I just took a peek at the Collette 10 day Austria & Switzerland tour. One nice aspect is that you are only at 2 hotels, and not changing every other night. Stay at hotel 4-5 nights and each day bus to a specific destination. This limits your time at the destination (and what destinations you go to each day) since you have to bus back to the hotel, so there is a trade off. But, as with a first trip to WDW, you can't do it all at once, and everything you experience will be new. Maybe think about how you would want to do a Disney trip - rush all over and try to see as much as possible, or take your time, enjoy the sights and know you will want to come back for more.Hey Europe travelers. Narrowing down our 2025 trip. Doing a tour group. One goes to Germany, Austria, Prague and Hungary. The other Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Pros and Cons on eavh one. Both 10 days and similar in price. Anyone have any recommendations and why. Also the companies we are looking at are Traflagar, Collette and Globus. Anyone have any experience with these groups.
Read trip reviews. One recent reviewer on the Collette trip with only 2 hotels felt that too much time was spent on the bus going back and forth. That reviewer would have preferred changing hotels more frequently so more time could be spent at destinations. Consider what your travel companions would prefer. Our trips to Europe have been on river cruises so we had the best of both - only one 'hotel' but traveling in that hotel from destination to destination, so no back tracking. In our family, we've had experience with EF Tours and Gate1 tours, so can't speak to the groups you mentioned.
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