Back from the honeymoon, first comments on organized tours
Hey there, it is already one week we've come back, but I'm still dreaming of coconuts, blue seas, warm weather and kangaroos. What to say? The best tour I've ever had, organized by myself for myself and the most expecting and (shh....) difficult customer ever, that is my wife :-)!
It has been a dream, totally a dream, and... you know what? the only things we absolutely did not enjoyed (and that created a lot of problems to us) were the only things that we did not organized by ourselves. Namely, the four days in Kakadu National Park with the Connection Safaris: we got a weird man, with a disgusting sense of humour (John) who was supposed to be the "guide".
I am a guide myself, and I've never ever seen such an ignorant, unprepared, vulgar and unsensitive person, who didn't have any idea of the places we were visiting, didn't give any relevant information on anything, no sense of time-managing and - most important - no respect nor knowledge of my wife's alergy (she's coeliac, and the tour operator guaranteed they could cater for her food: no way!).
The tour itself costed lots of money (much, much less of what I asked to make dreams coming true, not just simple tours) and was the typical "hard life with electricity" (Safari! ah! ah! ah!). No idea on where our money went, since we stayed in a room which was covered by dust, dirty as a pig-house and with frogs in the toilet (frogs in the toilet!!! it was a lodge, not a camping!!!!)
What else to say? Absolutely not recommend Safari Connection (puah!) tours, the easiest way to waste your money.
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On the contrary, my best experience (with organized tour) was with Kangaroo Island Wilderness Tours, a local company in Kangaroo Island: our guide, Greg, was brilliant (I took a lot of notes on his way of working) and the tour was simply excellent, nothing went wrong, everything cared in detail. We stayed at the KI lodge, great hotel with ocean view.
We had just these 2 different tours, and as you can see the results have been completely different. Is it a relevant point that the best tour we had was with a local and small tour operator, for which you are not a simple number, but an important person, since they get their earnings from you? Is it relevant to notice that the big tour operator simply did not say at least "sorry" when we asked our money back (and of course, we did not get them back)?
The rest of our honeymoon will be described in details later.
But this just to say that when you come and tour with me, you tour first of all with somebody like you, that knows your needs, your feelings and understands the pleasure to have a perfect tour since you have paid for that. And, secondly, with somebody for whom you are an important customer, not just a number.
It has been a dream, totally a dream, and... you know what? the only things we absolutely did not enjoyed (and that created a lot of problems to us) were the only things that we did not organized by ourselves. Namely, the four days in Kakadu National Park with the Connection Safaris: we got a weird man, with a disgusting sense of humour (John) who was supposed to be the "guide".
I am a guide myself, and I've never ever seen such an ignorant, unprepared, vulgar and unsensitive person, who didn't have any idea of the places we were visiting, didn't give any relevant information on anything, no sense of time-managing and - most important - no respect nor knowledge of my wife's alergy (she's coeliac, and the tour operator guaranteed they could cater for her food: no way!).
The tour itself costed lots of money (much, much less of what I asked to make dreams coming true, not just simple tours) and was the typical "hard life with electricity" (Safari! ah! ah! ah!). No idea on where our money went, since we stayed in a room which was covered by dust, dirty as a pig-house and with frogs in the toilet (frogs in the toilet!!! it was a lodge, not a camping!!!!)
What else to say? Absolutely not recommend Safari Connection (puah!) tours, the easiest way to waste your money.
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On the contrary, my best experience (with organized tour) was with Kangaroo Island Wilderness Tours, a local company in Kangaroo Island: our guide, Greg, was brilliant (I took a lot of notes on his way of working) and the tour was simply excellent, nothing went wrong, everything cared in detail. We stayed at the KI lodge, great hotel with ocean view.
We had just these 2 different tours, and as you can see the results have been completely different. Is it a relevant point that the best tour we had was with a local and small tour operator, for which you are not a simple number, but an important person, since they get their earnings from you? Is it relevant to notice that the big tour operator simply did not say at least "sorry" when we asked our money back (and of course, we did not get them back)?
The rest of our honeymoon will be described in details later.
But this just to say that when you come and tour with me, you tour first of all with somebody like you, that knows your needs, your feelings and understands the pleasure to have a perfect tour since you have paid for that. And, secondly, with somebody for whom you are an important customer, not just a number.
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