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Considering taking Smartours " Jewels of the Adriatic" tour in November. If anyone has taken this tour, how were the Hotels and included Dinners?
Thanks, Mike and Joan , Philadelphia

Michaellip: I just posted the item below on a query titled "Tour company" and it was about SmarTours. My reply won't answer the question you asked here, but you might be inerested in the info about Optionals.


Author: mercy
Date: 05/12/2007, 12:49 pm
We are doing the "Croatia" SmarTour in September. Most of the comments tend to be favorable. Try a search on "SmarTours" on this BB and you will get quite a few posts by past tourers--both positive and negative.

I checked with them on the 5 optionals that will probably be offered to us and the cost was about$225 USD pp. This is not out-of-line for 5 optionals and somewhat cheaper than a recent tour I took, when I compared similar types. As usual, we will probably take one or two of the offered optionals, and do "our own thing" otherwise. Ciao!!mhm

I took their vietnam, cambodia, bankgkok tour last year and it was wonderful. My friends are, right now, in the second week of their eastern europe tour with smartours. Just spoke with them, they're having a great time and the hotels and tours have been very good. That was my experience also.

Mercy: Waht are the 5 Optional Tours?
I can't seem to find them in the Literature I have.

Thanks Mike

My parents took Smartours "Jewels of the Adriatic" tour two years ago. I know they really enjoyed the tour, but I don't know any details about how they felt about the hotels and included dinners. They went to South Africa with Smartours this past November and had a great time. I know they would travel with Smartours again.

I've actually been on two of their trips (Scandinavia/St. Petersburg and South America) and both were excellent. I definitely plan to travel with them again.

There are two threads running on this topic: this one "SmarTours" and the other is "Tour Company." In answering Mike's query, I inadvertantly posted on the TC thread. People really need to be more specific when putting in a Subject for their query.


Author: mercy
Date: 05/13/2007, 02:21 pm
Mike--re: SmarTour Optionals. I called the company and asked for informaton about the optionals. That info comes when you receive your final papers.

However, the person I spoke to gave me a listing of those that could (would??) be included:Kumrovec w/dinner $64 (Doing some research I found out that this is a "folk park"-type place, similar to Williamsburg some distance from Zagreb.) At Lake Bled: Lake cruise and visit to the island church $38; Slovenian Village Dinner $34. Istrian Penninsula Day Trip $49; Dubrovnik: Boat cruise to (I think) Lokrum Island with wine tasting $38.

Of course, these excursions may not be operated when you go, and the prices could change. The regular itinerary has several included excursions that seem quite adequate, and there seems to be time to "be independent" if you don't wish to do optionals. Hope this helps. Ciao!! mhm



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