Go Ahead Tours

Pros: good-sounding itineraries
Cons: pseudo-insurance, expensive optional tours that would be included by other companies

Go-Ahead Tours grew out of EF Education, supposedly the world’s largest private educational travel company (larger than Elderhostel?). EF provides knowledgeable guides for bare-essential student travelers, Go-Ahead more upscale accommodations for adults. ...

Pros: Great guide, Great itinerary, Low Cost.
Cons: Hotels are WAY out of the way, mixed age groups.

First off, I will say that for students and those who care absolutely nothing about accomodations due to a budget, Go Ahead might be a good company to go with. You will have a knowledgable guide and a set itinerary. If a meal is just something to keep up ...

Pros: Great Fun. New Friends. Handsome Bus Driver. Amazing Tour Guide Mary.
Cons: Terrible flight arrangements, 5 hour layover both ways. Leaving at 4a.m. to catch flight home.

I traveled with Go Ahead Tours, stayed in Montecatini and took day trips to Lucca, Florence w/dinner in Fiesole and Pisa. 9/22/07--Saturday I arrive in the Aeroporti di Roma, a very large airport. As I navigate my way through the people heading to my ...

Pros: Flexible touring, Excellent Tour Guides, selection of activities, good hotels.
Cons: GoAhead is known for changing hotels at the last minute. Ours was an upgrade.

GoAhead is the best tour company we have used. We went to both London and Paris with GoAhead so had actually two experiences with them. GoAhead's most outstanding feature is their local guides in the country or city you are visiting. The guides in...

Pros: saw most of the highlights. Good driver and guide
Cons: too much time in lake district and Assisi. not enough in Rome

First there is the itinerary itself. Of course we all knew more or less what it would be in advance. Start in the Lake District. Scenic, but not all that significant. They "upgraded" our hotel at the last minute. I'd hate to see what they consider a ...

Pros: Great customer service, very good tour guide.
Cons: Expensive compare to other companies

We all know that there is thousands of tour companies out there. I looked at Go Ahead Vacations because they sent me a brochure and their destinations and prices appeared very good.
Rapidly I called them and decided to book Turkey Adventure, a 19...

Pros: Great value for your money Excellent guides and for me Stuart Harvey
Cons: Air conditioning is not set high in most hotels.

Go Ahead tours is not for students. Go Ahead tours is part of the EF tours company. EF tours is for high school and college students. Go Ahead was established to fill a need for adult travel. (I took students on tours with EF for 12 years, and now I am ...

Pros: friendly and helpful till we needed to cancel
Cons: will not stand behind their promises

I am writing this for a friend of mine who does not have a computer but wanted to share her experiences with this company. Back in March 2003, my sisters and I decided to surprise our mom with a family trip to Greece for her birthday. Our mom is from ...

Pros: VALUE! The single supplements are lower than any I have seen
Cons: Customer service via email is bad after you pay deposit

I took the Walking the Amalfi Coast Tour in June of 2007 and had a wonderful time! As a woman traveling alone, I would not be comfortable in a country where I don't speak the language and this was perfect for me. Our group was only 26 people, which I ...

Pros: Wonderful Tour Director, great hotels and cruise ship, very well organized.  Excellent value.  Good group.
Cons: Fast-paced, not the tour for anyone who wants to sleep till noon each day.

I didn't think that anything would be able to top the Vienna, Prague, Budapest, and Salzburg tour we took in May, but the Egypt tour was indeed better.  Our Tour Director, Hisham Elsayad, who is completing his PhD in Egyptology, was extremely ...

Pros: - Tourguides - Hotel locations - Extra excursions
Cons: - Some of the included meals

A friend took the college version and she loved it so much that we decide to book with Goahead tours (after looking at another companies). We heard mix reviews but mostly positive so we were excited. The weather in US mess up our flights so we arrived ...

Pros: Excellent tour guides, free time to explore independently, interesting optional activities, good hotel accommodations.
Cons: Some flight itineraries have been unnecessarily long.

My wife and I have traveled with GoAhead on four separate occasions: Journey through Spain, Walking through Tuscany, Eastern Europe (Budapest, Vienna, Prague, & Salzburg, and Scenes from Sicily. Prior to the first tour, we had always made our own ...

Pros: great guides, nice hotels, interesting sights, nice bus, nice fellow travelers on each trip
Cons: one dinner was not fabulous, but purchase of food is cheap--order something else!

As a teacher who went on three of the student tours before my retirement, I then decided to travel with my husband on the Go Ahead adult tours. As has been my experience since the 1980's with this company, each travel experience has been just wonderful. ...

Pros: Included meals very good. Hotels comfortable enough, reasonable price. Itinerary excellent.
Cons: Expense of optional excursions, GAT insurance not a good idea.

Two friends and I traveled with GoAhead Tours in May of 2008. We visited Budapest Vienna, Prague, and Salzburg. We flew Lufthansa and United (now partners) which I usually am not pleased with, but our flights were on time, and reasonably ...

Pros: VENICE, the itinerary, VENICE, Fabrizio, VENICE, the friendly Italians, VENICE, Italian food and wine!
Cons: The four of us were assigned seats far apart on the plane.

My husband and I took our adult son and daughter-in-law on a tour of Italy with Go Ahead last November. I cannot praise them enough! First of all, I was concerned that my 40ish son and daughter-in-law might be the only younger people on the tour. Not to ...