Edinburgh & the Highlands by Steam1/Sep
Clive Turner
“Good hotel,great Edinburgh guide,good trips,especially the Jacobite express,the highland wildlife park…strathspey railway was a bit of anticlimax….Julie,a very Good guide was very attentive and informative…..one point I did make to her was when we were getting on the train and the seats were reserved was that she said just get on the train and find a seat instead of telling which seats were allocated to each person.This could have meant a party of 4 being left with one person of the four being left to a seat of their own and would have saved any arguments who was sitting where.She did agree when I made this observation to her……I book a lot with rail discoveries but I think a useful tip would be for all guides to odopt a policy of stating that on coach trips please keep to your same seats as you started the day with as on one trip other travellers had removed our bag (left on coach)with driver present so when we got back on board we didn’t know which seats were vacant and bag was placed on other travellers seat….I am a leader of a walking group and also book group tours with yourselves and Riviera Travel and they use the above policy and it works very well,and saves any rushing or arguments about someone
pinching someone else’s seat…..Overall a great experience but would improve a lot if the little niggles were taken out by more allocation work done by the guide,ie sitting parties or couples together on trains and coaches as some of these journeys are of a long duration
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