Hidden Europe: unique experiences in Europe's cities
08/09/2020 · By Katie Shaw
Europe’s cities are treasure troves of culture, teeming with iconic, must-see sights to enthral even the most seasoned of tourists.
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About the tour
Flowing from Northern Spain to the Atlantic Ocean, the Douro River carves our route through a rolling landscape of vineyards and we explore the magnificent Douro Valley by rail. From Spain's golden city of Salamanca we discover Portugal's beautiful countryside and unique cuisine, the vibrant cities of Porto and Lisbon… our holiday ends in Spain's fabulous food capital, San Sebastián.
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Our holiday starts at London St Pancras where we join the Eurostar service to Paris, travelling in Standard Premier class where we are served a light meal at our seats. From Paris we continue by First Class rail to stylish Biarritz in Southwestern France, not far from the Spanish border, where we spend the night. Overlooking the sweeping Bay of Biscay on the Atlantic coast, this historic spa town - a popular health resort since the 1850s - has an air of grandeur and Art Deco glamour. We enjoy our first dinner together as a group in a delightful local restaurant on the Grand Plage seafront.
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4.2 / 5 · 60 reviews
customer Len
Submitted 10/Nov
Amazing quality & quantity of sights fitted in, very good guide manager ‘Charles’, excellent 4* hotels. Only real down was a port wine trip to ‘Taylor’s’ the guide here was useless- a video & TV would have better & NO wine tasting, hence no sales!
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Ian Channing
Submitted 6/Nov
Excellent holiday good hotels great food and drink very good tour manager all round great experience
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Valerie Pegg
Submitted 5/Nov
Lovely locations, great tour manager, but so much stress because Great Rail Journeys simply had not done their job. Trains were a lottery on whether we had been booked on the right one, and whether we had seats. For a company who is supposed to specialise in rail travel, this was unacceptable.
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Mr Wilcox
Submitted 5/Nov
Great holiday.
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Dr. Mike Steward
Submitted 5/Nov
The places visited were interesting but too much time was spent travelling on several days (some of it not entirely the fault of planning by Great Rail Journeys as there were disruptions of planned rail journeys where coaches had to be used instead). I would have preferred to take more days to do the lengthy travel involved in this trip so that we could have arrived earlier at more places for an overnight break in the journey which would have given an opportunity for a brief look at those places in addition to the main destinations
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Kathryn Buzzacott
Submitted 3/Nov
On the whole very good.Hotels OK but included meals poor.Great tour manager.
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