Vienna Sight Seeing Tour review

We went to Budapest with Vienna Sight-Seeing Tour, and to Prague with Royal Tour.

We were very disappointed with Vienna Sight-Seeing Tour. There were only 7 of us in the tour. The tour was actually done by Euro Bus company. The bus company uses the same bus for the tour as well as for transporting bus passengers from Vienna to Budapest. The bus had to make a detour to Vienna airport to pick up more passengers.

Upon arriving Budapest, the bus made a detour to Budapest Euro Bus terminal to drop them off.

When returning, we had to wait another half an hour to pick up passengers at Budapest Euro Bus Terminal again and drop them off at Vienna Airport. They also use the same bus to transport light load cargo such as books., which means we had to wait for them to load. So we wasted about 2 hours for picking up and dropping off those bus passengers.

On the way to Vienna, we had a tour guide who did not provide much information, only pointed out the mountains and lakes to us. Once we arrived in Budapest, we had a local guide that was slightly better, but only spent a short time with us. The tour made 3 stops only: 1) Hero%26#39;s Sq. 2) one-hour lunch stop 3) Castle District for about 40minutes which is not enough. After that the tour guide left us shopping in down town for 2 hours. We did not stop at the most beautiful building in Budapest - the Parliment. The bus just drove by the parliment.

On the other hand, Royal Tour was excellent. Again there was 6 of us, but we went in a small Merc van. It was great, because the guide talked as he droved out the city. We received a Vienna city tour and Prague tour as well. His English was excellent and we really had a great tour with him. In fact, the other couple on our tour also tried both tour companies and hated the V. Sight-Seeing tour so much that they complained to the hotel staff. We are mad about getting rip off with this Vienna Sight-Seeing Tour company that we decided to post it on the internet so that others will not be ripped off as well.

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Funny but we are not sure how we liked Roysal tour to Salzberg.....to many stops along the way for coffee (where I think the guide got cheap/free food) not much time in the city not much information in the city and questionable facts (all alters face East toward Vienna...Columbus found America in 1429???).....it was maybe not the best option though it was in a van with an English speaking guide.