Lithuania Trips & Holidays

Hello Daina,

Thank you for organising such a wonderful holiday! We enjoyed our trip very much and all of the guides were great.

Lithuania- someone whose name translated as “Dawn”, Edina from Latvia and Elena from Tallinn as well as Olafs were all so friendly and welcoming and the pace was great.

It was so kind of you to arrange a birthday bottle of fizz but we don’t drink alcohol hardly at all so we left it and I told the hotel not to charge you!

The only slight hiccup was after a long day of travelling when we were dropped at the wrong hotel in Riga and then had to walk in the heat to find the correct hotel. Turns out there are three hotels with similar names and we were dropped at the wrong one.

The weather was generally very kind and we all had comfortable beds and ate extremely well, often trying cafes and restaurants recommended by guides and sometimes looking to see where the locals ate and following them in. The sights were really interesting and the guides took us to places not readily available in tourist books so we got the best of both as we could catch a tram or visit other places in the afternoons. We can thoroughly recommend this trip.

Kind regards

Sue

Hi Nicola,

Some feedback on the Baltic trip which we enjoyed overall- very informative, good pace and time allotted for own exploration. Janus was a good tour leader, well organised. Two disappointments were the Latvian dinner which was in a room that was so noisy with another party it was not possible to have a conversation with anyone at the table. The food was average with the pavlova dessert terrible, base was soo hard most left it on the plate.

That aside the trip achieved what we wanted, accommodation was fine and transfers all went well.

Finland - we loved , everything went well, accommodation great - especially in Savonlinna, boat trip great, car hire great and train travel excellent. We did get a guide in Helsinki and Provoo for the day which although expensive gave great insight into the country and it's history.

Thank you once again for your help

Regards

Russell and Denise

Hi Daina,

I very much enjoyed the Baltic & Russia tour, Moscow, St Petersburg & Tallin the favourite places.  It was well organised, enjoyed the informative morning orientation  tours with  free time to pursue your own activities.  Lamia ( not sure of the spelling) the tour guide from Vilnuis to Tallin was excellent, handled the diverse age range  and fitness level of the group with good humour, nothing was a bother and her language skills were excellent. The coach,  hotels and breakfasts  were all good and the weather perfect, (just I had ordered) I did think some of the add on tours were over priced, I had done my homework before I went and did some of these by myself easily by public transport for a fraction of the cost. i.e. both Suomenlinna & Jurmala    5 Euro, Organ recital Euro 15 .  

Thank you for your help planning the tour.

Kind regards 

Andrea

Hello Michael,

Everything went well. It was Yuanbuo’s dream trip and he really enjoyed it- everything was well organised and the hotels were lovely. Our local guides were excellent, friendly, fun, informative. In particular the local guide we had in St Petersburg was a mine of information and had clearly thought through what he was going to say over the two days. His narrative was very coherent and built up a picture of Russian tsarist history as well as giving us a lot of info about present day Russia. 

Thanks again for all your help with the visa. I had insisted on going to the Baltic on an organised tour because I knew I’d need support having been ill, and it was such a relief that so much was set up for us in advance. 

All the best

Angela

Hi Daina,

The trip was absolutely amazing...quite possibly one of the best trips I've been on.  Your support in the planning and the visa process was invaluable, and I can't thank you enough for your (and your team's) constant communication.  There were a few people on the tour who also used your services, and we were all singing your praises.

The only comments/feedback that I would have, and I don't know how much control you have over it are the following:

1) Having the morning tours start at 9 is great, but during the tours (the city tours especially) they seemed a little rushed in order to get everything in.  People would want to linger to take pictures or to explore, but there wasn't the time.  Potentially starting at 8:30 would give a little bit more time in the tour (although, I'm sure that even with starting earlier, people would then just want more time).

2) The transfer to the ferry station in Estonia on the way to Helsinki was a challenge, with people having to haul their luggage and trying to keep up with the group in such a busy station.  While I don't think there's anything that can be done to change that, I think letting people know that the luggage will be manually transported in the trip details/itinerary may alert people to what to expect on that day.

Thanks again, and I will definitely be recommending your company to my friends and family.

Rita