We had an exceptional experience with EF Tours and the Woodlands school travel team during my son’s trip to Japan this past summer. The tour was extremely well organized, and all of our questions as concerned parents were answered promptly and thoughtfully.

A special thank you to Léane C., who was incredibly patient and helpful in explaining the requirements and guiding me through the process when we requested a different return date so our son could extend his trip for a family vacation. Her support made the process smooth and stress-free.

We truly appreciated the coordination, communication, and care from both the Woodlands school and EF Tours. Our son had a wonderful trip, and our family enjoyed a fantastic vacation together. Highly recommend EF Tours!

Tony is a fantastic tour guide balancing the demands of the group, the time constraints at different places and traffic challenges> Tony is a wonderful problem solver. The European Carousel tour is like fine wine tasting at many different places- 7 countries. Wow!

My grandson had the time of his life thx to your company and the provided tour of Italy…that made me happy, so thank you

I wanted to leave a massive shoutout for Maria at EF Tours Canada for being absolutely incredible to work with! I wasn't even able to officially apply or book a trip, but Maria still took so much time to help me completely figure out pricing, map out different places, and give me a ton of fantastic recommendations. Usually, when you aren't a paying customer yet, companies won't give you the time of day, but she went totally above and beyond to guide me through everything without any pressure. Her customer service was next-level, friendly, and super helpful—thank you so much, Maria! Cheers!

The tour had its share of curves and hiccups, as they all do, but Sarah worked hard behind the scenes to ensure that everything ran smoothly regardless.

Great experience. Perfect introduction for my teenage to travel! Safe while still adventurous and packed with experiences. Great regular updates so we could share the trip and sleep at night knowing where they were.

EF tours did a great job of providing a mix of educational and exciting experiences on our summer tour of Japan. Our guide was experienced and helpful as we managed two tour busses of teenagers between the great cities of Japan. I would absolutely use them again.

Had an amazing guide. Disappointed that we had exterior tours of major sites. Felt like we should’ve been going into areas like Saint Peter Basilica. It is an educational tour and I believe that The kids had a major loss by not being exposed to these sites.

I went to Costa Rica and it was amazing. the weather wasn’t the best but they did everything they could to make it fun for us! the bus driver and tour guide were the best people ever!!

I’m a parent of a student who went on a school tour. I found staff to be helpful when I would call for information. They didn’t always have correct information, however, they were all polite, friendly, responsive and followed up in a timely manner. On the tour, my daughter said that things were well organized. I appreciated hearing that when the students arrived at the restaurant for dinner, the food was served quickly after. That was great planning. Seems like things went smoothly, didn’t hear otherwise. My daughter said her tour director was great. Helped her find Bathrooms when needed, etc. I was impressed with EF and would recommend.

Our tour was amazing! We hit so many “hot spots” and had direct flights both ways. Having direct flights out of Canada is so very important in order to minimize cancelled, missed or delayed flights. Our tour guide was so great. Manuel offered suggestions and some of our unplanned stops were our best ones (Camden Town). We are so grateful that we got to stop at Vimy Ridge. This was going to be a game day decision based on traffic but it was such a special stop for my group.

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Everything was well planned, the plans were clearly communicated so I could prepare and prepare the students coming on the trip. The places we vvisited were great and interest to the students. Our tour director was personable, relatable and informative about the schedules, plans and the places we visited. He was also flexible if we needed or wanted to adjust the schedule slightly. The hotels were all nice and clean and all the meals were very good. The only hotel that was a disappointment was the first hotel near the Paris airport due to the rude front of house staff and the confusion with the money belt and passport left behind by one of our students. First it wasn't found, then it was and it was sent ahead to another hotel, but all the money had been stolen out of it.
Otherwise, we all had a great time and loved the locations we visited.

Dave, our guide, was exceptional!

Our daughter had an amazing European adventure thanks to the great planning and professionalism of EF Tours. The whole group really likes the assigned tour director and enjoyed the entire experience.

This was my 5th European tour with EF and obviously I'm a fan. Europe is busy, group travel can be hectic, and teenagers unpredictable, but EF makes things so easy and enjoyable! Our tour, Paris, the Riviera, and Rome, is a fantastic, packed 12 days of sightseeing and culture. What makes it wonderful are the people at EF. Our tour director was perfect, our local guides the best we've ever had, and our support team behind the scenes genuinely supportive. Our tour director understood teenagers so well :) She worked to make every request we had happen. With a small group of students this time, we had a disaster-free and enjoyable tour! Food and hotels were great. Can't wait to go again - will be choosing the same tour.

This is my second time doing an EF tours trip and I was not disappointed. They make these trips stress free, from the planning to the execution and pivoting when plans have to change. They are wonderful.
Our tour guide, Adriana Bordeanu was kind and helpful. She made the trip that much better for our students and ourselves. I definitely want to give her a shout out for her hard work and dedication to education and spreading the love of travel to young, new travelers.
Another shout out to Fallon Dragland, who helped me navigate the trip home with Air Canada cancelled all of our flights.

The tour guide, Adrianna, was perfect. Friendly, calm and kind. The hotels were great. There was adequate time to explore in small groups and there was great events planned. Every place we ate was friendly.
We would have liked to see the inside of BMW and Olympic Stadium- our students said they felt that bus tour was not as engaging despite the jokes of the guide that day .
We really appreciated that everything was planned and clear. We didn't have to worry about much. So nice to get up, have transportation and activities arranged, and go back for a rest. The times were good.
I would have liked if EF had stepped up to support us when Air Canada cancelled our flights. We lugged sleepy children from their hotel at 3:20 only to have them sleeping on the ground of the airport until after 11:00, yet we knew the flights were cancelled before leaving for the hotel. Our children were ready to go home and their families were emotional. That last day was the only hiccup.

Overall, the tour was great.
Our Tour Director and Local Guides were wonderful and knowledgeable, our daily bus driver was excellent. We saw all of the important historical sites in Greece, and our guides made sure we understood the history and mythology. We even had time for two beach trips!

I think a few things could have made it excellent

1. Food was very repetitive. While lunches were supposed to be "on our own"; on our travel days, we would stop at a roadside restaurant. These had almost identical menus to each other and after a couple of days, the students (and chaperones) were tired of limited choices of unfamiliar foods. I also found that the options were quite heavy at most of these places. The included dinners were very similar to the lunch options. There were 3 dinners that I thought were great: The buffet meal in at the hotel in Olympia, the Gyro meal in Athens, and the Spaghetti meal in Athens.
I did enjoy the breakfast offerings, as did the vast majority of the students.

2. Logistics/communication. WhatsApp is not used at all in Canada, but it was used a lot by our Tour Director. If EF had mentioned to use to create a WhatsApp group with the students and chaperones before leaving, we could have had this ready to go. As it stood, some students were trying to download and join WhatsApp on the trip, with varying degrees of success.

3. The "free time" on the arrival day. We arrived almost 18 hours after leaving home. We then had a lot of walking around the city centre, before walking to our dinner location. The travelers were all very overheated and exhausted by dinner time.

Would recommend EF Tours for all travel adventures!