Martin Randall Travel Traveller Reviews

Touring with expert lecturer on renaissance art was amazing

I have done many trips with Martin Randall and always find them superb!

12 days of history, culture, art & architecture, with a highly qualified lecturer and a tour manager. Well paced & well organised days, with access to some private palazzi as an extra treat. Well located hotels, many meals included - excellent food & wine. Great company, great itinerary, great fun.

Martin Randall organisation is second to none - well researched itineraries, with timings which allow plenty of time for wandering around museums, galleries and sites, and a walking pace which suits all. Great lecturers and tour managers, well informed.

I travelled with my daughter to celebrate her 50th birthday.

I have taken several Martin Randall tours and will do so again as soon as I can. Their lecturers are superb, their tour management impeccable and their choice of subjects always fascinating.

A full-on educational tour and a wonderful experience.

Extremely efficient and knowledgeable.

Decent central hotel. well organised transport between venues when necessary, courteous staff and an excellent programme of speakers. Good attention to hearing levels in the lecture theatre and a first class projection system.

A well planned event with good attention to detail and plenty of staff who were able to make sure that coordination between the three hotels avoided hitches and hold-ups.

This was a specialized Textile Tour and we learned a lot about old and new Japanese textiles, the weaving techniques, embroideries and and dyeing methods.

He had chosen specialized lecturers and a very good local tour guide.

Day in London on Turner Constable and Claude

Everything smooth and kind and efficient

We visited Ely, Lincoln, Durham, York, Coventry, Gloucester, Wells, Salisbury and Lincoln Cathedrals with an excellent lecturer. The group was friendly and engaging, the group dinners were fun and the accusations were generally good.

Martin Randall was just wonderful in terms of giving complete information and in being available to e-mail and phone to give additional information. The lecturer was friendlly and truly THE Expert.

A week of music in Bologna brought alive the musical and gastronomic traditions of this fascinating city. World famous musicians played music composed in Bologna in the original venues, several not open to the public. Lecturers added colour and substance to the music, the architecture and the history of the city.

Martin Randall is an outstanding musical impresario. Music in Bologna re-enacted the Coronation of Charles V in the original venue of the Basilica of San Petronio, made the Chiesa di San Giovanni in Monte echo with Rossini's Stabat Mater and brought back the music of Corelli, Mozart and Puccini to the Academia Filarmonica where it would originally have been heard. Organisation of guests in 5 hotels worked with the precision of a Swiss timepiece.

This was a wonderful marriage of musis and the place in which it was written and played. A veritable feast of the highest quality.

Martin Randall Travel specialises among other things in music festivals of this kind, and shows the highest degree of creativity in their design. The staff too are invariably excellent, with good knowledge o the foreign languages and cultures involved.