RSD Travel
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Avoid unless you know the catches and are bold enough to bat them off.…
I recently took an RSD holiday to Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro. I should have realised it was too good to be true with the price. From the off I have to say the hotels were, in the main, exceptionally good. As was the food provided. However it was the outright deceit of the Rep and this company that was unrepresentable. The addition trips were sold like you were going to be left waiting at the roadside while the additional trips were in progress. The 'Trip' to Mostar, although truly unmissable, meant that we had driven within 10km for cultural carpet visit (more of that later!) driven to our hotel in Medjugorje, only to be driven back to Mostar! I wouldn't have missed Mostar but why it was an extra cost I am at a loss. All the way through the first week we were being told our final weeks destination hotel was unknown. Therefore unable to plan anything. That turned out to be an absolute lie when we arrived there the guests that were there all knew our guide. He had also told everyone that unless they took the extra full board package they wouldn't get anything to eat. Lie! One couple were so worried about that and about his description of how remote it was, they took a taxi back to Dubrovnik at their own expense. This they later found excluded them from the final night hotel and bus ride to airport. Outrageous behaviour. One the final day of the last week we were told we would be heading to Sveti Stefan. This was 2.5km from our hotel. But we were driven back to Kotor for cultural shopping trips. After being manhandled at the carpet store trying to cajole you into buying £5,000 carpets I was ready for the Jewellery shop. What I wasn't ready for was that there was apparently no way out of the 'store'. Guiding a blind chap we had little interest in jewellery and only after insisting we be let out did we sit in a café for 1 1/2 hours waiting for the others to be released. I completely declined to enter the leather shop as I had zero interest in purchasing £2,500 jackets. After 5hrs of forced shopping we drove past Sveti Stefan being allowed only to glance at it. Having been there previously and knowing what a lovely spot it was I was enraged. Particularly when the Rep then started telling us we needed to go to a certain cashpoint to give him his tip and there were non at the final hotel. Lie! We did pay the full board package for the final week. It had to be paid in cash!!!!! and doubled the price of the trip. I have asked RSD to stop sending me mail and messaging me with offers as I wouldn't travel with them again if you paid me. Can I repeat the hotels were excellent in the main. Hence my extra star. One hotel had particularly dodgy electrics and refused to provide extra bedding as the aircon couldn't be taken off cold. If you are aware of this companies 'Extra's Scams' and bold enough to bat them off you could have a very reasonably priced holiday. But prepare to be brow beaten, herded, manhandled and lied to at every junction.