Tasmanian Wonders Reviews

Best Western Launceston was the only wobble as it was 35 degrees and the hotel had only semi-useless evaporative coolers, no air con installed anywhere in building. With global warming, it needs to change or the tour needs to change accommodation. Otherwise, we thought the tour guide Christin was exceptional, and everything else made for a fantastic ...read more experience. Thank you Kirby and Global Journeys.

Kirby was amazing from the point of contact to the finalisation of our tour. I will definitely use Global Journey's again and have recommended them to a number of friends. I also found someone on the tour that booked through Kirby.

I enjoyed it a lot. It was really amazing! Thank you for organizing such interesting places to visit and see! I look forward to do more of the same.

I decided last minute to do the 10 days Tasmanian Wonders tour. Global Journeys were fantastic in helping me organise my trip. Travelling with AAT Kings was amazing, the coach was always clean & the staff (Carolyn & John) were always friendly & willing to go out of their way to help. Carolyn was also a wealth of information, she knew the history & stories ...read more of Tasmania off the top of her head. The itinerary was very well planned, we experienced & saw a lot!

Very relaxed on a very comfortable coach. Because we were just a small group we all became like family - many new friends made. Some of the places we visited we probably would not have known about or seen if exploring Tasmania on our own. Wonderful to sit back and enjoy the journey.

The tour guides knowledge was tremendous, the bus very comfortable and the scenery was excellent. I would have liked to see more tourist attractions though than little towns to have lunch in. Maybe more waterfalls or caves or the like.

I've heard about Tassie for its beauty from various sources for a very long time. I have been waiting patiently in order to be able to travel with my elderly parents and show them around this great place and share this experience together. We enjoyed this Tassie tour very much. For the very first time, I found I really like countryside and the very ...read more friendly and relaxing atmosphere in the country towns there. The scenery along the way was very attractive. It's like looking at oil paintings of landscapes, so beautiful, hard for me to describe in words. You got to be there to have a look so you know what I mean. The Tour was well organized and everything was up to schedule. The AAT Kings tour covered well known tourist destinations plus many interesting places we had never heard of. Our original tour guide Christin is very knowledgeable, highly dedicated and professional. She's very well organised, plan things ahead and made extra effort to ensure everyday ran smoothly and we're all happy. Really appreciate her great job! The accommodation and meals were good. The hotels picked were well located, particularly in Burnie and Bicheno - just across the street is the beach. I couldn't have been happier when seeing the morning sunrise from there. The staff were very helpful and super warm and friendly. They accommodated my mother's diet requirements (which I requested at booking, unfortunately hasn't been passed on to them for whatever reason in time for the catering) so she can enjoy her meals during the tour. Our coach was comfortable, modern and clean. We were lucky to have Darren as our driver, who was very good and experienced driving on the winding roads while we were one the west coast section of the tour. The airport pickup/drop off transfers were very smooth as well. Drivers are very polite and helpful. We were very happy we went on this tour. Many thanks to Kirby (from Global Journeys) who was our tour consultant. I was very impressed by her work - very efficient, very helpful and highly professional. I've recommended this tour to my friends and other families, and plan to do more tours in the future.

The tour was well organised and we had a good time in Tassie. Our tour consultant Kirby at Global Journeys was great. Very experienced, professional and super helpful. Therefore the booking for our tour went very efficiently. Everyday of our tour run smoothly with our fabuluous tour guide. She's very dedicated and thoughful. Well planed and organised. ...read more Very impressed by her professinalism and her passion for her work. Some thoughts for future tour consideration - it would be very useful to have some tour brochures in other language (e.g Chinese) available on the coach to meet the needs of international tourists. It would make the tour guide job a bit easier and tourists can enjoy the tour even more. Also an option of pre-booking for special diet requirements when dinner/lunch are provided in the package. Most people from China don't cope well with the western cooking.

The coach was very clean and well maintained. The driver and tour director are very professional and helpful.

Accommodation was great, food was excellent, pace of the tour was just right, good balance of activity and down time. Our tour director, Carolyn and driver Tom were the best, so friendly and knowledgeable. We learnt so much about Tassie, I have recommended this tour to all my friends, via Global Journeys of course as you provided the best value for ...read more money, we had such a good time and are looking forward to our next trip.

We were lucky to have fewer than 20 people on our AAT Kings tour of Tasmania. The tour itself was well paced, covered a lot of ground, and was varied in content. Our tour director Robin Gentle was very knowledgeable and informative. We appreciated the frequent stops. One criticism concerns our very short stay in Launceston, arriving late Sunday afternoon ...read more and leaving the following morning. Sunday evening in Launceston is dead, with few restaurants open. Perhaps the tour should be 10 nights to allow 2 nights in Launceston.

This was our first coach trip, and we found it very good. The AAT Kings tour covered well known tourist destinations plus many interesting places we had never heard of. The inclusions e.g. Queenstown train ride and the two cruises were great. Accommodation and meals were good/very good. The original guide (Caroline) was excellent, and despite an ankle ...read more injury stayed on for several days till a replacement (Ted) took over and kept things running smoothly. There was no stress, Darren the driver was good and everything ran like clockwork (including the airport transfers). We were very happy we went on this tour.

I did the Tasmanian tour from 3 January 2012 to 14 January 2012 with my husband James, my brother & sister in law, Marcel & Marlene Toohim & two friends, Joseph & Josiane Raso. Georgie was our Tour Consultant and we had a really good time in Tassie. We found that the organisation of the tour was very well done and together with the hotels and the meals ...read more were all in accordance with our expectations. We would gladly all six of us recommend travelling with Global Journeys.

This was a great tour, very comfortable and we saw all the sights of Tassie with an expert guide and driver.

The tour was outstanding in every way. Percentage of satisfaction: Itinerary: 100% Accomodation:100% Tour director (Robin): 101% Tour driver(Mark): 101% Pre and post tour booking: 100% Thank you Georgie for your professional and excellent job coordinating my stay in Australia.

We had never done a 'coach tour' before and didn't know what to expect BUT we really thoroughly enjoyed the experience. We think our Tour Guide (CarolineTipper) and Driver (Tom) were exceptional and really pulled our group together. Caroline is a Tasmania girl and her local knowledge and stories of various places and people really made the trip for ...read more us. We had been asked by fellow New Zealanders (before we left) why we were going to Tasmania as it was supposedly quite like New Zealand! We didn't find it so at all. (Ed. I agree!) Tasmania definitely has its very own scenery, history, weather and character. We loved it. Our first 4 or 5 days on Tour experienced fabulous weather - sunny and warm. Unfortunately things then turned to 'custard' and it rained and rained and rained. This caused several roads and bridges on our planned travels to be washed out or unpassable so alternative routes were arranged and this was fine. The difficulties for our Guide must have been considerable. However, we thoroughly enjoyed both Tasmania and our coach tour and would now consider doing a 'coach tour' again. We made various friends within the group and some may visit us here in New Zealand in the future so the social contacts made is another plus!

What a wonderful tour of Tasmania. Ann and I had everything, and it went perfectly, so thank you and Global Journeys for all the help. AAT Kings were brilliant. Nothing was a bother and the driver, Tom and tour director, Peter were simply the best. We enjoyed all and met such an array of people from all over the world. I made two special friends and ...read more receive emails from them. I can certainly recommend Global Journeys so keep up the good work and maybe we will catch up with you in the future. All the accommodation was just brilliant as well, so thank you. My pleasure having written these few lines in appreciation.

We had a lovely time in Tasmania. We were very happy with the tour, felt it all ran smoothly - tour guide and driver were excellent. The accommodation wasn't as good as I would have liked but I realise it wasn't a top priced tour. We were lucky to have a great group doing the tour. I believe a few of them did their bookings through you. Thank you for ...read more your organisation of the tour, it was so easy dealing with you. I liked the way you always responded so promptly.

The Tassie tour I enjoyed very much. Having not been to Tassie before I appreciated what I had missed, the scenery and countryside very attractive. Slight alterations to the tour because of the stormy weather, going to Camphell Town And Ross instead of St. Helens because of road closure [heavy rain] but that didn't detract from the tour. Missed out ...read more on the railway trip from Strahan to Queenstown because of track closure due to the storm. The tour very well run with an excellent tour guide and driver and the accommodation was very satisfactory.

Had a great time!! Our bus driver, Tom, was great, really competent and I felt so safe (normally am a nervous passenger) and our tour director, Robin, is so full of information, facts and figures it's scary!! Every day was an adventure, the accommodation was more than adequate, meals good. Absolutely no complaints. I will certainly be travelling with ...read more them again as soon as I can save up the pennies. Thanks to you all for a great trip.