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Value
4.4
Guide
4.4
Activities
4.4
Lodging
4.4
Transport
4.4
Meals
4.4
Road Scholar Tour & Trip Ratings
4.4/5 Great
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Don’t trust Road Scholar Tour Insurance!!!
Because I have Stage 4 cancer, I chose to spend the extra money for trip insurance in case my cancer recurred. When a scan showed that it had, I cancelled my trip. I...
Not a good bicycle trip
Our family of four, including two adult children, took the Bicycling: Day Trips to Paradise in Canada. This trip is entirely outsourced to the owners of the inn, th...
Travel Section Incompetent, Unhelpful, and Won't correct error
I booked a tour to Italy for May 2024. I cancelled in Oct. for a lot of reasons. Before I enrolled, I asked if Road Scholar would book the flights so that on the las...
There is a nonrefundable deposit
Please know that Road Scholar will always keep a nonrefundable $100 deposit. I cannot find that buried in all the paper and fine print but they state it is there???...
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Road Scholar flight bookings
I booked a trip and arranged my air travel through Road Scholar. I just discovered that Road Scholar travel never paid for my flight although I paid in full already...
Roadscholar travel department nightmare…
In dealing with Roadscholar travel department, it has been a nightmare. Hours on hold, and twice the dates were wrong. They had us arriving two days early, when we...
I am on hold for over an hour.
I am on hold for over an hour. The only time they responded i...
Greatly Understaffed
So far it has not been great. First, they tried to send me to Texas in order to go home New York. it took me 6 hours to get a call back on that problem. I was tol...
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no response to refund question
We enjoyed out trip to Portugal, but air travel was a nightmare! Road Scholar arranged flights. Of the planned flights, one was cancelled and two were downgraded fro...
birding trip of Southern Costa was poor
Did a birding trip of Southern Costa Rica. 1. This trip is intended for people who are only interested in doing life lists and seeing birds not on their life list....
The key word above is “recent”
The key word above is “recent”. I have been on 4 RS trips and enjoyed each one. I would rate then 4.8 to 5 stars! My most recent experience with RS is less than 1 st...
Excellent experience
We are very experienced travelers, and this was our first time with Road Scholar. We recently completed a trip to Israel, Jordan and Egypt in March 2023 and it was ...
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Spent over $1100 on deposit and trip…
Spent over $1100 on deposit and trip insurance. We had to cancel because the trip was too strenuous for us. We got nothing back. Probably our fault for not doing due...
False itinerary
Extremely disappointed that Road Scholar is publishing an itinerary they KNOW cannot happen. This trip has 3+ days on Molokai and almost everything on the agenda doe...
False itinerary
We just returned from: Hawaii’s National Parks: Exploring Four Islands from Volcanoes to Pearl Harbor I am extremely disappointed that Road Scholar is publishing a...
Did not get to go to New Zealand
Cyclone Gabrielle came to the north island of NZ which included Aukland our starting point of the program. NZ air cancelled all flights out of the US to Aukland. Thi...
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