Distinctive World Travel Traveller Reviews

After nearly 3 years of not travelling due to covid it was fantastic to be travelling again. We had heard lots about Colombia and it's checkered past but also how much it has changed and so we decided to see for ourselves. We visited Bogota, Villa de Leyva, Medellin and Cartagena to see some different areas, cuisines and cultures and Colombia didn't disappoint.

We had travelled with Distinctive Americas before so it was the obvious choice for this trip to Colombia. Distinctive Americas treat you as an individual, this is a tour operator who offer you a tailor made experience to meet all your requirements. They take your enquiry then connect you to the best person in their team who have been to the country you want to visit. This means that you can discuss your destination with someone who has actually travelled there and knows the areas, hotels and trips on offer first hand. This meant that we got to have an itinerary unique to us. They talked to us about our expectations of Colombia, the type & amount of activities we like, and then offered us a choice of hotels, activities, trips and suggested places to visit. They then worked with us swapping things around until we had the perfect personal itinerary for us. Distinctive Americas work with local agents in each of the areas we visited so we got the best out of our time there, with very knowledgeable guides and drivers. Throughout our trip an in-country rep was overseeing our trip and we could contact them if we had any issues. Distinctive Americas were also just an email away if needed. We got a detailed itinerary from Distinctive Americas before travelling and everything ran like clockwork.....meaning we got our dream holiday.

Ecuador The Galápagos Peru Brazil Argentina in three weeks. Lots of flights and travel but worth it to see the areas we want to re-visit

Courtesy professional and knowledge of staff very good

Peru - Hiking/treking holiday combined with relaxing beach holiday in Costa Rica

Excellent service & staff whole holiday/transfers went very well.

Fantastic in every aspect. Good planning and negotiation with our travel agent and the AITO company. Excellent tours by the local company, Lima Tours, both transport, drivers and especially competent knowledgeable and interactive guides. 4 day mountain trek, endless historical, architectural, geological and natural world experiences. Excellent food and restaurants. All good value for money. Not a boring or poor quality day in 21 days.

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Very professional operator with excellent connections. High quality accommodation in all locations, punctual, professional transfers and enthusiastic guides.

Provided interesting options and able to link up eventual choices into a seamless package with internal flights, hydrofoils, private and shared transfers. All accommodation very satisfactory and all tours successful.

One month's holiday visiting Lima, Paracas, Arequipa, Colca Canyon, Lake Titicaca, Cusco, Sacred Valley, 4 day Inca Trail Trek, Amazonia Rainforest, Quito and a 7 day cruise around the Galapagos Islands. Stunning scenery, excellent trips with very well informed and interesting guides. The organisation for transfers etc. was faultless. The people were very friendly and most helpful. The cruise on the Cachalote 1 was fantastic with yet another well informed and interesting guide who organised many activities, including snorkelling and kayaking.The boat's crew were excellent producing food of really good quality. All in all the holiday exceeded our wildest expectations and would happily go back tomorrow!!

The holiday was booked through Nomadic Travel who arranged everything with Distinctive Americas. The documentation was good with the added nice touch of a Latin American Spanish Phrase Book. Their arrangements with the local tour operators could not be faulted.

We have two kids aged 4 and 7 and are bored of beach holidays. We wanted an adventure but without the hassle of having to plan and manage everything ourselves. Distinctive Americas provided an amazing service and organised every aspect so that we could focus on enjoying the different experiences we had planned for pretty much every day. From turtle watching, to snorkelling around the coral, horse riding, zip lines, surfing, trekking in the jungle and more! They gave us the confidence to take two young kids and have the adventure of a lifetime.

Distinctive Americas provided excellent guidance as we looked to understand what was possible for us to do as a family in Costa Rica and developed a bespoke itinerary that was absolutely brilliant. Once in Costa Rica everything rang like clock work and it just left us able to enjoy the holiday and all the amazing experiences we had. Our best holiday to date.

our trip to Ecuador and Galapagos was in June 2014. We stayed for two nights in Quito in an excellent hotel and were then transferred to the airport for our flight to Baltra. We boarded our boat, The Anahi, which was a beautiful boat with a wonderful, varied menu, helpful and friendly staff and the most wonderful guide, Galo. We visited Santa Cruz, Isabella, Fernandino, North Seymour and Bartolome and saw all the wildlife and nature that we expected to see. The weather was perfect with not a drop of rain. It was truly wonderful and we finished off our tour with a stay at the Finch Bay Eco Hotel. This hotel is very comfortable with its own pool and situated on the beach. My only reservation was the price of the meals; lunch was 40$ per person whilst dinner as 42$ per person. However, the town is just a few minutes boat ride away with plenty of restaurants suiting all tastes.

The Staff at Distinctive Americas, particularly Daniel and Michael who we were dealing with, are the most patient and polite and helpful people I have come across in a travel firm. They dealt with my dithering over itinerary, flights, budgets and boat for many weeks, constantly changing things without any sign of impatience! They were at all times polite and helpful and any query, no matter how small and insignificant, was dealt with usually within 24 hours or less. If we were to travel again to the Americas we would only every use Distinctive Americas to help us with our trip. 110/100!

A whirlwind 14 night holiday in Peru, taking in the Amazon basin, well worth a visit, especially if you stay at Inkaterra Reserva Amazonica. Then off to Cuzco, to acclimatise and sightsee, followed by a 4 day/3 night hike with Enigma Adventures. A truly amazing, if arduous experience, nothing beats walking to Machu Picchu via the Sun Gate, rather than bus it. We stayed a night at Machu Picchu at the only hotel there, The Sanctuary Lodge, an expensive, but worthwhile extravagance, especially as we got married there to. Taking the train from there into the Sacred Valley, you can relax post trail at a number of hotels, but we had selected for us the Sol Y Luna, a very relaxing property, that even has stables. We were sorry to leave Peru and what can only be described as a trip of a lifetime!

Distinctive Americas organised our trip when other 'tailor made' agents couldn't put together all that we wanted. We pushed the budget up ourselves and didn't feel they were 'selling' us the holiday, which gave us the confidence to work with their suggestions. The itinerary they provided gave us exactly what we wanted and their agents in Peru really did look after us, we were never left waiting for someone to appear, at each arrival point they were waiting. So impressed with everything that we will not look at anyone else when we book another South America holiday, unless of course they don't actually go where we want to go!