Martin Randall Travel Traveller Reviews

Another Martin Randall superbly organized tour....maximizing our time combining their history tour with the Valletta Baroque Music Festival.

We have been totally satisfied participants of several Martin Randall tours and Malta was another hi-light for us.

set of 14 lectures about Victorian politics, politicians, engineers, painters and artists, industrialists and so on. Very interesting and stimulating.

Martin Randall always do a superb job of organising these events. Everything is always smooth and trouble-free, and the company's representatives are always on hand in case they are needed.

I spent six days with a small group of twelve like-minded people and the company of Dr Roberto Cobianchi, our scholarly lecturer and delightful guide around the Renaissance art and architecture of Florence. We visited all the highlights from the Ufizzi (twice, allowing time for close focus on Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca, Lippi, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci and Titian, amongst others) to the Bargello where we studied the sculpture of Donatello, Michelangelo and Verrocchio, to the many churches and chapels designed by Brunelleschi to Michelangelo's Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. - - and much, much more. Six days gave us time to savour these highlights rather than feel visits were rushed or crammed in. We set off on foot each day from our hotel opposite Santa Maria Novella and were soon able to negotiate the very walkable centre of the city. One warm, sunny, February morning, we set off by taxi to see the early church of San Miniato al Monte where we also enjoyed a fine meal in the Loggia and superb views of Florence laid out beneath us before returning on foot to the city. It was a memorable stay, made even more pleasant with the company of a tour manager who was efficient and organised, allowing our visits to be hitch-free.

I have now experienced two Martin Randall tours, both in Italy, and they have been superb. The quality of lecturer, tour manager, hotel, travel arrangements etc are all excellent and clearly carefully selected and arranged. I have also done a Martin Randall London Day focusing on the City and its architecture where our guide was the ex-Chief City Planner - meals and breaks were all carefully planned and gave us added pleasure, for example, concluding the day with cocktails in the Sky Garden - what could be better?

We had an excellent weekend of first class music, food and wine

We takes holidays several times a year with Martin Randall Travel because we have never had a bad one yet. The music involves international stars, the lecturers are well-known in their field (we had Stephen Johnson this time who is particularly good) and the administartors are attentive, helpful and constantly available.

An excellent holiday, different and inspiring, with opera, ballet and art

Excellent; helpful and imaginative.

A delightful expertly guided tour of the history, art and architecture of renaissance Milan and surrounding area including visits to Pavia, Vigevano and Bergamo. We also greatly enjoyed sampling the cuisine of Lombardy.

Martin Randall Travel sends small groups to explore carefully chosen cities and their surrounding areas guided by superb lecturers and looked after by experienced tour managers. Hotels, meals and customer care are always of the highest standard.

Well organised and an excellent itinerary.

We have used Martin Randall a few times and they are consistently professional and well organised.

A cultural week in Vienna over Christmas wihich included the opera, ballet, music, art & architecture plus fine food & wine

First time with Martin Randall Travel ; the itinerary was excellent, the main guide and manager were excellent.

We stayed in an excellent hotel in the centre of Verona, a group of 16 of us. We had a varied programme of visits to churches and museums in Verona. We also had day trips to Padua and Mantua. The itinerary was put together by our excellent lecturer and all the organisation details were handled efficiently by our tour manager. We were particularly grateful for the alternative travel arrangements put in place when a drone led to the cancellation of all Gatwick flights.

We have now been on about half a dozen Martin Randall trips. We have learnt that on MR trips we will stay in good hotels and have first-rate lecturers. There will be good meals in carefully chosen restaurants. The group size will never be too large and we know we will meet interesting people from varied backgrounds borought together by a common interest.

Based at a superb 5-star hotel in the centre of town, opposite St. Isaac's cathedral, each day was action-packed! The Hermitage (twice), the Russian Museum, opera and ballet, churches, palaces, royal estates, Peterhof, local restaurants, excellent transport (brilliant driver), a superb lecturer, devoted tour manager. Could not have been better.

During their 30 years of existence, Martin Randall Travel has consistently raised the standard for cultural tours to Exceptional. Mr. Randall himself was at Heathrow at 7.30 a.m. on 20th December - just to keep an eye on things! Attention to detail is meticulous. These trips are not cheap (who wants cheap?) - they are firstclass value for money (who doesn't want that?)