Avignon, Les Baux, St Remy e Arles de MARSELHA

Jenny was excellent very accommodating. My bag had not arrived and I was stressed all day. In the evening she dropped me at Aix to give me a head start getting my bag which I now have. It was a. Dry informative tour I saw places I would not be able to go on public transport. It’s a very worthwhile experience full of history and culture. I was spoilt as tour had only two other women this is a great introduction to Provence 10/10 😊

Nicolas was an excellent guide! He was knowledgeable about the areas we visited and kept the conversation enjoyable for all.

Overall, I would rate this tour as a disappointing. It was advertised as a small group tour of 8 (of which our group was four) with no hotel pickup. Six of us met at the meeting point, boarded the bus and then drove an hour and twenty minutes to Aix to pickup the other two customers at a hotel and were left in a hot van while the guide sought them out. This did not add 1:20 to our tour but effectively subtracted it from our last stop Avignon. The guide was nice enough, but either walked faster than half the group could keep up during the partially guided part of the tour, or dumped us off on our own with some recommendations. This was particularly true of the hour we spent La Beaux where we were expected to have lunch--which took 45 minutes of the hour. Some recommendations of where to grab a sandwich or take away food would have been nice. La Beaux is picturesque but a hike, and no place to tour and have lunch in one hour. Bad plan. Traffic was awful and the heat unbearable, which I realize is not the guide's or Viator's fault, but the forced march was unnecessary for the older members of the tour, and traffic at that hour of the day I suspect is not unusual. I consider this an ill advised schedule. I have a problem with six of the eight members of the tour making our own way to the meeting point and then sacrificing part of our tour time driving to pick up two additional tour members in another town and looking tor find them and taking them home again. It just seems they should have made their way to the meeting point or been a part of another tour. I don't believe this tour is accurately defined.

Visit of the Baux de Provence on May 13, 2025. What a beautiful village with its old cobblestone streets and stone walls. A chapel, many restaurants and souvenir shops. At the top, a beautiful view of the village and the pond of Berre. A very nice walk. Very good shoes a cap and off we go.

We had an wonderfull day with an excellent guide-driver, Paul, who gave us a lot of interesting information and answered to all our questions.

The arena is good to be visited in the winter, from spring they do corridas de Toros, and a lot of "travellers" arrive, it becomes a dangerous place, I only recommend it for a day trip

We had a very small group, just my partner and another tourist to the area, which made it nice and personal. We only spoke English while the other tourist only spoke French, so our guide (Nicolas I think, should have written this review sooner) had his work cut out for him giving all the information twice, in both languages. The drive out from Marseille to Arles took a while, but Nicolas told us so much about the history of the area and the roads gave us a good view of the surroundings so it wasn't a problem. In Arles the Van Gogh Foundation was displaying Starry Night Over The Rhone so Nicolas modified the route to spend a bit longer here so we could have longer going round the gallery. We spent more time in Arles looking around the town, with a bit of free time to explore at our own pace. Next we were off to Les Baux. Here we had 2 hours to explore the area ourselves. Definitely better coming here on a tour, as you can't park near the top so Nicolas had to drop us off and repark ages away then pick us up later. We had a good time looking round the town, very scenic and lots of restaurants, shops and a local art display going on. Next we went to St. Paul de Mausole. Again we had about an hour to explore the area at our own pace. Finally we went to Avignon. Again we were able to explore at our own pace for 2 hours, but we were so worn down from the heat and walking we ended up just getting some drinks in the shade rather than going to the Palais des Papes. If you're a bit hardier than us you'd definitely have had the time. Finally we returned to Marseille - it was another long drive, but Nicolas still had plenty to tell us about to keep us entertained. Traffic coming in wasn't great but that's big cities for you. We didn't have anything booked in after so it wasn't a problem for us - maybe bear that in mind if you have a restaurant reservation, give yourself the extra time. This was a fantastic tour of a few highlights of Provence, I'd recommend to anyone able to handle the walking and heat (if you go in summer).

Very nice tour. Very nice guide Nicolas. We would like to have more time in each stop to see mire things

Nicholas was excellent! Attentive, informative, and engaging. He is one of the best tour guides we have had in our any travels.

We were with another couple on the tour where great people and enhanced the tour a lot. The tour was pretty comprehensive and covered a lot of territory in one day which is what we were looking for (we had limited time) and there were some great spots (esp St Remy and Les Baux) that I would t have known about. Our guide was a good guy with whole we had rapport. Personally I would like more emphasis on Roman ruins and history and less Van Gogh but the woman with us was more into Van Gogh so that’s really a subjective thing. My husband is over ruins so he was happy enough with Van Gogh.