Costa del Sol Suggested Itineraries

A BRILLIANT DAY OUT . coach very comfy nice driving. lots of shops what more could you ask for GO THE VIATOR WAY ITS THE BEST

Doing what: Gibraltar Shopping Tour

Ronda and the Tajo Gorge were fantacstic but the waiting around while picking up and dropping off other passengers was a pain. In hindsight, we should have organised our own travel using the trains and we would have had more time to see things. Not sure if I would do another bus tour like this again. There are people who will prefer to do a tour as it is a bit cheaper and you don't have to think about the travel.

Doing what: Ronda and Tajo Gorge Day Trip from the Costa del Sol

The tour to Morocco was good, but we thought it was a english speaking tour and it was in Spanish mostly, with translation in english. Also the bus ride was very long coming back, but bus was comfortable and clean. It was sad that we could not see the largest mosque in Marrakech, I think time should have been allocated to view at least one mosque in Morroco.

Doing what: 5-Day Morocco Tour: Casablanca, Marrakech, Meknes, Fez and Rabat

This tour is primarily Spanish-speaking and partly translated into English. Most of the tour is spent driving on the bus as it covers too many places in such a short period of time.

Doing what: 5-Day Morocco Tour: Casablanca, Marrakech, Meknes, Fez and Rabat

BUS: First let me say, the tour guide on the bus was excellent and he spoke Spanish and English very well. Therein lies part of the problem with this tour, it was advertised as English speaking yet more than half of the time Spanish was spoken and when the guide finished speaking Spanish all the Spanish travellers would start conversing with each other and the English talk was subsumed it a cacophony of noise. Whole days were spent sitting in a bus and very little time was available for visiting..

HOTELS: Generally very good although perhaps not Five Star by European standards, comfortable nonetheless, to frequently not central enough locations to walk into town.

OVERALL: Happy to have been to Morocco, wouldn't want to spend a whole day 7:00 to 19:00 travelling from Costa del Sol to Fez in a bus ever again. Would appreciate the ability to actually visit more sites in less places e.g. driving for hours to get to Casablanca to be shown one of the worlds biggest mosques and not be allowed to enter it. Why go all the way to Casablanca?

Doing what: 7-Day Morocco Tour from Costa del Sol: Fez, Meknes, Marrakech, Casablanca, Rabat and Tangier

What a great day. Our guide, Monserrat, was passionate and enthusiastic about her home city of Cadiz. She met us at the port gate and was bang on time. We had a lovely walk around Cadiz and saw things that you probably see with a larger group of people (there were only 2 of us). She was very knowledgable about the history and architecture of Cadiz and was excellent at pointing out explaining items as we walked aroung the city.
All in all a great day out and many thanks to Monserrat and her boss Oliver.

Doing what: Cadiz Shore Excursion: Small-Group Walking Tour with Flamenco Show and Andalusian Lunch

We were treated to a very personal interesting and informative tour. Tour Guide met us promptly from the ship and tour guide Monserrat was lively bubbly and great value. Lunch and the show with Oliver was also very pleasurable . Food was great and variety on Tapas menu was awesome. We were disappointed that the Flamenco show singer was not in traditional costume to add to the experience but all in all great value for money.

Doing what: Cadiz Shore Excursion: Small-Group Walking Tour with Flamenco Show and Andalusian Lunch

Overall a good trip. Need to have a guide in morocco who can speak fluent english. Also, casablanca can probably be eliminated from the itinerary because there is hardly anything worth seeing in that city.

Doing what: 5-Day Morocco Tour: Casablanca, Marrakech, Meknes, Fez and Rabat

The pros - Gibraltar is lovely, excellent for duty free and worth a visit.
The cons - The bus took 3 1/2 hours to get there from Torremolinos by the time we had made all the pick up stops, so we got to Gibraltar at midday and we had to be back on the coach at 4pm. Booking it as the shopping tour, you basically just get the bus fare included and that's it. We were dropped at the bus station but not given any map or directions of where to walk to the town, which is a 10 minute walk each way to the square. We just about had time to do the cable car ride up to the rock, lunch and a quick look around the shops, which actually closed at 3pm on a Saturday.
Summary: Whilst we had an enjoyable afternoon, it was a rush in the 4 hours we had there. More information would have been appreciated.
Tips: Do not go on a Saturday as the shops close at 3pm. Get a map from the tourist office for free rather than paying £1 out of the machines. If you are not an independent type of traveller, book this trip with the rock tour etc included. Finally if you want more than 4 hours in Gibraltar, consider other options.

Doing what: Gibraltar Shopping Tour

Relatively short trip with just one pick-up of other tourists (in downtown Marbella).
Lovely day and town. My favorite of the four Viator tours I took.

Doing what: Ronda and Tajo Gorge Day Trip from the Costa del Sol

We enjoyed our trip to Ronda but being on a tour where the guide had to explain everything in four languages took away our concentration . Our guide's main topic was how many rich people live in Marbella.
To be honest we did not enjoy our guide.

Doing what: Ronda and Tajo Gorge Day Trip from the Costa del Sol

Informative and adequate free time to explore the city

Doing what: Ronda and Tajo Gorge Day Trip from the Costa del Sol

Our tour guide and driver were very pleasant and our local guides were very informative. We enjoyed the sights that we saw, particularly the medina at Fez and Marakesh. There was a lot of time spent in the bus and I would be inclined to alt the itinerary and leave Casablanca off the tour.

Doing what: 5-Day Morocco Tour: Casablanca, Marrakech, Meknes, Fez and Rabat

Guide not as pleasant as last year told pickup was 8 45am guide came and got us from breakfast at 8 35am told us that we were late and pickup was up the road we had only been on the coach 5minutes and stopped for a toilet break in the dirtiest garage/cafe with toilets so disgusting you couldn't use

Doing what: Gibraltar Shopping Tour

Good tour, Just spent too much time picking up other for the tour. The bullring tour was great and Ronda is a site you should see.

Doing what: Ronda and Tajo Gorge Day Trip from the Costa del Sol