Tour di Coimbra: centro, centro storico, università e giardino botanico

João was prompt and easily located in the meeting location in Coimbra. He allowed time for stragglers and began the uphill tour with three of us. He provided some good restaurant recommendations along the way. He also provided some interesting insight about the student culture of Coimbra. Unfortunately, the tour progressed more slowly than anyone in the group wanted. There were also long periods of standing around without discussion. Also, with this small group, there was one attendee who decided she liked talking more than listening to the guide, and the guide let her talk and talk. I think this tour might be better as a brief 1 to 1-1/2 hour walking tour.

I find several of your thoughts regrettable. The information about the tour (route, timetable, ascents and descents is on my page, and I gave you this information at the beginning of the tour too), I'm sorry you're not paying attention! assess whether or not you can afford it. You suddenly left the tour halfway through with the excuse that you were having dinner (at 6pm). You missed 50% of the tour information. As for saying that the tour was unpleasant for everyone, I'd like to know where you got that idea... but it's a huge lie, I finished the tour with a single tourist (the oldest), who you say that speak a lot, yes she was very interested in everything, including history and other things. She was not being rude, she wanted to meet people, and to know history and new cultures. She was very happy and told me that she loved everything about the tour, her comment is online (and by the way, I stayed with her longer than the tour route, half of her too, to help her with other questions, and she was very curious, "the one who talked too much"). I had two tourists who were not at all correct, with attitudes that were not normal on a tour, and they didn't understand the context or the work of the guide. Not to mention the fact that I was underpaid by both of them (one of whom was you). One who was walking alone in front of me. I told her sometimes to wait us.!!! A guide's primary mission is to talk about local/national traditions and history, and to give other suggestions, clarify doubts, and talk to you too, but for that to happen, the tourists also have to want it (and I didn't feel that from you or the other person. The tird person was interested). Something is not right here, I finished the tour at the scheduled time, 3 hours, as I said, I stayed longer with the tourist to help her. Amy Teichman, her name. The tour also takes place according to the patience and interest of the tourists. And according to the politeness and respect for the place they are visiting and the guide they have. With that in mind, I'll be able to pass on as much information as possible. Tourists also play a fundamental role in how the tour goes. If some people don't know how to behave, I can't keep drawing attention to them every single minute! That's all I do. In fact, if you felt uncomfortable with the tourist who was talking to you, why didn't you ask her to shut up?!

I think that the score is extremely unfair. Throughout the tour, like the other tourists, you asked a lot of complex historical and cultural questions. Everything I knew how to answer, I answered, taking my time to explain. The tour didn't go as expected, so I had to explain things that take time, and that, on a normal tour, I wouldn't go into, understanding that this is not to your liking. Or waiting for tourists who simply disappeared. Another issue, I could have noticed that I was constantly interrupted when I spoke by other tourists. All this made it impossible for me to visit certain places. How stressful it is to take a tour on a tight schedule. A guide does what the tourists let us do. It's unfortunate that I didn't understand my position, or that the guide made a brutal effort to get to know as much as possible, despite everything, and made this tour just for 3 people (it could have been canceled).

it was regrettable that you made the tourists wait a few times during the tour, you disappeared, you went to shops and other places for long periods of time, and I didn't know where they were, having to get to the point of telling you that it was impossible to continue the tour with you because it was not right for tourists to be waiting for you forever, they were very displeased with your attitudes. if they came with other interests, that's fine, they can't disrespect the guide and the group with these behaviors. For these attitudes did not come. I don't know if you noticed, but you compromised the visit... and then you have the indecency to make a comment to the guide lol

thank you for your reservation, I'm sorry you don't understand that no guide is a machine. I do what few guides do, tour twice a day. Do you know what it's like to walk 6/7 hours every day, in different climates, sometimes sick (as has been the case), in different languages? Obviously things don't always go my way. By the way, I shared this information with the tourists. That could be valued, couldn't it? As I said on the tour, the city has many hills, and a lot of history, if I don't tell you about history, the university and traditions, then what am I talking about? What will any guide in Coimbra say? By the way, on the guruwalk page, this information is clear about the tour... clearly they didn't read this information. If you had any questions during the tour, just ask!!! The atmosphere of a group always depends on the guide, but also on the tourists, I sent some jokes, which maybe you didn't understand, but the others reacted well.

when we started the tour I explained to you how the tour would be, the itinerary. that we would have to go all over the city. And along the way we would visit several places. As was said (and the information is on the website about the route) from the beginning, they simply weren't very interested in getting to know the city and its history better, possibly not having much time for the tour either. Of course there was this distance between you during the tour, they didn't want to know, I tried to give you all the useful information to get to know the city and activities to do. others lost by your decision. there were more tourists, who were interested, it wasn't going to be late but I wasn't going to rush the tour just because you were in a hurry to get to the university. It would be unfair to others. It would also be interesting if they had remembered that we started the tour later, because they went to the pastry shops, making the other tourists wait. I regret that there has been this lack of understanding. Merry christmas