Our first excursion was today but it underwhelmed. It was exactly as listed/described but didn’t live up to my expectations. It was a 2 hour bus ride, followed by a canopy walk, a visit to a local shopping area, lunch, wine tasting and a 2 hour bus ride back.
It didn’t start out too well, when we were told we couldn’t take our water bottles on the excursion as we were getting ready to board the bus. Folks had to take their water bottles back to their rooms and then had to rush back to the bus so we could start on time.
The tour guide has her own business of providing food and wine tours- which she mentioned a couple of times during the bus ride. She also pointed out many restaurants and wineries that we weren’t going to but that she said she went to on her tours. The only history or interesting fact she told us about was the flood that flooded out a famous restaurant!
I did really enjoy the canopy walk but wasn’t impressed with the lunch provided or the 1 hour shopping stop. The wine tasting was strange too…there was very limited seating at the winery and there wasn’t room for all of us at the ‘bar’. There were two servers- one that was trying to tell us about the wine but we couldn’t hear. The other looked mad & surly and answered my question about what wine was being pour by saying “I don’t know- the guy over there is taking about it now”. Then I thought it would be fun to buy a bottle of port but the signs said you could only purchase port if you bought 3 liters. So I didn’t buy any.
