Hey Gabriela - It's good to see that there are more people joining us on the tour! Is this your first Contiki?

Btw, I just saw that our trip is now a guaranteed departure!!!!!! I seriously thought we would have to wait 50 days prior to leaving (towards the end of March) before knowing if our tour was a go-ahead. So it's great news, I can finally start booking flights and do some real planning!

Cheers,
A

i'm glad too that we know it's garanteed....i can' wait to see which hotel we will stay....I don't know how much people there will be on the tour....so excited
chantal

Check out: http://ca.contiki.com/contikipedia/articles/where-you-s...superior-hotel-tours

It has the list of hotels we'll be staying at in Europe.

It looks like we have a full tour from what I heard; I thought it would've been just the five of us! (lol)

Cheers

...two more months to go!!!!!

the hotels look nice!!!

Yea, they look quite nice...

I could really use an early vacation right now considering that we've just been dumped with what looks like 40+ cm of snow!!!!!!

*Sigh* Hope this is the last bit of winter!!!

i know what you means....that why the week before I get on the tour I'M going to Dominican Republic!!!!

Lucky you!!! I'd prefer sand over snow right now... Ottawa's been dumped with 56cm of snow over the weekend! I've never seen anything like this ever... It seriously feels like I'm walking in a crevass whenver I'm on the sidewalks with those 2-metre high snowbanks!

Are you still going to Croatia after the tour?

I'm heading to Barcelona just before the tour - I really want to visit the beach!

Where are you guys leaving from?? It just scare the crap out of me to arrive to Berlin alone!! Hehehe!
I'm a first time traveler so I guess it will show in my face..."I'm a naive tourist!!"

melodie
i'm arriving on the 8th in the morning around 10h..

alex....
no finally i decided to go to swiss/interlaken instead of croatia....

i'm leaving from TORONTO

I'm leaving from Montreal on May 9th and arriving at Berlin on May 10th at 11h45...!!

No need to worry!!! I was in your shoes at one point and felt the same too when I took off for my first Contiki in 2006--it was my first solo trip abroad, but I was much more excited than nervous!

Plus, there'll be tons of solo travellers, like most of us on here...

What I like to do before any trip is to read a few guide books and get familiar with the countries and cities (especially with the customs, etiquette, etc.), so that way I don't get overwhelmed or nervous once I arrive and I'll sort of know what to expect.

I leave Ottawa for London a week before the tour to do some trekking on the western side of Europe, and will arrive in Berlin-Tegel from Paris at 9am on May 10 to get a head start on some sightseeing in Berlin before meeting with the tour group later in the evening. That means I'll have to be up bright and early at 5am in Paris! But the plan was to spend as much time in Berlin as much as I can--I heard it's an awesome city!

well if you guys want to meet somewhere on the 10th...we could start a little touring of the city all together!!!

That sounds like a plan!

My flight gets in at 9, so hopefully I'll be out of the airport by 10 and will head straight to the hotel to check-in and drop off luggage.

I'm not quite sure how long it takes to get from the airport to the hotel, but I'm guessing I'll be ready to explore the city by 11!

Cheers

...less than two months to go!!!!!