Ffestiniog Travel Traveller Reviews

Starting in Bergen in Norway and heading north to the Arctic Circle via Oslo to Narvik, crossing into Sweden and down to Stockholm. A good trip including some things I have always wanted to do, like the Flåm railway, Narvik and the Inlandsbanan in Sweden.

Ffestiniog Travel are a specialist railway tour operator who specialize on tours with a good content of railways, with days to explore included.

Good mix of familiar and less obvious experiences for fans of steam propulsion, lake cruises and general transport.

Provider of imaginative tours with flexibility to tailor to individual requirements.

This was a bespoke railway touring holiday of Scotland organized for us by Ffestiniog Travel as a 50th Wedding Anniversary present. It included visits to Inverness, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Fort William and Mallaig.

Ffestiniog Travel provided us an excellent personal service and organized a customized tailor made holiday to suite our available time and preferences.

Travelled unescorted by rail all the way from Chester UK to Bergen Norway via Eurostar / Belgium / Cologne and Hamburg in Germany / Odense in Denmark / Stockhom in Sweden and in Norway Oslo and finally Bergen. Flew back to Manchester from Bergen.

Festiniog Travel very helpful in putting our bespoke itinerary together with the seat reservations on all the many trains we travelled on - which worked spot on -as well as all hotel reservations and flight home. Only hiccup was at Manchester Airport where we waited almost as long as the flight from Bergen on the Sunday evening, for our bags to come from our plane to the carousel.

3 nights each in Bergen and Oslo; 2 nights in Stockholm. The rest of the time was spent travelling around Norway and Sweden by train, with train journeys of up to 10 hours a day. Some days meant setting the alarm clock for 6.00am which did not feel lilke a holiday. The holiday "did what it said on the tin" in terms of brochure accuracy, but left us feeling a bit disatisfied, that we hadn't spent more time seeing more of Norway & Sweden other than through a train window.

Alll the travel arrangements worked efficiently. However, the role of our tour guide was limited to making sure we got between the railway station and hotel, and vice versa. he sometime failed to communicate arrangements for the next day, and twice i had to send him a text message to find out what was happening. He provided no introduction to the cities we visited, A good tour guide would have enabled us to get much more out of the holiday.

A good holiday that could be improved with a few tweaks

Tour Manager was excellent

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Add on to trip to Isle of Wight.

Ffestiniog Travel are excellent and go out of their way to make arrangements that work in all respects.

The Tramways of Romania tour was a single departure and offered a close up look at tramways in six Romanian cities. The organisation was good. We enjoyed the services of a local guide who went beyond the call of duty, to look after our needs. Accomodation, with one exception was very good. The only real downside of the trip was the train travel between cities, which although interesting, involved using antiquated, overcrowded and over heated trains. I would not tour by this means in future, unless it was in a more advanced country. The journey to and from Romania ran smoothly. It was nice to enjoy the services of two national airlines and to avoid the cheap and cheerful ones.

The information supplied was better than I have received from much larger operators. A lot of planning had obviously gone into the tour. This is appreciated.

Good combination of rail travel and city sightseeing.

Friendly and flexible