Play & Pause: Epic European

This trip...was the best! Cannot stress enough...I have been on 2 trips with a competitor and must say this tour was hands down the best. Kim...you are the bees knees at coordinating people, new hotels in a pinch, helping Jaka secure bus zones that inconsiderate twits blocked off, helping me see a friend in Andorra who was doing it tough & getting me apple tagged to make sure I didnt get lost...

This was truly the trip of a lifetime! It was such an amazing experience and I would recommend it to anyone. The locations were all great and a good mixture. The optional and included activities were great, and the extra activities that our leader organised for us were all big highlights - especially the speed boats in Dubrovnik (the best day!). We were super lucky with our trip leader Alan and...

The trip was fast paced, active, interesting, personally and socially challenging at times — which forms the ingredients of great personal growth!

The sights were obviously amazing and there was a lot of free time to do what I wanted to do as a solo traveler in a group-setting. I won’t focus too much on that for the review, but rather more on the trip leader and driver - as these two people made...

The tour was fantastic and a great way to see many countries. Our guide Alan and driver Alex were both amazing. The add ons were well worth it. I will definitely do another topdeck and recommend them to everyone!

Saw a lot in a short space of time, some counties we were only in for 2 hours or overnight. Included meals were hit and miss. Our tour guide was very nice but was very unorganised- would suddenly expect us to download a travel app as we were at the train station with no wifi- this was done multiple times. Driver was nice but very strict with times and would repeatedly state that he will leave us...

I had an amazing time on this trip. Gareth and Michelle were an amazing tour leader and driver, I think they really made the trip amazing! The tour was a good taster on places you’d want to go back to because you don’t really get too much time at each place but still had a great time. Made life long friends too

Michelle and Gareth were amazing made the trip !
We were so unbelievably lucky to have such an incredible experience would recommend TopDeck 100 times over

Absolutely brilliant holiday for anyone wanting to see a lot of Europe in a relatively short period of time. The hotels were all of great standard and the included meals were delicious and featured the local cuisine. Our guide Kim was an absolute legend and went above and beyond to give us the history as well as tips and tricks for each city.

I had previously travelled to Europe in 2018, and completed a Contiki tour called "European Inspiration". It did indeed inspire me to return to Europe. I had such a good time and I found group travel fun. Considering I was a solo traveller who had no one to go with I thought this time I would try TopDeck and experience with a company that was sold as a step up.

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Our guide & bus driver were fantastic! the only let down on this tour was the layout of the tour not always making the most of those more desirable destinations, nicer accomadation or accomadation being closer to the main attractions of those destinations. here are a few of my dislikes.

-the accomadation location in Corfu
-the time we get to our accomadation in Albania/ accom. location
-a few of...

This trip was made only by the people. The tour guide was less than impressive (didn’t seem confident or sufficient in ability in role). We were constantly hit with traffic delays (which is not their fault however it was Europe in summer…surely this could have been predicted a bit better and leaving times adjusted). The bus promised wifi and a working toilet - both which were not available. The...

Hostels would be of better quality than the ‘hotels’ provided. The accommodation and included extras are well below sun standard. Up to 15 hours spent on the tour bus per day with no access to the onboard toilet and no wifi as promised. The tour guide was completely inexperienced and did not want to be there.

Great to get a highlights package of Europe in the period of time that we had. Also having a very knowledgeable tour guide in Sicily and Mike enhanced the experience when visiting a new place.

Well organised trip, locations were great, optional extras and included extras were really good too

Totally worth the money, you get a to see so much of Europe, the itinerary is perfectly mapped out. However the accommodation could be better

The trip was absolutely amazing! Gives you time to actually enjoy each place and explore whilst also getting you around to a lot of countries in a short amount of time. It takes away the worry for travel to each place and accommodation was good in most places we stayed.

Trip Leader and Driver were both extremely friendly, approachable, and accomodating which really made the experience what it was. Leader went out of her way to arrange extra awesome opportunities for us all on numerous ocassions. Amazing group of people, great memories and life long friends. Would do again

It was a great experience and our trip leader was very knowledgeable.

Perfect trip to tick off all the major cultural and social hot sports of Europe! best value for money for someone travelling from AUS to do in honesty! you get to see it all in one trip and its just phenomenal

Everything was perfect except Rome. Loved Carolyn and Stephan.

Great value for money, the accommodation was nice and the included meals were great. The optional extras were well worth the additional money if you van afford them, especially the cabaret (Paris) and kayaking (Debrovnik).

Would do it again 100 times over

Very good value for money !

The discover Europe journey was a perfect taster of everything Europe! Absolutely brilliant, my husband and I LOVED it.

Most locations on this tour had something new to see or exciting to do.

I enjoyed it very thoroughly and the connections I made along the way. The reason why I rated it 4 and not a 5 was the fact that it was too rushed going from one city to another without having enough time to really appreciate the city we were located at. Given the budget, I understand that not all hotels could be at a high level however the disparity in some of the hotels we were staying at was...

Great training of bus driver and trip leader. Kept us moving seeing all major highlights and even little factors like having a wake up song added to the overall experience. Good accommodations and ate food at places that were the locals hits so that was great too!

I would have happily spent more than 2 to 3k for minimum of four star hotels.

Amazing trip, great tour leader, great sites and places

I had an amazing time - I met all sorts of people and made some great friends. However, my experience with the tour guide was anything but excellent and if the people on the tour were not there I probably would of given the trip 1 or 2 stars

Some if the days on the bus were way to long. Agents selling top deck tour's need to make people aware of this. We were told 4 5 hours on the bus not 8 10!

I loved this tour! it was great and my trip leader Carlos was utterly amazing

Europe was amazing. My first time there and will definitely be back there in the near distant future.

We saw so many cities and had many memorable experiences! we got to see so much in a short amount of time, but it was a nice taster to the diversity in Europe

I think the price was within budget for us. Probably better hotels would have been better.

Doing a group bus trip was a great way to see places and meet new people

With the experience that we had, it's hard to say that it was money well spent.

As above. It looks good on player and maybe with better trip leaders it wouldn't be as terrible.

Great amazing trip worth the money for a good quality holiday and we saw so much in the time we were there .