London to Athens

Great value for money, add ons can get a bit expensive if you do all of them but still recommend as it's a one time experience!

Great new friends, lots of free time in amazing cities, terrible customer service from Contiki. I had an amazing time, but only because of the amazing people I met and the amount of free time we had in some incredible cities away from Contiki staff or activities. Corfu was absolutely incredible, and George’s Boat was an unforgettable experience. Do not miss this. Absolutely go parasailing. The Cabaret and Tapas and Flamenco were incredible. Train your tour managers and on site staff in customer service. So many of them, especially at the Chateux, were rude and seemed to resent doing their jobs. It is not appropriate to scream at fully grown adults to go to bed. Unfortunately some idiot (one person!) pulled the fire alarm at the Chateux, however this was handled terribly by staff. Treat the 99% of people who didn’t do the wrong thing with respect, apologise for the night being ruined, and explain why the party has to be cancelled. Instead, We were treated like a year seven camp. If I acted towards paying customers like that, I would be fired from my job. It completely ruined our night, and started our trip off with a horrible experience. The picnic was a complete joke. None of the contiki staff came with us, and the directions were not updated and got us lost. The entire group got lost and split up, and several people got injured. And we came back and the contiki staff were getting drunk in the pool. They didn’t care that we got lost they found it funny. The Chateux is beautiful, but you might die trying to get into the bunk beds. Our tour manager was often rude and unhelpful. I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt, but I got yelled at on the second night for asking a question about dinner, because I was very anxious and homesick and wanted to make sure I had the right info. She made me cry and want to leave my trip. I told her several times I had an ankle injury and had accessibility issues. At no point did she provide me with information on what I should skip or prepare myself for because of long walks or hills, or give me options like paying for a cab at my own expense instead of walking up huge stairs. I asked if I could catch an Uber to the Parisian dinner and she said it wasn’t possible, yet people who ran late and missed the bus could. I was in a lot of pain walking up the basilica steps, and she didn’t tell me I could get the stair lift. I told her I was in pain and couldn’t do the walk down and asked if I could get the lift on the way down and she said only if we had time. She walked ridiculously quickly everywhere we went, meaning a lot of people got lost, split up, or in one case vulnerable to being harassed and pounced on by five hagglers. We would ask her to slow down and she would be rude about it. We were given a lot of incorrect information. She told us the lourve was closed on the incorrect day so a lot of people missed out. She told us you definitely didn’t need tickets for Park Guell, so we walked up that massive hill only to find it sold out. She didn’t tell us the gaudi apartments were actually called Cassa Bottlo, so google maps kept sending us to random hostels. The free time add ons were mostly terrible and just a way to make money. All of the walking tours except one were god awful. In Venice we learnt very little about the history, and lot about the tour guides opinion on various shops. However, she recommend Russo Pomodoro. Go there, get the gnocci. One of the guys aggressively pushed one of the girls that was on our trip, injuring another in the process. This was reported to our tour manager and yet he was allowed to continue onto the Greek Island tour. If there is a zero tolerance policy against drugs, there should be zero tolerance for violence against other travellers. The coach was always comfy and clean. Overall it was an amazing trip, but mostly because of the amazing cities and the friends I made. The way our tour manager and other contiki staff treated us and really out a negative spin on our trip. All the other groups we met were best mates with their driver and TM, and we didn’t get that experience. I really wish I had a better take away from my trip, but there were so many negative experiences so really discoloured my memory of my trip.

Loved all the places we went to and had the best tour manager and driver

Trip was an absolute blast! People, activities and staff were amazing. The only issue was the accommodations. Had bed bugs in a couple of places.

Saw everything I wanted to and felt the time was very well spent.

The itinerary was awesome, I cant believe how much I got to see! I would have liked longer in some places but obviously we are on a tight schedule. I loved greek week and thought that the amount of time spent in each place was awesome! would have been good if the Greek week went to Ios as well. Loved the add ons and the maps handed out were super helpful for each city.

Great trip! Only thing letting them down was the really poor customer service of the tour manager and the on site staff. They seemed like they hated us for no reason. And talked to us like we were stupid with no warrant. I had a good time on my trip and recommend if you’re worried about travelling alone. my tour manager was organised and got us everywhere we needed to go. However, she was very rude to us whenever we asked simple questions. By the end of the trip people were afraid to ask her anything. do not do the chateau picnic!!! it is a wild goose chase leading to nowhere. They did not send any staff member with us and 60 people went and no one successfully found the picnic area and all ended up lost in the middle of no where. The contiki staff were aware that it is usually not found and they laughed about it and didn’t care that they had completely wasted our time. We came back to find them frolicking in the pool. It’s almost like they wanted to get rid of us so they could enjoy the pool without us there. The chateau accommodation is so cool! The pool, the view, the underground rave cave were all amazing. But really disappointed with the poor attitude of the staff members there. I couldn’t believe how rude they were. George’s boat was amazing. The cabaret in Paris was great too. As was the flamenco and tapas night in Barcelona. The walking tours are mediocre. And the no regrets inclusions were all pretty boring. I’d recommend just doing your own thing instead. The Paris dinner was terrible. But the other add on dinners were great! I liked this trip because it wasn’t as go go go as some of the others! We seemed to have more time in the city than other trips. More free time and more down time. Still not a lot but more than other trips. The bus trips were fine too. Good music, relatively comfy and a good time to rest your head and catch up on sleep! I made so many friends and had a lot of fun! Such a shame about the rude staff putting a downer on it!

I loved my Contiki Trip! I found the itinary covered some areas or cities very quickly and others for too long. I liked that an orientation walk was an option in each city as it gave a great overview. It was our trip managers first trip. As a result of this I found information was not shared with the group in a timely enough manner. I feel that this is something that she will be improve with time and experience. I would recommend other travellers enter Contiki prepared to put themselves out there and get to know others even if they are travelling in a group or with a friend. As a solo traveller I found it very difficult to get to know people travelling in groups or as friends.

Loved this itinerary, good way to see a little of everything!

Very poor organisation, accomadation and all included activities are sales pitches to get you to buy things. Contiki is paying thousands of dollars for a bus ride. Would not recommend

The trip covers a lot in a short amount of time! Just enough time to see all the main attractions and soak up the atmosphere of each city. Would highly recommend to other travellers!

For the most part it felt like we were getting our money’s worth. But with some of the prepaid dinners and guides (only a few) we felt quite ripped off. One tour which comes to mind was the walking tour of Venice. Could have covered 3x more ground by myself in half the time. Little was learnt of Venice and how it came to be other than they make “good” coffee and Marco Polo lived there for a time.

I thought he the trip included a lot more activities. Sometimes a place would be on our itinerary and we would get there and still have to pay for a ticket. However the trip was amazing and I would do it 100 times over

Cheap for what I received

The value of my trip was worth it. Everything was great

Great trip however had too long in Venice and Florence for the free day with nothing exciting to do and some very average accomodation in Italy yet amazing accomodation in Greece

**** accomodation, by far the worst

The ability to not be too rushed in each place and get the opportunity to explore each town/ city. please do not hesitate to contact me relation to Georgia Robertson or Chris Lambert as they are such a huge asset to contiki and I can not speak any more highly of them both. What a great trip !!! Because of these 2.

Transportation could have been done at night rather than take up full days of destinations. In addition, I thought that many of the add-on’s were of higher value than needed to be or pushed (felt like we needed) to participate.