Absolute Escapes Traveller Reviews

I walked the Borders Abbeys Way, a circular route starting and finishing in Jedburgh. Absolute Escapes booked excellent accommodation and ensured that my luggage was waiting for me at the next night's stop.

Absolute Escapes arranged everything I needed. The baggage transfer each day went without a hitch.

Great walking, lots of variety (as we expected) and excellent selection of accommodations. Followed Absolute Escape's advice to make dinner reservations well in advance and we were glad we had. We met some wonderful people along the way.

The team at Absolute Escapes were knowledgeable, professional, helpful, quick to respond and a pleasure to work with.

Walked the Rob Roy Way in Scotland.

Excellent operator. Everything they had arranged for us worked out perfectly fine. Great communication prior to the trip. Highly recommended.

All arrangements perfectly organized again by Absolut Escapes. Luckily we had decided to have a guide for the 2nd day to get us over the Trotternish Ringe in a terrible weather. I can warmly recommend the Skye Adventures, great young guides who made us to feel absolutely safe up there! The Seadrift at Staffin and Seaview at Elgol B&Bs I will remember forever for their very special locations and great hosts. The tomato pasta and haggish made by the Seaview host were the best meals I had at Sky.

We have used the Absolut Escapes for years (never change the winning team) for their expertise and devotion to good service. And now they managed to change our reservations several times over the pandemic years!

Such a wonderful trip, from start to finish. 2 weeks in the Hebrides and Orkney, Our travel agent (absolute Escapes) gave us a 30 page itinerary on where to visit, best places for food that was our itinerary for each day.. So many highlights but Langass Lodge in North Uist, had to be the highlight of our trip. People we met were fantastic, so many happy memories.We even played Askernish Golf course in 40km/hr winds. A truly memorable holiday

Absolute Escapes was absolutely incredible from start to finish. Booking, attention to detail and they even sent a 30 page itinerary to our home in Vancouver by FedEx . (We used that every day as our itinerary on Places to Visit, best restaurants.) All our ferries, accommodation were all exactly as booked, directions on every aspect of where to go and what time to show up. Availability was exceptional when we needed to contact them were unable to go to one of the B&B due to Covid and immediately they booked us in at another venue. We recommend this amazing travel agency to all our friends in Canada. Thank you for an exceptional job- Sheila, Daisy , and James

As our personal goal for this trip was to see as much of the Wall and other Roman ruins and archaeological sites as possible we spent one day taking advantage of the AD 122 Hadrian's Wall Bus instead of walking from Once Brewed to Chollerford so that we could spend time at Mile Castle 37, Housesteads, Brocolita, and Chesters. Those places were all worth the extensive time to tour them.

We had a fantastic time on our walking holiday. We really appreciate how Absolute Escapes makes it so easy for us. The information packet is invaluable and all of our lodgings were perfect.

Everything worked beautifully: bags, hotels, route signage, connections. It was really nice to have everything lined up and pre-paid. We're glad we did the slow route and took the extra days because it gave us time to explore more and pay attention to geology, botany, zoology, and beauty but now understand how the faster versions are possible. Even the long hikes are not as physically demanding as much of the hiking we do in the US and Canada where we often have double the elevation change and are starting at higher elevations too. We went with making sandwiches each morning for lunches and found your comments one resources available a reliable guide to where we'd be able to buy bread. A loaf generally lasted us 2-3 days and a small block of cheese was fine unrefrigerated for that long. Walking to our hotel (despite some slightly bad advice from google maps about cut-throughs that were not public gardens/parks) was easy in Edinburgh (much better than waiting for a taxi in the very long line at Waverly). Tram to airport was easy from the Edinburgh hotel. I find it impossible to pick a favorite and to the extent that favorite implies beautiful views that will depend on weather for each day as much as on the geology. Thank you all for your patience in delaying and revising the itinerary for us.

Absolute Escapes set up our lodging and baggage transfer based on our preferred timetable (including extra days on both ends and one in the middle). They provided good directions between the trail out our lodging plus useful recommendations for food each evening.

We had a great time in Shetland and Orkney enjoying scenery, archaeology and wildlife. With car hire, accommodation and ferry links all taken care of, we just concentrated on making the most of the trip.

Absolute Escapes made all the travel arrangements meaning we had little to worry about. The selected accommodation and car hire worked well for our needs, and the information on possible locations, places to eat out, and useful facts all made things very easy.

I booked with Absolute Escapes an 11 days self guided walking holiday, I was on my own and walked from Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland to Dunbar on the East Coast for a total of 150 miles. I am 100% happy with the service provided, all the accomodations booked were top quality and the info pack I received contained all the details I needed to know for my holiday. Taxis were booked in advanced for me when the accomodation was far away from the trail and every single aspect of my holiday was taken care of.

Absolute Escapes team was amazing during each step of my booking process, they were always available to answer my questions and when I had to contact them for an emergency they got back to me quickly and solved the issue promptly.

We were attending a wedding in Oxford, England and wanted to explore Scotland for a week afterward. We described the kind of experience we wanted to Absolute Escapes and they organized a fantastic vacation for us. All of the details were attended to,,the accommodations were amazing--exactly what we wished for-cozy or elegant- depending upon where we ended for the day. We had a small problem at the end of our trip(not to do with Absolute Escapes) and had to re-arrange some accommodations--Pippa was amazing in helping us. Indeed, everyone we spoke/e-mailed with at Absolute Escapes was incredibly responsive and helpful throughout our booking We have traveled extensively for both professional and leisure travel and I have never had as wonderful an experience as the trip put together by Absolute Escapes. We are already planning our next trip with them!

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