“My travel companion and I until the trip to Switzerland/ Stresa have enjoyed a comfortable and interesting journey. Our guide in the last trip was young and appeared disinterested in her job. She refused to go to the top of the Matterhorn leaving those who went unaccompanied. If there had been any problems we had no recourse but to deal with such as medical emergencies. Also we did not appreciate, being cornered with the Stresa guide who was selling her wares. A very uncomfortable situation. The sites themselves were wonderful but not a lot to do in Villars.”
“We have travelled 8 times with Senior Discovery Tours. Most have been very good. Some of the itineraries have disappointed - bus for 2 hours each way to spend an hour or so at destination. I understand this is to not overextend the day but sometimes it is just a waste. For the most part the hotels have been excellent; meals up and down. In Ireland, we had the same dinner, at different hotels, at least 10 times. In summary, we feel we got good value for our money and hope to travel with SDT again.”
“The tours that I'd taken (8) were all good, though some were better than others, especially the places that I'd never been to before when I used to travel with Globus and Cosmos. I especially enjoyed Sicily and Malta as I did not see this with Globus or Cosmos. I did find that
in some places I did not have enough time to do the cities. One good example is Dublin from the tour last Oct (Northern Wales and Eastern Ireland). When I was with Globus I could cover more places and see more in Dublin for the time where we were there compared to last year.
In general, it's not enough time in any place after the city walk.
This is just personal. I prefer more scenery and culture and history, and architecture. But I don't like to spend too much time in museums and theaters (eveninigs).
And despite SDR's caution regarding physical ability, some participants are not up it (in 2 of my 8 tours).
The only problem now is for long-haul flights, it might take 3-4 years to recover before we can travel again.”
“Love travelling with this tour group. Can always trust that accommodation and food will be wonderful. The guides are always helpful and the buses clean and comfortable.
Have done 2 tours and looking forward to more.
Totally trust that all the details will be worked out and we need not worry about details.
Such an easy way to relax and enjoy our travels.
Thank You Wells Grey
AC”
“Travelled twice with you, once to England and France and then once to tormellinos Spain. The first trip the only thing to complain about was that we could not access internet in our room in London and not enough free time and our trip to Spain where we had to transfer planes which was a total nightmare and the food in the hotel (we were there almost two weeks) was a buffet and it was very monotonous and the room which was always clean had little air conditioning and the view was definitely not the best. We would rather pay more for better accommodation and food. We will never pick another trip where we need to transfer planes . But on both occasions we had the most hospitable and friendly tour administrators possible, they were amazing. Some complained in Spain that our tour guide was a bit too young to understand the needs of the seniors but we absolutely loved her, her name was Ruby and she came from Montreal.”
“29 trips with senior tours was confirmed on my 30th trip but due to COVID-19 it was cancelled. Had wonderful trips around the globe and most were well managed and enjoyable. Thank you.
Helene Amyot”
“Went to Australia and New Zealand. Trip was well planned and met my expectations. The itinerary should include tour of Sydney Opera House and not be left to individuals to book.”
“The good news is everything is included but then that’s also the problem, you’re wandering around Seville you see a lovely little restaurant you’d love to try but oh yes supper is already included for tonight, the other problem is the included restaurants sadly dumb down their food for seniors in a tour group such as this and so it ends up not very authentic and bland having a Spanish daughter-in-law and having eaten at her family’s home we were disappointed with the restaurant meals on the Spain and Portugal tour”
“Overall value for price is very good. Accompanying guides are knowledgeable and helpful. The only drawback are the never ending buffet meals. This should be rethought after the covid pandemic and prior to reinitiating travel.”
“I have only toured 3x with SDT and enjoyed every trip.the one to Newfoundland was especially wonderful. Maritimes one, was with Hurricane, so disrupted but out leader made the best of it. NYC in December was fine but we spend hours on the bus getting in and out of the city. The hotel was too to far out. Our guide and bus driver didn't really low the city as well as they should have. I did write quite a review then but received no acknowledgement of receipt.”
“We enjoyed most of our trips with senior discovery tours, The missed flights to Spain last December was very hard on us. But the rest of the trips were pleasant.”
“We have taken two trips with Senior Discovery Tours (Tour of Italy, Croatia). We have enjoyed both trips very much. Everything was very well organized and the accommodations were very good. The Guides were knowledgeable and friendly. The only thing I would recommend relates to the food. Although overall the food was very good, there were no choices. You got what was being served that day. I think there should be at least two options. Thank you.”
