Dresden Steam Festival Traveller Reviews

This was a tour of the Dresden steam festival over four days with two long days travel added to each end. It was not helped by the fact that clocks had gone forward an hour the week before and Germany is another hour ahead, so every morning start felt like getting up in the night for another day. Little concern was shown for the physical comfort of participants. For example one day had two narrow gauge journeys of over three hours without thought for food, drink or toilets. This was on wooden seats, which is to be expected on historic carriages but not twice in one day! There was barely time between the two to grab a sandwich and carry-on coffee. Another day was an outing on a paddle steamer and the guide had not ascertained which pier the boat would leave from. This meant a kilometre walk round some road works taken at speed so not to miss the boat. Two members of our party were walking with sticks. There would have been a tram taking us nearer if the guide had checked. This was thoughtless. Most information was given out at the last minute, so we could not do our own research on what we needed. This tour was designed for men who needed neither drink, food nor toilets but plenty of information was given out about evening beer drinking.

Ffestiniog travel is a company I would have liked to support as I love its railway but they have let me down on two trips now so I won't be using them again.

Enjoyable, well paced, and good tours.

Ffestiniog Travel

Dresden Steam Festival event/tour

Information really good