The Best of Austria & Switzerland Reviews

This trip really showed the best of Austria and Switzerland in the allocated length of the trip. Tracey at Global Journeys was great to deal with with all questions answered. Loved the tour! Our guide was very approachable and informative, bus driver was fun with great driving skills, accommodation was also good. Only small issue was the older ones ...read more on the group did not like a shower over the bath as it was sometimes a bit difficult for them. Not all accommodation had this and I know it’s unavoidable.

Included tours are a must! I did all of them and was not disappointed. The group consisted largely of American tourists with a small group of us Aussies. Some highlights were going up the Matterhorn, going on the Glacier Express, seeing a bear swimming in Berne (the guide and driver had never seen this before - they missed it this time as well!), concert in Vienna, Mirabell Gardens, Zermatt, a car free town and visiting the church where the wedding took place in Sound of Music! Loved Lucerne as well. I chose to stay and extra night to go and visit the Jungfrau which was great. I also added a few extra days in Zurich and used the train to visit some extra places like Stein Am Rhein and the Rhein Falls. I would highly recommend this Globus Tour.

We were very lucky to have a wonderful tour guide, Sheryl Evans. She was very enthusiastic, helpful and knowledgeable, having lived and studied in the countries we visited.Our driver was another star being very careful and able to get the bus to do amazing things in very tight spaces. Hotels were very good except for the Mercure in Salzburg which was ...read more definitely not up to Globus standards. After receiving complaints from tour members and Sheryl, Globus compensated us by giving a free excursion.

The highlights for me were waking up in Zermatt and looking through my bedroom window to see the first snowfall of the season and the Matterhorn. What a sight! I also loved a visit to a Swiss farm where we had a fabulous dinner and just as we arrived a little calf was born. We were able to see its first steps. On the whole a most delightful trip.

Our tour of Austria and Switzerland was magic. Among our highlights were visits to Vienna, Salzburg, Zermatt and Berne. Among optional tour highlights were visits to Hitler's Eagle's Nest, the Matterhorn Glacial Paradise, Trummelbach Falls and Mount Pilatus. I would recommend this tour to everyone. The tour operator, Globus, as always did a marvellous ...read more job. I would recommend Global Journeys for their professionalism and competitive prices.

We took this tour in the European Autumn and the weather was perfect. Our Tour Guide Yanya was a first rate Guide; very professional and her knowledge was extensive in all areas toured which she delivered with interest, confidence and elegance. All the optional extras that we selected (3) we were very happy with value for money and were given plenty ...read more of time to discover things on our own. Included meals on Tour were excellent especially Salzburg. All Hotels were what we expected of the standard Globus has and with the exception of Berne were very centrally located. The Coach Driver Zoltan was a very experienced and professional driver and at no time was safety compromised. Our experience with Global Journeys, especially Hannah, was as efficient and professional as had been the case in our other experiences with this company. We will continue to deal with them when travelling in future and recommend them and Globus highly.

We can honestly say that we thoroughly enjoyed our Best of Austria & Switzerland tour, enhanced by the excellent weather. Although we covered so much, the 2 day stopovers let us catch our breath. Our hotel accommodation was top class. High praise goes to our tour guide, Pieter Reynolds, who was the complete package - he is a knowledgeable, humorous ...read more & caring person who made us feel so pleased that we were on tour with him. The local guides that Pieter engaged in Vienna, Salzburg & Lucerne were all excellent & told us so much about their cities. We did all the optional extras except one dinner & enjoyed them all. If we had to pick 3 favourites, they would be the concert in Vienna, going up Little Matterhorn on a perfect clear day & the dinner on a Swiss farm ( we being farmers), quite a variety! We would also like to compliment Leanne Duffield for being so helpful assisting us with booking our tour. We're happy to recommend the whole experience.

Our tour guide Valeria was wonderful. She certainly packed everything into our tour and catered to all our needs. Nothing was too much trouble and always there to help. We thoroughly enjoyed our tour going from Austria into Switzerland. The Glacier Express trip was beautiful. Hotels and excursions included or extra were all wonderful. We thoroughly ...read more enjoyed the whole trip and would recommend to friends etc. The only negative was that WiFi on the coach was rarely working. I would tour again Globus.

This tour was really excellent, both in its itinerary and its overall organisation. We were most impressed with Globus. The tour director was terrific, with her vast knowledge of the country and history of the areas we were passing through. Our coach driver was also of the top order. His politeness and assistance throughout was excellent. We felt safe ...read more with him at all times. We did feel that the tour could have had an extra day or two, to allow for rest days, but we are also aware that tour operators try to keep cost to a reasonable level. Regarding the accommodation, this was of the best that could be expected. All hotels were top class, along with the included meals. On a scale of 1 to 5, we have no hesitation to give a score of 5, including value for money, organisation by Global Journeys and the personal assistance given by Yvonne when we wanted to alter our already booked flight times. Well done. We have no hesitation in recommending (and have already) Global Journeys to our friends and relatives.

We were once again very impressed with Globus. We had previously done a tour around Germany, and this second tour was more relaxed than that one, with more two-night stays in one location and plenty of free time in most places. There was only one day which was not very well planned, which was the day from Salzburg to St Moritz - in an attempt to get ...read more to St Moritz in time to do the optional excursion (which was lovely), there were not enough comfort stops, not long enough in Innsbruck, which really should have been a lunch stop - we ended up having to eat lunch on the bus as there was no real lunch stop this day - and also there was no free time to see anything of St Moritz after the optional excursion. It would have been preferable to have had an extra day in the tour in St Moritz so this travelling day could be better paced. There was also another day with a scheduled late start but then a stop later in the day which felt rushed. Other than these, the tour was really good, and the tour director was terrific.