I have ordered excursions from Yur Service in Armenia many times: Garni Temple, Geghard Monastery, Lake Sevan and Sevanavank, Etchmiadzin, Gyumri, Tatev — 8 times in total. The guides are always pleasant and erudite, fluent in Russian. Most of them are ready to tell much more about their beloved Armenia than the tour provides.
I would like to note the drivers separately: they drive very carefully, without exceeding and dangerous overtaking.
I also like the integrated approach to organizing excursions. Most often, one day tour includes visits to temples and /or museums, as well as some entertainment formats. And definitely a delicious lunch.
You can definitely entrust your acquaintance with Armenia to Yur Service!
We went along the route Amberd Fortress-Mount Aragats-oz. Kari - dried fruit production -Sagmosavank - Alphabet Alley.
Most of all, I wanted to visit Lake Kari, and it's really beautiful and cool there, the water doesn't feel very cold, but unfortunately the parking lot is very small - 20 minutes, you can't even wet your feet. Almost everything we've seen is beautiful. Lunch was served at the dried fruit factory, I liked the lunch. It's not very interesting at the factory itself, because in fact there are only trays with drying fruits.
In our car, the tour was only in Russian, the English-language tour was in another car. It would be nice if, in the time that has been formed, the guide Susanna would expand her story. As it was, everything went well, the ride in the car was comfortable, there was always cold drinking water.
We went on excursions to the Shaki Waterfall, the cable car, the Tatev Monastery and the In Areni wine factory.
One of the advantages is the excellent driver Nurik, we drove very carefully all the way, the guide Marina is good, no incidents, collection on time, water is provided, gat, monastic apples.
Among the disadvantages, the tour began with a winery, where the representative, when she tried to tell something, could not be heard, because you were standing near the equipment that was working. They are immediately asked to move away from the grapes lying a meter away from the group of 30 people. There were 3 types of dry wine at the tasting, 30-40 ml each, at the bottom of the glass. The wine itself (not subjectively, the group responded about the same way) is not very good.
We need to review the daily routine, because there were only 30 minutes at the very beautiful Shaki waterfall, of which the way to the waterfall was at a walking pace of 7 minutes - until we reached it, a couple of photos, and we already had to run back, which was very frustrating. It seemed that there were few stories everywhere except the monastery - we drove most of the way without information. The climate on the bus is incomprehensible - someone is very hot, a man in a jacket is freezing next to him, it was not possible to adjust the air conditioning.