07 Oct 2022
This tour was okay not the best walking tour I’ve been on. The tour was over booked (in my opinion) and the tour guide was dealing with people from a couple of different towns that were on a bus and walking pick up point. I think this tour should be limited on its number of people so the guide isn’t spending his time trying to located members of the group. The tour company also forgot to book our boat ride back so they booked us train tickets at the last minute and WhatsApp the train tickets to one person then the tour guide having to deal with getting the other half of his tour to his bus he pointed to the train station and directed us to go there. Imagine the confusion for tourists that are not familiar with the language having to depend on a stranger for their ticket. There was confusion among the people depending on each other to take the correct train. That wasn’t cool, totally not a reflection on our tour guide. He tried his best with what he was working with. We were looking forward to the boat ride back where we would have continued our tour of Genova and that didn’t happen. Santa Margarita was a cute little town and we were glad to have walked around and explore it. Portofino was a very short stop so I really couldn’t say much about it especially since it wasn’t guided so we had to figure it out so we just sat down at a cafe had a drink and people watched until we had to meet our tour guide.