Poland Travel Agents & Reviews

I went into this trip knowing it was going to be a difficult emotional experience and it was truly that. It was also physically difficult with a ton of walking. Still waiting for the company to assist us with documentation necessary for travel insurance claims due to last minute flight cancellation going resulting in missed tours and rebooking as well as flight cancellations returning necessitating a hotel overnight stay in NY since we had a direct flight originally.

Our trip was wonderful! It was nicely planned and executed by Zicasso’s tour company. Our agent was very reliable, very available, and honest. I felt cared for. She understood that this was the first trip we'd taken since the pandemic and, with us, created an itinerary that allowed sufficient time to do the things we wanted to do. The app, which we resisted at first, was actually very reliable and extremely helpful each day. We came home a few days ago and are already thinking about where we want to go on our next trip with our travel company.

We had a 9 night tour of Budapest - Vienna - Salzburg - Prague, for which we paid $12,500. With the exception of the Salzburg portion of the trip, we had excellent guides and were fully pleased with the tours we took. For the Vienna to Salzburg portion of our trip through the Wachau Valley, we did not receive the guided tour with a Driver-Guide, but instead had a driver only, which was a disappointment, as the driver was not qualified and did not provide the kind of service a guide would have.

Our travel agent provided a refund for our missing out on this experience, and we were grateful for that. It was unclear who was responsible for this mistake, but it obviously should not have happened - though we received the funds in return, we lost that day and the experience it might have brought us.

We found the hotels in Budapest, Vienna and Salzburg to be excellent hotels. The hotel in Prague was, however, a disappointment. The room was clean and well cared for, but the bathroom was very small and there was no elevator to our floor. The hotel provided no complimentary water, as all other hotels did. The breakfast was OK, but unlike the other hotels, there was no food cooked to order available. The entrance to the hotel was flanked by 2 rollaway garbage cans that were picked up at 6 am each day, which wasn't an especially nice way to be awakened. Moreover, one of the nights that we returned to the room, there was a homeless gentleman who was going through the garbage, which was concerning, as we had to enter the door alone. There was no one at the reception desk in the evening, nor a bellman or other employee in that building. When we pointed this out to our agent, when he kindly met with us, his response was that this hotel received a 9.1 rating on bookings.com, so it was acceptable for him. We respectfully disagree on its suitability, for the reasons outlined above.

Finally, we believe that for what we received for our approximately $1,400 per night, the tour was overpriced. We had no meals provided besides the breakfasts each morning and a food tour one day in Vienna. While the hotels, with the exception of the first hotel, were nice, they were not the quality we would have expected for such a daily price.

We did not find our travel company to respond consistently through WhatsApp, but when we used the email that routed through Zicasso, our agents were responsive. When we spoke to our agent's assistant by phone and when we met with our main agent at the end of the trip, we ended up in verbal disagreements that could have been handled with better customer service. I would not characterize the interactions as customer friendly.

Overall, we enjoyed most of this trip and were glad we made the journey to those great cities. I would not recommend our travel company.

We have used Zicasso - associated tour companies for 5 vacations besides this one, and all the other operators were amazing, so this appears to be an unusual circumstance.