Essential Sri Lanka - Deluxe Traveller Reviews

We gained a true experience of Sri Lanka - a real taste of the culture, the beautiful wildlife, history, food and beach life of this wonderful country. Highly recommended. We would be totally confident in recommending Experience Travel Group to any friends and family - totally professional, informative and responsive to our requests.

Excellent.

AN escorted 2 week holiday with a personal driver/guide in Sri Lanka. A well run holiday company with good professional and ethical standards (both here in the UK and in Sri Lanka) Without the services of the guide we would never of seen/experienced many of the highlights of the tour, as ever it is down to local people with good local knowledge who care.

Our link person at Experience Travel was knowledgeable as she had personally visited the island on many occasions.

A great way to experience Sri Lanka, its friendly people, its history and culture and also find a relaxing oassis.

Understood quickly what we were looking for and put together an excellent itineray. Stayed at some wonderful boutique hotels. Great, helpful drivers and guides.

We had the most amazing time travelling around Sri Lanka. Matt at Experience travel had arranged a fantastic itinerary and we enjoyed breakfast above the clouds, sleeping in a mud house , swimming in a wonderful lake and on a paradise beach.

Experience travel looked after us brilliantly from start to finish. All the accommodation was excellent. The chauffeur guide marvellous .I would( and have) recommend anyone travelling to their destinations to book with them.

We travelled to Sri Lanka with Experience Travel in March 2016. We can't fault the holiday which was tailor-made for us to include culture, wildlife, local life and beach experiences. Their recommended boutique hotels were all very special and the driver who showed us the country was well-informed, safe and always punctual. A very memorable holiday.

Experience Travel - very knowledgeable, professional and represent good value for money.

We spent 10 days in Sri Lanka and 5 in the Maldives. We are well past the backpacking stage and were a bit nervous about how Sri Lanka might be. We need not have worried. We were picked up from Colombo Airport in an Air-condiitoned car and driven everywhere we needed to go by a friendly and informative guide. All our accommodation was excellent. Clean, comfortable, air-conditioned (thats quite important!), with excellent food and friendly staff. We saw a range of sights including a day in Wilpattu National Park, Ruins of Polonarawula, Sigirya Rock Fortress, Dambula Cave temples and a tour of Kandy. These amazing places of which we had little prior knowledge proved excellent focal points for the tour, but overall we loved the simple interactions that were organised for us - tour of a coconut plantation, a cycle ride into Polonarawula, a visit to the Dambula vegetable market and a train ride from Perandiya to Rambukkah through the hill country. This was all finished off with a relaxing few days on a small island resort in the Maldives.

Nick Clark at Experience Travel organised this for us. I think he understood immediately what we were looking for and organised a very comfortable and well planned tour that just suited us perfectly. We will definitely be using Experine Travel again

We had an excellent holiday in Sri Lanka. A good mix of the cultural sites, seeing elephants, coconut and tea plantations and the south coast beaches. We stayed in most agreeable hotels, none of which were very large. We had an excellent driver/guide and found the country, people and local food all made for a wonderful holiday. February is a good time to go.

Experience Travel put the holiday together for us in a careful way and we felt very spoilt wherever we went. Nothing was too much trouble.

Our tour enabled us to sample the highlights of Sri Lanka, to learn about its history and culture, to be stunned by its large range of beautiful scenery, and to enjoy the colourful plants, birds and other wildlife. Our hotels were all enjoyable and often luxurious. We loved Sri Lankan food, it was incredibly varied, we never had the same curry twice and perfect for a vegetarian and a fish-lover (although lots of meat choices too). We had a good mixture of guided tours, travel and opportunities to relax, whether in beautiful hotel pools, or on the beach enjoying the warm sea, soft sand and beautiful views.

They were very pleasant to deal with, very efficient at answering queries promptly, and arranged an individual itinerary for us which met all our expectations. All their arrangements worked well.

We visited the cultural triangle, Kandy, had a train ride to hill country, safari at Uda Walawe beach stay near Tangalle and stayed in the old fort at Galle We stayed in small boutique hotels with great service & food. Sri Lanka is a very beautiful friendly country.

Experience Travel are experts in this area and listened to our requests and put together a perfect itinerary

Experience Travel did a great job of planning our trip and the service and back up from them was excellent.

Small and friendly with excellent personal service