EASTRAVEL Traveller Reviews

9 week tour of NZ and South/East Australia. Organised brilliantly by Eastravel. Wonderful experience from start to finish.

We had great support from Eastravel from the time we first discussed our requirements and then continuously until we returned home. Dorothy organised a superb trip, everything worked brilliantly and it was clear the trip had been organised with great care and expertise.

Wonderful well organised adventure exploring Hong Kong, Vietnam & Cambodia which included visiting historical sites, nature and cultural aspects. Staying in some fabulous hotels and enjoying wonderful food

East travel listen to what you require from your holiday and supply an initial tailor made itinerary which you can change with them so it totally meets your requirements. They ensure you are able to contact them at any point if you have any concerns and provided local contact details of companies for the countries we are visiting

We have just returned from a brilliant 6 week tour of Indochina, organised by Dorothy of Eastravel. During the trip we visited Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam and ended with an extra week at the beach in Phuket due to flight cancellations in the Middle East. The whole trip was amazing, including visiting the temples in Cambodia, cruising down the Mekong River in Laos, and visiting many rural villages to experience local culture. Would love to do it all again.

Dorothy, I would just like to thank you again for all the time and effort you put into planning, arranging and re-arranging our brilliant holiday. Everything went like clockwork (apart from the end of course). We loved all of the accommodation you chose for us and the trip included a perfect mix of culture, nature, scenery and relaxation. I would like to mention Mekong Home in Ben Tre, I know this is somewhere you don’t normally deal with, but we loved it and the meals were really good. Perfect for anyone who wants to escape for a peaceful couple of days in the countryside. The guides and drivers were all exceptional. In particular, Ko, our guide in Laos from Pakse to the Cambodia border, who as well as being very knowledgeable and friendly, was always making us laugh with his funny stories during the drives. Also Nut Dor, our Cambodian guide, who was very polite, kind and thoughtful and gave us so much information on all the places we visited, I just don’t know how he did it. A final mention goes to our driver in Cambodia (don’t know his name), who as well as being an excellent driver, was just such a lovely person, always ready with the cold water and refreshing towels when we returned from sightseeing. The nicest driver we have ever had anywhere. We even enjoyed the unplanned week at the beach in Phuket. As I said at the time, we would never normally have a beach holiday, but I think it might have won us round. We had a very stressful 24 hours before this and your help in sorting everything was very much appreciated.

Once again we used Eastravel for our 3 week trip to Malaysia And once again Dorothy and her team came up top class Everything worked like clockwork but as in any logistical operation there are small problems The beauty of using Eastravel is that they are overcome with no fuss and no lessening of the enjoyment You can’t put your travel plans in better hands !!!

What is there to say ? Frankly outstanding

After a couple of weeks in Phuket we flew to Perth to spend a few days enjoying the city and surrounds with our niece and nephew who live there. We stayed at the Duxton Hotel which was very comfortable and within easy walking distance of the city and the riverside waterfront. Kings Park & Botanic Garden is a wonderfully kept place, like the rest of Perth, and Fremantle is a lovely, coastal town a short train ride out of the city. We then had a longer train ride on the Indian Pacific to Adelaide. This was huge fun and we enjoyed meeting fellow travellers and superb hospitality along the way. The stop at Kalgoorlie early on the first morning afforded a visit to its Super Pit which was quite amazing. We rejoined the 1km long train and headed onwards and across the Nullarbor Plain which took the best part of a day with kangaroos leaping alongside through the windows of the viewing car. We arrived into Adelaide on the Monday evening having left Perth on the Saturday afternoon. We had private arrangements for our two weeks or so in Adelaide, spending some time with friends and taking in some Ashes cricket. We returned to Phuket for Christmas before heading back to Sydney to stay with friends for New Year celebrations and then some further torment at the final Ashes Test Match at the SCG. We then flew to Queenstown in New Zealand for a few days before driving our hire car north through the south island via stays at Mount Cook and Canterbury.. Eastravel arranged a fly/cruise into Milford Sound whilst we were in Queensland. Just do it if you get the chance - an amazing day. The helicopter trip up onto the glacier on Mount Cook was also a stunning way to spend a morning and we were blessed with incredible weather. Just do that as well if you get the opportunity! From Canterbury we caught the excellent coastal train up to Picton where we transferred onto the ferry for Wellington where we stayed for a few days before taking delivery of another hire car and heading up to the art-deco town of Napier in wine country. After a couple of days we moved onto Rotorua where terrible weather kept us fairly close to our hotel. We left Rotorua and visited the Hobbiton/Lord of the Rings experience near Matamata. This was huge fun and brilliantly organised and run and definitely worth doing even if you are not fully invested in the LoTR like I am but my wife is and was very thrilled with it all. We spent a night in Auckland at the excellent Britomart Hotel before driving further north to the Bay of Islands area which is another wonderful part of a lovely country. We drove up to Cape Reina, the northernmost tip of NZ. The expansive views of the Pacific rollers from the Cape Reina lighthouse were breathtaking with Chile a few thousand miles over the horizon. Back to the very comfortable Park Hyatt in Auckland for our final night in New Zealand before catching the evening Emirates flight to Dubai and back to UK.

Dorothy at Eastravel organised all our flights, hotels in Perth, Indian Pacific train and all arrangements in New Zealand tailored to our requirements. We are long standing customers of Eastravel and Dorothy knows what we like and always deliver. This wonderful trip was no exception. Thank you.

We had 2 weeks in Thailand, visiting Bangkok, Kanchanaburi, Ao Nang and Koh Lanta. We had a wonderful time exploring and experiencing the culture.

I couldn't rate our travel operator more highly. Our trip was organised by Dorothy Heng, she did an excellent job choosing hotel accommodation and transport between locations, everything ran seamlessly.

Our trip to Oman organised by East Travel was amazing, We visited Muscat Nizwa a desert camp, coat and the mountains in a well put together 10 day trip. The scenery is spectacular, we saw all the highlights and standard of accommodation is good.

We booked through Eastravel, AITO ref 5172. Dorothy was very knowledgeable about the area and we felt our requirements were really listened to and reflected in the itinerary. We were given a lot of information about places to visit en route to the different areas that we stayed and a personal contact number for any issues. Also reminders before we went about airline check in before we left and nothing was too much trouble when we had questions.. We will definitely be booking trips to other countries with them

Our holiday to Thailand was the perfect balance of visiting interesting places, learning the history and culture, mixed with enough time to relax and soak up up the atmosphere of where we were staying.

transfers and tour guides were prompt, friendly and knowledgeable. It felt like they tailored the visits to what they felt we would interested in.

Fitted in a lot of travel in the Golden Triangle, Varanasi and Lucknow in the first 12 days followed by a few days of relaxation in Kerala.

Our flight home was changed just before leaving but all was re-arranged seamlessly by the excellent team at East Travel. All arrangements were organised like clockwork. Agents, guides and drivers supplied by Travel Spirit were first class.

Our tour was designed to give us a flavour of life in South India starting from Bangalore and concluding in Chennai. The tour took in the major cities and their historical sites, wildlife and culture.

This is our third experience of a tailor-made tour with with Eastravel. They lived up to our expectations in terms of communications, efficiency and flexibility.