It’s a great concept—the problem with this tour is if you don’t sign up for the extra tour, you end up just being dumped off at the harbor with no transportation and no plan. The island is 90 miles around—not walkable and not bikeable. So you either stay in the port town or you have to rent something to get around. That’s fine, but we had no idea what to expect, where to go, or what to do. In addition, absolutely not Covid careful. Our bus was full, masks were “required,” (of course the one person with the hacking cough chose to not wear hers most of the time and the driver was completely unaware). The bus ride back was two hours.
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Aug 2021
Thank you for the review. Unfortunately, YOU lacked a plan. We offer two options with our day trip. We offer one option with a 3 hour narrated island tour and the other is without the island tour. The reason being that different guests have different ideas on how they would like to spend their time. (Sadly, I guess that you did not have any) There are many different ways, rent bikes or mopeds which many do, rent a car or jeep which some do, rent kayaks which some do, use the public transportation to explore which many do. Go to the beach which some do. We even give you an island guidebook which lists all kinds of things to do on the island. I know that if it were me, I would have done a bit of reseach and had a plan. The concept being that we make it easy for you to get to Martha's Vineyard and as adults you can do whatever you choose after being 'dumped off at the harbor'! As far as the mask issue goes, we do not allow guests to board without wearing a mask, we make an announcement regarding mask wearing. Once our driver begins the journey back to Boston I prefer them to givev100% of their attention to the highway in front of them and not the guests in back.
Sincerely,
Stephen M. Belcastro
President
New England Trips Inc.