About the organization of the tour 'Two days in Paris'

A bus tour for a tourist is a very difficult event: a lot of time in a seated position on the bus, a lot of walking tours, meals - an organized breakfast at the hotel, the rest - as it turns out in a busy travel schedule. European cities (Krakow, Berlin, Paris, Prague) left very positive emotions, roads and service in hotels are amazing. But the organization of the tour by the Accord-Tour Travel Agency (Lviv), to put it mildly, is a stretched C grade. Firstly, the name of the tour "Two days in Paris" is no longer true: after a night move, in the morning there was a stop at a gas station near Paris (toilet, brush your teeth, drink coffee), we arrived in Paris at about 13 o'clock (this is already the first day in Paris !). The guide in Paris got hooked on the bus, conducted a bus sightseeing tour of the city, not stopping anywhere. There are terrible traffic jams in the city, the bus barely maneuvered on the streets. At the end of the review for 15 minutes, we made one stop to take photos of the Eiffel Tower from the embankment on the opposite bank of the Seine. At about 15.30 we went to check into a hotel in the Mulinex area. They searched for the hotel for more than an hour, it turned out that the drivers did not know at all where to look for it and how to get there, they stopped on the streets to ask the Parisians how to get to the street we needed, while no one (neither accompanying the group, nor one of the tourists) knew French . We looked forlornly from the windows of the bus at the streets of Paris, not knowing whether we would get on the first day in Paris for the night, and we were still waiting for the planned evening tour of Montmartre. The tablet of one of the tourists came to the rescue, who found the route we needed via the Internet, via satellite GPS. Having thrown our suitcases into the room (we didn’t have to think about lunch and dinner on the First Day in Paris, the bacon taken from home rescued us), we gathered near the reception for a trip by metro to Montmartre (we were terribly late for the guide who was waiting for us). Our accompanying group did not know at all where to go to the metro station, so again asking the Parisians on our fingers, we got to the metro in half an hour, drove for a long time to the desired station and ran straight (in the style of walking) to the meeting point with the guide. In December at 20 pm it is already deep darkness. Under the light of lanterns, we walked along the cramped streets, looked at the Cathedral of the Noble Heart and the empty Montmartre, already quite tired after a night move and a half-starved day full of impressions, after 00.00 hours we got to the hotel. The hotel is very cozy, but we did not find a heating system, which was very strange for winter time. Despite this, very tired, fell asleep. It's already the second day in Paris! In the morning, rise, breakfast, check-out from the hotel and departure to Versailles and the Louvre (who signed up, the rest on their own business), we managed to visit these two objects in half a day, quickly, and as a result: at 15 o'clock on the second day we left Paris overnight stay in Germany. Thus ended an incomplete second day in Paris! So, the promised two days turned out to be one day!!! And one more nuance of this tour: the promised one-night transfer, which Accord-Tour travel agency trumped at the presentation of the tour, turned out to be not the only one! We practically spent the last night of the move from the Czech Republic to Poland on the road, arriving at the hotel for an "overnight stay" at four in the morning, while we checked in, washed and went to bed, at 9 in the morning we should have already been at breakfast, after breakfast we went to the border - to Ukraine! Do not count on seeing Prague on this tour either - this is a very quick passage through the evening streets, after it, if you go by boat along the Vltava, the city is almost invisible in the dark, but a very tasty dinner (buffet - hot soup, salads, second and binge). This is such a journey! Happy everyone who decides to go

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