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Grand Circle Travel/Grand Circle Cruise Line
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Best trip ever!

I have never had so much fun on a trip! The best ever! Love all the activities they planned... read more

Reviewed December 5, 2024
Marcia L
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Damascus, Maryland
Eastern Europe

The Eastern Europen trip was awesome. I learned so much about this countries. A trip everyone... read more

Reviewed November 26, 2024
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Reviewed June 26, 2023

Hard to select “favorite” part of trip…would have to say Number One was the planning, organization and ability to make changes when necessary. Guide,Scott, was fantastic and saw ahead to our needs. Driver, Jerry, consistently delivered us safely and on time to our destinations. Both provided “extras” - Jerry purchased plenty of water and candy for us; Scott had interesting stories and videos about our locations and superb cookies! Both consistently were pleasant and extremely patient!. The itinerary was fantastic - and the particular order of the various park visits seemed to build to a grand finish. Each of the hotels was delightful and the included and optional tours fabulous. ,This was my first GCT tour and I cannot WAIT to schedule my next!

Date of experience: June 2023
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OATModerator, Manager at Grand Circle Travel/Grand Circle Cruise Line, responded to this reviewResponded July 16, 2023

We are happy to hear you enjoyed your first trip with us! We look forward to having you travel with us again in the future.

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Reviewed June 24, 2023

This was our third trip with Grand Circle, and I have to say it has gone way down hill post-pandemic. Here are the reasons I say that:

1. Covid 19 policy: if you test for Covid, and the result is +, you will be confined to your room for 5 days and not allowed to leave unless results are negative. Our ship was a petri-dish. By the end of the trip up the Rhine, half the passengers had a dry cough and runny nose. We caught whatever was going round on the third day of the cruise, but did not have it tested due to the Covid policy. The day we got home I tested for Covid and it was positive.

2. Size of ship. Both of our prior trips (2013 Paris to Nice) and 2015 Prague to Berlin) used smaller ships (90 and 45 passengers vs. 160 for the trip up the Rhine). GCT no longer uses those small ships, its all about profit, not about the traveller's experience.

3. We signed up for a pre-trip visit to Brugge. It was a wonderful city to visit, but our trip leader was nowhere to be found most of the time, so there was really no reason to pay the high price to GCT, we should have just booked the travel through GCT and arranged our own accommodations.

Date of experience: June 2023
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OATModerator, Manager at Grand Circle Travel/Grand Circle Cruise Line, responded to this reviewResponded July 16, 2023

We're sorry to learn of your experience with us. Please contact us at request@oattravel.com so we can assist you. Thank you for your patience.

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Reviewed June 24, 2023

In 2015 we took a land tour of Sicily with GCCL/OAT and this month we took a cruise down the Rhine on their riverboat Ms Harmony.

Both experiences were highlights of our lives. The positives are mountain ranges in contrast with maybe as much as an ant hill of negatives. Too much good about GCCL/OAT to even begin to list.

We travel with a group that between them have taken at least 50 GCCL/OAT tours (and all of us are well traveled in other ways). We heard net negatives about precisely one trip and that was due to a sub-par substitute program director.

GCCL/OAT is a great company for reliably great journeys.

Date of experience: June 2023
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OATModerator, Manager at Grand Circle Travel/Grand Circle Cruise Line, responded to this reviewResponded July 16, 2023

Thank you for your loyalty over the years! We're very glad to hear that you have enjoyed your trips with us.

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Reviewed June 20, 2023 via mobile

It is hard to single out one thing , as this entire experience exceeding all of our expectations in every way … the ship “ Harmony “ crew , our Program
Director “ Amin” , the Beautiful cities and scenery , and the Home visit were all outstanding!

Date of experience: June 2023
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We appreciate your kind words. We are always happy to hear about your experience with us! We hope you join us again in the future.

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