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Tauck Tours Gay Friendly?
Hello,
My husband and I have heard rave reviews and are interested in taking the Tauck tour to Italy. I have read elsewhere that Tauck and their tour guides are not gay friendly and that makes me hesitant to book the trip for obvious reasons. I am hoping that it isn't true. Any feedback would be appreciated, especially from other gay couples who have traveled with Tauck.
Thank you!
My husband and I have heard rave reviews and are interested in taking the Tauck tour to Italy. I have read elsewhere that Tauck and their tour guides are not gay friendly and that makes me hesitant to book the trip for obvious reasons. I am hoping that it isn't true. Any feedback would be appreciated, especially from other gay couples who have traveled with Tauck.
Thank you!
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I can only comment from the other side of the fence
I would have thought Tauck far too professional a company to be "unfriendly". I can't comment on the biases of everyone else who travels ... a microcosm of the rest of society would be my guess. I will say that I have found some people to be ... um ... very firm in their views, but I have found that to be the case wherever, not specifically on Tauck tours. Some fellow travellers have been my kind of people. Other times, not so much. Some people are more social, more inclusive (from a single traveller's point of view) than others. Some groups and/or couples just stick together. They're not mixers. But that's the luck of the draw. I travel to see, learn and experience not primarily to meet people.
After 16 trips with Tauck I keep travelling with them because I think they are pretty good (Aussie understatement!). I've only heard rave review of their Italian trips.
Cheers,
Jan
My recent trip to Australia/New Zealand had 3 gay people that I was aware of and 2 traveling together. No one gave them any problem and we all had a blast.
It is the luck of the draw who goes on tours and I have had good luck as a solo traveller that is important, because I have to rely on good company to have people to eat with. I don't care who is who as long as we have fun and see great sights.
My husband and I have been on over 18 Tauck Tours in 30 years of traveling with them and have NEVER witnessed any Tauck tour guides showing any adverse feelings toward any gay person on any of our tours. Someone must have started a vicious rumor and it got picked up by another website. It could have been a local guide in a country whose culture didn't approve of being gay. Just go and you will see that the well traveled people that Tauck appeals to are very friendly!
Sheila M.