Experience Travel Group Traveller Reviews

We went on a food tour of Thailand, which provided cultural and food based experiences as we visited 3 areas of the country. The hotels were classy and comfortable, always spotlessly clean with friendly, helpful staff. The various food based experiences were brilliant, especially the street food tours in Bangkok and the cookery course in Chiang Mai. Additionally, we chose to visit and elephant care centre in Chiang Mai, which I would recommend to anyone.Overall we had a fabulous 2 week holiday, which we will always remember.

The Tour Operator was helpful and efficient. The information provided was clear and easy to use and the guides in Thailand were very good

Our family of six had only eight days in which to experience Sri Lanka and have chilltime together. Thanks to the variety of activities and visits, and through willingness to accept flexibility, our expectations were greatly exceeded. The recommended accommodation was absolutely ideal, the pace of the itinerary was exactly right for us, and our overall impression was highly favourable. Both of the country and the operator!

Our family of six had only eight days in which to experience Sri Lanka and have chilltime together. Thanks to the variety of activities and visits, and through willingness to accept flexibility, our expectations were greatly exceeded. The recommended accommodation was absolutely ideal, the pace of the itinerary was exactly right for us, and our overall impression was highly favourable. Both of the country and the operator!

We wanted to see different aspects of Sri Lanka, but not be constantly on the move. They provided this, and we got to know the places we stayed in. These were very well selected to meet our requirements. The drivers we had gave us confidence that they could cope with the challenging driving conditions; they knew the country well and provided us with lots of useful and interesting information.

Experience Travel listened carefully to what it was we wanted, and designed an itinerary that matched it. The hotels they selected were superb. And they were always available, in the UK and in Sri Lanka, to help with queries or problems.

A fantastic 2 week trip to various locations in Myanmar. Tasty street food in Yangon with river shrimp to die for. Balloon ride over Bagan at dawn is so iconic. Cruising on the Irrawady is a great way to relax and meet some locals at the villages. Lake Inle was as good as it gets in SE asia. Hsipaw was stunning for being off the beaten track and meeting local Shan villagers. Mandalay was a great way to finish up. I have wanted to visit Myanamar for many years and this holiday made it all happen in a perfect way. A dream come true.

Experience Travel are people I have travelled with over the years and they continue to put together fantastic itineraries. it always hits the spot for wildlife, culture, relaxing, food, and quality accommodation. The service is friendly and responses are quick for all questions and queries. I tend to come up with the bare bones for a trip and they put all the meat on the bones to make it work. and work it does, time and time again.

We were a big family group (15 members from grand parents to one year old baby! % of us had to go back to Europe on Jan 2nd). We arrived in Saigon after a 8 days cruise on the Jahan (previously booked through an other agency)... It was hard to match the perfection of our trip so far, but Experience Travel managed to make us really enjoy also the second half of our tour.

very nice and attentive and, most importantly, flexible and ready to change plans and act accordingly to some last minute changes.

All the standard parts of the trip were superb, logistically as well as with regard to the quality of accommodation, transfers, guides, food, friendliness, and activities like wildlife watching or cookery classes/street food tours. Only when it got a bit specific with our demands for specially tailored dark-tourism components (e.g. in Bhopal), were there a few minor deficiencies, things where we had hoped for a bit more or where planning had clearly been less than perfect (closing times of museums not taken into account, for instance). Overall, though, it was an exceptional and thrilling experience.

I had used Experience Travel Group (ETG) three times before so I already knew their overall excellence, and this trip confirmed it yet again. Whatever may have been not quite perfect on this trip was not down to ETG but to the local suppliers/guides, and none of this was any major issue anyway. I especially appreciate the level of personal service I've always got from ETG for tailored trips, with a dedicated consultant always responsive to questions and special requests. It is this that I think sets them apart from their competitors the most. I couldn't commend them highly enough!

I wanted to mark my eldest sons 21st birthday and my twins 18th birthday, so the holiday had to appeal to all of us in terms of interesting activities, and sight seeing. I also wanted a holiday that all of us would enjoy and remember. Our tour of Sri Lanka did this in spades. There was an action packed itinerary for all of us to enjoy, the scenery was breath taking and the people very friendly. A beautiful place that we will remember all our lives.

Becky had alot of knowledge of Sri Lanka and advised me what options were available to book and the logistics. I am very happy with her work in booking our holiday for us

Good tour of colonial India. Lucknow, British Residency, Indian Mutiny. Colonial Calcutta. Excellent guides in Lucknow and Calcutta. Also went to watch cricket in Chennai.

Well organized.

We went for almost 3 weeks starting in the peaceful, gentle country of Laos before moving on to the city of Hanoi and then travelling down through Viietnam to Ho Chi Minh Cuty. We experienced a night in a beautifully appointed Indochina Junk in Halong Bay where we swam from the side as well as exploring nearby island caves and kayaking around the islands. We visited the ancient Imperial City in Hue and explored the beautiful heritage town of Hoi An. Exploring markets and taking a cookery class were highlights but probably the most exciting and nerve wracking was crossing the roads on our own. So many motor cycles and so few junctions and traffic lights! We had guides organised to meet us at each new location to show us the sights and in Saigon (as it is called locally) to even take us to a rooftop cocktail bar. We completed our holiday in the beautiful country of Cambodia. We stayed in a beautiful old French colonial style hotel in Siem Reap which was our base for visiting some of the numerous temples, including the amazing Angkor Wat at daybreak. We trekked through paddy field in Laos, visited a floating village by boat on the Mekong in Cambodia and sailed in a coracle trying to catch crabs in Vietnam. A totally wonderful experience all round.

Experience Travel arranged our holiday from start to finish. They took on board everything we said about what we wanted to do and see and came up with lovely suggestions of things we would never have thought of or known we could do. We worked through a number of iterations before we had our perfect itinerary and they chose all our hotels. These were all to a high standard and yet seemed uniquely right for the places we were in.

Although we selected the tour that had been recommended in the travel article in the Sunday Telegraph, Lauren (Boyd) was happy to spend time and effort in customising this to our requirements. The result was an amazing trip from Siem Reap, Cambodia and through the length of Vietnam. All the hotels were of a very high standard and we had a personal guide and driver at each location. All spoke good English and had local knowledge. They were unfailingly on time and the cars were air-conditioned and always clean. Our guides were always friendly, flexible and their local knowledge ensured we avoided queues and crowds as much as possible. The included tours offered opportunities to associate with local people, all of whom were friendly and keen to practise their English! Tour highlights (and I stress that none disappointed) were the night-time Vespa street food tour in Saigon (both insane and exhilarating and a long time since we had so much fun) and our street food tour in Hanoi (with Mark). Despite what they have suffered in the past the Cambodian and Vietnamese people could not have been more friendly and were themselves a highlight. Get there before everybody else finds out about the place. Use Experience Travel Group. Thanks again Lauren..........

Experience Travel Group and Lauren put together a wonderful package that exceeded our expectations. As older travellers we wanted the best of all worlds, luxury accommodation and personal guides but access to the real Cambodia and Vietnam and amazing experiences. Thanks to ETG we had it all.