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EF Tours provided an educational experience for my students, which allowed them to experience the culture, history, and cuisine that Italy has to offer! We did many hands-on activities, from Gladiator Day to Pasta Making class. It was more than just an awesome trip; it was an educational experience your students won't forget!
Fantastic!
Pompeii and Rome were far beyond expectations!!!
Traveling to Rome and Pompeii with EF was truly the experience of a lifetime! It was incredibly eye-opening for both the students and adults to immerse themselves in the history and culture. The students were able to learn, have fun, and thoroughly enjoy the incredible food and sights.
My daughter loved every part. Very beautiful. Thank you for offering these trips for students.
Visiting the site and learning the history of the city was interesting.
The EF tour experience was good. We got to fit in a lot of experiences in a short amount of time. Our tour guide, Katia, was absolutely amazing and really made the experience great. I will admit that our group had a few hotel and food issues but our guide made her best effort to remedy every situation.
Things need to be better organized or planned. Having accommodations closer to key landmarks would have been more helpful and convenient. Timing was off. Not enough time at key landmarks. Being from a Catholic school able to see more religious landmarks and attending mass on Sunday, hearing more about events would have been nice. Our students did not really like the dinners we had to order food in the evenings for late night snacks. This was memorable time and will be talked about forever.
This was a FANTASTIC tour visiting several once in a lifetime opportunities! The immersive experience enthralled my students from start to finish!
Wonderful trip at a reasonable price
Great experience as per my kid and he enjoyed the trip.
It was a very good experience they make everything ready for you to enjoy.
Rome was the highlight of the trip! The Borghese Garden bike tour, Colosseum visit, pasta-making class, and gladiator school were all incredible experiences. Our middle schoolers had the experience of a lifetime and truly had a blast. The only reason for giving four stars instead of five is that EF should do a better job securing hotels that are both comparable in quality and closer to the main activities. Overall, I highly recommend this trip—it was unforgettable for our students.
Our daughter was safe learned to love another country and its culture.
Great tour, excellent guide.
My daughter and I both went on the tour. I feel like we should be compensated with some sort of a refund for multiple things... 3 days before the tour, EF cancelled the Sistine Chapel tour, that was the main reason we wanted to go on this tour, they said it was because it was closed that day, but why couldn't you have rescheduled it to different day (4 days in Rome). EF replaced it with a food walk with 4 stops eating a small appetizer from each and the whispers were not working so we were just walking without any information on the background of the area we were in. From the start, our airplane had several issues and we sat on the tarmac for 2 hours before taking off, then missed our connection in London and had a 7hr layover in London, they only gave us 10lb to spend on food. BA said that we could request a refund from BA if the delay was over 3hrs, so we are trying to get some compensation for that, but since tickets were purchased through EF we have no idea how that will turn out. The breakfast that was included at the hotel was SUBPAR, they had a platter with sliced ham and another with cheese slices (the ham was terrible), cereal and danish no other protein options. Most of the dinners they provided were not great either, NO meat options for most of the dinners. Spaghetti was served for lunch and again for dinner (no meat just noodles). We also found out that our Pompeii tour was only a 1/4 of the park. Seems like they are trying to do the low budget options for everything so they can make more from each person. The tours were so packed (back to back) that we didn't have a lot of time to shop, we'd pass up 20 stores, but because we were on a strict time line we couldn't stop. Who wants to go to Rome and not get to shop! The 1 hr, free time, at lunch we were rushed to find a restaurant (no fast food, just sit down) to eat lunch which always took an hour, so no free time there. We did get half hour 1 day and an hour another day, but that was hardly enough when you don't know where you are going to find shops. We did get to see a lot of the sites and monuments, but in the moment walking on the hard streets and strict time line it was a little over kill and we were all so exhausted, sometimes we were just miserable. On the brighter side, our tour guide, Santi, was amazing, he did an awesome job!
Awesome time!!
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We're glad you enjoyed your tour! Thanks for sharing!
I loved all the places we went, the tour guides, the use of the whispers (hearing devices), the wonderful buses, the tour was well planned out. Only suggestion - Grand hotel dei Cesari - please see the reviews on last screen - terrible hotel and I don't honestly understand why EF Tours used them. EF Tours is wonderful and very high class to me... why they used Grand hotel dei Cesari, I will not understand.
Patricio was an amazing guide and really made the trip truly rememerable. He was great with the students and the teachers. I also loved that the activities/experiences were also super special and loved how they were family run The restaurants for dinner were good. I would've like more options (like 2-3) to chose from for the main course as everyone's palates are different. I enjoyed most meals, but for the students who are a little pickier didn't enjoy some meals. The hotels were ok as well. The Naples hotel was accommodating and had cold AC- which was nice. I would've liked for the hotel in Rome to have been a little closer in proximity, but understand with a group our size, needing to be further away. I would also suggest for our tour group leader in the future to have a group of 30 go to get our own bus, or be combined with another Indy school.