Travel Department Reviews 

Holiday cruise excellent tour guide Sean top class

Well planned, beautiful hotel and very interesting excursions. Guide very knowledgeable.

The value for money of the holiday and the hotel choice

I really enjoyed the tour of nerja and Costa del sol as the tour guide was friendly and the other people. I like going on a coach tour as I don't want to get a bus or train as I could get lost. I enjoy the company of the other people as we all enjoy sightseeing. Niall Donnelly

Well organized. Excellent accommodation, food and drinks. Internal trips were excellent and well described. Friendly fellow travelers made the trip even better. The balance between travel and rest days was excellent also. We really enjoyed Sicily!

Sorrento beautiful
Fabulous trips
But the delay in Naples airport for 90 minutes unacceptable

A great travel company, this is my 4 th trip . I find it especially good for a solo traveller, you meet lovely people. Absolutely everything was organised perfectly. Excellent guide, driver and hotel accommodation. Will definitely book a trip again in the near future.

Travel Dept do exactly what they say they will do. Very well organised holidays. A bit expensive though. A €200 discount on 7 day holidays would be nice.

The only negative was the truly awful hotel room

Overall a great experience. Small group of 18, excellent guide, nice central hotel, comfortable and quiet room, interesting and varied itinerary. Disappointing breakfast choice as not in main breakfast room so felt second class. However we are familiar with TD hotel choices so did not over expect. It was adequate.

The whole trip was so well organised.
Our Guide Margaret was brilliant- so friendly and helpful.
I have lovely memories now of the Pyrenees area and valleys. The resort Roses is a lovely location and the weather was just right.

We had an absolutely fantastic time in Vietnam. All of the hotels and restaurants that we were taken to were of the highest quality. The tour guide Hung looked after us professionally and with great care. His knowledge of the history and culture of each location we visited made the trip very special. We’re very happy with the Travel Department and look forward to booking with them again.

Everything is laid on,excellent guides,very friendly fellow travellers,

Venice and verona

Travelled many times with Travel Dept., this trip was to Vietnam. Small group, well organised, great guide and visited a lot of places over two weeks.
Highly recommend trip and company, jut to note it is a busy trip, most days have organised tours. We thoroughly enjoyed it!

Sestri Levanti was beautiful. Picturesque. Our hotel was very central. The staff were very helpful and accommodating especially at reception where staff were multilingual and willing to please.
The trips associated with the holiday were well organised and very enjoyable.
The beaches were within walking distance especially the one closest to our hotel Due Mare.

Fantastic location and thoughtfully planned trip. One criticism would be the inclusion of half board in the hotel. This was unnecessary as there were endless fabulous restaurants on the doorstep of the hotel.
Secondly, the cost of the trip could probably have been reduced!

We have just returned from a fantastic River Cruise with The Travel Department, and we couldn’t be happier with the experience.
​Having a dedicated tour coordinator with us made an absolute world of difference. They looked after us every single day, guiding us around the sights and handling all the daily logistics seamlessly. Knowing we had a direct point of contact for any questions or issues made the entire trip completely stress-free and relaxing.
The ship was lovely food staff were excellent
I was absolutely delighted with the flexible seating arrangements during meals. It was wonderful not being locked into the same table with the same people from the beginning of the trip to the end, which allowed us to mix, mingle, and make so many new friends."

We had a fantastic holiday. We travelled as a party of 3 with one having special needs but everything was perfectly planned for us so we didn’t need to worry about anything. The bus always turned up at the exact time to take us out and home again. The guide Vincento recommended good and reasonable places to eat when we were out and about. The hotel staff were all so helpful and kind. The hotel was spotless. I am recommending my son and daughter to the same trip for their 20th wedding anniversary next year. They will love the tours as they were excellent too. Thank you for organising a wonderful holiday 👍

Great Hotel accommodation surrounded by lush green gardens, great Sicilian food and very friendly staff all beneath the stunning backdrop of Mt Etna.

This was our second trip with TD and can I say how much we enjoyed our experience.
From start to finish it was a very enjoyable holiday.
Our accommodation in Una-Hotel was excellent, the garden room was perfect, and well serviced each day.
The hotel complex while quite large was so well laid out with lush green gardens that it never felt like you were in a big resort.
Every member of staff was so friendly and helpful and we availed of many of the activities that were available each day,Including the 50 metre swimming pool.

The dinner each evening was a wonderful selection of Sicilian tastes and everything was cooked to a very high standard and didnt repeat once in the week we spent there. It was such a large and varied selection of meats, cheeses, pasta, salads and cooked dishes that were on offer each evening,followed by delicious homemade deserts and cakes, served with a nice local wine, we were spoilt for choice.
Well done Una Hotel Naxos Beach

Our guide Mario was truly excellent, from beginning to end he ensured that our trips and tours were enjoyable and he went above and beyond to assist and guide and brought this part of Sicily to life for us.
He educated, entertained and informed us each day about many aspects of Sicilian life, food, history and culture.
He taught us the language and the hand signs and gave us printed handouts with additional information about each of the places we visited. He was well prepared and had everything lined up perfectly at each step of our trip so we never waited or queued at all.
On our last day, Mario brought us on a lovely tour of Catania and we sampled excellent street food and finished with a delightful lunch at a local Trattoria and this was so enjoyable, a wonderful way to end the holiday. Grazie Mille Mario

in a world where holiday experiences so often can disappoint, this was a very pleasant surprise and exceeded all our expectations.

Benissimo and well done Travel Department