"If I never had another vacation , this one would be enough!"
"We are taking our eighteenth tour with GAT this fall. All of our tour guides have been most knowledgeable and helpful. The tours have been educational, exciting, and truly adventurous. We highly recommend GoAheadTours for your travels.
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"Wow!! The hotels, meals, buses, boats and excursions were unbelievable!! This tour took us the best attractions...there was no waiting in long lines we were really catered to. Our tour guide was friendly, knowledgeable and so accommodating. Go Ahead Tours was fantastic- we had to end our trip early. We completed the tour and had planned to stay in Italy an add'l 2 weeks in Italy. Unfortunately, for health reasons we had to end our trip after the tour. Go Ahead was able to change our flight with a minimal charge for the change fee. Loved the tour, the guide and the company."
"Great Experience!! Great Tour Guides! Excellent Service!!!!!"
"The Baltic Highlights with Russia extension was an amazing tour. The itinerary with stops and excursions was paced just right for our group. Our Russian tour director was one of the best. Because we extended our Russian visit beyond that included in the tour, we had complications with Go Ahead personnel to get the documentation we needed for our visas. The Customer Service Manager finally intervened and resolved the issue for us before we ended up canceling the tour. So glad we could see this part of the world. The Baltic people were beautiful and friendly. The countries were full of history with old and new to create a fascinating tour. We highly recommend this tour."
"Wonderful itinerary! Very nice accomodations that exceeded my expectations. Tini G. was a great tour director!"
"We had such a wonderful experience on our trip through Italy! It was our 25th anniversary so we wanted things to be perfect....and...they were! We have never taken a "tour" before and couldn't have been more pleased with Go Ahead Tours. Excellent guides, great communication, comfortable accommodations, nice transportation from location to location. We absolutely loved our main guide Beagio! He was so knowledgable and fun and funny! He kept us entertained and informed each step! We honestly wouldn't change a thing about our trip. We will definitely be taking another trip through Go Ahead Tours! "
"This was my first European trip and it will not be my last, Go Ahead was great. Our tour guide Sabra was amazing
she was always in control and always had great ideas and suggestions. The group I was with were fantastic people which always makes it a more enjoyable experience. Only negative I have is some of the beds (2) were not comfortable, but I didn't go there to sleep, Lol! I will never forget this first trip. Looking to 2019 for my next
would like to do Rome-Naples-coast-Sicily-Greece we'll see...TU "
"My tour of Spain was a wonderful vacation. Sabrina our guide was the best! She made the tour easy and exciting at the same time. This was my third go ahead tour and the best yet. "
"This was my first visit to Europe and it turned out to be exceptional. The tour was very well done in every aspect. I have travelled with several other tour companies but none have provided such top notch service, right from the initial telephone inquiries to the final dropoff at the airport for the return flight back to Canada. GA Tours handled my flight bookings, and that went easily. The weather was perfect in mid-May. The accommodations were all good quality and clean. Our bus driver Chris was from Warsaw and spoke little English but did a great job threading the big Mercedes bus around switchback curves and tight spots and was always ready for us. The tour director Constantin always amazed us at his knowledge of European history and certainly his comments added a great deal of interest and meaning to the many things we were taking in. Coming from Canada, I saw many old things which were all new to me. That is the beauty of doing tours like this. In Canada, our "old" is not really old at all when compared to the truly old elsewhere in countries across the seas. Great tours are well worth taking. And I do consider this a really great tour worth taking."
"We had lived in Italy 30 years ago, but had not visited Sicily or Calabria, so we thought the Go Ahead Tour would be a great way to remedy that deficit in our experience. From the pre-travel support to the on-scene staff, we thought everyone on the Go Ahead team was wonderful. Our tour director, Alfredo, was a delight. He combined deep knowledge of the history and culture of each city and region with a great sense of humor and enthusiasm for sharing that knowledge with his guests. Our driver, Mimmo, was equally outstanding: safely negotiating the traffic of city and country, while proving to be a gracious and engaging adjunct tour guide. Our bus was modern, comfortable and meticulously clean.
Our tour group was manageably small (28 people) and the locations we visited were well chosen. We were pleased with our accommodations. Particular highlights for us were:
* Catania, where our welcome dinner was in an intimate little restaurant (Km.0) that I would characterize as serving "new Italian" cuisine. The next evening (Saturday) we were delighted to go out to dinner and discovered that almost everyone in Catania was dressed up and out for an evening stroll!
* A Sicilian farmhouse dinner at Azienda Casabianca, where we had marvelous antipasti served al fresco, followed by a simple pasta that was some of the best we have ever had.
* Visits to wineries that varied from small family operations to regional cooperatives that produced thousands of barrels per year.
* The Cioccolato Artigianale Autore chocolate factory in the tiny town of San Marco dei Cavote where we had some of the Best. Chocolate. Ever.
* The cave city of Matera. The Sassi cave dwellings of Matera had been occupied from Paleolitic times until the 1960's. Many are now being converted to luxury hotels and dwellings.
* Tenuta Vannulo, a farm where Mozzarella di Bufala is made. This delicacy from the Campania region is one of our favorite dishes and we were delighted to see how it is made.
* The marvelous city of Naples, situated at the base of Mount Vesuvius. We discovered the church where a 20th great grand parent is buried; visited the marvelous National Archaeological Museum, where any of the artifacts of Herculaneum and Pompeii are displayed; and dined along the waterfront of the Bay of Naples. In addition, since Naples is the birthplace of pizza, our group went out for a pizza dinner.
In sum, the Go Ahead Tour is a very effective way to see and learn a great deal about the south of Italy, while enjoying good food, good wine and the beautiful Italian countryside."
"Connie Archibald
· May 25, 2017
My daughter and I just returned from the London, Paris, Amsterdam Go Ahead Tour and I would like to express how very amazing our Tour Director Matt was! Matt was very professional yet developed a relationship with everyone; he has a deep knowledge of history and art from London, Paris and Amsterdam. He took our group to Montmartre, Paris which was not part of the plan but shows how accommodating he is to show us the parts of the city that may have been difficult for us to find on our own. There was an amazing balance of group tours of the major attractions, group dinners and that so wonderful freedom to explore on our own. I would also mention that the Tour Guide we had for Versailles (Pavel, I think) was exceptional in his knowledge and pride of France. I would highly recommend Go Ahead Tours for the expert Tour Directors, to the management and smooth transition to each city. This was an excellent adventure for us and we met some lovely people from the United States. Please say hello to Matt from Connie and Christiana and thank him for making the trip so memorable. It was safe, fun, and the recommendations from dining, shopping and places to roam on our own were excellent! Well done Go Ahead Tours and a particular kudos to Matt."
"Absolutely fantastic. No flaw or hiccups. Stephania was the best. Such a beautiful country! Fell in love with Venice and the smaller treasure islands. Awesome visiting Rome and the Vatican. And we got to see the Pope! Totally in love in Italy. Can't wait for our next adventure!!"
"I took this tour in May with a friend. While there were many things about it that were wonderful, there were quite a few glitches. Our driver was not at the airport to greet us, we waited almost an hour. Not a good way to start. Our hotel rooms were lacking in any sort of view. We over looked dumpsters, parking lots, parking garages, a roof with heating and cooling equipment. On most of our day tours we had very little time to get to see anything. The us that was used in Ireland was too small. We wer very cramped and uncomfortable. The hotel in Sneem was the saving grace. Spectacular hotel with a lovely view. "
"My mother and I went to Italy with Go Ahead Tours in May, 2017. I highly recommend the tour group. Our guide, Leonor, was fantastic. She was funny and cute and knowledgable. Go Ahead makes travel easy. The local guides were fantastic. I was really impressed with how easy it was to contact Go Ahead before the trip. They return phone calls and emails the same day. It was really easy to book a hotel before the tour started. I would recommend the tour to anyone. "