100% Good Tour - very fast - but good taste of Europe
By: Anonymous | Tue Dec 11, 2007 at 12.00 AM
The tour was well organized and well executed. It is very fast paced and you will likely be very tired - but it covers the highlights of France & Italy very well. This tour should be viewed as a curtain-raiser for a first-time visitor so th..at they can choose a subsequent trip for the areas of their interest. The hotels chosen in Switzerland and Italy are fantastic!! Hotels in France were slightly disappointing - but since that was just one overnight stay it was manageable. The tour-guide was very helpful and the bus driver was extremely cheerful and jolly. Words of caution: The itenerary published on the site is out-of-date. Some of the places are not included in the actual tour (but not a big deal). A Gratuity of approx 5 Euros per day per passenger is expected- please factor that in your expenses.Overall we had a good time and would recommend it to others.Read full review
Booking our Europe tour with Tours4Fun was easy. We chose them because of online recommendation and their good grades. I called their office when I had questions and then I got the answer. It was good. But as for the tour, the first day we ..were there was kind of messy because the airline misplaced our luggage. Also, the driver couldn't pick us up on time because we had to file the claim. Later, a different driver came and then I was on his van for four hours. We drove around Paris until we got to our hotel. We were picked up at 3:30 but we were dropped off at the hotel at 8 p.m. It was too much for us. The hotel was so bad. There was no elevator so we had to walk up a very narrow stair. The people working on the front desk were rude. There were two people in front of us who couldn't speak English. They were Chinese. The front desk people thought that we were in the same group. They thought that we were also Chinese and they said, "Speak English, speak English." I was so mad. Then, the room has no air conditioning and very small. This is a 1-star hotel. If we open the door, mosquitoes came in. The next day was better. We met the whole group then had breakfast and then we went on to the tour. That was the day when we had a good hotel. This hotel provided a better breakfast and service compared to the previous hotel. I would like Tours4Fun to provide better hotels for us. We are tired during this tour. The tour guide did a fine job. I knew that he had many groups because people were changing the trip. He had multiple jobs in the same trip. We tried to give him credit. He tried his best. Yet as a customer, we are not really satisfied with the way the tour had multiple functions for our tour guide like that. Also, the amount of time for the tour was not enough. We wanted to spend more time in some place but the schedule was shorter. Overall, I'd say that this is a good experience for us with the tour. We think that with the price we spent, it's okay.Read full review
I was googling and looking for some tour packages and Tours4Fun was listed on the top. It worked out with my schedules and the destinations were great. When I was trying to book the tickets, I had all the interactions with them and they wer..e pretty good in responding. Our tour was great and my wife really loved it. It was really awesome and they planned it very well. I plan to use Tours4Fun again to book my trip some time next year.Read full review
Best family vacation so far. Tour itinerary was great, some hotel was good, holiday inn hotel in Switzerland was the best for me. Others like in Albatros hotel, and apartcity hotel wasn't a pleasant to stay. In seating arrangement, it would.. be good if they have pre-selected seat when booking, no more rotating seat daily coz I've noticed some people get jelous when see's you when you're in front or in a middle. They talk bad behind you. We enjoyed our vacation so much, our tour guide Danny and driver Jan was great. Will definitely recommend this tour. Love it!Read full review
I was recently on the Amsterdam , Brussels , and Paris tour , July 4- July 7, 2017. The tour itself was incredible! It was a great way to see the highlights and tourist attractions in the listed cities. The tour bus was beautiful , clean an..d new. However, at times when we were loading and waiting for people they did not turn on the AC and it was very hot and uncomfortable. I would suggest to the company that if people are required to be on the bus at a given time that the air conditioner be turned on at that time. The tour guides were extremely accommodating , knowledgeable and very friendly with the travelers. Our accommodations in Amsterdam were wonderful as we stayed in a Hampton Inn hotel. However the accommodations for the three remaining days in Paris were horrible. The company put us up in an IBIS budget hotel. The hotel room was extremely small especially for those of us who shared a room and amenities were minimal. There was no ventilation for the shower which brought all the hot air into the room. The room also smelled musty and moldy. The hotel room itself was very hot as if the air conditioning was not working or they did not turn it to run cool. It was even sweltering in the lobby. This was very disappointing to be in Paris in such a miserable hotel. The location was also way off the beaten track from Paris or any cute cafÈs . This is something the travel company needs to address immediately as this is very disappointing to a traveler . Bottom line the hotel was the biggest disappointment and disgusting to stay in. I highly recommend that no one ever, ever stay in an IBIS hotel. I noted many other locations as we drove away from Paris that we could have stayed in that would been much nicer and have access to many more eateries. I know we are not in the hotel much but when you can't get a good nights sleep for the next day because it is too hot in the room , there is a big problem. Accommodations did not meet my expectations of this trip and we're not comparable to those hotels listed under the site for Paris.Read full review
reservation - you must also take credit card for booking of the tour .transport - bus was comfortable but drivers dont allowed us to use bus toilet at all which should be allowed atleast in cases of emergency.tour guide - since the services.. are being provided by other firm goeurogo .com , as per that during first six days the your guide was excellent named florian but during next half the tour guide was not so good Ho choung. he was rude and also what he speaks was not so clear. accommodation - was the major issues in the tour during first half that is for six days it was good but accommodation starting from Milan onwards till complete italy was very bad , the breakfast was mentioned will be buffet but was not so in all hotels and hotels were far away from the cities . and also the hotels which you mention in your advertisement were never given , some time the tour guide is also not aware about the hotel location and it use to be a big surprise. for example the hotel n venice was completely away from city not even in the limits of municipal cooperation of that city. Therefore if you say venice you must define the limit of that city and hotels should be at least with in 5 km from the main city.tour itinerary - on the day for Switzerland , tour guide should not take people to liechtenstein , you waste a lot of time in that country and finally you hurry so much at mount titlis and waste about 85 euros for nothing , that was the biggest lost we had while reaching at mount titlis we just had one and a half hour with so much of rush at the top , so whenever your tour guide ask you to go this country just say no to it , its waste of money and time both. Plus at locations like prague some more time to be give fpr prague castle , similarly time should be given more at budapest , because it had so much to see , may be at some places you may give atleast two days halt and cover less distances and give more time to see a place , like you can cut time from nice and last day of tour and can increase one day in prague or budapest or may be in Switzerland .Read full review
Purchasing online was easy to do. I didn't have a Shenzhen visa so as soon as I found out I told Tours4Fun and then they said the rules for changing which are not user friendly. Also because I didn't have a Shenzhen visa and the price had g..one down from $1100 something to $800, they said I couldn't get a refund. But I'm still considering using them for my next trip because the rest of my experience with them so far have been good.Read full review
One of my co-workers tried Tours4Fun and he said to try. We did try that and it was okay, so we've been using it. We saw a lot in our recent trip. But, for someone like me who is getting older and has difficulty in walking, the pacing of th..e trip was too fast. Nevertheless, I would use them again next time. If you want to see a lot of things in a short period of time then Tours4Fun is recommended.Read full review
60% Tour guide in the Blue Line (Lex) was horrible
By: Anonymous | Thu Jan 12, 2006 at 12.00 AM
Our tour guide in the Blue Line tour (Lex) was so horrible. He slurs whenever he talks about something and sometimes, he talks about something that is totally unrelated to the tour. He talks about what he likes about the area and all, which.. is not something we tourists want to hear. He was also not good in providing directions and help for us to be able to maximize our stay in a specific city. Most of the time, he just leaves us right in front of a square with nothing to do. He talks about the places for us to see WHILE we were on the bus, so it was very hard for us to get a picture of how far away the nearest tourist spot is. We basically have to figure it out for ourselves. There was also one time when he looked like he was having a very bad hangover and he was not able to get us more details of what we can do in Salzburg. This tour guide is very very impolite as well; he won't answer questions from the tourists and when he does, he was very sarcastic! I hated this tour guide.Read full review
This 11 day trip was full of joy and pleasure. Our tour guide Mr.Alex and driver young have been exceptional host. Alex even helped us beyond his duties. He never bored and always remained in jolly mode. He provided very useful information..s in the most entertaining way. Switzerland stay was very short but enjoyable. Venice we enjoyed most. Overall it was highly satisfactory and enjoyable trip.Read full review