RSD Travel
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3.5 *
As a first experience of RSD, I'm a little conflicted. My partner and I went on the Croatia/Bosnia/Montenegro cultural tour with 7days free extension in a resort. So, the tour. Very hectic. You're out for 10 to 12 hours every day, different hotel every night with varying food standards. You don't get longer than 90 mins in each city you visit which is frustrating and disappointing. By day 5, I had had enough of being herded on and off the bus with no time to appreciate and revel in the surroundings. By day 6, nearly everyone felt the same. The last 2 days we visited 3 factories/warehouses (rugs, jewellery, and leather) where you are pounced upon and pressured to buy items. Bear in mind here that the tour guides get commission from sales. As soon as they know you're from the UK, prices are in the thousands because they have some weird view that we're millionaires over here. How a rug, or a leather jacket, can drop from 3600 to 400 is beyond me and just goes to show how much they try and scam people. The scary thing is, vulnerable people and those on their own do get caught out with this. We had one lady in our group who was taken into a room by 3 men. An hour later, she walked out having spent 9k on a necklace which she couldn't even take there and then! They promised to take her for lunch and bring the necklace 2 days later. She came back from lunch 25k lighter and still no necklace which was promised to her 2 days later on the day we left. Apart from all that, it was a long, hard slog in the first week but with the upcoming 7 days of relaxation in a 4* resort, I thought no problem, I can push through it to enjoy the luxury. How wrong I was. DO NOT, and I strongly mean DO NOT, buy the all inclusive package unless you plan to drink yourself into a stupor every night. The tour guide told us that our resort was in the middle of nowhere, nothing around, places shut because it's out of season, so we went for the all inclusive. EVERY DAY we both had diarrhoea. The food selection was shockingly appalling. Whatever wasn't eaten one day was reheated and served the next. They didn't label food properly - for example, scrambled eggs cooked with ham, but they were just labelled as scrambled eggs. Very bad if you're a veggie thinking you can enjoy some simple scrambled eggs. The food selection was the same every day - roast potatoes, mushy veg, and questionable meat. Pasta, salad, and that's it. However, right opposite the entrance to the resort was a beautiful restaurant that served the most mouth watering food we've ever had. If we had known, we'd have rather put the €460 in his pocket, a legitimate local business trying to survive, rather than the overpriced cr@p at the so called 4* resort. The room was...meh. Ants on the first night. A plastic sheet under the sheets on the bed which made sleeping rather tricky. I got bitten from head to foot by something in the bed (not my partner) and generally neither of us didn't sleep well all week. Croatia is beautiful so it was worth going for that, but please be aware that the cheap prices do come with a few cons.