Self-Guided Tours in Austria, Italy and Switzerland

Very well organised trip. The team was super responsive and helpful. The trip was well though out. Stay and travel was very convenient and exceeded expectations! The tour ensured I covered a lot of attractions over the 10 days I was there. Highly recommend the tour and the company Wise Yatra.

Let me start by saying that overall this trip was great and a dream come true for our group. The only reason I rate this 4 stars is because the tour company assured me that this would be a self-passed, easy-going trip to take with both children and elderly family members, but we did not feel like that was the case. We found that navigating the public transportation system in every city, with luggage (even if it was just a carry-on and a backpack for each person) was difficult if you are not an athlete or younger than 50 years old. The hotels being 800 meters to sometimes 1.1km from the train stations were not as “walkable” as advertised. We also felt like the itinerary was rushed and we had very little time in each city to actually enjoy ourselves. This tour is more of a “check things off a bucket list” or “sampler platter” of European cities. We believe we could have enjoyed ourselves more with an additional day in Lucerne instead of moving to Zurich (especially because the excursion in Zurich was a train ride to Rhine Falls) or enjoying the day in Florence instead of a timed ticket to Pisa. We also felt that the walking tours of each city were nice but easier to do on our own instead of having a guide. A guided tour of the Notre Dame Cathedral, Vatican City or the Colosseum would have made those excursions more informative. We did have unforeseen issues in the Amsterdam airport due to airport equipment being broken and police activity that shut down customs, which caused us to miss our transfer to the hotel, so I do wish we could get a refund for that uber ride we ended up having to take. But with all that, we did enjoy ourselves and the tour company was very communicative prior to the trip and once the trip when we had questions regarding certain things.