Luxury Travel Tour & Trip Reviews

Wonderful and fun experience

We choose a AerLingus Rail Pkg out of Boston. Flight an hour early into Dublin. Six nights in four star hotels. Yes we had to figure logistics to rail stations. Great to go our own pace for almost 80 year olds. We went to Cork and Killarney. Took a Viator tour of Ring of Kerry, extra but worth it. November 1-8, 2023. Great value

Despite anxiety over reading poor reviews about Aer Lingus Vacation store, our entire vacation to Scotland was perfect from beginning to end with no problems at all. The Market Street Hotel exceeded our expectations, our hotel transfers were prompt and the drivers were helpful and very informative, all of our chosen activities were great, the trip vouchers were all accepted, our airline seats were fine, and that would be the only advice I'd offer, after AerLingus airlines established our confirmation/number, a few days after booking through the vacation store, I called the airline directly, they looked up our locater number and they were able to assign us seats next to each other on our main flight and our connecting flight- and although we couldn't pick a specific row, she told me what seats were together, that were available to us, there were a few, and she let me choose from that- so we had alittle say in that and most important, we sat together- you just need to plan and be proactive- if you dont do this, you will just randomly be assigned to any available seat.

overall service and support was great

Exceptional service from first to last minute. Very efficient and easy to navigate

Yes The anticiapted our needs & were so accommodating.

Enjoyed the train travel between cities, but didn't realize how much time would be spent on the bus transport. An estimate in advance would be helpful and a bathroom on the bus for periods over 2 hrs. Hotels were very nice in general except Kyoto in the train station which is very worn and placement in the Imperial Hotel in Tokoyo which you could hear the trains all night long. Welcome dinner and final dinner were not good. 3 hours for the final dinner was too long better spent at the Kabuki theatre or other cultural event. Our guide was lovely, but difficult to understand at times. Hiroshima survivor is a wonderful resource. Presentation was terrible. He read his script in Japanese, our guide translated. Would have preferred to ask him questions after a short introduction. Presentation was too long. Hiroshima museum was packed and we were not able to see the exhibit. Would be nice to visit at a less busy time. Missed Mt Fuji by tram due to miscommunications and weather which was disappointing. Weather did clear and we saw from a distance. Would have liked more guidance on where to go for meals on our own. We often arrived very late and scrambled for a place to eat. Overall a good trip, Japan did not disappoint. People are lovely, respectful and the country is so clean.

Overall we really enjoyed our luxury gold tour of Egypt.
The tours were interesting, accomodation , food and drink were of a high standard.

However, we were disappointed to discover on day 2 of our tour that the tour to Abu Simbel was not included and an option that required additional payment whilst on the trip.
This caused us a great deal of stress as we tried to transfer funds to our travel visa card to pay for the tour.
We weren’t able to do this because the wi fi on the boat was so poor which resulted in my husband resorting to switching his phone onto roaming which was still unsuccessful.
The end result being we missed the tour and have an additional $110 to pay on our phone bill.
This scenario could have been avoided if we’d known that we needed extra funds in our travel card for the tour and if the wi fi on the boat was better. (We were advised by our travel agent that we didn’t need to purchase another sim as we’d have access to wi fi !)

The other main issue confronting us was that we were explicitly told by our Australian travel agent that tips were included in the tour price.
However, on arrival we were advised by the luxury gold concierge who picked us up at the airport that it is customary to tip guides, drivers etc.
We hadn’t allowed funds for this which also affected our cash flow and caused us a bit of stress at times.
There seems to be mixed messaging about tipping in Egypt.

It’s a pity these things marred an otherwise amazing trip.

Would travel with Luxury Gold again. This was my 8th trip with TTC. 4 with Insight, 2 with Uniworld Cruises. and my second with Luxury Gold.
Our Travel Concierge Mohamed Taha, was exceptional, and contributed to to making our tour so special. In fact he was the best concierge I have travelled with, and ideally suited to Luxury Gold Travel

Everything was setup up perfectly! Our private Concierge took care of every little detail.

Trip was planned meticulously. The tour guide was excellent. Need extra day in Cambodia - too many to see in one day. Add an extra day for Halong Bay - not enough time to enjoy such a beautiful place.

Enjoyed the trip and learned a lot about these countries - the people, the history, the food, and their way of life.

We were well informed at all stages of our tour. Our group was smaller at 21 so had more of a family atmosphere. Would definitely join a smaller group tour again

First class bus and driver. Group leader, Dom, was a real personality. He was excellent in all cases. Local guides were knowledgeable and were very understandable. Hotels were first rate.

Excellent travel advisor (Dominic); he was 90% of the success of our tour. Most hotels had excellent facilities and service