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The guide was personable but marginal. Lunch was rather pathetic, as was the "wine tasting," which was one ounce of one wine. I loved the towns!
Reviewed by: Duane C, United States, October 2007
Lunch wasn't good enough, and the guide didn't guide enough.
Reviewed by: Mark K, United Kingdom, September 2007
These were interesting places to visit. Orvieto and Assisi should be separate trips. Combining them in one day is too much. This particular tour only gave us about an hour to see Orvieto. By the time we saw the inside of the church, went to the bathroom and found something to drink, there was no time left! Assisi was similar. We started walking on one end of the tour, then visited the main square area and church. We thought we would be given at least an hour to check out some of the shops, but instead we went on the see Cathedral of St. Francis. I really feel that this excursion should be reevaluated!
Reviewed by: Anonymous, United States, July 2007
Assisi was very pretty and interesting to see. Orvieto was nice, but smaller and lacking some of the charm of Assisi. Overall, the tour was pretty good but felt a bit rushed since much time is spent driving to and from Rome and the sights. The tour guide was polite, but offered little useful information during the tour. However, the local Assisi tour guide was excellent during that piece of the tour. The lunch break at the agro-tourism locale was a waste of time, and nothing more than an opportunity to get tourists to spend money on overpriced local products found more cheaply in Rome. The meal they provided offered no choice and was average at best, plus the drinks not included were overpriced.
Reviewed by: Mark H, United States, July 2007
The design of the tour was great, including where to visit and the time allotted. But the guides were not enthusiastic, even the young local guide in Assisi. They were lethargic and appeared bored. Our driver was excellent.
Reviewed by: Anonymous, United States, June 2007
Local tour guide in Assisi did a fine job. We much enjoyed lunch en route, and on the drive to Rome from Assisi we passed some marvelous scenery. While the time we spent in Orvieto and Assisi was very worthwhile, the guide who accompanied the bus tour - who did not seem knowledgeable - strangely passed out maps of Orvieto and Assisi only after we'd completed each of those legs of the tour. We could have had a better experience if we'd had the maps before visiting each site.
Reviewed by: Anonymous, United States, May 2007
This was a nice day spent. We are glad we did the tour. We throughly enjoyed the cities and seeing the sights, but thought the tour itself could have been more in-depth.
Reviewed by: Elizabeth B, United States, September 2006
Great places to visit. Beautiful cities, however not enough time to do both in one day. Need one day each place. Definitely a must-see! But, we had a horrible guide. Said very little and left us with out information other than when we were to return to the bus.
Reviewed by: Anonymous, United States, August 2006
The transportation facilities were fine and on time and the guide in Orvietto did a good job, though his English was a bit difficult to understand and he wasn't quite loud enough.
However, I had some real problems with the rest of the trip. I was traveling with my frail eighty year old mother and the Assisi part had a lot of walking (which we weren't expecting). The tour guide was very poor - we couldn't hear her and she left us and made no attempt to keep the group together. Finally, we were misled at the farm shop. We were told that we could bring the sausage/meat products into the US but they were confiscated by customs.
The guide's English left a lot to be desired. Many other tours had listening devices, but we didn't.
Reviewed by: Kenneth R, United States, August 2006
The bus ride was too long for such short trips to these towns. The tour guide was terrible, which makes a huge difference!! When we went to the lunch they spoke only in Italian, I understand it's Italy but when on a tour with mostly Americans it would be a grand idea to have a translator or something! The food was nothing special and the service was not so nice. Drinks were supposed to be included and they weren't. The drive was nice to see some scenery outside of Rome, but I'm sure it could be done in a more economical and time conserving way!
Reviewed by: Paul S, United States, July 2008
As many reviews I read about this tour I do agree with them. You try to do to many things and then we could not enjoy any. Not enough time in Orvieto or Asissi. Lunch was a not good at all. You state typical Tuscan food but a cheap pasta and bland piece of meat is not typical. Get rid of the lunch at the winery and do lunch in Asissi then spend more time in Orvieto and the afternoon in Assisi. The week before we did a tour from Florence to Tuscany, Siena, San Gimignano, that was terrific. Lunch was a great spread, salami, parma, cheeses, pastas.
Reviewed by: Thomas L, United States, July 2008
Beautiful country, but this was mostly an unescorted tour. Our guides did nothing much beyond actually identifying the places we stopped to visit and pointing us to the entry door. They marched us through the streets at top speed, when it would have been a real pleasure to stroll and appreciate these little mountain top villages and learn something about their history. We were left on our own to see whatever we could see and to learn whatever we could learn on our own not much.
Reviewed by: Anonymous, United States, May 2008
Getting to see these two towns was absolutely worth taking this tour, but we do not recommend this tour. Once back in Rome, the tour guides were among the first to leave the bus. They left us and four other couples with a driver who spoke Italian. We thought it was very uncaring and dangerous for the company not to request that the tour guides stay on the bus until the end of the trip.
Reviewed by: Carlos L, United States, October 2007
Unfortunately very ordinary experience from the pick up to drop off.
Reviewed by: Elizabeth H, Australia, October 2007
