Spain Vacation Review: Andalucia, Seville, Cordoba, Granada, Local Cuisine, Flamenco, Culture, 8-Day Trip

Truly the trip was almost perfect.  But for the sake of improving the areas of opportunity, the only thing we could suggest to the agency is to set clearer expectations on what we should expect from the tour guide we were appointed for the tapas tasting tour of Triana and the nearby whitewashed villages of the following day.  
The young "guide" we had was a very kind person and a friendly companion, and she indeed tried to show us the best she could during the two days she was with us.  However, to be absolutely fair --in strict comparison with all the other, ultra professional guides appointed in Sevilla, Cordoba and Granada-- she should not be deemed a tour guide.  Her role (and knowledge) is more suitably explained as a local companion.  She took us to visit Triana and suggested we tried some delicious tapas in bars we would never have discovered by ourselves... but outside of that, we clearly could see she was not prepared to answer traveler questions (she usually gave a short opinion or a superficial answer), and her excessively "casual" approach and personality was completely unexpected.  
During the tapas tour, she evidenced as much planning as sudden improvisation.  Many of the places we were supposed to visit with her were closed, so there was a lot of last-minute reacting to sort out an alternative plan. And to be fair, she didn't even try to cover it from our view.  Somehow she managed to pull it off, but we clearly noticed things were not "locked" or thought of ahead of time and, as tourists with a paid, organized itinerary, we didn't feel very comfortable when she ended up making phone calls to find availability of tables on the spot, when she was unaware that the market or bar where we were supposed to taste food was closed, and when we finally landed at a selected place, we knew this was NOT where we were originally supposed to eat.  Still enjoyed it, but the informal approach clearly gave us as travelers the wrong impression.
Furthermore, the following day our guide evidenced a lack of thorough knowledge on the whitewashed villages we visited (hardly could answer our specific questions, so the van driver had to "step in" several times to help out...).  She had not booked the restaurants in advance (so again we improvised, trying to book reservations on the road or walking around Grazalema to find which decent bar would take us...), she was not prepared for the "Corpus Christi" town schedule (something that we found honestly shocking, since this is a well-known local festivity planned months ago and way before our trip, so she should have identified possible issues ahead of schedule, instead of finding out at the same time that we did); lastly, she made us walk up and down the town of Zahara without clear knowledge of where we were going (we went back-and-forth the same path a few times, looking for our driver).  Not the kind of impression you want to make with a first time visitor who counts on the skills of a guide to sort things out.
On top of that (and we know this may be extremely subjective), in contrast with all the other tour guides and drivers we were appointed, she didn't seem to mind wearing an ultra casual weekend outfit (rock and roll t-shirt, leggings and worn-out sneakers) which we honestly didn't mind, given her age and personality... but we honestly found it surprising, since wearing such a non-professional outfit when you meet foreign tourists may send the wrong message to some, more old-fashioned and traditional or conservative travelers.
We hope you will not take this feedback the wrong way, since we do not intend to affect her or give her a low review.  But since we expected a TOUR GUIDE, and what we believe we received was a tapas bar-hopping companion, we would have preferred getting a more experienced and knowledgeable local guide, at least for the whitewashed villages tour. 
This in no way affected our experience, but we believe will help the travel agency to get better feedback from future travelers.  As already stated, if we ever return to Spain, we will definitely book the trip through this agency again.