Ffestiniog Travel Traveller Reviews

Well planned holiday with excellent tour leader and local guides.

Efficient and well thought out with a detailed itinerary that went according to plan

Visits to Lisbon and Porto, plus Sintra and The Douro Valley

Very professional

To Isle of Manfor a break and see the sights

Ffestiniog Travel who we have used before successfully

Wonderful towns with lots of history and interest

Lots of info. Admin excellent,. Friendly on the phone.

Monday to Friday trip to Amsterdam to visit art galleries and walk around city.

Ffestiniog Travel. Arrangements made from outline specification but were exactly what we wanted.

The choice of cities was brilliant. Vienna, Graz, Ljubljana, Trieste and Venice. Tiring in 30C heat but worth it. Trains between the cities mostly worked well but Ljubljana station is a total building site and hard to find your way out of. It will be like that for a few years.

I would have rated Ffestiniog excellent but we really could have done with advance information on how to reach the hotels they booked for us once we arrived at the stations. Google and mobile connection was not always working. Mostly we walked but sometimes it needed a tram or even a taxi (if the queue wasn't enormous). Having to work all this out ourselves was quite stressful. Also the hotel in Venice had no hot water which had been the case for some weeks. They said they had told all the tour operators but ours had not told us. The hotel offered no refund or gesture to compensate. Ffestiniog did all the booking of flights, trains and hotels very efficiently which was great. It would have taken a lot of time and effort to do that ourselves.

7 day holiday by train to Lake Lucerne. Arrangements worked well although lack of airconditioning in Lucerne was a problem due to hot weather. Day trips from Lucerne were generally excellent.

Escorted tour was well organised with an excellent tour guide.

Good trip, nice location.

Set the right level for a railway based holiday

Everything worked as planned except a couple of programme changes due to local issues. Transport all on time and hotels fine.

We have travelled with Ffestiniog before and been impressed as this time with the tour leader and local guides.

This was a seven day holiday, encompassing two days outward rail travel, three days on the Harzschmalspurbahn and two days homeward rail travel. it was well organised in advance, and the tour guide was excellent. He was very knowledgeable about the Heritage Railway we were enjoying and was able to make lots of suggestions of different trips, depending on one's interests. He was also very mindful when it came to possible platform changes during the two days of rail travel to the Harz and two days back. And finally, he was able to deal with excitable members of the group, not to the detriment of the rest of the party.

Ffestiniog Travel specialise in rail holidays, especially, but not exclusively, heritage railways. They are well organised and efficient.