A trip to Italy under the title “All Italy to the south took place from 23 to 30 August. Ticket bought in “Pac Group”, host “Gartour”. Cities:

Trieste (arriving)-Venice-Bologna-Florence-Pisa-Siena (optional)-Rome-Naples (departure)-Pompei-on. Capri.

Italy as a country of “rest” (though this race in the cities rest is difficult to call, but I knew what was) arose in the head immediately. Next up was carried out market analysis of proposals and tour operators, read reviews and blotted questionable firms, and by the end of 3 weeks of data collection took shape the idea to buy a round of Pac Group, like the number 1 tour operator for Italy. Moreover, similar trips with other operators were worth $ 100 cheaper, but I’m going with my mother and the risk of spoiling rest preferred an overpayment of $ 200 for two.

Well, in general we went, or rather flew. Flew charter, all the time, without delay, and nerves. All the obstacles were, as if flying to St. Petersburg, not in Italy. In Trieste pleased ratio customs to their own citizens. First were the Italians, then families with children, well then Rousseau tourists. And we were a string of one another, without actually stopping at the customs. We extend a passport, they put the die, in spite of us, and we are happy to move the baggage claim.

Shorter than the entire aircraft in total passed customs in about 15 minutes. Then the luggage without any problems and yield on Italian soil, that is to say in the airport lounge. When you leave my eyes immediately rested against the plate “Mondo Tours”. I had thought – also a good company. And then immediately came upon a “Pac Group” and realized that I did the right choice. In our memo stated – a meeting with Natasha escort at the airport under the plate, etc. I rushed to the girl with the words “Natasha !!!”, but was stopped by a frown person offended by the fact that it was named nor his name. “Sit over there, Natasha, now drive up, it is delayed,” – said to me. My mother and I arrived at the sad started to form a group. After 30 minutes, when all the tourists were pulled down, the hall quietly began to empty, we have become timid and try to cast the votes, not yet attracting the attention of Italians to “this strange Russian”, to explain the situation. Did not help.

Another 30 minutes later, when the voice sounded like a choir, and they began to show notes of a scandal, a girl came up to us and said that Natasha was standing in traffic and arrive at the airport can not and so it is now offering to join her group, to go with them Lido di Jesolo and reunited with her Natasha, if you continue from there to its habitat – Lugetto. Do nothing, we went to Lido di Jesolo, driving seems to hour 3, I no longer remember. There are no traffic jams on the road has not been noticed, moreover, no people, too. I generally people only saw in Venice. Well, at the Transit decided to save money, a no-brainer. Well, God be with them, let it be on their conscience. We are still fresh from Italy crave experience, so what, that the road from the airport to Lugetto won instead of 3 hours, all 4.5 with empty roads, but more than seen. Hearing that we were waiting in front, it would be better is the day we were driving.

In Lido di Jesolo, we finally connected with the so-called Natasha, who was standing in a traffic jam. “ It was not Natasha, but just people in transit. And we moved in the direction of Lugetto.

Now about Lugetto. All in the same memo, our first day in Italy was marked priblizitelno as follows: Arrival, transit do Lugetto (originally the firm chose from Lido di Jesolo, Lugetto or Rovigo), evening tour of Venice. When I asked the manager in Pak Group, the purchase of the tour, what Lugetto (the firm still chose this town), I was told that this is a very nice interesting town, where there is something to see. I was hoping that we settled in Lido di Jesolo, where I visited the sea and there is even anything, superior in 5 minutes from the hotel. Well Lugetto so Lugetto, why not look at another campus.

So, in fact Lugetto was an Italian village with a tourist attraction – our hotel, knows how and for what it built. Everything else is a cornfield. Provided that we dump the stuff in this place and we’re going to look at night Venice, this village could suffer. But the evening Venice we did not intend to show anyone. We were brought to 4 pm in the hole and left there without comment. That is, we tried to learn from the woman who brought us than ourselves entertained. She jabbed a finger in one direction, and said that there the sea 15 minutes away by bus. Jabbed a finger at another, and said that there is Venice in 30 minutes by bus. What kind of buses, where they stop, and other relevant information ask at the reception, a person who does not speak Russian. And yet …

Evaluate your knowledge of the language, most of the group chose to remain to contemplate a cornfield. But there were comrades who didst trust to chance and rushed into the adventure. Well they decided to visit Venice, and confined the sea. Then I heard the story of that 15 minutes was the sea, which can swim unless ekstrimal. A sea of ?normal back in an hour. And yet, even if you understand where is the bus stop to the sea, and find out the number of the bus, and even know where to go, it does not mean that you can also easily go back. Not the fact that the station “back” is located in the same place where “there” and not the fact that you remember how this Lugetto return. And local people will not aide in the first place, by virtue of their knowledge of English, and secondly, they do not know about the existence of this hole. In general, the couple returned to the taxi. Who knows how much a taxi to the island of Venice, will understand.

And yet, if our group at the airport was 20 people, in this hole left only 11, and another 9 were sent to Padua, where he held the same day, but more usefully, as in Padua even organize trips. Why do I initially Pak Group has not been proposed Padova, I do not understand. When I later began questioning the group, it turned out very interesting thing. It turns out that part of buying a tour to Pak Group, but said it differently, something like “City Jeans, and most do not from Pac Group riding .. And to us why the profits of one family from Mondo Tours. In general, the more he vinaigrette.

Hence, come the next morning, and finally we saw Natasha. She came to us on a bus crowded with people. And as it turned out she travels with them as much with the Genoese, and they had time to visit Milan. And the day before, when we were waiting for her at the airport of Trieste, and told us stories about traffic jams, she met the group at the airport of Genoa and we do not hurry.

In short it turns out that a lot of offices in Moscow, selling the same tour, but with different cities of arrival and, accordingly, the price (Trieste, Genoa, etc.) people arrive, they dock at some place near Venice (in this case Lugette ) and then Gartour rolls all along the same route. Someone lucky and he’ll buy round without loss, while others will be forced to while away the day in the hole, waiting for the others. I suspect that all these so-called tour operators are aware of it, that’s just why dwell on this client when you can zapudrit brain sorts out there, “tours of the night in Venice”, because they need to shove your own tour.

Now on powdered brains. In Pak group just specialists master class. When I asked why only the first day tour of the night in Venice, I was told “we will always like things to do, given the flight and the fact that people need to relax.” Indeed, it’s not declare the same to me that I should just give one clear day coma and wait for other tourists, who at that time watching Milan.

And while they have a tour of “All Italy to the north, where the day of arrival time to show the people of Naples and Pompeii.

My second question, too, in my view is important, is how many people will be in the group. I asked whether it is possible to book seats on the bus, but I was told that it was useless because the seats enough for everyone. The group will be 20 people and the bus will be full of empty seats. You had to see how we squeeze into the already packed bus scored. We had toli 43, toli 45. Well, it is clear that the choice of places are already missing and we had to settle for seats at the end of the cabin. When I asked to accompany, was answered, “ask his Moscow agency, it is they promise you, I would not answer, we are working with a bunch of companies and I have here such a program.” It is a phrase tourist expects to hear in a foreign country, overpaying for a round $ 200.

Description Lugetty too much cost. But when they had to convince me to live in the heart of Florence, but not in Montecatini, Montecatini me that most describe as the “hole hole, and generally there are only old people live.” When asked how many% of people in the group who lives in Florence, I was told 80%. As a result, the exact opposite. And the old men they have some kind of advanced. Anyway, in the town of Montecatini (really small town) is full of cafes, discos, shops and general life rages in full swing. But I’m not against Florence, and even glad that it stopped. While small problems in the organization did not give us the opportunity to use the first week in full. We came back from Pisa near midnight, but for some reason in Pisa were extra 1.5 hours. But this stuff.

In general, I got the impression that the tour to the south are not worked out as necessary from various places all of them in a pile. Someone to go to Venice closer to someone further. A tour to the north apparently is fad, especially because there is no place to arrive and, except for Naples. Everything is already in a heap, proekskursovodili to Venice, and then have the transits at different airports.

This all of course the problem host, but that Pac Group would advise to choose the optimal tour, without loss of days in the villages, and not hang noodles on the ears. That’s customer care is different in my opinion work turopreatora number 1 in Italy. And in this case they worked as a desk mediocre, just to sell the tour. We like poor relatives thrown in the village and reminisced about our existence only through the day, joined a group of other tour operators.

I can not say that everything was terrible. On the whole trip much. I’ve been to Italy, such as looked at a gallop, but it was in the northern cities – Milan, Genoa. And now realized that for me is right for the south, then that of Rome and beyond. But in Rome, like any normal person who’s been there, I’ll be back. Work Gartour, if not to remember the day of arrival, in principle, also arranged. Natasha turned out to be very cool girl who wanted to keep the team in good form and decide on a course a lot of problems.

Only here in the Pac Group is unlikely to still go. Why should I pay extra money for brand Pac Group. After all, it turned out that it does not matter. And with Gartour I can go to and through any other agency.