The Peak District Reviews

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Your trips were well organised and gave us a lovely taste of beautiful scenery especially as we had perfect weather a very enjoyable trip Hotel and rooms ok restaurant could be better organised and food for evening meals need improvement

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The whole trip was very enjoyable, but the hotel was not up to 4 * standard, in relation to dining , service, (although the staff were pleasant enough) and also the rooms themselves. In some rooms the heating did not work and so guests had to ask for a portable one. The rooms were modern and clean, but there wasn't one drawer to unpack underwear. Only hanging space and a shelf. We asked if there might be a roast on Sunday , but were told that beef is too expensive! The trips were lovely but one especially was not well planned.....after a train ride we were taken to a shopping mall (Peak Village) and given barely an hour to supposedly shop and eat! We did not want to shop, but just getting food in that short time during a busy Sunday lunchtime, was a rush and a challenge with very little choice, and not at all enjoyable. This was our 5th GRJ holiday and we would use them again...but standards do seem to be dropping, sadly

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A lovely trip in a very beautiful part of the English Countryside.

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Well organised itinerary, excellent local guide. Would have given 5*, but on 2 evenings (Saturday, Sunday) the dinner at the Hotel was disappointing, food below standard, young staff did their best, but there seemed to be no supervision. Also a long queue at the bar, only 1 bar staff trying to cope.

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I have been to Derby before but didn't realise the Peak District was so beautiful.

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Good hotel, good itinerary, excellent tour manager.

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Had a great time in the Peak District. Would highly recommend.

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We had a good time. Informative tour - Carol, our guide, was excellent. Also the driver was exceptional. And Andrea was very helpful. Thank you!

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Lovely town to visit and beautiful countryside

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Retail park boring.Enjoyed experience of steam train but second trip views of countryside were very limited Everything else excellent Particularly the excellent tour guide the bus driver and Debra.

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An excellent opportunity to go to an exceptional stately home (Chatsworth), see interesting towns (Bakewell and Buxton), experience heritage railways, and see the Peak District in other ways.

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Overall it was a great experience, very well organised with a lot of interesting things to see. Evening meals were a little slow on the first night but it got it's act together after that.

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Excellent trip. Deb was fantastic as a manager.

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Hotel was great. Tour manager was brilliant as was the bus driver. I was just a little disappointed at the need to stop to visit shops when more historical places deserved a visit to soak up the atmosphere of bygone days. Eyam deserved better than just a drive through.The Peak District is beautiful though and the trip was worth the money.

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We had a happy time visiting some historical places and travelled through wonderful countryside, accompanied by our attentive guide and were given very interesting information. The whole experience is to be recommended.

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It was a throughly enjoyable trip made all for having a great tour guide and a guide who knew everything about the area of the peak district we were in it is very much worth visiting

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Very beautiful area plentiful to see and do tour manger and coach driver very friendly and helpful only down side Hotel not very good and food terrible. Had school dinners better.

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A wonderful discovery of a part of the Country that had previously been unknown to me, other than from pictures and stories

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Trips and organisation were excellent, breakfast was good, evening meal was terrible. Fish pie with no fish just potato with fish source all on boiler potatoes. Cottage pie wit a few grains of meat all set on yet more potato, so basically 99.9% potato.

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The weather was very hot but hotel rooms and coaches at a comfortable temperature. Food was good. Lots of nice touring around the area. Carol, the local guide was clear and informative -obviously loves Derbyshire. Altogether a god, well managed trip.