Is it necessary to meet with a hotel guide

The organizational meeting with the hotel guide takes place at the very beginning of the holiday according to any tourist package (voucher). If you haven't had a rest yet, then we'll give you a little background on what it's for and how it happens.:

When you have arrived on your long-awaited vacation, received your luggage and go out to the arrivals area, you will be met by a welcoming guide who takes you to your hotel (this is called a "transfer"). While you will be traveling by bus or other transfer transport, the welcoming guide will tell you the year and where you will have a meeting with the hotel guide. Usually this meeting takes place the next morning, and the guide will assure you that you should definitely come, because this is a very important organizational meeting where they will tell you all the most important things.

When is it necessary to come to a meeting with a hotel guide

If you are on vacation for the first time on tour, or have arrived in a new country, then it is better to come to such a meeting, so here our answer will be "absolutely". At this meeting, the hotel guide will really tell you a lot of useful things that you may not know. For example, he will tell you about the device of this hotel, where and how to get breakfast or all-inclusive meals, how to get to the beach. And the most important and important thing: he will leave his contacts for emergency contact, collect your contacts and let you know how and where you can get instructions for transfer to the airport after the rest.

When can I skip such a meeting

It would seem that a meeting with a hotel guide is very useful. But why then experienced tourists try to avoid it. The fact is that those who do not rest for the first time usually do not learn anything new on it, and will simply lose time. Instead of going to the beach or for a walk, you will lose a few hours on the very first day, which, of course, is a pity.

Well, another reason why tourists do not like such meetings is the very aggressive imposition of hotel guides of tourist services at inflated prices. Guides very obsessively offer to buy excursions from them, souvenirs, individual transfer to the airport. All this at a very high price, and moreover, not to the credit of the guides, it is often accompanied by deception and threats such as if you buy a tour not from them, your insurance will not work (which is not true). What's worse, sometimes guides also express their dissatisfaction and literally spoil the mood of their tourists when they don't buy anything from them. We ourselves have encountered such behavior.

Therefore, naturally, after one or two similar meetings on different trips, any desire to meet them on a new vacation disappears. And in this case, you can safely ignore this meeting. And although the welcoming guide on the bus may also convince you that you just have to be there, in fact they also use tricks. You may be told that if you do not come to the meeting, your insurance will not work, or you will not know how you will be picked up and will not fly home. Well, for sure they will come up with something else new.

But in fact, all this is just "scarecrows" and fictions. The tour operator, along with the insurance company, is fully responsible for you, regardless of whether you have met with a guide or not. You can find out the contacts of the hotel guide for emergency communication at the hotel reception or at a special information corner from the tour operator, which is usually located in the lobby next to the reception desk. There you can also get information about the time of transfer to the airport at the end of the tour the day before departure. There will also be information about excursions from the tour operator, and you can freely order it at your own discretion from the tour operator, at the hotel reception, online on the website aggregators or in street travel agencies.

Here's where you can book excursions online:

• 📷 Search for excursions on Sputnik8.com
• 📷 Search for excursions on Tripster.ru
• 📷 Search for excursions on Tezeks.com
• 📷 Search for excursions on Trip.com (there are a lot of options, Russian maps work)
• 📷 Search for excursions on GetYourGuide (many options, Russian maps do not work)

What will happen if you don't come to a meeting with a hotel guide

We have already partially answered this question above: nothing will happen. There will be no consequences for you, you can rest easy without this meeting. But just in case we repeat, if you missed it, that the tour operator is fully and completely legally responsible for you, and in any case will deliver you home after the rest and will be obliged, together with the insurance company, to provide assistance and all kinds of support if necessary during the rest. Just in case, you can find out the contacts of the hotel guide at the hotel reception or at a special information corner from the tour operator, which is usually located in the lobby next to the reception desk. There you will also find out information about the time of transfer to the airport at the end of the tour, usually it is posted the day before departure. And you can find out all the questions about staying at the hotel and how everything works here by contacting the staff at the counter.

So the decision on whether to meet with a hotel guide or skip this event is up to you. No one has the right to force you to do it, and there will be no consequences for refusing to meet. Have a good rest!