Gate1 River Cruises

I had not traveled with a tour before and I had heard horror stories from friends and family about tours they had been on. I was very happy with our tour and accommodations. We saw so many wonderful things. The local guides were great. The bus drivers were great. She was amazing and handled all the different personalities of our group in a professional way. She is amazing. My one issue was the shopping. While I wanted to shop and did indeed purchase an expensive jade bracelet and pearls, I did feel the sales people in the jade store and pearl store were a little too aggressive. As a person from California I found it disturbing to be constantly followed in a store by a sales person and called "lady, lady". But, I still bought what I wanted to buy.

Everything are went well & good service.

Gate 1 travel did an outstanding job on providing a top flight tour and a very reasonable price.

We had a wonderful time and memorable experiences with our Danube River cruise, meeting new friends along the way. We get to see a lot scenic locations. Overall we did have a great time..

The tour more than met our expectations. One thing that we were not happy about is that they assigned us to a different tour director during the trip. We booked the 2 day pre-cruise option in Amsterdam and the tour director there was great. When we transferred to the boat, they explained that because there were more people on the boat, it was necessary to spit the group among 3 tour directors. Unfortunately, we were assigned to a different tour director. She was not as personable or as knowledgeable as our previous director. We often found ourselves tuning into our previous director channel during the walking tours to glean the additional information that he provided. Fortunately, the other director was our tour director for the post-cruise option in Lucerne.