Gate 1 TravelReviews of gate1travel.com

First and foremost, our guide, Lorena Galli, made this trip great. She is incredibly helpful, knowledgeable and personable. She’s the best tour guide we’ve ever had in our many years of traveling. Plus, the activities and destinations, some of which are off the main tourist destination route, were interesting and enjoyable.

This company cares about its clients. They plan and prepare every detail and perform, through their amazing and knowledge tour managers, flawlessly. This trip was no exception. Anastasia, our guide was a caring smart knowledgeable young lady who made our trip through Greece memorable. The bus drivers were all competent and very reliable. We always felt safe and cared for. Thank you Gate1 for making our “bucket list” Greece trip everything we hoped for and more. We will soon be traveling with you again.

Tour guide and learning about local people.

Gate One always delivers the best travel directors and local guides. My only comment is that some of the hotels can be better.

The personal care and service are excellent from booking the trip to arriving in Egypt through the entire experience. Everything was easy, well organized and fun. The accommodations were fantastic, including both hotels and the river cruise. Our experience with the guide was phenomenal. She was knowledgeable, helpful, kind and really a complete pleasure. Anyone who gets to have Rasha as a guide will be a lucky traveler. Also the crew on the river boat were fantastic and did everything possible to make you comfortable and to address any of your needs. Finally, the destination itself is magnificent.

Excellent tours of both London and Paris. This company does it right. Very organized, well informed and entertaining tour guides. We hit all the highlights as told and traveled in comfort. I am already looking for my next trip!

Our recent trip to Greece could not have been better. Our guide/chaperone Efi, was wonderful in all aspects. The itinerary was exceptional and was a good mix of activities and free time. Greece is a wonderful country with a rich history and the people were warm and welcoming.

Warsaw, Krakow, Budapest, Vienna with Bratislava, and Prague. Well-organised from start to finish, good central hotels, a comfortable coach and an excellent driver. But what made this trip was our tour manager, Derek Payne. Our start did not go to plan and we joined the group late. That we were able to join at all was in large part down to Derek and to Gate 1, who sorted it out instead of leaving us to deal with it ourselves. He met us like royalty, and from the first minute we felt completely in his care, as if we had been with the group from day one. Derek is a tactful man who reads people — he knows when to step in and when to leave you be. He has a fine sense of humour, sometimes very British, and that is exactly what gives it its charm. His knowledge is on another level: history, culture, architecture, local life, the small things you would never find in a guidebook. He doesn't recite facts; he explains why a place matters, and you remember it afterwards. This part of Europe is clearly his home ground, and it shows in every single day of the tour. If you end up on a Central Europe departure with Derek as your tour manager, you are in the best possible hands. A big thank you to Gate 1 for a very well run trip.