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Date of purchase: 12 august 2018 Written: 25 august 2018 |
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Travel agency: Аккорд-тур Туроператор (Lviv) Service type: пакетный тур, экскурсионный тур |
This is the third trip with Accord, the first one (back in 2013 left only positive memories), last year we decided to repeat it - the tour was a failure, but with the hope that this time it will still be the same as before - we contacted Accord again ... this time for the last time...
12.08.2018 Ideal trio tour (Prague-Munich-Vienna)
Day 1: Terminal A, as always, met with a crowd of tourists, but it is worth noting that this is one of the most decent places for the entire trip (I don’t take into account the places that I visited on my own))
09:30 - boarding the bus ... the bus??? is this our bus? A blue bus like Ikarus (well, the one from the 90s) was waiting for us ... When we chose seats on the bus with the tour operator according to the scheme provided by him, we agreed that these would definitely not be seats near the second door, we chose one seat after. I think it's easy to guess where exactly we saw the seats, with numbers corresponding to our boarding passes?
Yes, yes, it was precisely behind this ill-fated door, which closed and opened just along the legs of the person sitting by the window, there was a side in front of the legs, because of which there was practically no legroom (there was no table either), but it would be nice if the side was solid - it did not reach the floor, it formed huge gaps through which everything fell down the bus (therefore, throwing some things under your feet was also not an option). The upper shelves of this wonderful bus did not have any railings, on the move everything fell out from above, something broke on some tourists ...
Border. Krakovets. Spent 5 hours there. 2 hours of which in a red-hot bus with closed doors and turned off the air conditioner. No, not because it was impossible to open the door, just the guide Tatyana Shiteeva decided that it would be interesting for everyone in this hell to tell about herself and closed the bus until everyone spoke out ...
It was one of the few moments when she spoke in principle, you can write a separate article about her.
Evening - arrival in Krakow. An hour or a half excursion. Transfer to the hotel. Overnight stay.
Day 2: Breakfast. The hotel is one of the best for the tour. Transfer to Prague about 6 hours. Upon arrival, a sightseeing tour was planned at 15:00, then free time. But our guide Tatyana began to agitate everyone to take a boat along the Vltava at 15:00 and the sightseeing tour was postponed to 17:00 ... For 2 hours we just wandered around an unfamiliar city (+42 in the heat) and took pictures with unknown sights. We also did not dare to go far from the place where we were left, because we were afraid to get lost and not be in time for the survey.
17:00 - sightseeing tour.
It just suddenly began to rain, but our guide didn’t care (she had her pointing umbrella), as if on purpose, she stopped to tell something right in the middle of the street (not near a memorial place, but just in the middle of the sidewalk). After 2 hours of free time - wet walked along the Charles Bridge. Of course he's gorgeous.
Transfer to the hotel. Or a hostel? As it turned out, the former hostel, the conditions are appropriate, but looking ahead, this is not our worst hotel))))
Day 3: Free day in Prague or optional trip to Cesky Krumlov. We chose Krumlov. 5 hours one way and 5 hours return. 2 hours including the tour were in the town itself. Very pretty, but very crowded. The Chinese are everywhere. And there was very little time, they didn’t even have time to take really normal photos.
Return to Prague for the rest of the group. Moving to Munich.
We arrived at night at the IBIS hotel (the best hotel for our trip, "-" only huge cracks and special holes in the shower door ... we had to soak up the water). Overnight stay.
Day 4: Breakfast (decent). Tour of Munich. I really liked the city, only now we got on a holiday and everything was closed (look carefully if you fall into the holidays!)
Those who wished optionally went to Neuschwanstein Castle until the evening (which they never entered, since our guide did not book the entrance in advance). We stayed to walk around the city.
Transfer to the hotel.
Day 5: Free time in Munich, optional excursion to Salzburg for those who wish. About this day, the guide Tatyana was arguing from the first day, as she said that it would be inconvenient for the bus to pick up tourists from Munich and everyone should go to Salzburg (for 68 euros). But wait a minute, it's OPTIONAL!!!
We and several other people wanted to walk around Munich, since it is impossible to get to know the city in half a day. And there is no desire to spend the whole day on the bus again. To which Tatyana offered us a transfer to Salzburg "for less money". That is, it turns out - we just do not go on an excursion, but we follow everyone on the bus. We argued and quarreled with the guide for a long time, as a result, the victory was on our side, we were given our free time in Munich, REGISTRED ON THE TOUR, but no one gave us a lift to the city (the hotel was located in the suburbs of Munich), we got on the train (it’s good that to By that time, there were a large number of people who wanted to stay in Munich and we were all looking for public transport in the wilderness together).
At 15:00 was appointed collection of our rebels and moving to Vienna.
However, neither at 15:00 nor at 15:30 there was a bus, as it turned out, it broke down on the way to Salzburg (which is not surprising).
At the beginning of the fifth, we were picked up by a comfortable Mercedes bus with a German driver and taken to Salzburg (oh, how we hoped that our journey would continue on it, but no ...) In Salzburg we were dropped off and told that our bus was being repaired when it it’s not known what will happen, you have to wait ... we waited somewhere until 22:00 and hello again, I arrived on a clunker ...
A sanitary stop at the toilet at a gas station, where all the toilets are closed, the workers pretend that they don’t understand English, we don’t know German ... We turned to the guide Tatyana, to which we received a mocking answer: “So you didn’t want to go to the toilet, time they didn't get it." And that's all. Haha...
Vienna, or rather, something near Vienna again, in an open field, so to speak) Nobody was waiting for us, the hotel is closed. Our guide said that we need to look for the keys somewhere. at 3 a.m. Found. When the breakfast guide does not know for sure, none of the staff is present. Overnight stay.
Day 6: The poorest breakfast of all time - those who did not have time were late, there was not even an omelette, although we arrived at 7:00 (it turned out that they start eating here from 5:30)
Collection at the bus. Everyone came on time except the guide. Heat. We are waiting for a guide.
We eat in the city. But here again we have only a few hours for everything about everything. We ran. Moving to Budapest. Again agitation for a boat on the Danube at 22:00. Those who did not go were simply locked in the bus and taken to the sleeping areas of Budapest (like the bus had to be parked). As a result, we parked 200 meters from the landing site of the Shipbuilders and were given as much as 20 minutes to walk around in the dark.
Transfer to the Bara hotel. Kind of a hotel...
It turned out that the elevators were turned off at such a late time and our guide did not insist on turning them on, as a result, they pulled the suitcases to the 4th-5th floors manually through a bunch of transitions (similar to between the metro stations Independence Square and Khreshchatyk))) It was just something! !! The hotel is dead!!! Water does not flow from the shower.
but it just drips, taking a shower is unrealistic, not to mention washing your hair ... Well, at least this is the last day.
8:00 Departure for an excursion to Budapest. which did not take place. They gave us free time until 11:00 in the city between shops and cafes. But here's the problem. everything at 10:00 only comes off ...
Transfer through Mukachevo. from which another 6 hours went to Lviv.
Midnight - we are in Lviv. Hooray!
Guide Tatiana began to tell something only in Budapest, before that we drove in silence. The bus has a small TV. which is visible and audible only from the first seats. The organization is just 0. Only beautiful cities were saved. I DO NOT RECOMMEND Accord tour to anyone.