Journey Latin America / Journeyscape Traveller Reviews

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.

Patagonia must be one of the most beautiful places in the world. This tour ensures you see the best.

I cannot fault JLA. I was travelling for the 4 months before the tour which means contacting me was difficult but this was dealt with patiently. The leader of the tour was excellent.

Chile is a wonderful country with a great variety of landscapes and wildlife from the Atacama Desert to Punta Arenas. It's very unspoiled and the food is fantastic!

A slight mis-hap on the booking of one of the hotels, otherwise JLA - Penguin's tour of Chile is fantastic.

Peru lived up to expectations. Bolivia exceeded them. Chile was OK.

Efficient, taking our exact needs into consideration. Helped us out from London when there was a problem.

Touring Nicaragua and Panama

Very knowledgeble about area, worked with client to produce customised itiniary, provided good support and advice via well chosen local tour operators

Journey Latin America organised the ground arrangements for this trip including all accommodation, car hire and some excursions. Journey Latin America were excellent at sorting this out efficiently especially since we had left it to the last moment and Cuba is relatively full of tourists all trying to see the country before more major changes and the Americans start to arrive. the local support from Latin America Travel was excellent and we had some great tour guides. We stayed in excellent casas and OK hotels (the beach resort at the end looked a little sad). Driving was sometimes a bit too exciting (the roads are bad and horses and carts come at you all directions) but it meant we got right off the beaten track. Overriding memories of the music, dancing, old American cars and friendly people.

Journey Latin America were excellent at sorting out all our ground arrangements efficiently especially since we had left it to the last moment and Cuba is relatively full of tourists all trying to see the country before more major changes and the Americans start to arrive. The local support from Latin America Travel was excellent and we had some great tour guides. The cases were all excellent too.

This was a great mix of town and country, introducing us to the culture and people of two less known Central American countries.

This was an off-the-shelf private tour, but JLA were very helpful in tweaking it to meet our specific requests.

I spent three weeks travelling around Mexico, from the Chihuahua-El Pacifico Railway through the stunning Barrancas del Cobre and on to the jungle ruins of Palenque and Coba, amazing Chichen Itcha and Tulum on the Caribbean, via five days in Mexico City - enough time to visit the incredible Teotihuacan, Tenochtitlan and the must-see Museo de Antropologie and Diego Rivera Murals in the Palacio Nacional. It's such a shame that most Britons' view of Mexico is border issues with the US, El Chapo and drugs, and Cancun! None of them, frankly, are representative of the incredible country I visited and the wonderfully friendly and welcoming people I met.

This is my third trip with Journey Latin America and I can't recommend them highly enough. I had four weeks touring South America, taking in the Galapagos, Machu Picchu, Easter Island, Buenos Aires, Iguazzu Falls and Rio, and followed that with two weeks in Cuba, driving myself and doing home stays before a final few days in Havana (now the trade deal has been done with the US, get there before the Americans do with cultural invasion what they failed to do at the Bay of Pigs). And then this Mexico trip. JLA have been superb at arranging my itinerary, transfers and accommodation to fit in exactly with the things I wanted to do and see. Can't fault them at all, and like that they work with local businesses.

Really good or excellent.

We started in Santiago and followed this by travelling through Argentina via internal flights. We stayed in a winery outside Mendoza, a hotel in Buenos Aires and then around Puerto Iguassu, firstly in an eco-lodge and then in the Sheraton by the falls. We ended our stay in Rio. At each place we had private transfers to the hotel and everything went very smoothly. The tours in each city were excellent and we had a wonderful trip.

Our tour operator did everything we could have asked for and booked excellent tours in the countries.