Great ocean road tours

Can anyone offer a recommendation between "A Tour With A Difference" and "Go West Tours" for the captioned subject?

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  • Hello Jem,

    Can you please clarify what you are for, so that I can better help you?

    Best,
    Emily
  • Hi Emily

    I think Jem's after personal recommendations for both these tours of the Great Ocean Road, south west of Melbourne. I haven't taken any commercial tours down that way ... I was able to take myself! ;) If no one posts any comments here, can I suggest that Jem emails the concierge at the Tauck hotel in Melbourne ... The Langham, I believe. I know from past posts here on the Forums that other perspective travellers were able to get information on nearby self-service laundries from the concierge. I'm sure The Langham would also be able to provide some insight on such a popular tour destination out of Melbourne.

    Cheers,

    Jan

    PS I just googled both tour "titles" and hit their web sites, but I don't have anything else useful for Jem.
  • I am taking Go West Tours a week from Sunday. will be back from my trip on 12/6 if I can find your post I will let you know how it is. I found the company in Lonely Traveler so should be reputable.
  • Hi Jan,

    Any information you can provide will certainly be helpful.

    Thanks a bunch!
    Emily
    jdurkin wrote:
    Hi Emily

    I think Jem's after personal recommendations for both these tours of the Great Ocean Road, south west of Melbourne. I haven't taken any commercial tours down that way ... I was able to take myself! ;) If no one posts any comments here, can I suggest that Jem emails the concierge at the Tauck hotel in Melbourne ... The Langham, I believe. I know from past posts here on the Forums that other perspective travellers were able to get information on nearby self-service laundries from the concierge. I'm sure The Langham would also be able to provide some insight on such a popular tour destination out of Melbourne.

    Cheers,

    Jan

    PS I just googled both tour "titles" and hit their web sites, but I don't have anything else useful for Jem.
  • Hi Jem,

    I have a follow up on your query about Great Ocean Road tours.

    I just spoke to the Concierge at The Langham, your Melbourne hotel. I explained that I had some fellow Tauck travellers arriving soon and they were keen to do the Road. He suggested that you might like Tour with a Difference a little better than the Go West Tours, simply on the basis that the 2nd company specialises in the younger market. Let me explain that! We here in Australia would call their target group backpackers ... typically 20 somethings, students, often on working holidays ... as distinct from your average (if there is such a thing!) Tauck traveller. If your tastes run to roughing it, the 2nd company might work for you. If you prefer a little more comfort for quite a long day on the road, there and back, you might like to go for Tour With a Difference.

    All this is as per the Concierge. Whatever you decide, you will see one of the world's great coastlines ... and I've seen quite a few!

    Cheers,

    Jan
  • Thank you Jan. Your analysis is just the kind of differentiation I was looking for.

    jem
  • You're welcome, Jem. Have a great trip!

    Cheers,

    Jan
  • JEMS,
    Don't know when you are leaving but we just came back from this Tour and since we went 2 days early to Melbourne, we booked the Great Ocean Road tour with "A Tour with a Difference" based on recommendation of a Tauck traveler. They are really professional, drive Mercedes vans with at most 11 people but we had 7. It is a long day, maybe 13-14 hours but it doesn't feel it and it is well worth it. We would highly recommend ATWAD!

    It was a wonderful trip and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Despite a few "glitches", which were out of Tauck's control, the Tour Director did not miss a beat and we got to do and see everything promised.
  • Hi CL & DL,

    Nothing beats a personal recommendation! Thanks for posting your comments. I'm sure they will be very helpful for future travellers to my part of the world. And so glad you had a great trip.

    Cheers,

    Jan
  • I did this recently with Go West Tours and had a great day and great tour guide. We were blessed with a beautiful day but could have and a little cloud so the apostles would photograph better.
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