Namur tour reviews, and what the ratings actually cover
This is the page where a site like mine is supposed to hand you a wall of five-star quotes about the fortress on the hill. I cannot, and the reason is worth two minutes before you book anything. The traveller reviews attached to the tours I list belong almost entirely to two coach days that never come up here.
Where the review depth actually is
The Luxembourg day with a Dinant visit holds 4.6 from 3,934 reviews. The Dinant and Luxembourg day trip holds 4.5 from 2,790. Between them they carry nearly every piece of traveller feedback in this catalogue, and both are long coach days that leave Brussels in the morning and spend the bulk of the afternoon in Luxembourg City. Namur is not on either itinerary.
What the reviewers on those two are actually rating is a guide, a driver and a schedule. Read them for that and they are useful. Read them as evidence about the Citadelle de Namur and they are evidence about nothing, which is why both pages below quote them under the tour name and nowhere else.
One more thing on those two listings. Both carry a GetYourGuide category tag reading “Underground, catacombs & cemeteries”, and people arrive here believing it points at the tunnels under this hill. It points at the casemates in Luxembourg City. It is a tag, not an inclusion, and the galleries under the Citadelle are described on the souterrains page instead.
Four ratings thin enough to say so
The Van Gogh house at Mons sits at 4.0 from 26 ratings. The château and wine tasting at Bioul sits at 3.7 from 11. The Napoleon virtual-reality experience at Waterloo sits at 4.5 from 6, and the Bastogne private day sits at 4.0 from 2.
Twenty-six ratings is a small sample. Eleven is smaller. Six and two are close to silence. A count that low is an absence of evidence rather than evidence of a poor tour, and the arithmetic runs both ways: one disappointed traveller moves an eleven-rating average further than a hundred happy ones would move a listing with thousands. Bioul carries the lowest average on this page and eleven people put it there, which is not enough for me to tell you anything about the château.
Three of those four have no usable English review text in their cached listing at all, so there is a number and nothing to read behind it. Mons has one review and it is written in French. I have not turned it into an English testimonial, because a translated quote is my sentence with someone else’s name under it.
And six with no rating at all
Both Namur walks with a local, the Namur photo shoot, the private Dinant and Namur day trip from Brussels, the Orval and La Chouffe beer day and the medieval walk at Braine-le-Comte carry no stars and no reviews. There is no page for any of them here, because there is nothing to review.
That is the awkward part, and I would rather write it than bury it: four of those six are the listings closest to this hill, including both of the two whose own itineraries reach the Citadelle. The products with the most feedback are the ones that go somewhere else. What each of the twelve honestly does is set out on every tour we list.
The six tours that have reviews
From Brussels: Luxembourg Tour with Dinant Visit
The most-reviewed day in this catalogue, and it ends in Luxembourg City.
Five quotes, in EnglishRead the page ›
From Brussels: Guided Day Trip to Dinant and Luxembourg
The other Brussels coach day down the Meuse. Same two stops, different operator.
Five quotes, in EnglishRead the page ›
Mons: The Van Gogh House
A small house museum west of Namur, and the one review it has is in French.
One review, in FrenchRead the page ›
Bioul: Château de Bioul Tour and Wine Tasting
A château and a tasting between Namur and Dinant, on eleven ratings.
No English review textRead the page ›
Waterloo: Napoleon Virtual Reality Experience
The Napoleon virtual-reality room at Waterloo, rated by six people.
No English review textRead the page ›
Bastogne, Battle of the Bulge Private Tour from Brussels
A private Battle of the Bulge day that drives through Namur without stopping.
No English review textRead the page ›If a listing you like has few reviews or none, the useful move is not to hunt for more stars. Book the one with free cancellation and send the operator a plain question first: where exactly does the day go, and what do I pay for on the spot? The two Namur walks answer that in their own written exclusions, and the photo shoot answers it in its itinerary.
What none of these reviews can tell you
Whether the Citadelle is worth your afternoon. No reviewer quoted on this site has been up here on the tour they were rating, so that question is mine to answer rather than theirs, and I have tried to on is it worth it. The part that costs nothing is on what costs nothing here, the tunnels and the tariff are on tickets and passes, and the ride up is on the cable car page.
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Frequently asked questions
Are there reviews of a Citadelle de Namur tour?
Not on GetYourGuide, and not on this site. Six of the twelve listings here carry a rating and none of those six goes into the Citadelle; the two with thousands of reviews behind them are Brussels coach days to Dinant and Luxembourg. The two listings whose itineraries do reach the fortress, the Namur photo shoot and the private Dinant and Namur day, have no reviews at all. All twelve are laid out on every tour we list.
Why do six of the twelve tours have no rating?
Because nobody has left one yet. It is not a low score, it is no score, and there is nothing on those listings for you to read before you commit. Four of the six are the listings closest to this hill, which is inconvenient for a site like mine and true anyway.
Is a tour with only a handful of reviews a bad tour?
There is no way to tell, which is the honest answer. Eleven ratings or six or two is an absence of evidence rather than evidence of a problem, and a single unhappy traveller moves an average that small a long way. Treat a thin count as unknown and ask the operator your question directly.
Do reviewers mention the Citadelle de Namur?
The quotes I have from the cached listings mention their guides, the coach, the weather and the towns they visited, which are Dinant and Luxembourg City. None of them names the Citadelle de Namur. Dinant has a citadel of its own further up the Meuse and it is a different place from this one, so I never let a line about the one stand in for the other.
Are these reviews independent?
The quotes are verbatim from GetYourGuide listing pages and I have not edited them, including the typing. This site earns a commission if you book through a link, which is set out on the affiliate disclosure, and it is the reason I would rather tell you six tours have no reviews than pretend otherwise.