Macs Adventure Reviews, Feedback, and Photos!

Due to our age, and a fall in one of the hotels that resulted in a badly sprained ankle, my wife and I required lots of personal service from Mac's, including revising the itinerary and then, checking to make sure the hotels had an elevator and if not, getting us a room on the ground floor. I was in contact with the Mac's office multiple times along the way and they always came through, getting us whatever we needed. It really was above-and-beyond-the-call-of-duty level service. As far as the booked hotels, Almost all of them were excellent, and even the less-than-excellent ones in some out-of-the-way places were probably the best that was available. The luggage pickup went without a hitch for the entire 20 days. All-in-all I can't praise Mac's enough for their customer service.

Our trip overall was an experience of a lifetime. We chose the TMB in comfort and ended up in two places that were definitely not comfortable. The others were good. Two were magnificent. Hotel Alpina and Hotel Bouton d’Or. My husband and I are in our mid sixties. We had watched Rick Steve’s special and read about the TMB. We prepared and even had practice hiking in Banff Canada. But nothing prepared us for how truly strenuous this hike was. Our friends who did this hike with us also were taken by surprise. I feel like the preparation and advice given by Macs was lacking. I feel like someone could have spent a little time with us prior and said, hey, this day is hard. You might want a recovery day before this next day which is also hard. The time estimates for the hiking was a joke between all of the couples who hiked the same time we did. It took at least half again to double the amount of time to hike these days. Then to come to a place where you were sharing a shower with 30 other people. Not okay. The luggage transfer worked perfectly. The breakfasts and dinners varied. Some fantastic, some meh. The scenery was incredible. The hardest part was finishing the hike, then still having miles to walk to get to your hotel. Macs knows the hotels they use. I don’t understand how much more detailed descriptions couldn’t be included about the distance in getting to the location can’t be included and tips for alternative means of getting there when you are dead tired. Literally one day said, hopefully the shuttle bus is running. If not, it’s 5.5 miles into town. Not ok. I really debated giving them a 3 for service, but all things considered, we built amazing memories and left with a huge sense of accomplishment. Would we use Macs again, probably not. Or if we did, we would be far more proactive in getting information and asking questions.

Impeccably organised. All accommodation efficiently booked; luggage all moved accurately and on time. Excellent pre trip correspondence and information materials. No hesitation to recommend them.

Everything went well, as planned. Baggage was transferred and and arrived on time. Taxi service (by Chris) was friendly and reliable. All accommodation bookings worked well.

This is the second time Macs put together our self guided hike. All our expectations were met satisfactorily. We'll use Macs services again.

Outstanding accommodation choices, simple to use navigation system, punctual bag transfers and great walks. Perfect for stress free holiday.

The lack of knowledge about current (and even YEARS old news) of the state of the trail was absolutely unforgivable. Our first and last days were completely messed up by something that should have been known and fixed on the directions and the app.

Hiked West Highland Way in Scotland and had an amazing time. All the accommodations were delightful. The Macs Adventure team was always very helpful answering any questions we had and did a great job getting our gear from one location to the next. I would not hesitate to plan another trip through them, or to recommend them to others. Great trip!

Magical scenery on the walks and lovely accommodation. The trip is well conceived and we found the distances and difficulty about right. On paper some of the days don’t look that long but the terrain and profile mean that in fact you get a good walk each day without it being a total bootcamp. There’s time to have a leisurely breakfast before you start and enjoy a bit of downtime at the end. Route notes were good and the app makes navigation straightforward. Well, we were confused once or twice but it’s all part of the fun! Macs Adventure did us proud and I highly recommend this tour.

Guide books very helpful, timely support from office staff in the planning stages, fine choices of accommodation

Macs Adventures provides excellent service from planning a trip to accommodation provided to navigational information on the route

We are disappointed in the poor communication and service of Macs Adventure. Ferry tickets were not purchased for our trip, nor did we have transportation to our accommodations. We paid for this with our travel package. . We did not have a room on the fourth night on our trip. Mac Adventures made a booking error. After several phone calls and no response we booked a room ourselves. Please take in consideration that our party had Covid and we were very sick. Mac emergency service did not consider our lodging an emergency. I should have just planned the trip myself. Consider another vendor of you are looking for a bike trip.

Excellent trip. Had the time of our lives. All was well planned except for one afternoon, but that was ok also. Great hiking, accomodations, food. The Scots are great! Will definitely go back.

Excellent service , both attentive and professional.

A friend and I did three self guided tours with Mac’s Adventure in September and had a wonderful time. Accommodations were wonderful, guide information great for route-finding on West Highland Way, and Short Track Hadrian’s Wall. We also did a three day St. Patrick’s Way and were disappointed that the entire first day walking was on a road.

All worked fine and lovely routes eg coastal paths and vineyards and app worked fine, except can be hard in ancient villages with so many ways to go at junctions and pdf maps could be more detailed.

Well organized, prompt replies, great accommodation, beautiful walking

Everything worked well and we were regularly updated prior to our trip to tell us what preparations we needed to make.

The bikes were excellent, the hosts in Portugal were lovely and very helpful. The hotels and choice of locations were not great. To spend 2 days in Ovar in a very poor hotel was extremely disappointing. We had requested gpx download for the maps but this wasn't sent to us.

A great company to deal with. Their communication is excellent, the trip was well-organised and everything went as planned and promised. Prices were good too!