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A waste of time and money

I found this trip to be a complete waste. The tour guide was unfriendly and difficult to understand due to a heavy accent and less than adequate English skills.
The little that was understandable was very uninformative , nothing more than pointing to buildings and naming them. Even that was not particularly useful due to the fact that the driving was simply terrible. A series of speed and breaks made us nauseated. The bus went about three rounds around the same area, but the driving was so halted with sharp breaks that we were too busy trying to hold on to our seats to be able to see anything. Not to mention that more than twice the bus was very close to ram in to a tram. Forget the monuments hang on for dear life!
The tour was supposed to be bilingual in English and Spanish. However the commentary was mainly in Spanish with a couple of sentences in English thrown in here and there.
There should have been a possibility to go on a tour with the guide to the diamond workshop, which was one of the key reasons we decided to go on this tour. The guide decided to just cancel that on his own without informing anyone.
The whole thing was very rushed and low on info.
During the 12 hour tour, apart from a 20 minutes demonstration at chocolate factory we did not go inside one single building. We were just running from one location to the next as if to make a check point.
With this kind of guidance we might as well have been on a city bus, where at least we would know the possibility of a crash is not so probable.
At about 3 o'clock we were given 3 hours to walk around and meet at the bus for the journey back. At this point we were so frustrated and disappointed that we decided to pay as much as we had spent on the tour itself, on train ride back to Amsterdam.