could have been a shade better though, this I say so because of my previous experience on the Scotland trip, even then I have no complaints. The choice of restaurants and some hotels could be improved though again I base it on my Scotland experience. But again there was nothing really to crib about.

Overall - a fantastically laid out, organised and conducted tour, with warm personal touches by a fab tour manager. Brought home tonnes of lovely memories.

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