Jan 3, 2025
Great day and tour was sufficient. - A great small group experience.
Purchased some delicious fresh cherries from the farm. Lunch and wineries were great.
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Nov 26, 2024
Amazing Tour of the Barossa! - Such a fun time visiting great wineries and Maggie Beers was awesome. Paul was a great tour guide and we would highly recommend!
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Nov 1, 2024
A great day out - We had a brilliant day with Gerry our driver. We did 2 wineries which were really good and had a great lunch at the second of the 2. We could have done a 3rd but Gerry gave us a choice so we decided to have a wander around Tanunda, which was lovely.
All in all a fabulous day made more special by Gerry, who was the best escort we could have asked for. Definitely recommend this trip
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Oct 12, 2024
Excellent day - This was a great trip to sample the area, excellent winery’s plus Maggie’s place and a chocolate factory. Pick up and drop off from our hotel, our guide was the best.
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Oct 3, 2024
One word "Good" - It is a wonderful wine-tasting trip. I used to drink France red and white wine. After this trip, Australian wine is pretty good. Through the tour, I have learned which Australian wine's brand is good.
Also, the tour guide is very informative. She can introduce the wine information and the tour trip information especially since it is my first time in Adelaide.
Moreover, the trip is a small group tour so it is easy to share the information with the tour guide and other tour members.
Good trip and a good tour guide. Thanks
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Oct 2, 2024
Fun day in the Barossa. - A great day out. Saw small family run wineries rather than the big commercial companies where you can buy their wine most places. Gerry our driver was excellent. Great sense of humour, very chatty. ‘Dad jokes’ aplenty. Gerry is branching out with her own bus tour and will be called All About Adelaide tours. Highly recommend Gerry when she gets her own business up and running.
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Aug 25, 2024
Cracking day - Paul was a fantastic driver and guide, full
of knowledge, great destinations and we were laughing from the pickup to drop off
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Aug 18, 2024
A highlight of our trip to Adelaide. - We had an amazing day with our tour guide/bus driver Gerry. Her knowledge and passion for the region was a highlight. We visited three wineries, the chocolate shop and Maggie Beers Farm, with lunch included at one of the wineries. Would highly recommend if travelling with a group of friends and wanting a well organised day in the wine region.
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Jan 5, 2025
Guttered by the lack of people skills. - Almost didn’t book this tour because one of my friends wasn’t happy with some of the other reviews. They had real concerns about treatment of people on the tours from some of the reviews.
I unfortunately said “but Gerry had great reviews” but Paul seems to have a fewer reviews which suggests some issues an an inability to take on board customers feedback.
Anyway we booked and we got Paul.
The trip and places visited were fine. However when your running a tour and your the tour leader you need to keep in mind your job is to make people feel valued and respected and make sure you are clearly communicating continuously. But most of all you should never make someone feel unwanted or embarrassed.
Due to respect for everyone on this tour and for privacy I won’t go into the details as it’s not required.
But what I will say is Paul you unfortunately made it very uncomfortable for a number of your guest to feel they were treated respectfully. I hope you never find yourself in the same situation one day, because I would not wish on you or anyone one else the humiliation and disrespect felt by your guest onboard with you that day. Please don’t respond by saying you can’t address the issue without the details. I suggest you do some deep reflection if that is how you feel, because any body on that day would never forget how you made them feel and at some level you must have be aware but choose to ignore it due to your inability to respond appropriately and lack of skills. In fact the other tour members were more considerate and respectful of the situation than you were Paul. Thank you to all the others on tour if you are reading this review. It helped a lot and made everything less traumatic on the day.
Paul for constructive feedback to take on board if your prepared to grow and become a better tour operator and human, as you do struggle adjusting your approach to different situations due to a lack emotional intelligence or skills in this area. I would highly recommend :
That you get some serious training in this area else you’ll will continue to receive little to poor reviews in the future. Alternatively don’t put yourself up front with people because you will continue to offend others, because you have no filter.
With hand on heart if you plan to do this tour ask for a different driver else learn to roll with all the inappropriate punches and don’t expect much compassion in a tuff situation.
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Nov 8, 2024
Horrible tour - DO NOT book with this company!! Paul is arrogant, racist & judgemental not only of guests on his trip but members of public. His driving was unsafe & aggressive including rude gestures to a metro bus driver and verbal abuse of a traffic controller who had blocked entry to a road that Paul later remembered he knew was going to be closed. Jokes were inappropriate, misogynistic and condescending towards women. See reviews about Paul from his previous company Bums on Seats on TripAdvisor. We didn’t know how bad his reviews were until after our trip.
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