Bob's Special Tours

Delightful on location tour of memorable Salzburg area sites used in the filming of The Sound of Music! Our excellent tour guide showed us photos from the movie scenes as we looked at the venue today, making it easy to visualize and interesting to compare what the cinematographer recorded to our current experience.

Francesca was very accommodating - we called her to report the taxi had gone to the incorrect tour site, and we would be 5 + minutes late. She was very understanding and checked with the other 5 people going on the tour if they were OK waiting for us!! They all agreed, so we arrived 10 min late, and all was happy. Francesca was very informative and made sure she took pics of each as requested at each stop. She gave us potty breaks and time to grab a snack etc. Even charged our cells while driving and helped all out of van. Was open to all questions - excellent driver and a wealth of knowledge! Thank you, Francesca, for being so upbeat , informative, and a pleasure to spend 4 hrs with learning more about the sound of music!

This was the BEST thing we did our whole trip! We had eight family members ranging from 82 years old down to ten years old! This was the PERFECT way to see Salzburg!! Elvis, our AMAZING tour guide went ABOVE & beyond showing us all of Salzburg with tons of knowledge, insider info and great stories! He drove us all over in his comfortable van playing Sound of Music in the car and taking our family pictures in every stop!! He became family to us that day and we LOVED every minute of the tour! Thank you Elvis! It EXCEEDED our expectations! Sooo thankful!

We just came back from a full day Sound of Music + Hallstatt tour, with Elvis as our guide. It felt as if it was a personal friend showing us around Austria, and imparting to us many fun facts and stories along the way. More importantly, it being a small group tour, Elvis was able to make adjustments to the schedule to get around less-than-ideal weather at the start of the tour to make sure we get the best of the day. This tour is highly recommended.

We did the full day Sound of Music tour, and Francesca was an amazing guide! I was glad that she was our guide, as admittedly I had been worried about whom we would get, given some of the negative reviews about the other guides. She really knew her stuff and gave a very interesting tour, and we learned a lot more about the movie. Halstatt is also beautiful, albeit expensive!

We took the Sound of Music tour on Friday the 10th of October and had a wonderful time. Our host was great and she gave us a lot of insight into behind the scenes information we would have never known. It was a small group tour and we enjoy it a lot. The ride from Salzburg to the church was stunning with great scenery in Alpine meadows and fields. We saw lots of cows, cars and a red deer lounging in a field. If you like the Sound of Music or are just curious it was a great tour to take.

I’m a big fan of the movie, so this tour was a MUST, but I (and my hapless family members in tow) assumed that the experience would be somewhat frivolous or one note and we were steeling ourselves for that. Oh how wrong we were! With our incredible tour guide, this tour presented a layered area history combining movie info from the 1960s, the real people upon whom the story is based (1920s to the present), Nazi political history, and a picturesque drive outside of Salzburg to the lake area, complete with stops for pictures and more. Air conditioned van made it especially comfortable. Highly, highly recommend!!!