Tuscan Treats

Locations were amazing and tour guide was phenomenal!

Great ‘bad roads’! But it took a few days

The towns, villages and countryside were beautifull. Great choice of hotels and activities. The pace of the tour was perfect for us.

As stated above, this tour was extremely well structured and gave us everything we had hoped for and more.

Guide Claudia and driver Roberta were well prepared, informative, caring professionals, who made the tour a wonderful experience. They provided local information and managed the busy travel schedule and complex road conditions.

WE had a very good overall look at Tuscany. We got into the heart of the area with knowledgeable guides that knew their way around a knew what was happening in the area at the time we were there.

Enjoyed every moment, the taste of Tuscany made me want explore more.

Good value for money. Many key sites covered.

The first few days were not on the back roads but once we got off the motorways and into the Tuscan countryside things improved.
Our visit to Monterosso on the Cinque Terre was spoilt by the teeming masses of tourists - both in the town and beach and also on the train back to La Spezia. Could the itinerary be changed to avoid these crowds?
There was a communication problem regarding when the tour ended. In the information sent to us we were told the tour ended at 1pm in Florence but Danielle was under the impression that it was to end at 3pm. This caused some stress as we had booked a train leaving Florence at 14.28pm to Naples so that we could join the "Enchanting S Italy" tour.

Enjoyed the whole experience and loved the little treats along the way. Like wine tasting lunch, gelato and walking tours in each town highlighting the sights and history of the region

The essentials such as coach, guide and driver were clean, respectful and professional.

Great locations with the medieval towns, fabulous experiences. Well organised, good motels, flexabity.

A fair price for all the services

Felt this was reasonably priced. Great value for all that was included .

Great tour, lovely leader

Too full on. Usually Back-Road tours are relaxing and don’t start until 9am each day. This was very full on. Starting much earlier.

Beautiful area, interesting history, visited wineries, delicious food & wine, good locations.

great accommodation good guide once we understood each other. Loved all places visited. Good selection.

Claudia was a wonderful guide and really cared about each tour member's experience. Love the small group size as it enables a closer relationship between tour members. Nice balance of structured events and free time.

Your was a great mix of culture, food and wine. Drives each day we’re short and extremely picturesque. Location of hotels was perfect and central. Pace of tour was also great.

The tour was excellent and the locations perfect for a first timer to Tuscany. The only issue we had was that some of our rooms were small and dark. The other issue with rooms was there was a great disparity between rooms. Some were huge and updated and others small and inadequate.

Enjoyed it but could have stayed in some places for 2 nights it sometimes felt rushed. Tour guide was very knoweledgable. Was good that it was maximum 18 people , that’s why we chose them.

Excellent value for money. We would never have known about many of the special and different places seen and visited.

Lovely accommodation, beautiful locations, wonderful guide.

The guide, the driver, the coach were all great. The distances travelled were well planned with flexibility for stops and free time which is important.
Only downside was never really being sure of where we were going - a small print out of the area we travelled showing the route & names of towns we passed through would have made the trip perfect.

The accommodations could have been better.

We were expecting more rural but felt it was one tourist town after another

Amazing tour guide Liz brought Tuscany alive with her knowledge, professionalism and humour. Time spent on the bus was minimal and we had a lot of free time to explore our destinations on our own. Accomodation was great taking into account some of the tiny villages we stayed in, a few of our group complained about the hard beds but I found all accommodations to be very clean and comfortable. The activities included in the tour were unique and fun, we found that at 7 days was not too long and in fact didn’t want the fun to end

Loved that the tour group was small in comparison to others. Easier to get to know people and stay together when doing tours.

I thought the price was a little high but we did stay at very nice, clean hotels and the extras that were included-wine tasting with lunch included, boat tour, train connection-were worth the price.

Tuscany is must see and the tour covered so much of it.

Refer to my above comments

Sub standard accommodation and our timetable could of been better scheduled.
Our last night in Fattoria degli Usignoli was so disappointing! It was like a summer camp full of families.
I am a mature woman and I expect something more refined.
I am on holiday and I would expect to be relaxing.

Great spots to visit. Little towns I’ve never heard of.

Excellent Tour very professional friendly guides

Fantastic trip, with beautiful scenery

A great way to visit Tuscany for the first time. However beds at the accommodation choices need to be reviewed as they were below expected level.

The 6 nights spent only gives you a taste of the area and several towns we would have liked to spend more time in. We could have added another 4 nights and been very happy exploring the area.

The beds at most hotels were below our expectation.

Amazing experience. Delivered on what was promised and more. Good group size, good transport and very good accommodation, wonderful experiences, safe driver and excellent guide.

This tour was incredible. We don’t have a favourite place as it was all brilliant. We loved the smaller towns & our guide quickly sensed this. We can’t recommend Backroads enough.

See above for my views of this tour