I have known Cathy of Vista Travel for many years. She provides excellent service.. which continues throughout your trip! I recommend her without hesitancy for ALL travel needs! She’s experienced, attentive, and has been professional in every aspect of my travels! She’s the BEST in the business!!!

I have used Vista Travel for all our travels for the past few years. I have sent several of my friends and family to her and they have had nothing but good to say about their experience with her. Cathy does not disappoint. She is very knowledgeable in all areas when it comes to travel and makes sure you have a stress free and memorable experience. Thank you Cathy.

Cathy was a total rockstar! We had a huge unexpected hiccup with our travel plans and with a mere 2 days to work with she pulled off an even better vacation than we could have imagined!

This was mine and my wife’s first visit to Europe. We booked the trip through Vista Travel agency and had a 16-day Portugal/Spain planned with a group of 17 other travelers that included the owner of Vista Travel, Cathy Evans. Here are some of the things that happened on our trip: • Cathy brought up politics during our first group meal, prompting us to ask her to leave politics aside while we enjoy our trip. Bringing it to her attention only caused her to more frequently bring up her political views. • Frequently if we saw someone doing something dumb or silly, Cathy would retort back with “must be Canadian.” For example, there was a sign at a spot near a cliff on the Atlantic Ocean that clearly said no trespassing. When I mentioned how ridiculous those people were to disregard the signage, she kept saying, “oh they’re probably Canadian.” • When our tour guide mentioned that the American Embassy in Lisbon built a beautiful wall around their campus, Cathy loudly said, “I wish Trump would take notes!” This was the first of numerous statements she kept making about building walls. • Our Portuguese tour guide was with us for 13 days. Cathy refused to learn his name properly. Because she couldn’t pronounce João, she decided to just call him J-Wow. • Cathy openly mocked the accents of all the tour guides we had, openly and to their faces, while speaking broken English to members of our group. • Cathy was condescending to almost every member of our group at some point, and regularly condescending to the select few that weren’t on her side of the political spectrum. • Cathy: “Why do they have to call it soccer in America? Why do we have to change the names of everything? It’s probably because of those flaming liberals.”?!?!? • When our tour bus was parking next to another tour bus that was unloading Asian tourists, she yelled out, “two points for each Japanese” referring to people. When several told her how horrible that was she said, “ok, then ten points for Chinese.” • Cathy got everyone little red bandanas to take for our day trip to Pamplona (famous for the Running of the Bulls). My wife put hers in her pocket because she didn’t have anywhere to tie it. It fell out at some point and another woman from our group picked it up to give back to my wife. Mike, Cathy’s husband grabbed it out of her hands and said, “If she can’t be responsible enough, then she doesn’t deserve it.” When we found out what had happened, my wife asked Mike for it back. He then informed her Cathy had it. When my wife asked Cathy for it back, she wouldn’t look at her, but scoffed and threw it in her face. • Shortly after the bandana incident, Cathy couldn’t figure out how to get back to the bus. Another woman on the tour knew exactly where it was and said so. Cathy completely ignored her and continued to try to find it on google maps. Several of us decided to go ahead since we also knew where the bus was. Several people reported back to us that she said “I don’t care a flying leap if they follow that little f***ker” (referring to me). • The next day, Cathy knew we were upset about the previous day’s events. Instead of apologizing or making things right, she refused to talk to us, tell us any information that we needed, and kept making comments like “Oh, I might offend someone.” or “some people have to be so sensitive about everything.” Once Cathy figured out that we didn’t agree with her politically, she went out of her way to bring up politics as much as possible. She would glance over our way when making these comments, appearing to look for a reaction. She did her best to isolate us but ended up dividing the group and making many people uncomfortable. Political discussions in mixed company are not a great ingredient in international travels, and the owner of the travel agency should not be the one bringing up such divisive topics. I would not recommend using this agency solely based on the owner’s behavior on this trip.

I am wanting to plan a trip to Syria, yes, I know Syria! I dropped in hoping to get some great ideas but instead I was told she was too busy and then rolled her eyes of the prospect of someone going to Syria, I guess? I left there feeling defensive. She told me to come back but I will find someone who is as excited about a trip to Syria as I am. BTW I had to leave one star and wouldn’t have even done that!