07 May 2022
A 12-hour "program" of which 50 minutes is an experience. The rest of the travel and stops are in a place that is unnecessarily long for the tourist to spend money .
One hour waiting for the bus in front of the hotel in the morning, 30 minutes !!!!! waiting at a candy store (spend it, turist, spend it!), 40 minutes at the Green Mosque - at pray time!!!!! - 3 minutes inside at the end, an hour at a restaurant towards Uludag (eat here! just here!!!). This could have been solved in Bursa, so who doesn't want to eat, can see the city!
The Uludag lift didn’t work, so we went the other lift on other way (we weren’t informed about it in advance), so it was two hours up and down with bus. The panorama doesn't exist, I don't understand why it is included in the program when Bursa is part of UNESCO!!!!, not the mountain! Without the mountain we would have had 3 hours in the city!!!
Down another 10 minutes experience, the sycamore tree. Then - after 10 minutes - the guide wanted to stop "coffee" again (bar of friends, turists, spend again, spend again!), then no one take off anymore, no wonder!
It became 13 hours all day, including 50 minutes of experience and 12 hours of travel and unnecessary stops! It would be more expensive to take one of these tours, but they wouldn't include "commission" restaurants and shops, we're not going to eat and shop!
Plus: the driver started calling on the highway (neither speakerphone nor anything else) and when we drifted into the other lane, I told the tour guide to tell him to hang up, that’s not his job! He didn't want to put it down for minutes and started again later! Responsibility!!!!
I would add: I think we would have gone with any travel agency, we get the same.
If somebody would like to go to Bursa, better to go with a commun bus or rent a car... :-(