Durante grande parte do caminho o passeio é monótono e frio. Durante a passagem pela serra é bem legal. Mas no geral deixou muito a desejar. Um passeio de mais de 4 horas de trem, sem uma música, uma interação artística… seria uma boa oportunidade de artistas passarem pelos vagões entretendo o público. Enfim, deixou muito a desejar…
This was a well organized trip and, from start to finish, I really enjoyed the way it was supervised and the support offered by our guide.
This was particularly so because as a British traveler extra care was taken to ensure that I was fully informed and advised of proceedings in my own language.
The journey itself was spectacular and I appreciated the drinks that were provided during the trip. The seating arrangements were very accommodating and there was free movement throughout the section of our part of the train. I was impressed that any instructions by the crew were respectfully provided. Every effort was made to ensure our enjoyment and safety.
Commentaries were offered in my language although, to be honest, I was more taken up with the stunning views outside.
Lunch was provided following the train journey. This was enjoyable (perhaps it could be made clearer that the drinks and/or sweet were an additional cost) and took an hour.
The stop in the towns were time constrained. Personally, I was more impressed with the first town and would have liked to have explored this more and to have had time to stop for a refreshing drink before moving on.
The coastal town, I felt, was a less interesting stop. The only vendor on this stop was a small ice cream outlet which was disappointing. There wasn’t much to see or do at this stop.
If I were the tour operator I think that I would review these stops. Perhaps a better solution would be to spend more time at the first stop and move back to the drop off point from there? However, in overall terms, this did not unduly influence my excellent opinion of the trip as a whole experience.
The trip back seemed long. The microphone used by our guide was loud and indistinct at times which was frustrating. Perhaps this could be looked at in future.
For anyone in two minds about this trip I would definitely not have missed this and, apart from some minor observation points, I would highly recommend that you DO NOT miss this.
This was one of the highlights of my visit to South America.
I was picked up really well and then at the train station I had to be looked for first, was responsible for English, the train journey at the beginning and towards the end was boring, not interesting in any way, I first had to draw attention to myself that I speak English, then it was explained to me in English but only at the beginning, then nothing more came, well, the Brazilian tourists are more important, no wonder there were so few English speaking tourists or just me in my group instead of all the English speakers together would have been easier, which I didn't understand, then we went on with the van to a banana shop and to a village called Antonina, drove around briefly for 5-10 minutes and then back to Morretes, we then explored the village ourselves, I don't know what the guide was for, a joke although he was very informative in the van and in the restaurant and friendly, but would have liked to have heard the history of Morretes with a guide, maybe because it's too small, the food in the restaurant was great and tasty and then we went to an adventure park, I would say quickly, it was the story of the town tells a story but for me it's not an adventure park, more of a historical experience, exhibition, definitely not a park and then back to Curitiba and all that for 126 euros, which is excessive, maybe Viator should look at the trip itself and why Portuguese and Spanish speakers pay less for the tour, I don't understand either, as it was said that English speakers would have more money...??? not everyone is rich in the west