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Nancy Baron
Nov 2024
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Highlights of Spain and Portugal
It was a wonderful trip!!! Everything Excellent!!!
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Nov 2024
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Highlights of Spain and Portugal
A great trip saw a lot of Spain and Portugal ! Tour guide Paschal and driver Domingos great! Priced well overall for what we got . Most hotels were excellent some we...
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Brenda L
Nov 2024
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Highlights of Spain and Portugal
It was very active and included down time.
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Hovanes Kibarian
Nov 2024
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Highlights of Spain and Portugal
very well planned and very professional .
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Jan 2025
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Imperial Europe
Total waste of time and money, terrible travel director, ************, a felon. Terrible food, accommodations, and coach experience. Driver moved the unit while lea...
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Trusted Customer
Jan 2025
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Imperial Europe
The trip itself was great. There were wonderful sights and great history lessons. Due to the time of year, most of the stores were closed and only the touristy tra...
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Trusted Customer
Jan 2025
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Imperial Europe
Lots more walking than I thought. Good itinerary though . Andre the local guide in Prague was very negative about churches, especially Catholic Church. We took a n...
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Barry Mates
Dec 2024
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Imperial Europe
A lot of walking, Guide and driver were the greatest
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Trusted Customer
Dec 2024
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Imperial Europe
Every place we were walked thru, the walk was rushed with little time to look over where you were. Lot of interesting information and no time to ask questions or ju...
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Violeta
Dec 2024
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Imperial Europe
The tour was totally excellent. Places viisited were all awesome. Just like our first Tralfalgar tour the European Highlight, the whole package were almost totally t...
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Jose Guzman Rosado
Dec 2024
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Imperial Europe
The Imperial Europe is designed to experience these magical cities in a relatively short time - 10 days. There is a lot to see especially in Salzburg where we got t...
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William Mc Guire
Dec 2024
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Imperial Europe
This was another great trip for me. I don’t have a single complaint. Nothing but complements for our tour director, Andy Majors. Everything was on time and complete ...
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Trusted Customer
Dec 2024
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Imperial Europe
Excellent itinerary, very busy but in a good way. 1000% reco...
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Trusted Customer
Nov 2024
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Imperial Europe
The whole trip ran smooth and we did everything that was offered to us..
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Trusted Customer
Nov 2024
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Imperial Europe
The perfect itinerary! Love spending two nights in each of the major cities! There were so many included and optional tours available that provided an amazing experi...
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What to Look for in Small-Ship Cruising Reviews
Most trip reviews tend to focus on some or all of these 5 key areas, not all of which may be relevant to you: the tour guide, travel company, service level, country or countries traveled in, and the trip itinerary.
Remember, just because you see a 1 star review doesn’t necessarily mean that person disliked the country.
When researching your small-ship cruise destination and operator, read as many reviews as you can, but keep in mind that some of the reviews may not impact your own satisfaction. Given that small ships can access more remote destinations and offer more specific interest-driven activities, it is more important to get a good match than with the ocean-going mega-ships that can seem so similar.
Travelers who did not take the time to educate themselves fully on the small-ship trip they took may leave less favorable reviews. To make a good match and find the right small-ship cruise for you, pay attention to the number of guests, ratio of staff to guest, destinations visited, how much time is spent in each port, whether the itinerary is flexible, how you get ashore for excursions, what wildlife you can hope to see, what experts are onboard with you, what the best time of year for your destination is, etc.
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