Faroe Islands Holidays & Guided Tours

Thanks Daina, both Martin and l enjoyed our trip to the Faroes, it all went very smoothly and even the weather behaved itself for most of the time.

Hi Laura,

Happy new year to you too..

Thank you for your email.. yes we had the most fantastic time in the Faroe Islands and Copenhagen.  Everything went smoothly.. our hotels were lovely.. 

The only small let down is that there possibly could be a transfer to the hotels, as the taxi fares are so expensive and we had to use them quite often.. so it might be a good idea to organise a transfer in with the trip price.

We organised a tour around the Faroes using MM Tours.  Mark was our guide and would highly recommended him.  He was friendly, informative and nothing was too much trouble.  We feel that MM Tours were good value for money..

Finally, I would like to take  this opportunity to thank Baltic Travel for a wonderful, memorable trip and have attached some photos of the Faroes.

Kind regards,

Karen H

Dear Julija,

Many thanks for your welcome e-mail.  It was very kind of you to write and very thoughtful of you to remember that we returned home yesterday (Monday) from our visit to the Faroe Islands.

I'm very pleased to report that all arrangements for the visit to the Faroes worked very well.  Independently, and knowing we had two nights at Hotel Vágar (opposite the airport), we had booked a boat trip which was supposed to show you the spectacular Vestmanna cliffs, in the extreme north-west of the main island, Streymoy, and then to go on to the small, isolated island of Mykines.  Sadly, the Mykines part of the trip was cancelled on the day.  It's a very difficult island to get to, so we'll have to try again sometime!  Everything else worked very much according to plan.  The weather was a bit grim on Thursday - with rain and more rain - but, otherwise, the weather was reasonably kind, ranging from "OK" to "very good".  In "very good" conditions the scenery in the Faroes is simply magnificent!

I think we may have mentioned that we are all members of the Faroe Islands Study Circle, a special-interest society for philatelists (stamp collectors!) interested in the postage stamps and postal history of the Faroes.  (Roger is the Chairman, John the Treasurer, I'm the Secretary and Journal Editor and Sheila is a founder member).  Because of this, one of our highlights was the pre-arranged visit we made to the postal headquarters on Wednesday where we had what was in effect a VIP visit to the postal HQ in Tórshavn, with a guided tour, coffee and cakes and a good chance to chat to two of our friends who work there.

I should also mention the cultural evening in Gjógv which you so kindly arranged for us later that same day.  As you know, we were all disappointed when we knew we wouldn't be staying in Gjógv as it's a beautiful little village in an amazing setting where we had stayed in 1993 and 1996.  I hope our disappointment didn't come across as a complaint as that was never intended.  To have an opportunity to attend the cultural evening was extremely welcome.  The evening itself - a buffet, live music and Faroese chain-dancing - was both interesting and rewarding but so too was the time we spent in the village for a while beforehand.

I have much to do on my return, including a despatch of the latest Study Circle newsletter

 http://faroeislandssc.org/members/newsletter46_da6aa3b4734d79a3def713c772e82100.pdf

but as soon as I've found time to download my photos (and I took rather too many!) I'll put together a montage of photos on one or two A4 sheets and will send them to you.  If it takes a few days to do this I hope you'll accept my apologies.

With thanks, on behalf of Sheila, John, Roger and I, for all the time and effort you put in to arranging our itinerary.  As I said, it all worked perfectly.

Very best wishes,

Norman

Dear Julija,

Thank you for your 'welcome home' email. I really enjoyed our trip - the only complaint was that it was too short. Thank you for organising everything. I have seen Norman's reply to you and can only endorse what he said. He may well have sent you some photographs by now. I haven't sorted out my pictures yet but will email you a few when I have done so.

I have other friends who are interested in Scandinavia so will bear Baltic Travel in mind if we decide on one of the countries you mention for a holiday another year.

With best wishes,

Sheila 

HI Inga

We had a fab time, some days more memorable that others. The best day by far was Mykines. WOW - all the birds were a wow, but the puffins - OMG. I could have spent a couple of days there - it was better once most people had gone back to the town, we  could then get closer to the birds & they were more relaxed. 

The 2nd best day was the Vestamma cliffs - the captains ability to get close to the cliffs was wow. Not as close to the birds as we would have liked, maybe needed to do a walking tour from the top - impossible to take any good photos of the birds. Aldo quite foggy that day, which was a nightmare.

The coach trips - the company that ran them, were great -  very impressed. The tour guides were great. If I am honest 1 coach trip would have been enough for us, would have preferred to do other things. 

We would have liked to go to the waterfall that empties into the sea on the cliff.  (On Vager island), cant recall the name. 

And maybe the schooner ship or the rib boat. 

And more walking tours. (if there are companies that do them)?

The coach trips are designed for the more mature people or less mobile clientele, and I know Peter & I are no spring chickens, but we are active & fit, so maybe a mix & match on the different trips would be good. I know some of the people struggled when we went to Mykines as it is about a 7 mile walk. I loved it - my kinda trip. You do need to tell people that the Mykines trips is active. Even the climb from the harbour is too much for some people. 

On the whole the hotel was OK - it gave the basics. 

The Faroes themselves

Lovely, stunning, has the wow factor & not as expensive as I thought, other than alcohol. 

People lovely, and so relaxed. I would love to be there when it is hit by a storm. 

The islands are not really ready for all the tourists, which in one way was is nice, other ways - its sometimes hard to spend any money other than on food or drink. 

Would recommend, but personally we would do different trips - they need to be more active for us. 

If we came again with you, I would be keen that we pick & choose the right trips for us, 8 hours on a coach it too much. I lost the will!!!! :-(

Hope this is useful. 

I have attached a few photos. I have hundreds. :-o