Voyager3263827, Dec 2024

Alex was our English language tour manager and I can't say enough about how hard he worked within the confines of this tour to keep us on-time, informed, and entertained. To say it was sometimes brutal would be a bit of an understatement. Yes, it is a cost-effective tour when you factor in every night's accomodations is included, not to mention you don't have to do any of the driving, nor pay for fuel costs, toll costs, parking passes/fees, even some boat transfer fees and etc. But as the name implies you will get a taste, but it's more like a lick. Time on ground outside of a bus at the actual places of interest can be as little as *20 minutes* - what can you explore in 20 minutes of any place?! This after being on a bus for some 7+ hours in some cases. We knew some of this before hand, but did not know the logistics you have to bear to keep up. One major design change they should consider, which would probably add to the overall cost but would make the trip so much better, is to simply stay at a hotel IN / closer to the city we are scheduled to visit - instead of a hotel 30+ minutes outside. I know some of it because of the route but for their Rome and Lucerne stops, staying in-town would have provide a nice opportunity to really see the place.

When we went, they had 5 buses running the same Green Line, so every stop had 5 buses of people getting out to rush to use the toilets / WC and stock up on snacks and drinks. Every day had the same pattern of getting up super early, rushing through the hotel's buffet breakfast as soon as it opens (and in some Italian hotels there was two-tier breakfast buffets between bread + egg/meat and bread/pastries breakfast and they only paid for the bread/pastries one! ) , load up luggage, sit in a bus for hours, stop at one or more rest stops to get gas/petrol station food or other kind of fast food, see the actual tourist site in very limited time, load up, sit while they drive again, 1 or 2 more rest stops where we are told repeatedly to get some food here else chance not finding any dinner options except in the hotel, roll into a new hotel's parking at around 8 or 9PM (and in most cases you will not know the name of the hotel until a few hours before), unload luggage, try to find dinner, try to sleep and repeat. (You will spend more time in the bus than anywhere else - so hopefully you have nice neighbors on the bus you can befriend.) And then there were the upsells, I could understand some of them, but some were stops at a leather factory, or a perfume factory, when time could have been better spent seeing an actual real historic sight ( I'm pretty sure there's kickback for those stops, including the gas station ones, but again I think the costs would increase without them.) The buses themselve also had a working toilet but we couldn't use it due to "European work laws (concerning th driver both driving almost 12 hours a day and then not having enough time to clean the toilet)." Each seat on the bus (Man's Lion Coach) had 2 USB-A ports and were relatively new and clean. Their A/C only ran when the bus was started, so if the driver (shout out to Jakob!) doesn't get it started and it is a hot day, it heats up inside fast! Also because there were 5 buses running the same line, you have to be sure you return to the same one. The stairs were steep getting off and on the bus, and some days we walked 20K+ steps, so you got to keep up. After all the cons and some pros, I'd say you might consider this tour if the above is tolerable to you - ideal if you are single, as you are in large crowd that goes everywhere with you so you will feel safer, but in any other arrangement it might be tougher, with kids, or the elderly. And ultimately, you can't really say you visited those cities for anything other than a picture (often from the outside). They should call their tours :"A Lick of Europe to make a check off a box for that one picture in front of some famous tourist's trap and nothing more." But on the plus side they do run like it like a regional bus system, so you could get off the bus at a city your choosing, spend a week until the next one runs through and hop back on board, and upon completion of one line, switch off to another, say the Red Line. But I didn't do this, so I'm not sure how easy it is, or how easy it is to pay even (we had to send a physical check to their Vancouver Canada office - talk about old school!).

Rizza_P, Dec 2024

My friends and I took this trip and overall this one is a good one if it’s your first time in Europe.We were able to visit several countries and got to see some of the main attractions in each country.Our driver ,(Malik- hope I got it right) and our tour guide,( Mirjam) are the best.The only negative I could say is that some of the hotel rooms has no air conditioner and rooms are too hot.

Neil_F, Dec 2024

The driver and guide were excellent. The rooms were clean but small by Australian standards. We had to ask to be upgraded to a double bed room as we are a couple. The food offered was very basic but very nice. A kettle in the room would make a long day more enjoyable.

Sherpa08767423299, Dec 2024

We took the Green Like 9 days tour to visit Paris,Switzerland,Italy,Vatican City and Monaco.Our tour guide Amanda was very friendly,helpful and professional.She is very knowledgeable,informative,and energetic person and made us feel safe and comfortable whenever we went.She explained all about the history and what we should be careful in these areas.Our driver was also a very skilled and safe driver. We had a very enjoyable experience and got to do many places with this very reasonable price.Thank you for Amanda and goeugo.

Denver Ong and Alice Ma.

Cesar_D, Dec 2024

The tour guide is amazing. He always tries to point the us Asian resto in every place where we have to take our lunch or dinner.