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“Appalling VIP pickup service and tour manager”

★☆☆☆☆

written by Virginia128 on 26/02/2024

We went on "Jewels of the Aegean"/"Greek Island Medley" in October 2023. We were a big crowed of 44 people.. mostly in our late 70's, 80's and even over 90years, which was way too big. Our VIP pickup time was 7.30 am in the morning, for an early flight the following day, necessitating an overnight hotel stay and awful food, despite other guests being picked up in the evening and only two hours further south on the same route to Heathrow. The only option we were given was to pay £500 for a Private transfer, which we refused ! The Saga driver, I have to say, was excellent, and the transport was comfortable in a saloon car. The return journey was not ! We were in a transit van with rear facing and forward facing seats, which was not conducive for a long journey. Our tour manager left a lot to be desired. He was loud,(you could hear him shouting across the hotel foyer "Team Titan") which is not what you or other guests in the hotel want to hear. He was very vocal and rude, and at the time, refused to refund our euros 120, for a tour he cancelled. This has partially been repaid by Titan, as he had refused to reimburse us, and only after many letters and phone calls by our travel agent. However, his attitude to my wife was intolerable, in her face, to an extent that even other guests were concerned about her. The effect of this marred our holiday. To date, we are still looking for compensation, but Titan continue to not answer phones, every letter says 28 days, and even that date they do not adhere to. It seems that the amalgamation of Titan and Saga is only going to get worse. In the past we have travelled with both companies, since 2009, as individual companies, but now since amalgamation, they are both lowering standards, and customer care has deteriorated beyond belief, with ridiculous response times. We await a satisfactory resolution to our complaint, but sadly we will probably not book another holiday, unless there is a remarkable upturn in your customer relations. After all it is us, the public who pay to keep you in employment.

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“Lovely tour, needs better hotels (location and standard)”

★★★☆☆

written by Marylene on 16/09/2023

Taste of The Douro valley tour review , September 2023 We have just come back from a tour through the Douro valley with Titan. We were quite surprised at the size of the group (46) as when we have traveled before with them, the groups were around 20. A lot of people were quite elderly, one gentleman being 92 and we lost him quite a few times. We stayed in 3 different hotels from the same range. The first one Termas De São Vicente in Pinafiel should be dropped from their list. It was very outdated with dodgy air conditioning and intermittent wifi in the bedroom. The other hotels were more modern. The food was average for a 3* let alone a 4*. The staff were always helpful but there was a shortage of staff. The few people in our group needing special dietary treatment (vegan, vegetarians) seemed to take most of the ressources. They expected something special cooked for them every morning and evening meal! We feel that the quality was variable and the location was far from ideal. They were remote from the areas we were visiting. All in all, it was a pleasant holiday. It was well paced and our tour leader was very competent and helpful. She had a few challenges for sure!

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“Vietnam and Cambodia Tour”

★★★★★

written by Berushka on 26/04/2023

I loved this tour. I found our drivers for the transfer from home to hotel excellent and very entertaining. Our rep who accompanied for the whole tour was extremely efficient and all the guides were very knowledgeable. The hotels were all superb and of an excellent quality especially The Mai Hotel in Saigon where the food was of cordon bleu quality. Titan took us to all the key places and I cannot fault their organisation.

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“The Shouting Lady.”

★★★☆☆

written by ABKeaveny on 08/09/2022

I have stopped using Titan . On my last two (Mexico and California and the Golden West), I was driven to distraction by "The Shouting Lady". This is a woman, sometimes the guide, sometimes a local , who starts shouting at ear-splitting volume as soon as the bus starts. Even though I wear industrial ear protectors my ears hurt. Don't Go !

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“Cotswold tour”

★★★☆☆

written by Carlpatricia on 19/06/2022

Last year we did the Isle of Wight tour not perfect but the Royal Hotel was superb. This year we did the Cotswolds tour. Our transfers were excellent. Our tour guide was also excellent. We enjoyed the itinerary very much especially Suddley castle. Our hotel very sadly has some serious issues. Rooms only cleaned and made up if requested. The food was extremely disappointing given what we had paid. One guest in particular was very upset because she had booked this for her husband's 80th birthday. The staffing levels were dire and my husband waited in a queue, for 30 minutes to get a drink at the bar. The staff did their utmost best but I found myself clearing off a table in order to sit down with our drinks. The scant staff really worked very hard. She had been there all day doing reception, domestic duties and worked in the dining room. It was not possible to order a bottle of wine at the table. It was do it yourself at the bar. So we are unsure whether to book with Titan again.

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“The Demise of Titan..”

★☆☆☆☆

written by Poole169 on 10/06/2022

Sinking rapidly thanks to the general incompetence and ineptitude of middle and senior management. I spent over 10 years working as a Tour Manager and have seen this company since it was taken over by the ACROMAS group ( holding group of Saga) and have seen its gradual destruction and deterioration especially following it's amalgamation and closer integration with Saga. Everything from product design to customer service, financial control, brochure creation, marketing, brand identity or their USP VIP taxi transfer service to the quality or experience of the staff hired is poor and increasingly so. Not once did I notice any improvement, despite constant suggestions and recommendations just a general deterioration and destruction of the company and everything it used to stand for and believe in. Across the board from senior to middle management and then the lower echelons of office staff alarming examples of ineptitude, incompetence and a toxic work culture, more so with all the uncertainty with their future employment. Suggestions from Tour Managers as to how a product would work better were mostly ignored or looked upon with disdain and so mistakes repeated and the customer experience affected. In addition in the last few years Tour Managers who felt it necessary to point out these failings were often threatened by management AKA: Customer Service Director  that they keep quiet if they wanted to continue with the company. A nasty piece of work. The company recently - to desperately save costs - started making redundant most of their employees who had any decent experience or could think for themselves or wouldn't be cowed by his threats. He knew he could threaten Tour Managers in his particular way, because they weren’t actually employed by the company and so had no legal protection under ordinary employment law. As a result of poor behaviour and management and in addition to the some of the lowest Tour Manager fees in the industry (as well as poor salaries for office staff), most if not all of the quality Tour Managers decided not to work for this company again. My advice to CEO and Non-Exec Chairman, for starters get rid of Director of Titan and  Director of Customer Experiences- two of the most incompetent managers I've experienced in over 25 years working in the travel industry. Also perhaps Senior Management might like to do a little investigation on MG on exactly what he's up to at Titan and how he brings his extra-curricular activities into his management style in the work place? Oh, he's very sneaky... I have files and detailed reports, highlighting all kinds of instances of gross incompetence and general ineptitude of management covering three or four years working with this company which I would be happy to share with Senior Management.

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“eastern canada”

★★★★☆

written by DayanaWalton on 08/10/2019

had a great holiday very informative.but the vip transfers were appalling'our journey home from heathrow to blackpool via melton Mowbray was the final straw 7 hours 30 minutes.the router needs to look at a real map not google.

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“Splendours of India - an exhausting trip!”

★★★★☆

written by Welshperson on 14/03/2019

We got back last Friday - 8th March 2019. The tour DID follow the itinerary pretty much as expected, but the impression we had before doing the trip was that we would have a fair bit of downtime to relax as there are a number of references to afternoons at leisure and free time in the bumph. That didn't happen very often. We were either travelling - a lot - sightseeing late, or eating and sleeping, with what seemed to be an awful lot of early wake ups at the end of the trip. I think the earliest was 4:30 at Varanasi (which was OK as it was expected), but I think we had a couple of 5.30 wake-ups too which were hard work. We weren't helped by the fact that Jet Airlines - Titan's main choice of flight - are pretty much on the way out, so one of our internal flights was canclled which left us with a 12 hour drive one day...Jet were frankly bad in my opinion. If we ever do a Titan Trip again and Jet are still functioning, we will ensure that we use someone else. They are a poor budget choice which Titan obviously use because they are cheap... The hotels that we used were extremely good, but if you like beer - which we do - it was incredibly expensive in the hotels. I think the most expensive worked out at about £15 a pint... A 330ml bottle was about 500 Rupees. On top of that we got hit by local taxes, service charge, a contribution to uncle Tom Cobley and something else I think. So we paid about 700 Rupees for that. Double that up and you are up to the 15 quid for a pint! But there you go. They WERE all nice hotels. Food in the hotels was extremely good and I don't think any of our trip had serious tummy problems. So well done there. Both our British guide and local guide were absolutely spot on. 10 out of 10 for them both. When we weren't eating as part of the inclusive bits, our guide took us to local places which were uniformly very good - and the beer was a lot cheaper at these too! The itinerary itself was very varied - temples, tigers ( bumpy, bruising, uncomfortable trips but we saw them every time we went out), Taj Mahal, the Ganges and a lot more besides. It was a good, well organised trip which worked because of the guides and the fact that the 25 people on the trip - average age about 60 probably - all got on very well. Over that number is pushing it a bit in my opinion as you all have to get on and off the bus for the loo, visiting sites, or to eat and that obviously takes time which eat into any spare time we could have had. Last thing is the VIP door-to-door service. VIP means Very Important Person. It doesn't mean a taxi jammed with 6 people + the driver, some of whom had to come from Shepton Mallet, via Ringwood and Fleet to get to Heathrow! So Titan should call a spade a spade and say a taxi will be provided which may make significant detours too and from the airport! But still 4 out of 5 as it was a good trip overall!

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“Never again Titan”

★★☆☆☆

written by scfpmf on 10/03/2019

We wouldn't do this tour again if it was free. We booked for a special birthday but it was such a let down. Late starts, arrivals at hotels mid afternoon, middle of nowhere with nothing to do. Stayed in LA but saw nothing, stayed in the worst hotel in Vegas, tour guide was just patronising and kept reminding us about this tip! Too much driving, not enough time at many of the stops, poor hotels (except for one), we couldn't wait to fly home and will never use Titan again. We did manage to get a small refund after complaining to Abta

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“Holiday of a lifetime”

★★★★★

written by on 26/11/2018

Just back from the Southern sights and sound tour, wow, loved it, door to door travel, so convenient, great hotels, coach driver and tour guide were amazing, huge knowledge of the places we visited, my highlight had to be Graceland and Tupelo, as I love Elvis. Only thing we were not keen on was the plantation tour, although very informative, was not really of interest to us, but everything else was awesome. All in all it was a wonderful holiday, thank you Titan.

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“One of our best holidays EVER”

★★★★★

written by Rosemary60 on 15/04/2018

We have just returned from India, doing the golden triangle tour and we had the most wonderful time. Our tour manager and local tour guide were excellent. They were friendly, very professional and so helpful with nothing being too much trouble. We were a small group, twenty plus and as this was our first tour with Titan, didn't know what to expect. We need not have worried, everything went so well, from the booking of the holiday to our return home. The hotels were of a very high standard and the range and quality of food was exceptional. The sights were amazing and our lovely guides arranged special extras like a lunch in a palace in Jaipur and a rickshaw ride in the evening ( an experience not to be missed !). Thank you all so much. We are now looking to rebook for next February.

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“cruise-lack of information”

★★★☆☆

written by 51Hutchinson on 29/01/2018

Just looking through our recently received TITAN RIVER CRUISE Brochure,THE Front pages explain all about the Cruise Lines featured in the brochure.There are several cruises in the brochure that caught our attention,but we could not find anywhere in the brochure that mentioned the dress code of the included Cruise Lines. Think this is a very silly ommision by Titan,as not everyone wants to wear black tie on holiday ,so it would be very useful to know what each cruise lines dress code is.

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“Definitely not for us ...”

★★☆☆☆

written by kookaburra717 on 03/12/2017

Recently we travelled on our first Titan holiday to Jordan. It was a special holiday and we booked business class on Royal Jordanian (which was lovely). We thought the whole experience of travelling with Titan would be 'special' and had even booked another holiday with them for next March. What a total let-down - I say 'total' because the Tour Manager (who after all is the 'face' of the company) was the worst we have had in the last 11 years of retirement travelling with companies from the UK. Perhaps we don't understand the Titan brand. We are Australians who retired to UK to enjoy all that is in travel both in the UK and further afield and have explored different types of travel, including going to remote regions, volunteering in India and Nepal, climbing in the Caucasus and Russia and beyond. We didn't understand the need for the Tour Manager to announce over the microphone on Day 1 that she had been a lecturer at a College and that her son was a doctor. This seemed to us an attempt to assure us of her status. I mean, is it really necessary to state that publicly that your son is a doctor !! (PS Mine is a QC, but I never felt the need to tell her) In a face-to-face when she stood to close too me and spoke too loudly in my face and I asked her to step away, she said loudly 'I am a professional'. Well ... I could say lots but I won't. I just said that we did not wish to interact with her for the rest of the holiday. It worked well. It might (or might not more likely!) interest the Tour Manager that we are also professionals but I do not intend to list our postgraduate qualifications here. There was an issue of a security matter which we raised with her and she chose to ignore and, in fact told me she was surprised at my concern, specially as I had travelled extensively in the Middle East (which I have). Titan Customer Service have said it was not the intention of the Tour Manager to treat us this way. I accept that completely. We cancelled our next trip booked with Titan next March and were willing to forfeit our deposit of £290. It was worth it to us to not risk meeting the same Tour Manager again (we know it is a region she goes to). Choose whether or not to travel with Titan. It didn't suit us. We are leaving tomorrow for Slovenia with another company we have travelled with before and will never travel with Titian again. Your choice of course.

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“Trans Canadian Rail Odyssey”

★★★★★

written by on 09/11/2017

I completed this Trans Canadian Rail Odyssey trip in September of this year and am really glad I decided to do it. Because I am just on my own and it was a once only I decided to upgrade everything, business class flights, gold leaf on the rocky mountaineer and prestige on the canadian via rail and it was wonderful. The only blip was the canadian train was 12 hours late which meant we spent an extra night in Toronto but this didnt affect the rest of our itinery. I thought that the trip was extremely well organised and we had an excellent tour guide, very efficient and helpful at all times. All the hotels that we stayed in were very good especially the one in Vancouver. There was a heatwave at the time we were there so we were fortunate to have the added bonus of such beautiful weather. I particularly enjoyed travelling on the two trains. It was a long journey on the Canadian but I had a lovely cabin and really enjoyed the food. The Rocky mountaineer was spectacular, very comfortable and superb food which we had in the dining room downstairs. Another thing which I really enjoyed but which was an extra was an extended seaplane tour over Vancouver and the mountains. It looked absolutely stunning when the plane flew over the lakes on the tops of the mountains. Overall I am really glad I did this tour because I have brought back with me some lovely memories and met and made friends with some really nice people

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“Tracks of South Africa”

★★★☆☆

written by Tetley12 on 07/11/2017

Thie holiday started on a real high, with a 2night stay at the Mala Mala Game reserve where we had fantastic guides and were yards away from elephants, lions, rhino and leopards. The location was superb and the huts luxurious. The itinerary which followed took us along the East side of Africa and to the garden route and Cape Town, Unfortunately Titan failed to build on their tour itinerary because the information that they supplied us pre tour was inaccurate. We were given a list of additional excursions which we could book locally when we were with our tour guide. The top tour was Robben Island and is on many peoples list of places that they want to visit. I contacted Titan months before we were due to leave to make sure we would be able to access tickets and was told there would be no problem. When we arrived in The Cape all tickets to Robben Island were completely sold out for the entire week. The Featherbed Nature Reserve in Knysna was also an excursion which was never going to take place as it had been burnt out earlier that year. We were never told and Titan nor the guide made any attempt to replace it. We, as a group actually organised our own tour, all 26 of us!? Other additional tours also never took place or were only open to a few selected people. Table Mountain was another highlight which never happened. The weather in Cape Town can be very turbulent but there were opportunities when we could have accessed the mountain but the guide was not really prepared to be that flexible in his times and was not concerned about the disappointment of many people on the tour. This was supposed to be for us a holiday of a lifetime and it was disappointing that Titan didn't make any effort to ensure that their customers were fully informed of all the relevant facts and to trouble shoot the aspects of the holiday which were not working. Lastly the journey home from the airport took us on a 3hour hair raising journey to drop a fellow passenger 60miles away from where we lived with a driver whose concentration had gone completely and who drove in a fast, reckless manner. I am fortunate that I am still around to write this report. Tracks of South Africa is a lovely tour but Titan were a disappointment.

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“Montenegro - Titan Tours Perfect Destination. ”

★★★★☆

written by Tristianx462 on 10/10/2017

We chose Montenegro because it would be entirely new to us and it was described as being Breathtakingly Beautiful. Perfect description! We loved the diversity of the regions visited. Budva was the ideal starting point and the Hotel was only a couple of minutes walk away from the charm of the Old Town. The Avala Resort Hotel was quite modern, and did not match the ambience of the Old Town. The main restaurant lacked style, however the food was good and the staff were helpful. Wine was ridiculously expensive. Basic wine cost 4euro in Budva shop and same wine 24 euro in the Avala. Fabulous guided Tours raised the Holiday to a definite 5 star visit. The Guide was First Class, perhaps the best we have ever known. The Mountain resort, Hotel Bianca, suited the area and the surrounds and it had a really good indoor pool. Fabulous Tours and walks and a Zip Wire flight all added up to an incredibly good holiday. The care taken of the Titan Group by the Montenegran Guide and the coach driver was second to none.

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“California and the Golden West tour September 2017”

★★★★☆

written by Bristolcelt on 27/09/2017

We trawled many review sites to try to find some helpful research and prepare before we went on this escorted Titan Travel coach tour in September 2017, but really struggled to find anything giving useful information. I hope this review will do that for anyone who is going on this excellent tour. We went in early September and enjoyed good weather throughout, so the jumpers, hoodie and rain jackets we took weren't needed. Some might find a jumper useful for the air conditioned coach. We survived every day with summer clothes, tshirts, shorts and trainers and could easily have worn these in the evening as well as during the day. We took "best" clothes for any planned nights out which included dinner, but didn't use them. All hotels had an iron and ironing board, but it's quite acceptable to go out with creases on your clothes. You do need to get into a routine over how you arrange your clothes in your case, or you get into a muddle, especially at the one night stay hotels. You are allowed 23kg of hold luggage and that should be more than enough. Don't skimp by taking less than 15 days of socks and boxers/knickers. Some on the tour did and regretted it. It became a topic of conversation. Some hotels had self serve laundries, but the last thing you want to be doing is wasting good holiday time by washing your smalls. Some resorted to buying more at the one very useful stop we made at a Walmart. The group had mixed ages, but most were in there early 60's. Some older, but some younger too. Youngest couple in their 40's. 3 ladies on their own. Most of the group mixed very well and we hope we have made some friends for life. But if you want to do your own thing, you can. The hotels were very good quality, but that meant that, in a few, you were paying what I consider to be over the odds for food in the hotel restaurants. In a few, the hotel has a captive audience as most are out of town, and prices reflect that. You can easily pay well over £100 for a very ordinary dinner by the time sales tax and tips are added. Do some investigating before to see what alternatives there are near the hotel. There are some excellent options. I can recommend Ercoles bar for their burgers at Manhattan Beach, if you use your free-time and take the hop-on/off bus ($5 return, stop is right outside the hotel) to Manhattan Beach on the first day in Los Angeles, Papanani's deli in San Diego for breakfast and the Boathouse for dinner in San Diego, the nearby truck stop for breakfast and BlackBart's steakhouse for dinner in Flagstaff, The Grubstake (a converted cable car) for weekend breakfast in San Francisco, or the Starbucks inside Wells Fargo, depending on what you want and the Grant Place (or Palace) Chinese restaurant in Chinatown for dinner (set meal for 4 only $40). Make sure you visit Top of the Mark for a drink and the view whilst in San Francisco too. We discovered Panda Express for a shared Chinese lunch at a few stops, which was excellent and great value. To make the trip that little bit more comfortable and enjoyable I recommend you: -Bring a refillable water container. Most of the hotels have ice machines, so you can fill them up each morning just with ice and the coach driver sells small bottles of water for $1, which you can fill the containers with. You have nice, cool water to drink the whole day. -Bring tea bags and/or your favourite coffee if you enjoy a hot drink in the morning. Most of the hotels had coffee machines, but the coffee was all different and quite strong and only a few had tea. You can bring a small flask and fill it up for the coach, although most hotels supplied takeaway cardboard cups with a plastic top in the bedroom. -Bring a small torch. We didn't, but one would have been useful. Also one small umbrella just in case. -Use the free wifi and the USB charging points on the coach, which were really useful. -Buy when you can. You stop in some random out of the way places, like fruit farm shops, for am and pm rest stops, some with really high prices for snacks. When you get the chance to shop in a decent priced supermarket, stock up on snacks. -Don't be afraid to ask to share a meal or a snack in a restaurant. US portion sizes are generally very big compared to UK and you will waste a lot of food and cash if you don't. -Only give the driver and tour manager a tip that you think they deserve, if they have added value. Titan recommend a ridiculous daily tip for the tour manager, which would only be warranted if they were excelling every day. Ours didn't. -Make the most of every extra excursion on offer. You will probably only do the trip once and you don't want to have any regrets. Grand Canyon helicopter brilliant. San Francisco Bay trip great. San Francisco evening meal and tour very good. Las Vegas sights and lights also very good. -Book a Vegas show you really want to see before you leave home and as early as possible to guarantee a ticket. Don't leave it until you arrive. Tickets were double the price quoted at home for a show on the night. Same with Alcatraz tickets. Alcatraz trips are booked up weeks in advance. -Watch out for restaurants adding a compulsory 18% gratuity to bills and large groups charge, sometimes for only 6 people, of 18%. -Get a Halifax credit card, as recommended by Martin Lewis. We withdrew dollars from atms with it. As much as we could for each withdrawal. We were charged $3 by the ATM owner for each withdrawal and that included in banks. In one mall the charge was $5, but we just waited until we found one with a $3 charge. We used the card to pay bigger bills too. -Buy a bottle of your favourite tipple on the plane and have a nice drink that you're not paying through the nose for when you arrive at your hotel each night. -Find something to do during the daily trips on the coach, as you can only appreciate the scenery for so long. I ended up writing a daily blog of what we were up to, which I shared with the family and I now have a permanent record of the trip. I also reviewed the photos we had taken and deleted lots, but still ended up with over 700. You could check the internet for places to eat at the overnight stop, or just find out what is close to the hotel. Many of the hotel websites have breakfast and dinner menus, so you can check the menu options and prices before you arrive. -Be prepared for a delay of up to an hour getting through immigration at LAX. We encountered a couple of the most work-shy public servants we have ever met and I can't believe that they get away with it. They were clearly used to doing it. One even asked if there were any Americans left in the queue of about 30 of us Brits and Puerto Ricans before he just left his cubicle and walked over to an equally work-shy official for a chat and didn't come back. Welcome to America! That said, outside the cities, we were surprised at how willing people were to greet you with "good morning/afternoon", particularly at Huntington Beach. We found American prices generally much more than UK for everything, so you need to have your wits about you before buying and paying. In Solvang, a great morning stop, one shop was selling a fridge magnet for $9.99 and 50 yards along the road it was the more usual $3.99. We paid for our big excursions before we left but paid for two whilst on the holiday. We bought a few souvenirs and overall we spent about £2,200, the vast majority of that on food. For info, on our coach everyone (43 of us) moved two seats clockwise each day, so everyone had a chance of sitting at or very near the front seat of the coach and there was nobody camping outside the coach early each morning to reserve the best seat. A great idea. We enjoyed everywhere and some more than others. We travelled just short of 3,000 miles. San Diego lovely. Grand Canyon amazing. San Francisco really enjoyable, but beggars everywhere. Los Angeles, not enough time. Las Vegas totally different, but tacky and hot. Hoover dam huge. And they do have a different, dry heat in Arizona and Nevada. The trip to Yosemite was a bit of a drag, with slow speeds, braking and lots of turns in and out of the valley. You couldn't see much for the trees! The last two days travelling back to Los Angeles are a bit of a drag, with the big ticket cities in the past and just 2 X 250 mile trips to look forward to. I would rather have stayed another two nights in San Francisco and flown home from there. But we would do the trip again tomorrow if we had the chance. Just do everything you can and never say no. The chauffeured trip back home was really welcome, after a sleepless night on the plane.

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“California & The Golden West. June 2017”

★★★☆☆

written by on 26/06/2017

Good & Bad. Titan - California & the Golden West The letter said that we would be collected at 4.16 a.m. Mini bus called at 3.00 a.m. Hotel: Hyatt Regency, LAX. Good location, 10 mins. from airport. Either rest or get local bus to Manhattan Beach. This was worthwhile as we met some very good travellers on the same trip & a good pub. Next day, set off for Hollywood. One hour at the Chinese theatre followed by a drive by Rodeo Drive & Beverley Hills. One hour stop at farmers market for lunch. That is all that you will see of L.A. Set of for San Diego. Arrive at Hilton Garden Inn, Mission Valley around 16.00. This is a truck stop on a free way 12 miles from San Diego. No chance to explore San Diego. Just two places to eat plus petrol station for cheap beer. Day three. Bus ride into San Diego. Request to come back later to the hotel but only concession is to go back to the hotel at 16.30 instead of 16.00. Luckily some like minded friends decide to stay & split the taxi fare, $35.00. Day four. Off to Scottsdale. You will now start to realise just how big the U.S.A. is & how many miles you will cover on this trip. Hotel at Scottsdale is in a perfect location. Short walk to old town for meals. Rusty Nails pub for a lively evening. Day five. Travel to Flagg Staff via Sedona. Sedona is a very nice place to see. However, the Little American Hotel is again a truck stop on a freeway. Two miles out of Flagg Staff. You will not see any of Flagg Staff. I would recommend Black Barts for a lovely meal. (Across the Freeway). Day six. Grand Canyon. Spectacular as you would expect. I asked the representative & driver if we could take a detour to Flagg Staff but was informed it was the opposite way. (Two Miles away). Back at hotel for 15.00. Day seven. Williams depot for a shoot out & a pit stop at Seligman, Route 66. Both very enjoyable. Tropicana, Las Vegas. Ideal location. Day eight, free to explore sin city. Day nine. Call in at Calico silver mining ghost town for 30 mins. We get 45 mins at Walmart / restaurant to buy some lunch. Hotel Wyndham, Visalia. Day 10. Onwards to Yosemite. Lovely view of the waterfalls. You cannot now drive by the red wood trees. Hotel Double Tree, Modesto. This a goods railway yard. 1.22 a.m. Train all whistles & hooters blowing. I thought the train was coming through the bedroom. Three more trains in the night but not as loud. Day 11. Travel to San Francisco. Bus tour to see all of the sights. Drive over the Golden Gate bridge. No time to get off the bus. We booked the meal & night time tour with Titan. $65.00 each for a limited choice menu. We were informed that the drink would flow freely but was restricted to one bottle of wine between two people. Holiday Inn, Golden Gateway. Good location for the cable cars. However, It would seem that all of the Titan guests had rooms next to the lifts on all levels. These a very noisy. Day 12. Free day to explore San Francisco. Was told by the rep that we would be lucky to get tickets for Alcatraz but luckily we had a guest who sorted this out for us & two other couples. Day 13. Monterey, 17 mile drive, Carmel. The chances of ever going down the Big Sur are remote. Cambria Pines Lodge. Reasonably priced bar meals. Lovely seating outside area. Day 14. Called in at a town called Solvang. Very nice surprise, what a lovely town. Santa Barbara. Limited places for lunch where we were dropped off the bus. Onwards to Huntington Beach. Some noise at the hotel where there is building work but did not hang around & headed out to see the sights. To summarise, the hotels are clean & serviceable but some of the locations are really poor. P.S. Titan advertise 6 free bottles of wine if you book before a certain time. This we di but have still not received the wine.

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“Wainwrights Lake District 11/6/2017”

★★★★★

written by Giancarloj150 on 21/06/2017

Very good,hotel staff excellent.Although difficult driving condition driver was excellent.Stayed at Low wood Hotel &Spa. Stayed there before-would stay there again! Been travelling with Titan for about 15 years.Already booked my next holiday Thank you

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“Excellent trip”

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written by RudyKeith440 on 21/06/2017

Just ending Titan Rockies/Vancouver holiday- brilliant! Excellent variety and good hotels. Tour guide was a bonus! Very knowledgeable, helpful and approachable.

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Asked by thebanker on 25th April 2017 Report this content
Has anyone done the Polish highlights tour? If so,  are the additional excursions worth purchasing?

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Report this content jimtrove Written on: 01/12/2017
You have limited time in all of the cities visited so think carefully if any of the additional optionals are worth doing. 1. Jewish Quarter Tour. 3hrs plus. Also visits the Schindler Factory. Not bad. Could be better, If you didnt do the tour, its perhaps unlikely that you would visit this area of Krakow. I'd give this tour a 6/10 2. Folk Show including dinner: Not great. But enjoyable. 6/10. There are better folk shows or things to do in this evening. 3. Ksiaz and Swidnica. Very good 8/10. but this takes almost 3/4 off the day and there are so many things to do in Wroclaw
Asked by chance01 on 27th March 2017 Report this content
I am going on a Titan Tour to South America and wondered if anybody knew what are the best things to wear as this is our first time with Titan and on a land tour?

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Report this content Balloonsawayred Written on: 29/03/2017
Hi We did the west cost of America trip in March and we got 32 degrees in the Arizona Desert and on the same day we were sitting in 3 inches of snow in Flagstaff. So you need to pack clothes for everything. Also I suggest taking a travel kettle as the coffee machines are rubbish in some of the hotels and if you want to save money take some porridge pots which you make with boiling water as it will save you loads of money and time in the mornings, also your own coffee sachets as their coffee and tea is horrible. Any more questions please feel free to ask
Asked by JamesBond008 on 14th January 2016 Report this content
How fast paced is the Canadian Rockies and Vancouver Tour? What are the hotels like and are they centrally situated?

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Report this content janeathome Written on: 19/01/2016
Depends what you mean by 'centrally situated'. If Canada is like the US, the hotels tend to be outside the centre of a town/city, along with fast food restaurants, necessitating a walk or a taxi into the centre. I suggest you look at maps online that will show you where the hotels are in relation to where you want to go. In my experience, Titan's hotels are fine and the tours are not fast paced, as you can spend many hours on the coach. If you google the distance between the places you'll be visiting each day, you'll be able to estimate the travelling time.
Report this content andreascott Written on: 20/01/2016
The trip is fantastic. The hotels are all central and excellent. It is not fast paced. Our rep was brilliant and that makes all the difference. She was really great. You will have a great time
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