Beautiful scenes. Disappointing tour director.

This was our 7th Goahead tour. Our fellow-travellers were nice and many beautiful and exciting areas were visited. Maybe we are spoiled by having had 3 previous great TD's (Patrick, Frank, and Alex) but we were disappointed in Giordano. He was very kind and I feel sad having to mention his short-comings. He had a heavy Italain accent and spoke softly on the bus so he was hard to understand. His discussions were short and lacked depth. I enjoy reading and history and think I could have given a better talk about many of the areas we visited. Our previous TD's typically took us on orientation walks in each new city after arrival, usually after dinner which was very helpful. Giordano didn't do this. I think Giordano needs more training. He is likely better with kids on EF tours. I have spent this time discussing this because the TD is crucial to an exciting trip and your company promotes excellent TD's in your advertising. When I wrote an email while on tour about this on tour, I was told that we could not find out about our TD until 1 month before we leave on a tour. However, multiple TD's on past tours have told us that they know their schedule months in advance. We have always in the past been thinking about our next Goahead Tour as soon as we get home from one, but now we are not sure what to do. We just don't want another weak guide.

Our Alpine Tour

The tour was a lot of fun. We saw places that we had allways heard about and now we have great memories of being there. Our tour director did a great job pointing out interesting sites along the way and his knowledge of the cities we were in was extensive. We had a great time and are looking forward to our next trip.

JEWELS OF ALPINE EUROPE

WHAT AN AMAZING ADVENTURE FOR ME. MY FIRST BIG TRIP AND I DID IT ALONE. EVERYONE OF THE OTHER TOURISTS WERE AWESOME. OUR DRIVER BRUNO WAS THE THE BEST DRIVER EVER, AND JERGEN OUR GUIDE MADE THE TRIP EVERYTHING AND MORE THAN I EXPECTED. I WILL BE SAVING FOR MY NEXT TRIP AND I WOULD NOT HESITATE TO USE GO AHEAD AGAIN AND AGAIN.

Alps

Great trip. Lots of bus time however. Could use 2 nights in St. Moritz rather than one. Too fast to explore mountaintops. Suggest Extension in Salzberg rather than Munich.

Jewels of the Alpine (Hofer Group 2012)

IN 2008, we traveled with Go Ahead to England and Ireland. I thought that experience could not be topped... I was wrong. Our Jewels of the Alpines tour was OUTSTANDING! Our tour guide, Paula Noad, deserves the credit for making this an unforgetable experience. Her expert knowledge, engaging personality, and flexibility in adjusting to the unique interests our our group was a critical factor in making the trip such an amazing success. When asked which city, mountain, or lake was my favorite, I honestly struggle to pick just one. Looking forward to the next opportunity!

Very Excellent Trip

Overall, there was a lot to this trip--perhaps too much. I would delete Oberammergau, unless you can get into the theatre. I would also skip Chamonix except when you're going to take a train to St. Moritz, which is highly recommended (we did!). Also, St. Moritz was rather a brief visit and probably a waste of time, unless you're one of those who like to say "I've been there"! I would spend more time in Innsbruck, and another day in Munich. Our Tour Director, Paula Noad, was outstanding, keeping everybody on schedule, maintaining consensus, and suggesting interesting itineraries and side trips. I felt we got our money's worth, PLUS!

Enjoyable Trip

We enjoyed the Jewels of Alpine Tour as a brief visit to wonderful, scenic countries. I would highly recommend this tour for anyone who desires to see five different countries in the Alps. GoAhead captured the essence of the countries by selecting just the right cities to visit in detail.

Very Nice Time

We thoroughly enjoyed this Tour, which is our 3rd Bus tour but first with GoAhead. GoAhead provided an excellent itinerary and a very comfortable pace to see wonderful sites in FIVE countries, all situated in the Alps. The bus was fun, great passengers, excellent Tour Director and Bus Driver. We had a very nice time.

AWESOME Vacation!!!!!!

I have traveled in various countries in Europe many times, but this was probalby the most scenic trip I have ever been on in any part of Europe. It was absolutely beautiful and even our great phtoos can't do it justice. It's an awesome itenerary with some of the quaint and beautiful villages we visited. I LOVED this trip and I recommend it highly. This wasn't my first Go Ahead tour and it won't be my last. Thank you Go Ahead Tours, for a wonderful vacation that I will never forget.

Beautiful trip.

We loved all the places we went, and the scenery was so consistently stunning that I had to give up on trying to photograph it all. We also enjoyed seeing all the charming old buildings everywhere we went. Our tour director (Paula Noad) was outstanding - very knowledgable, delightful personality, and ready to add things to our trip (a walking tour of Zurich while we were waiting for late arrivals, and a train ride instead of the bus through the Alps when the weather unexpectedly improved). We had been to Munich before, but the included tour on this trip was different and more extensive, so it was well worth doing (my husband's favorite part was the brief stop at BMW World). An important factor for us was that the group was limited to 27 people, so we were able to spread out and be comfortable on the bus. We have already recommended this trip to several friends and relatives.