tour 'Carmen's smile'

The tour itself can only be recommended to a few categories of people:

1) those who like to just go somewhere

2) those who need to update their instagram at any cost

3) masochists

If you really want to go on this tour with Accord, you should know that you guys will spend most of your time on the bus. You will have 4-5 hours of sleep per day (because absolutely all settlements will be after midnight) and breakfast at 7. There is no time for lunch and dinner on the tour at all. Eating snacks and sandwiches at gas stations. We were able to eat fully only three times during the entire tour, in Milan, Barcelona and somewhere in Slovenia we were surprisingly stopped not at a gas station, but near a cafe. Accord chooses cheaper hotels, in Barcelona the hotel is an hour's drive from the city, while the transfer of tourists to the hotel is scheduled for one in the morning (and this is after a night move from Milan (4 p.m.) and a day in Barcelona (from 13 p.m. to 1 a.m., respectively). ).

What are chord tours. Those that are included in the tour as a review are rated by us from C to a full five (in Venice). But all these excursions are united by one phrase: "If you are ever again in ......, you can ......... " Because now you will not be able to do anything.

But I will dwell on the optional ones in more detail.

Excursion "Gaudi and his creations" in Barcelona. In the promised three hours (less in fact) I will show you from the bus window the Batllo house (stop so that people sitting from the side of the house can take a photo), you will drive past the Mila house (without stopping), walk through the free area of ​​Park Güell (people laggards saw more than the organized group) and walk around the Sagrada Familia. The cost is 23 euros. The next day, we walked around Batllo's house, Mila and Sagrada on foot in an hour, in order to still see them (alas, there was no time to visit inside).

Excursion "Secrets of the Venetian Canals" for 26 euros you get a 20-minute gondola ride on a high chair (most likely). I bring to your attention, friends, I know that renting a gondola costs 80 euros for 40 minutes. There are only 2 comfortable seats in the gondola, the rest are chairs. If you want to have fun - take a gondola for two. If you want to save money, take it for six (the maximum number) and pay 13 euros each. In any case, mark the time so that the gondolier sees it. Accord-tour manages to ride its customers for twice as much money in half the time.

The organization of the tour itself is stupid. Accord writes everywhere that he is not responsible for the work of the customs services and is trying in every possible way to shift the blame for his organizational skills onto them. But if you push 2,000 people (40 buses) to the border one fine morning, then even a junior schoolboy could calculate the border crossing time for each of the buses. We stayed for over 7 hours. Not because of the customs officers, because of the Accord.

The buses that Accord uses to transport tourists are not suitable for long journeys (especially for sleeping), in ours the roof also leaked during the rain. Worn out tire tread was a bonus.

Tour guide in Venice.

A lot of photos from which you will remember and find out where you were after all, because due to lack of sleep and growing fatigue you will not be able to feel the atmosphere of any of the places proposed by the program.

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