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Katharine Majak
Feb 24,2025The tour leaders are always wonderful and the experiences are thought out and meaningful. The company needs to improve on the options for students meals. The fact that they have to pay for their own soft drink for dinner after the amount they have spent seems a bit silly.
James Whelton Jr.
Feb 24,2025Flight times not good. Tour director did not share information in a timely manner. Have to buy breakfast the night before at a Walmart was ridiculous. Activities and hotels were good. Not enough activities.
Etienne Tremblay
Feb 24,2025Our extremely knowledgeable, engaging and personable guide, the sites with opportunities to learn deeply about the history and culture, and the experiences as well as built in free time for exploration were amazing!
Owen Zhong
Feb 24,2025Fun activities and stuff
Adalyn Korta
Feb 24,2025I loved dc and it was amazing to do this tour with world strides. The people were kind, helpful, and welcoming but as with everything there were a few flaws. There was a small communication struggle on the last day when our bus got a flat tire so it couldn’t pick us up but no one knew for about 30 minutes so all the kids and chaperones had to wait outside until we got the message from world strides.
happy student
Feb 24,2025I loved the tour guides. The DC tour guide, Josh, was great at storytelling and getting our attention. The tour guide in New York City, Lawrence, was comedic and down-to-earth and captured the culture, people, and lifestyle of NYC very well. The restaurants weren't amazing though.
Parent
Feb 24,2025I was shocked at the lack of transparency and cost of this Washington DC trip. We were given no details until a month before the trip that we paid over $700/night for our kids to stay at a Holiday Inn not in DC that cost $20/night, to eat in food courts and fast food restaurants with $20 vouchers, and to fly on a return budget airline. They didn’t even make it to the White House or Pentagon because World Strides didn’t schedule it and asked parents to organize. If there were a way for a refund, I’d like it because we did not get what we paid for! By the way, all the tours are free in Washington!
S. C
Feb 24,2025The trip itself was great, but I was really unhappy knowing these kids would spend half the day traveling from one plane to another, only to arrive in Puerto Rico late at night despite having a morning flight. I had to pick her up after midnight. They waited until the last minute to book, even though they had months to plan. Extremely frustrating.
Jessica Montiel
Feb 24,2025WorldStrides helped our group navigate a new city and provided many interactive opportunities for students. A represent I’ve was there every step of the way insuring all our needs were met and that our trip ran as smoothly as possible!
Tracy Carlson
Feb 24,2025The tour guide was informative and relatable. The schedule was well run and the kids loved the parks planned. Great variety for them.
tara
Feb 24,2025Great hotel with many options for breakfast. Tour guide was knowledgeable, helpful and friendly. Bus driver was timely and professional.
Skib skib skib
Feb 24,2025Our trip was amazing and everything was planned out perfectly and all of the activities were amazing. But our tour guide Mike was like a little crybaby. He threw a few to many temper tantrums and while we were getting dinner he also just took a peice of fried chicken off my plate and ate it infront of me. He got mad at the smallest things.
Wellington Andrees
Feb 24,2025Did the job but room for improvement. We saw all the sites however spending 10-15 minutes at each memorial does not allow students the opportunity to fully take in the experience. Several of our students have family that have served and giving those memorials the time and respect they deserve should've been a priority. Those in charge of scheduling dropped the ball on our return, where busses were not waiting for us when we got back to our home airport. It took an additional hour/two to secure a bus in part because the emergency number is outsourced to another country where we couldn't reach anyone to help us resolve the issue. In the event of a more serious emergency I fear for the outcome.
O G
Feb 24,2025The storm was not their fault but the way they pivoted was not well. The kids were on the bus for 5 hours, no food. The food at the restaurants were inedible. Kids were not able to buy snack at the shop. I realize this is hard to plan yet some choices were questionable.
Hope Reddington
Feb 24,2025My tour guide was amazing! She kept my group engaged and prepared us for all of our activities for the day. I had the perfect balance between planned activities and free time to explore cities in my own. During our time in Portugal, I would have loved to do an activity on the water (boat/picnic) but it was beautiful to see historic monuments and structures. World strides was amazing for compensating us for any lost time we had in the airports, such as food vouchers or paying for metro trips. I had a perfect travel experience and can’t wait to travel again!
Jason Munday
Feb 24,2025We had an amazing time. Our tour guides were great, the kids had fun and made history a memorable trip. New York was our favorite spot and is a don't miss experience.
Lucy Case
Feb 24,2025We had an excellent tour guide and nice weather.
Parent
Feb 24,2025I really enjoyed the trip. It was filled with visiting numerous monuments and museums. It was very organized, safe and with a knowledgeable tour guide. The only thing I would suggest is incorporate a short fun or interactive activity so the kids could be kids and bond.
kevin stumpf
Feb 24,2025Nothing... WorldStrides is second to none when providing services to traveling groups to Washington DC. This is my 12th year traveling to DC with 8th graders over Presidents Day weekend and it was another successful trip.
Kathleen
Feb 24,2025We had three major problems. 1. Gustavo drinks alcohol on tour. We watched him drink before swimming with the kids. 2. We had a student with a phobia of animals (hyperventilating) Gustavo never stepped up for her. I had to talk to every guide to keep the dogs and cats (that are pets of the caving company and indigenous People’s Park) away from her. That was not taken seriously. 3. Flying Southwest and being paired with other the Norwell High School was awful. Their students knocked on our kids doors at night, they pushed our kids out of the way and attempted to board the flight out of their boarding groups and when I asked Southwest to step in the Norwell H.S. students verbally abused me and my students. Assigned seating is very important. Here is the day by day information. All breakfasts were great, especially Ponce. Day 1: we knew we were having a tour of Old San Juan but we were never told if we had admission to any sites until we were outside of one. Students needed to use a bathroom and they were brought to a place that charged $2 per person when we could have gone to a fort (where we went next) and used the bathroom for free. Lunch day one we overran a local fast food shop, El Messon. Dinner was one main and one side. Many students had chicken and a salad without any carbohydrate. This was not good. Day 2: sustainable farming was a nature preserve - not farming. It was rather rundown. The guide only spoke Spanish and 2 of our students translated. Gustavo watched and did not help translate. We did not know students were required to work. We were happy to do so but we were unprepared. At that location a student tracked her AirPods (in the case) to a location where three people who worked there were helping her look but they could not be found. Her backpack had been hung in the fence by someone who worked there. Lunch was at a mall food court. Dinner on the second night was great. We anticipated a boat ride the next day between lunch and dinner. Gustavo notified us it was an 8pm swim. I asked him to cancel but he could not. Instead of Gustavo providing an itinerary, I and the three chaperones spent the bulk of the day researching things to do. Day 3: Lunch at another mall food court. Gustavo told us he would take us to a museum, a waterfall, and then to Peguero. The town with the museum was CLOSED. Kids wandered around shops until the bus returned. Next, Gustavo cancelled the waterfall and said there were hiking trails on the coast. We arrived in Peguero and one of our chaperones had to take over. He found a trail map and led the kids on the walk. Gustavo followed us. We returned to town. Gustavo then said he was going to get waivers from Paradise scuba and WE should arrange dinner with a budget of 25$ per student. As he disappeared, we did that and I negotiated the menu with the restaurant. Gustavo settled in away from the group and drank beer with his dinner. We then went floating in the biobay if the kids wanted to - 2 of our kids can’t swim and I told Gustavo this. 6 students were left out of the activity. We arrived back at the hotel at 12:30am. Day 4: El Yunque was great, Loquillo was great, lunch was great, kayaking was fine but again dinner was not arranged. Kayaking was “fine” because 2 people had to be pulled out and go with another company. 2 chaperones stayed behind. For dinner, Gustavo was recommending anything open. He recommended restaurants that were up dark streets with exorbitant prices. It was clear he had done no research or did not know the area very well. Again, because of the size of the group the kids didn’t finish eating until 9:30. Day 5: drive to Ponce. The cave was great! Lunch at a pizza place. Gustavo said it was great and told us there were many options. He then asked me to order pizza for the group. Then we went to Ponce, dinner was great. Tour of the square was good. Day 6: the Indigenous People’s Museum visit was wonderful, but stressful because of the dogs. Gustavo wanted to drop us at the airport 4 hours early citing the USDA inspection. We arrived a more rational 3 hours early but I had to call his attention to the timing. All in all, the students were largely shielded from the weakness of the tour guide and the behind the scenes scrambling. By the end of the trip the students’ noticed when Gustavo shared that he wanted to buy books about Puerto Rico saying he needed to learn more. I know this was a lot but it needs to be shared.