10 Best Europe August 2025 Tours and Trip packages

Europe August 2025 Tour Reviews

4.8 - Excellent

Based on 7,741 customer reviews

Mountains, woodland, meadows

5 - Excellent

Anonymous

I was surprised how green "Green Spain" is. On landing I thought it looked more like Austria, and this resemblance persisted. It had been rainy before we went and the woodland paths were quite muddy. There are brown cows with cow bells (very docile) and a lot of goats (very friendly). Our week was hot and humid so on the last day we set off at 8am instead of the normal 9am. The area is very peaceful, but there are few way-marked trails so it was useful to have a guide. On the free day we chose to go to the coast. The beach at Poo (yes it is called Poo) is stunning - lovely soft golden sand and restaurants overlooking the beach. We were less impressed with Llanes - it is OK and the icecreams from the van the group are picked up at are superb (and huge! - save room for one) but given how nice the beach at Poo is we would probably spend more time there if it is a nice day. The hotel has a nice garden to sit out in with stunning views of the mountains (sometimes hidden in mist, sometimes clear against blue sky). The hotel staff are very organised. The bar is a nice place to hang out after walks or before dinner. The food is very tasty. There is a small appetiser, a soup, a main and a pudding. Our only thought to improve this would be more vegetables with some of the main courses (e.g. the pork is the best ever - it is so tender - but it was served up with just one carrot along with Dauphinoise potatoes). Cutting out the appetisers would save a lot of work serving and washing up for what is a small thing. The beef curry bomb was very popular with the group - highly recommended! The prawn curry was a bit too fancy with a couple of whole prawns and my husband would have preferred a proper big bowl of prawn curry and rice rather than have to mess about dissecting his dinner. The hake with little clams on the last day was excellent. Every meal was very tasty and well cooked.

Very Good

4 - Very Good

I took this tour in early August, it was my second expat tour and I would definitely use this company again mainly due to the great prices, good itineraries and variety of countries covered. I enjoyed the tour but the interpersonal part dampened it a little. To begin with mostly retired people, families, couples and friends made up most of the group; same with the last. I am under 35 and travelled alone so I shared a room with another solo female traveller a few years younger. We were roommates during the entire trip and I felt she was a bit inconsiderate. While the tour leader spoke about seat rotation and being considerate of others on the bus nothing was said to the solo travellers who were virtually sharing rooms with strangers. My roommate would grab the key before me, enter the room first and choose the side with the window/balcony and/or more space, it wasn't until the last leg of the trip that I told her we should take turns choosing our side. Although she agreed, it dampened our relationship. Overall though she acted like she was in the room alone for instance, on our free day in Bulgaria she stayed in the hotel while I went on the optional excursion, on my return I noticed a 'do not disturb' sign on the door. According to my roommate she doesn't trust hotel cleaners so she didn't want them to clean the room, and our bathroom was left dirty and without toilet paper. When I told my roommate about this she said I should use facial tissues...apparently, for all our free days the room was not cleaned. Another thing she did was use the hairdryer in the night when I wanted to sleep to dry her clothes, there were other little things that were a bit inconsiderate too but one of the worse happened in the morning when the tour ended in Athens. She finished breakfast before me, went to our room to get her stuff and left the door to the room wide opened. All of my belongings were inside unsecured. The tour leader was curt, unhelpful and and a bit standoffish.

Excellent

5 - Excellent

Olivia

It was our honeymoon trip and it was wonderful! We visited so many beautiful places and the itinerary was great providing sightseeing and some free time. We upgraded the hotels to 5 stars and Discovery Nomads went above and beyond notifying the hotels we are on honeymoon, so we’ve got some extra attention and gifts, small detail but made our trip very special. Many thanks to Caroline!