Reviews of Travels with Evaneos

Dear Sonia, We are now home safely, after a strange journey through empty airports ! The ground crew at Juan Santamaria stood on the runway and waved us off with the Costa Rican flag as we taxied off as one of the last flights to leave. Sue and I both work in hospital so life is very different for us now, but everything is under control at present and we are well refreshed after our amazing holiday ! Thank you so much for arranging a wonderful itinerary and being so supportive, reassuring and helpful when things were changing on a daily basis and our natural instinct was to try and get home. Everyone we came across were so very helpful and friendly, the drivers were all excellent at a time when everyone was feeling a bit anxious. I would especially mention our local guide who ran Rana Roja in Tortuguero who looked after us so well. It was an amazing experience in Tortuguero, being the only tourists in the rain forest ! Aguila de Osa in Drakes Bay was also a highlight as were all the National parks we visited in Manuel Antonio and Osa peninsula before they shut down because of the virus. I hope you and your family and staff are all well and that things can return to normal soon. We had an amazing unique experience and will be in contact about arranging another trip next year to see some more of your beautiful country. Muchos gracias and Pura Vida ! Alan and Sue

The trip was great, from start to finish. The driver Felix was courteous on time and provided great service. The Canak Tiur was good but longer than expected due to traffic on the canal. Normally there are 399 peopke on this boat ; our trip was only 90 which was much better otherwise it would have been tough to get around.’ Dario our private guide for the city tour was Great a very knowledgeable young man, well educated and did a fine job.

The whole trip was amazing, thank you. The country is absolutely beautiful and we think we had great conditions to enjoy it. We had a very good balance between scheduled tours and time on our own and we were kept safe.

We enjoyed the sites, The first hotel was very basic but very friendly and helpful The********** hotel had very friendly staff and lovely rooms, Raul was a great guide, genuinely loved his country and interested in its history. He was very courteous, considerate and informative throughout our travels. He appeared very well read and informed on current affairs generally with a good command of English.

We liked pretty much everything about our trip itinerary, the cenotes, archeological sites, hotels, everything!

The part like most was the Caribbean side. The part we enjoyed the less was the long days spent on the bus traveling between places.

We absolutely loved our trip to Norway, the best highlight was staying with Alan *******at Store ************* on the mountain side in Voss. His superb hospitality was second to none. He was out early clearing snow from the path to the hotel each morning, his breakfasts were amazing and locally produced cured meats from his farm were so delicious. We walked down to the Gondola each morning for our skiing all day we love to walk even in the snow. Although Alan provides a taxi bus he would tell us just to phone him if we needed help on our walk. In the evenings he would have a light bite ready for us in the bar and we looked forward to his friendly chats about life in Norway.

I really enjoyed the variety of places, the buzz and atmosphere of the cities and the peace of the countryside. I particularly enjoyed staying at *************lake resort, a haven of tranquillity in Kerala.

The meet and greet part at each stage was excellent and showed that the representatives of I*********** were genuinely interested in how our trip was proceeding. The driver throughout the trip was engaging, very informative, and went out of his way to look after us. The two days on the house boat at Alleppey was the best part - one day would not have been enough - and the captain and his crew, especially the chef, were caring and thoughtful during our stay. The food on the houseboat was the best on the trip. Old Kochi was lovely but two days was sufficient to see the sites. The ************ was the outstanding hotel by a long way. The visit to ******************* was delightful and well worth the time spent with him and his family. The buffet in the Cardamom County at Thekkady was, in contrast to the one in Munnar, very good. After the rather dismal boat ride on Lake Periyar, the elephant ride and time with the elephant afterwards - washing and feeding - was an absolute joy.

All our tours were well organized. We had multi-destination tour. In the beginning we explored Quito. We visited some museums and historical places. Next day we had an excursion to National Park Cotopaxi with amazing views of volcano. 10 days we spent in the Galapagos Islands. We started from Santa Cruz, then Isabela and finally - San Cristobal. Every day we had different awesome activities. We saw many birds, penguins, sea turtles, sea horses, sea lions, sharks, many different kind of fishes and of course giant tortoises. Very nice landscapes, especially in Bartolome Island.

Hi Huyen, A very happy New year to you your family and all the staff at Absolutely Asia. Firstly many thanks for organising a great trip, we have had a wonderful time. I always take the time to get back to your operators how things were, good or bad, so here goes. Arrival in *********, very good Son was there to meet us as we came out of arrivals, and help us with check in at the hotel. Hanoi**************, as I told you previously we were not very impressed. It is being refurbished so there was a lot of noise in the corridor outside our room in the afternoon we arrived and the roof top bar was not open again due to refurb work. Position wise it was great, as were the staff and the breakfast was very good. ******************* hotel, beautiful. Excellent room, great outlook, when the fog lifted. Very enjoyable tours with Son. Good food and the staff were very helpful and always smiling. ***************** hotel, we were not impressed with this one. It's very rundown and in need of updating, it's is in a great position for the local attraction and the view was wonderful but there is nothing to do in the evening ( possibly because of TET most places were shut ). I think it would have been better to stay in the city, in a better quality hotel and where there is more to do at the end of the day. Son was very good taking us up the 500 steps to the viewing point and to the sampan tour, he organised everything very well. **************** at Ha Long bay, absolutely wonderful. Faultless in every way, they looked after us from the minute we arrived until we got in the car to return to our Ha Long hotel. The food was amazing the activities were great fun the boat was 5* in every way. The hotel in***************** is good, nice and modern, lovely room, massive bed . We are only herr for one night and it's a nice place. The hotel staff were not as welcoming as they could be, when we arrived, but I expect that is because not many can talk English so it is difficult for them. In respect to Son the guide and Son the driver, they have been great, very helpful and courteous, lots of fun to be with and informative. One comment I would make is that when clients are in and area where the weather is bad, as it was in Pu Luong and Ninh Binh, rather than taking the clients back to their hotel it would be good if after completing the planned activities, the guide offered to take clients to see or do something in the local area. In these places there was nothing to do, once we dropped off at the hotels, so it was a little boring. But overall it was a wonderful experience we will have lots of great memories and endless photos to show our friends and family, many thanks to you and ask your staff for putting the trip together for us. We will certainly recommend using your company to are friends of they visit Vietnam. Regards, Peter and Elaine,

Everything was being taken care of, we didn't have to fend for anything for ourselves. Our tour guide was knowledgeable, and she helped us survive in a part of Thailand where English is still a foreign language, hardly spoken/understood by the locals.

Everything worked as promised! Guides all exceptional!

The visit to the secret lagoon. The food. The friendly people.