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►Thank you Trip Master for a wonderfully planned trip. I was able to upgrade the hotel room to have 2 beds for a small fee. The transportation was laid out well. At the airport I had a questions about the Train service and was able to go to Trip Masters website and chat with an agent that walked me through the issue. This is the 4 trip to Europe that I have used with Trip Master and I will return again.

►Too many cities in too few days. Hotel in Milan was in the middle of Chinatown. Sorry, but we didn't go to Italy to be in Chinatown. We did enjoy Milan sights in spite of the hotel location. With the trains scheduled for us, the shortest time was in the largest city, Milan. We intentionally missed our scheduled train and took a later train at added expense to have a little more time in Milan. The train we took was actually much less expensive and more convenient departure station than the one booked for us and only 10 minutes more travel time to Como. The station was 10 minutes closer to the hotel than than the originally scheduled station, sot eh travel time was a wash. In Como, misinformation from a tourist information center caused us to take the wrong boat tour of the lake; instead of a hop-on hop-off day trip to Bellagio, we got a 2-hour cruise in the lower part of the lake: not much to see or do there. Wasted day. Belzano cable car into Austria was a highlight, but not mentioned in any information we had before we were there and just happened to see the cable car going up the mountain. Bottom line, 5 cities in 10 night trip is too much in too little time. Would not recommend, especially at this time of year. Shoulder season, maybe April-May or October-November would have been better.

►We loved the Palace Hotel in Como. Staff there and at Mondschein in Bolzano were wonderful. The Verona B&B gal was great too. Verona was a very pleasant surprise; we had no idea how nice it is.