Europe Travel Agents & Reviews

With our full work and family schedule, planning our much-desired trip to Greece was not going to fit into our timeframe. Zicasso and the team at the travel company were the best! Our agent listened to our needs and desires for the trip – experience and adventure throughout Greece. He updated and made the changes we suggested. We ended up with a wonderful 10-day trip from Athens to Nafplio and Paros.

We hiked, experienced history, enjoyed wonderful local foods and shops, kayaked, snorkeled, froze under a mountain waterfall, and saw the clearest, bluest lakes ever.

One of the highlights was during a hiking/water day when we had an incredible lunch at a local woman's home in the mountain area. The food was beautifully prepared, the conversation enjoyable, and the property idyllic.

Once we headed to the island of Paros, which we highly recommend due to fewer crowds and wonderful restaurants and shopping, we topped off one evening with a 6.5km cultural hike along the Byzantine highway, learning why the homes are abandoned and whitewashed, and there are more than 20 varieties of wild, medicinal herbs, as well as learning the history of battles throughout the regions.

If you haven't visited Greece, this travel company will create the ideal itinerary for your time there. I recommend visits to Athens, Nafplio, and Paros. Bring your walking and water shoes, and let them take care of everything else.

The trip was thoughtfully planned by Zicasso's travel team to meet our needs and expectations. The main problem I had was luggage handling: into and out of hotels, on and off trains, into airports. The drivers could not always bring the luggage to these places for us. I am getting too old and am not strong enough to handle the luggage myself. That needs to be worked out in planning a trip.

We had excellent guides, for the most part. They were very knowledgeable about the areas in which they guided us. Several joined us for a meal after we toured a site and we found them to be good company.

Our guide for the Alhambra seemed to be having an allergic reaction the day of our visit and kept sneezing, to the point that she did not seem to feel well. She really rushed us through the palace, which was very crowded. I tried to slow her down, especially when I found my balance being threatened by the crowded conditions. She seemed impatient with my problem. I also found her English more difficult to understand than that of other guides. She declined to join us for lunch and got the heck out of there as fast as she could.

The drivers were almost always easy to locate and good-natured. Mostly, we were just with them to get from point A (our hotel, a train station) to B. Occasionally, the driver spent the day with us and those who did were delightful.

Our trip to Madrid, Seville, and Malaga was exceptional. The Zicasso travel agency planned every detail perfectly. The hotels, guides, and drivers were all excellent. We had to make a change to our itinerary due to illness one day and having a local contact in Spain helped everything to run smoothly. I would use them again and recommend them to all.

Zicasso’s travel company was outstanding. I highly recommend our travel agent. She listened to our ideas and provided good ones of her own based on her wealth of experience living and traveling in Italy. Every tour she planned was educational and enjoyable. The drivers she reserved for us were safe and drove comfortable cars.

We especially appreciated having the train and tour tickets all purchased ahead of time and the car rental and hotels prepaid. Our agent even checked us in ahead of time for the one train that required check-in. She also found perfect, well-run hotels and inns for us, located within five to 10 minutes of restaurants.

We would use our agent again in a heartbeat.

Everything about our trip was close to perfect in regard to the planning and execution of our travel plan. We took a leap of faith in using Zicasso after reading other positive reviews and are happy we made that decision.

Our planner did an exceptional job of listening to our interests, age, and lifestyle, then planning our trip. After the initial plan was proposed, we tweaked a few things and it worked out perfectly. During the trip, he promptly answered a few of my questions about tipping and changes to times of one or two tours. I offered feedback on a few of our experiences and he was genuinely interested. He was exceptional!

The two hotels were five-star and in great areas.

Every driver and tour was prompt and the drivers and guides courteous.

And the price was more reasonable when compared to comparable tours offered by "traditional" travel companies.

Zicasso’s tour company attended to every detail of our trip to Italy with evident care and consideration based on our pre-travel discussions. The accommodations, travel arrangements, and, most importantly, the transfers from trains/planes/boats to the places we needed to be were without a hitch. We could not have asked for better, and frankly, it was much better than we anticipated. Our guides were excellent and truly enhanced our experience by relating history and experiences from their native experience.

From start to finish, our travel agency was exceptional, efficient, timely, and very thoughtful. Zicasso’s travel agent worked with us from the beginning to plan our dream trip to Sweden and Swedish Lapland, filling every day with a lifetime of amazing experiences and memories. When an unanticipated glitch popped up, the travel team was quick to help problem-solve with kindness and expertise, resulting in an even better trip. We would recommend them to all our friends and family for a once-in-a-lifetime trip!

The Zicasso travel agent made everything easy, from planning to being on holiday. Everything worked like clockwork. She arranged everything, making the entire experience stress-free.