Reviews of Travels with Evaneos

Nothing

Really no bad parts.

The only downside is that we were rushed for breakfast on the days of scheduled tours. We had to negotiate 15' to swallow a cup of coffee and a toast.

the travel was not that interesting due to mainly travelling on main roads with no view but understandably needed to cover all of the sites. Raul had to leave us to another guide on the Sunday/Monday who acted as a taxi driver rather than guide, had little command of English, Gave us next to no information at any of the sites we had to read the information at the sites ourselves. She was using her phone to text people at traffic lights and when the lights were green on many occasions we stat at the lights until the text had been sent and drivers behind were annoyed. Unless we tried to make conversation she was silent. I cannot recommend her as a replacement to Raul and it ruined our last two days travels. The Hotel on Holbox was not very friendly, restaurant staff were more interested in the TV than waiting on our table even though the restaurant was not well used in the evening often only a couple of tables use. room was nice but the shower only trickled water and was easier to wash in the sink.

The only thing we didn't like was the fact that one of us had Moctezuma revenge for a couple of days.

Long drives on mountainous roads (but they were beautiful). Some of the tours were not explained fully and might have opted out of them. Cancellations of tours due to weather (no one's fault)

We were in Buenos Aries for just 3 days and had never been there before. We wanted a private guided tour, but Cecilia kept saying we could tour the city on our own. We probably could, but we are in our 70’s and wanted a guide. We finally turned to ************ for a guided tour and driver and they provided a wonderful service, but I was disappointed we couldn’t get it thru Evaneos. I’m Bariloche, we had to pay entrance fees to the national parks which seemed ridiculous since our tours were scheduled to take us into the parks. Why weren’t those fees paid in advance as part of our fees to you?

The stress and uncertainty. Communications were very bad from after I had paid the deposit. I had to chase the agent up in order for her to send me the link to pay the balance of the trip. The communications were so bad that I started doubted whether the company actually existed. I did not receive all the domestic flight vouchers by the time i left the Uk, one of voucher that she had sent me had my name totally wrong. She stated that she would send printed copies with the pick up driver at Manila airport but the latter did not have anything on him. His instructions were only to pick me up. I spent a couple of hours on the first day of the holiday trying to figure out the vouchers that she had sent me and noticed that she had got the dates wrong and had to mail her. The airport security would not allow me into the domestic airport without printed copy of the ticket. I had to go into my ipad to get the electronic copy and he allowed me in as an exception. I had to keep chasing her up and eventually got them printed at the hotel reception. Upon arrival at Manila airport, very fortunately I managed to log into the airport wifi and I received a WhatsApp message informing me where the driver would wait for me, which was outside the terminal building. I dont know what I would have done if I did not manage to log into the airport wifi or if my phone was not working. I had to keep texting her on almost a daily basis to find out various airport pickups times and pick up time for excursions. The itinerary of 2 of my excursions were changed without notifying me of the same. Lunch on the Lobok river cruise was replaced with lunch with a local family. I had to chase her up to reinstate that lunch on the following day excursion. It casted a huge shadow on the holiday and was very stressful when I should have been relaxing and enjoying myself.

There weren’t worst parts, however in hindsight the distances between places are quite long which means a lot of time spent in the car. Also packing and unpacking frequently isa bit tiring at times. The breakfast in many hotels could be improved, particularly things like breads and toast needs improvement, as well as the offer of yogurts. Also the coffee in most places wasn't very nice and not to western standards, though I understand India doesn’t have a tradition on coffee. The tax on luxury resorts on food and alcohol is too high and makes the cost of these items very expensive for foreigners too high. Entry fees to museums for foreigners is also too high. The government of each state should think about this carefully as westerners will otherwise choose other destinations.

We found Bergen a little uninteresting

Didn't care for the food.

The ************** hotel was the worst stay as unfortunately for the hotel and its staff, the ******************** were pile-driving a new quay directly in front of the hotel which meant the view was obscured and the noise incessant from dawn till well past dusk. The works are scheduled for several more months and were started last autumn so the tour company should have been aware of that. The restaurant provided excellent food but was empty except for us because of the noise. Our suite was at the back so did not suffer too much from the quay work - instead the building works and street noise were just as bad. The food in the*************** at Munnar was very poor and the buffet dishes were all cold or luke warm despite our eating in the restaurant first thing in the evening. The tour of the tea plantation and factory was unsatisfactory, it was more of a hike and not well organised but at least ************** accepted our complaint and resolved it satisfactorily immediately. The country roads are poor, which was to be expected, but our driver was caring and considerate and his vehicle was very comfortable so we had no cause to complain. The visit to the Spice Plantation at Thekkady was a waste of time as we had already done a far better one at Mr Tomy and was more about buying spices than seeing them being grown, and the planation's guide's English was poor and his knowledge was limited.