Both were dropped and while we enjoyed the substitutes, we would have preferred to know in advance - these were clearly not last minutes substitutions we would have loved some additional time at the Evergreen museum and would also have loved an additional day along the Oregon Coast to do a dune buggy tour (another tour group was doing that) relax, go the beach etc. We were to take a tour of the Starbucks roasting facility and a food tour in Portland. there were more places open but since the hotel was not in town the options near the hotel were limited and if you didn't have reservations, generally you were out of luck also neither Astoria nor Newport had any DoorDash options (but for fast food) and no ubers (we checked both) so again finding a place to eat was very difficult there other complaint was some changes in the schedule that we were never notified of. We would gladly have paid per person for catering of any kind - we had to resort to Dominos pizza which we would never voluntarily eat otherwise Newport was also a place where we should have been told to make reservations in advance. Astoria was definitely the most difficult for eating.
Having something catered (even if just soup and a choice of sandwich, chips and a brownie or some such, or even pizza) which people could pick up and eat in the breakfast area, the library or in their rooms, would have been so much better (and if people knew the day before or that morning, they could have looked for something different as a lunch option) - or people could have been advised to pick something up for dinner while they looked around the town for lunch. Astoria was sadly like a ghost town and the hotel's list of delivery options was out of date and very limited (2 of the options had closed). Astoria in particular it was difficult to find dinner options and having to rely on the bus transport in and out of town, since the hotel was not conveniently located to town, was far from ideal. It was sad to see the effect of the pandemic on so many places, businesses and families but we hoped that our being there was helping a revival. Our main complaint related to eating: we should have been advised to make reservations in advance for all locations where dinner was not included due to their being limited availability and limited hours thanks to the pandemic especially in small towns and/or Trafalgar should have provided a catered/box dinner option in those small towns.
Our tour guide, Jeannine, was wonderful, the addition of a "wellness" supervisor helpful and leaving it to Trafalgar to navigate the morass of COVID requirements as we traveled from place to place relieved us of the stress of having to deal with all that and let us enjoy the trip much more than if we were planning something on our own.
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