Calabria All Inclusive

Robert Carter

Tropea is beautiful and the hotel very good. The included excursions need tweaking as some were over long. Our tour manager was very knowledgeable and enthusiastic but a disaster area with organisation. For a railway holiday, one day on trains was sparse (should have been two but the train was cancelled). Lovely part of Italy with few British tourists.

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C Chipchase

This was our first trip with the company, and expect it will be the last. Tropea and surrounding areas are beautiful would recommend visiting this area but no ncessarily for a week. Hotel room very small, with liimted storage space, would rate 3 star or below. Comunication between the company the tour guide and the group of holiday makers was dreadful, very disorgansied, resulting a few disasterous trips, The all inclusive package was very limited and you were made to feel guilty if you asked for a second glass of wine at dinner time. The saving grace of this holiday was that the group of holiday makers were all lovely people and we were brought together with a Dunkirk spirit despite the above issues.

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LAC

Not up to usual Great Rail/Rail Discoveries Group Tours. Hotel, The main areas of Restaurant and outdoor Pool were very nice ( although you had to dodge the trailing plants in the ubiquitous hanging baskets in the restaurant) The “All Inclusive” included alcohol was very limited. One or two choices of beers, red or white wine, lemoncello and one other liqueur of dubious content and bottled water available until 10pm. The first few days the wine served in the restaurant was very sparse. One small measure, two if you were lucky. This improved somewhat as the week progressed. Some of our party seemed to fare better than others. The food was ok but a bit repetitive. The staff were all very pleasant. Some days when there were other tour groups in, it was very busy with not a lot of room to navigate the line for food. The main course was served, the rest was buffet, help yourself. There was entertainment in the evening, Monday-Friday by the pool bar, Solo singer/keyboard/guitar player who we thought was great. Rooms. Our ground floor room was tiny and very dark, only having one small window with outside dark wood shutters. One wardrobe with shelf underneath we used for shoes. One small bedside table each with small drawer. There were no other drawers in the room. Luckily, I had read similar on Tripadvisor so took a couple of hanging shoe and jewellery holders which I used for underwear, jewellery and small items. The bathroom was also quite small, one small shelf above sink. There was pump dispenser for shower gel but I took our own and shampoo/conditioner/body lotion. We had to keep the bathroom door shut as the floor was constantly hot, probably due to pipe work for the above rooms. The room was kept clean and bed/towel change during our stay. The tour. We didn’t have a tour manager who came with us from the UK. There was a Rail Discoveries Rep at Stansted to issue us our boarding passes for outward and inbound flights. He was late arriving and difficult to spot as he wasn’t standing at the Ryanair section but over to the side. Some of our group didn’t even spot him. Ryanair, haven’t flown with them for over 10 years and have no desire to ever fly with them again. We were not given flight locator or flight booking reference numbers by RD so you couldn’t choose your seat in advance. We were unlucky to get middle and isle seat on both journeys with occupied window seats. It was the most uncomfortable, hard ridged seat, minimal leg room ( hubby is 6’2” and sat in isle seat, constantly getting bashed by trolley) No cash excepted, card payment only and in Euros. Poor exchange rate also. Our tour guide who met us at Lemezia (who turned out not to be a tour guide unless it involved archeology was pretty useless. Not checking numbers, not giving information out to the group, was elusive at times, never had a session where you could go and get information from him. Didn’t change the printed itinerary (to which there were changes) unless it involved archeology (something he was excellent at) he really wasn’t interested. After one disastrous day halfway through the week, the local tour company bought in another tour guide to help out. He was excellent and gave us everything we needed. The list of issues we had is quite lengthy and I will certainly be writing to RD. We did Puglia with this company in 2019. That was a great trip which prompted me to book this trip. We have done many trips with GRJ which have always been excellent with great tour managers who have been able to sort out any issues. After this experience I’m very reluctant to book with them again.

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Caroline

Tropea is a lovely town. Hotel staff very pleasant. A cross between a resort beach holiday and a tour. Organisation needs tightening up though and more time made available to spend in areas of historical interest and beauty.

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A Fletcher

Rubbish room,rubbish tour operator.Beautiful place.

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A Skinley

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