Central America discovery Traveller Reviews

Fast paced tour, generally very interesting.

Well organised trip overall, and good individual service from operator in arranging a tour extension.

We visited Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatamala in a small guided group.

Journey Latin America are the specialists in this area - we have made 4 trips with them. Very knowledgeable and helpful - expensive holidays but good value for money. Nice interesting hotels and tours.

I organised 2 back to back trips with JLA, one a tailor made trip to columbia, the second a small group tour (alcion) through panama, costa rica, nicaragua, el salvador, honduras and guatemala.

From the query stage to the return home JLA were simply oustanding. Their patience and professionalism were exceptional. The standard of both trips was simply excellent and their tour guides were far beyond expectations. The guides dealt superbly with significant problems including a couple of significant medical emergencies, a strike at a border crossing and dealing with a very diverse group of tourists. The proof of a good holiday company is how they deal in a crisis and JLA were wonderful in all aspects. All were exceptionsl at their job, interesting, interested, safety concious, fun and responsible. Without doubt, JLA are the company that exceeded my expectations on group tours and where possible i will use them and recommend them to others. The private tour was equally exceptional. In short, we felt exceptionally happy with everything about 7 week trip that JLA had organised

Well organised, comprehensive, sensitive to local cultures, with an excellent guide

helpful, dealt with queries quickly and efficiently

Well organised, comprehensive, sensitive to local cultures, with an excellent guide

helpful, dealt with queries quickly and efficiently

We recently travelled with JLA on a trip across six countries of Central America covering 3000kms in 24 days in 11 hotels using various forms of transport but with one superb and very experienced, professional and yet warm and fun tour leader - without whom we would never have made it past our first stop of Panama City!

First rate in every respect - if only more operators got it so right.

It was 3 weeks tour of Central America. It was classed as a Discovery tour which essentially was a 'no frills' tour. An excellent experience .

Journey Latin America obviously has a wealth of experience in this region.

Very flexible travel arrangements..able to fly from Manchester via Amsterdam and avoid going through the US. Very varied scenery and places to stay..Panama Canal ,coffee farm tour, an island off the Caribbean coast of Panama, Ometepe Island in Lake Nicaragua, cloud forest in Monteverde, Costa Rica, lots of volcanoes and Spanish Colonial towns. Many border crossings, different buses and changes of currency..all made easy by our superb indefatigable guide who could not have been more organised or helpful. Would highly recommend both this trip and Journey Latin America.

As above

A group tour of 6 countries in Central America - Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. A fantastic taste of the 6 countries with inevitably lots of travelling from place to place. We had a rich variety of forms of transport - private bus, public bus, chicken bus, small water taxis, ferries, tuc tuc, horses and zip-wires! Walked in forests and saw amazing vegetation, birds and animals. We marvelled at volcanoes. We ate in many different style restaurants and sampled street food. Visited ruins, museums and saw lots of Spanish colonial architecture.

Thoroughly friendly, knowledgeable and professional at all points of contact from the initial contact with Alexandra at JLA, through the booking process to being looked after by a world class tour leader - Daniele Binaghi. JLA have an in-depth knowledge of South America and put together really interesting and good value tours.

We travelled through 6 Central American countries by road starting in Panama and ending in Guatamala. Wonderful scenery, great people and interesting histories. Despite all the cvil wars, each country has a lot to offer although they still seem somewhat unstable. This was an 'experience' holiday, quite tiring but worth every minute. The more you travel, the more you realise how little you have actually seen!

Efficient from start to finish during simply booking procedure. An excellent tour leader was the icing on the cake.