Fun in the Loire Valley - We had a fantastic day touring the Loire Valley! Our guide was friendly and fun. The castles were so different but all stunning! We felt we had just the right amount of time in each location. We highly recommend this tour!

Amazing Castles and amazing guide. - Sarah was an amazing guide. The sights were spectacular! My best trip to Europe so far. The castles were really a dream come true.

Awesome - Our driver William was the best! We took lots of photos and saw beautiful castles. It was a great day. Would recommend this tour.

Terrific Tour Guide for Loire Valley - The day spent in the Loire Valley was lovely. Our small group was driven by our terrific tour guide Nicholas- he was extremely knowledgeable and offered great insights/historical facts throughout the tour. We toured 3 castles on a cold/rainy February day-but it was truly enjoyed! Thank you/Merci!

Loire Valley Castles trip - Is a amazing trip. Lucy very takes care of us. And very knowledgeable about the history of the French kingdom. We are really enjoyed.

Family tour to Loire Valley - We had a very nice day trip to the Loire Valley. Our guide, Will, was very kind, knowledgeable, and friendly. We had a good amount of time at each stop and the day flew by! We would highly recommend this tour!

Excellent - Great guide, comfortable van. The programme is amazing. You have enough time for everything. I would recommend this tour.

Do it for the chateau tours ... not for the wine tasting - We enjoyed touring these 3 chateaus (castles) more than our tour of Versailles, due to the significantly smaller crowd sizes, access to more rooms (kitchens, chapels, bedrooms, etc.), the ability to tour at a slower pace, and the fact that Versailles had a good bit of construction/repairs going on to be ready for the Olympics. Our guide was very knowledgable about the history of the chateaus and their royal inhabitants. He gave us an overview of the history outside of each chateau and then let us self-tour the buildings. Our favorite was Château de Chenonceau, "the Ladies' Chateau." It's a beautiful setting on the river and the colors are very peaceful and comforting versus the harsher reds, blues and golds in Versailles. Before our 2nd chateau stop, Chateau of Amboise, we visited a local wine shop where we were given a "key card" to taste 4 local wines (from the 8-12 options offered). The wine tasting was one of the main reasons I selected this particular tour, but it was very underwhelming. The setting is in a small store, where you are given a very brief explanation of the wines offered for tasting. The whole thing took about 10-15 minutes. This is the only reason I gave the tour 4 stars instead of 5. As long as you know the wine tasting is just a little bonus and not a highlight, you will completely enjoy the tours of the chateaus and your stop for lunch! After touring the chateau in Amboise, we were given time for lunch. After a Google search, it was clear that Chez Bruno was the best restaurant, and it was! In fact, it was our best meal of our entire trip! Fabulous french onion soup and wonderful, traditional, French cuisine. The only problem is the popularity of this restaurant will potentially make you late for your meet-up, so hustle through the chateau tour (it's the smallest, and my opinion, least interesting of the 3), and head straight to Chez Bruno's! The third Chateau, Chateau de Chambord, is massive! If you don't move swiftly, you will not see all of it and there is a lot to see there. Feel free to pack whatever you need for the day, umbrella, jacket, etc., because you can leave them in the small tour van. You will have a stop going and returning at a gas/convenience store for a break and snacks. The walking is really at your pace, so anyone can do this tour, as long as you do not require assistance.

Great castles - not a tour. - The upsides were the castles were cool. The downsides were that we were expecting guided tours and we got no guided tours of the castles - just time to see it ourselves. The driver was a nice kid - he was training a new employee so he didn’t talk to any of the group throughout the day. He drove a bit wild and my husband got nauseous on the drive. He gave us some tid-bits about the history of the castles from outside, while we were standing in the pouring rain waiting to go undercover. I mean, I wanted to see these castles and I did, but it was definitely not worth the price.

Neither a Castle Tour nor a real Wine Tasting - This is neither a castle tour now wine tasting. Our “guide”, Viktor, was late to the meeting point. The tour operator, Blue Fox, tells you to arrive 15 minutes early (6:45am) yet he was late. At each castle, instead of a tour, he dropped us off at the entrance, and we were on our own without even headsets to learn about the castles. He told us to meet him at the van at a certain time, where he was sleeping. He even waiting until we were back to go gas up at the end of the tour. The wine tasting was a joke. Instead of visiting a winery, we stopped an a corner store where the shop keeper has us “self serve” from a wine vending machine, that poured a tiny sample from four of the most disgusting wines I’ve ever tasted. Not a single person took more than one sip. What’s surprising is that this tour company also does the Burgundy Wine Tour which was excellent and we gave it 5 stars. They need to redesign this tour with a better guide, proper tours of the castles and a proper wine tasting. It’s the Loire Valley, for goodness sake—they should be able to find a real winery to visit.