By: Geraldine Tolibas | Wed Oct 16, 2019 at 03.15 AM
It could have been nicer on our 3rd or 4th day if we have stayed in Banff, It was a waste of time traveling back to Calgary for 1.5 - 1.45 minutes a day before and after before we gets to our destination. I feel like we spend so much time ..riding in the bus.Read full review
I wanted to write to you after having the 3-day tour to Montreal-Quebec City-Thousand Islands (code 2103-17850). I am profoundly disappointed on this tour. I wanted to leave as soon as I stepped on the bus, which was very dirty from the beg..inning. I put on a smile and carried on, the tour guide seemed friendly and I had already payed so I just went with it.I was aware that there would be people from different cultures on this trip, which is usually enlightening and enriching. This time, the tour of 46 people in total had 42 Chinese which I wouldn’t think as a problem. For that reason though, most meals were in Asian restaurants, no heads-up whatsoever when booking the tour. Two out of those three were ok, but I would’ve expected typical meals. The third Asian restaurant House of Dragon was extremely dirty at first glance, and the bathroom gave me nausea; if the bathroom was like this I can only imagine how the kitchen looks. On the same note, the first meal at Thousand Islands was terrible, it was more of a communal kitchen or humble eatery than a restaurant. It looked truly unhealthy, very dirty overall. I strongly encourage the tour organizers to visit at least these two places and judge for yourself. I wonder, how can these be part of a tour?
Also, the tour guide talked maybe 2min in Chinese explaining and then gave a 20sec English translation EACH time, so I’m pretty sure she didn’t put a lot of detail on that translation. When on the museums, the tour guide would give us a map and said to the small group of English speakers to do our own self-guided tour as she would only explain things in Chinese. I am also paying for guidance and my guidance was to guide myself with the museum map!!
This tour should be sold with that in mind: oriented to Chinese tourists only.
It’s a petty that I see myself writing this, multiculturalism is a beautiful thing, but I became uncomfortable when a lot of people couldn’t stop burping on a closed bus (this includes the tour-guide burping on the microphone), some would push you on tour line-ups with no awareness of personal space, a couple of time there was some yelling in Chinese on the bus (I didn’t understand what they were saying but apparently they were complaining that people were talking loudly). I just felt out of place on this tour.
Overall, I would never recommend this tour to anyone not Chinese. Please review the tour description and adjust it to avoid people from having the bad experience me and my partner had. Offer multicultural tours that are actually multicultural; this one was clearly a Chinese oriented tour.Read full review
By: Mariben Mercado | Wed Oct 16, 2019 at 12.34 AM
If you have been to coach tours in Europe, then the pacing is just like that. In every attraction you wud be given this no. of minutes or hours so that every destination wud be reached on time. Ivey Wong, a Chinese Canadian New York educate..d guide made the tour informative and our driver hassle free. To enjoy the tour go to all the attractions. The hotels are three stars so if you want an upgrade you can do so and in Quebec I recommend the Chateau Royal. The lunch meals are Chinese buffets. First lunch was ok but the second one was not very good.Read full review
By: Jacqueline swinton | Mon Oct 14, 2019 at 01.23 AM
This was a terrible experience. I would never book with Tours4fun again. They subcontracted me to a local Calgary tour company that caters for Chinese and the tour was in mandarin, Cantonese and broken English. I was unable to talk to anyon..e or make friends and could hardly understand what was being said. It was a lonely and uncomfortable experience and when I bought it to the attention of tours4fun they simply replied that they are allowed to subcontract as it is in the terms and conditions fineprint. I will never book with this company again. The accomodation in calgary is under renovation and terrible!Read full review
The places visited were great but I felt rushed. I think the tour needs to be for 1 week not 4 days to allow enjoyment and appreciation of sites visited.
Accommodation, transportation was basic and could be improved.
The tour guide was gr..eat, accepting of difference in people and knowledgeable.Read full review
The tour iternary was good and covered all places of interest and the hotels were also good and comfortable. However, the breaks for lunch and dinner were only at Chinese restaurant giving non Chinese traveller like me very little options f..or meals. The PA system of the bus needs improvement and so does the fellow Chinese travellers who would keep talking amongst themselves whenever the tour guide will speak in english making it difficult for others to hear and understand... overall a good tour ..Read full review