3 independent reviews for Romania's natural wonders vacation, small group
Reviews for Romania's natural wonders vacation, small group
Mick and Tracey review 3 Jul 2025
1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your vacation?
Our guide, Alex, was brilliant and enabled us to get the most out of visiting this beautiful and fascinating country.2. What tips would you give other travelers booking this vacation?
Read the itinerary and be prepared to make the most of this chance to visit a great destination3. Did you feel that your vacation benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?
The tour certainly links into local hosts and destinations4. Finally, how would you rate your vacation overall?
BrilliantPaulette Tan review 30 Jun 2024
1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your vacation?
The vacation experience failed short of expectation.2. What tips would you give other travelers booking this vacation?
Won’t recommend this operator. Communication and information were not as forthcoming as others.3. Did you feel that your vacation benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?
To a certain extent. The hotel at Bran used individual packaging for shampoo and shower gels - not environmentally conscious.4. Finally, how would you rate your vacation overall?
Average.Read the operator's response here:
Hi Paulette, I am disappointed to read your review and I feel I must answer some of your criticisms as they certainly do not reflect those of other travelers on this tour. In terms of communication, for example, we provide a fully detailed itinerary quite a long way in advance, we also provided bespoke additional reservations for you in Romania. In addition to this we issue all travelers with download and log-in details for our excellent app - Vamoos; this app has all your documents, lots of additional information, detailed maps and useful links to enjoy your vacation to the full. Vamoos has been one of the most successful innovations we have introduced and frequently receives high praise in our reviews. It now includes a live messaging function which you made use of during your trip. As it happened we had some people pull out of this trip relatively late and so you and one other fellow traveler enjoyed almost a private tour with our excellent guide, Mihai. Everything in the tour itinerary was still included, Mihai will have provided very good guiding and information each day and I know that you certainly enjoyed the food as Mihai just allowed the two of you to go "a la carte" throughout. I agree, of course, that the days of individually packaged items are limited but this doesn't mean that the packaging and products themselves were not to some extent environmentally friendly. We do an audit of our main partners each year to discover just how they approach such matters. Once again, I am sorry to hear that you didn't enjoy the tour to the full on this occasion.
Simon Seaton review 29 May 2019
1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your vacation?
Wonderful scenery, painted monasteries, fortified churches, historic castles, varied wildlife and a fantastic guide able to explain everything. What’s “not to like” about this trip.2. What tips would you give other travelers booking this vacation?
Do discuss what you'd like to see and do on your trip with the owners of the tour operator, Dawn & Andy. They are extremely knowledgeable and very helpful. Nothing is too much trouble for them … customer service is excellent. On your trip, beware, the culinary experience did have the effect of increasing our weight!!! ?3. Did you feel that your vacation benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?
Most definitely … some of the places we visited were "off the beaten track" and not commercialised and where we had the opportunity to meet and interact with local people.4. Finally, how would you rate your vacation overall?
Excellent … top marks to the operator… we'll certainly travel with them again.Holiday Reviews
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