European trip

bus tour - a unique opportunity to visit several countries during one trip
Some have expressed delight at the rapid bus travel, others they seem to be most severe test. Who is right? As you know, taste and color of the comrades there - everyone chooses what he likes. But even the most inveterate skeptics admit that the bus tours to other types of recreation, there are two undeniable advantages - they are cheaper and faster.
Bus tours in Europe, which offer a Moscow travel agency, is usually divided into several categories. It travels in one country, two historically related countries (eg Austria - Hungary or the Czech Republic - Slovakia) version of "as many countries for a minimum price, the option" bus ride plus a vacation. "
What is included in the price of the tour bus? From a bus, the cost of gasoline, parking, visas, meals, excursions, service and value nights. The last point - the key in this list. The more nights you spend not in the hotel and the bus, the cheaper it will be your ride. The principle of "higher quality - the higher the price" operates in bus trips as strictly as in the other.
tours country (very popular with our tourists enjoy the eight-day trip to the Czech Republic and Hungary, which cost about 160-180 dollars), quite comfortable. You provided a convenient timetable and place in a cozy hotel, as soon as you enter the country. This also applies to groups of small-area countries (eg, the Baltic, Scandinavia). In the embassies of Germany and Italy this year were the difficulties with visas, so these countries were visited mainly in the "bond" with others, not so "strict" in the visa for the countries.
Among the many trips to several countries stand out tours with an emphasis on any one country. In the travel agency "Inters", for example, there are tour: Italy - Austria - Germany (11 days, 3 night journey, plus a $ 399 visa). Familiarity with the sights of Rome, Florence and Venice in it devoted to 4-5 days. Art connoisseur, who dreams of visiting Italy, but has no funds for aircraft guided tour (because it's really quite expensive), can see at least some of those gems, which I read and heard.
Options "bus plus railroad" much easier to clean the bus. Virtually all travel agencies dealing with bus tours, practice travel travel to Brest by train, and then - on the bus. The return trip is similar. Sometimes on the train only tourists go back. Some of these trips do not have the night journeys.
mention and "hybrid" of a beach holiday with the bus tours through Europe. Most often, such a purely "otdyhatelnye" days tourists spend in Italy, Spain or France. There is this fantastic, in my opinion, pleasure is not so expensive. For example, a tour Germany - Austria - Italy-week holiday in Rimini is worth $ 400 + visa + railway ticket to Brest. And it is with breakfast and dinner! Or another route: Italy - Austria - Germany - Cote d'Azur of France (with a week's holiday in Nice), which costs $ 460 + visa + railway ticket.
There were also programs that combine flights on planes with bus travel. In this case, tourists are completely spared from the tedious "winding miles" in the territory of Eastern European countries. By the way, hotels in these programs, usually offered pretty good - 4-5 stars. For example, the weekly combined (aircraft plus bus) tour of Amsterdam - Brussels - Luxembourg - Cologne, the company will offer "Wind Rose" is worth 960-980 dollars, and "Summer Switzerland" in the same agency for 9 days - 1320-1590 dollars. Locks, the world famous lakes and resorts, breathtaking panorama of mountain passes, Skiing in the summer (if you want - please!), The world's steepest cog railway - all of these delights trip to Switzerland will be available to you, if you travel by bus.
We should also note another feature of travel by bus, organized by our agencies - the cheapness of excursions included in the program. No, no, do not worry, you will not be "free" to impose fur and gold, as in Turkey or Egypt. (However, in Paris, travelers also like to carry a "museum of perfumery, where it sells a set of not very fresh toilet water).
Bus tours are suitable for people who do not know either do nothing or, as they say, was "very advanced". No need to rely heavily on guides. Accompanying groups follow our safety and our rights abroad, and purely factual, material side trip excites them much more than spiritual. Those who want the most detailed way to get acquainted with visited cities and countries, it makes sense to prepare for such a trip in advance - peruse the historical and artistic references, ask friends who visited there, read the newspaper "Arguments and Facts. TOUR "Finally!
Typically, local guides conduct tours are quite decent. In Germany and the Czech Republic, for example, you are provided with good walking tours. In Italy, you can order additional Russian tour of Venice and the Vatican, and in England and France, to dial in the museums of printed materials. It is said that very well organized sightseeing tours in Barcelona (it includes the inspection of the Cathedral of the Holy Family, the statue of Columbus, the Spanish Steps, etc.) and guides out there working, highly educated people. Not a bad trip waiting for you in Vienna (you will visit the Cathedral of St.. Stephen, the Hofburg - the former residence of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, examination hall, Parliament and others). In Salzburg, through which some European routes, you are dumped into the Mirabell Palace and Mozart. A similar tours of Paris is usually left feeling disappointed: too little time for Notre Dame and other sights of this beautiful city.