AAT Kings Tour Reviews

Excellent tour, great crew. Beautiful landscapes and magnificent river cruises. Good accommodation in the outback and plentiful food (= too much!).

My tour, 'Best of the Kimberley' was simply amazing. I enjoyed the pace - necessarily long days were followed by easier ones. I was disappointed to find the optional tours so expensive, as one is almost forced into them - 'a once in a lifetime experience, so have to pay the money' - but of course, no regrets on having done them. I liked the number ...read more of meals included, providing one with the option to eat less in between, if desired! Our Tour Director, Caroline, was incredible. She always informed us of what to expect, when food, toilet stop, etc would next be available, possible problems to be aware of. She related to all types of people with friendliness and respect but still used the required pressure to keep us all on time and not missing anything. The information she passed on was relevant and educational. Highly recommended tour! :)

The tour was great, the hotels were up to standard apart from one hotel which didn't have enough heating especially when it was -8 degrees! Tour guide was very informative and always willing to help. Tour driver very good.

Great places to visit, accommodation and food very good. Tour guide and coach driver excellent. Pace of trip was very good and the coach was very clean and comfortable. Only criticism would be that 2 roadhouse stops were very rushed, would have worked much better to have stopped in nearby towns and not being advised that ATMs did not take all cards ...read more at Fox Glacier, which did cause some passengers concern. Our tour consultant Kirby was excellent and very helpful and efficient. Would definitely book through Global Journeys again.

The trip was an excellent experience to get in touch with the pure nature. The tour is very well thought and structured. The guide and driver are highly professional and lovely people to deal with. To travel by coach was not a problem at all, because it stopped frequently enough to stretch our legs. The hotels are good and hospitable. The food was very ...read more good to consider variety and freshness. I want to express my special appreciation to Kirby O'Connor who helped to book this tour and acknowledge her highly profession approach to work and polite manners. It was my second time I've travelled with Global Journeys. I was impressed so much by their services after I went on a tour in New Zealand in 2010. Well done.

The tour was very well organised and extremely good value for money. The accommodation was excellent and varied from the wonderful Art Hotel in Wellington to the farm stay accommodation in Cambridge. Like any such tour, with so much ground to cover, one would have preferred more time to explore and less time sitting on the bus. We did not have a tour ...read more director but the bus driver did a very good job and his driving skills were exemplary. If you are providing feedback to AAT Kings one suggestion would be for them to provide information on recommended places to eat on the nights that dinner was not provided as part of the itinerary. I would also give AAT Kings and the driver a gold star for the way they handled an elderly gent on the tour who kept getting lost - they even drove him in the bus direct to the airport to ensure that he did not get lost there and miss his plane.

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.

We enjoyed the tour but did not realize it was actually split in two, so it gave us a chance to meet different people and we enjoyed the camaraderie of both. Greg and Daryl were great - watching Daryl vacuum the flies off the front window was entertaining. The choices made for stops were excellent, although I am sure that trying to remember everything ...read more Greg mentioned is impossible. Thank goodness I took a few notes. Hotels were good, although the breakfasts were quite repetitive but always enough to fill one's belly. Enjoyed the Whale museum, Super Pit, Mine tour, Gloucester tree, the jetty, the Wave etc. The chocolate factory was just a store to buy chocolate and not a tour. The fact that we had a few choices was good. The second and northerly half was equally as good. The only time we were less than pleased was the flower farm. Expected more of a tour and live flowers but the worst was how rushed we were because she had 4 groups in an hour and was quite abrupt with us. 2 nights at Monkey Mia was good.

The trip was great!! Very well organised and the staff were fantastic. AATKings does a great job. Had a good group of fellow travellers which made it a whole lot of fun. The process of booking and payment through Global Journeys was clear and easy. Thank you to Georgie and the team for the work you did at your end.

Allan (John) and I had a most wonderful holiday. We enjoyed the company of our follow tour companions, we loved the scenery, the accomodation was perfect and the meals plentiful and yummy. Our tour leader and bus driver were friendly and helpful. We have no complaints at all.

At first we were wondering if we had allocated too much time in Kakadu, but each day just improved with a number of things to do via the associated tour network. The highlights were the trip into Jim Jim Falls, (even though our tour guide fell upon the rocks and broke his arm), the Aboriginal tour on the South Alligator river spotting bird life and ...read more crocks, The trip into Arnhan land to Oinpelie and the associated rock art. The trip into Ubirr blew our minds with the views over the flood plains and the rock art. In all four very enjoyable days with a relaxing couple of hours spent on a billabong having lunch. For a 'shutter bug' there was no lack of subject matter to photograph!

Kerry and I thoroughly enjoyed our tour of New Zealand. Our guide Lu Tyree was excellent and our bus driver Darryl was a very good driver as well as a lovely person to have a conversation with. Our accommodation and our meals were very good. Everything was well organised and there were plenty of comfort stops, even allowing good natured tolerance for ...read more any latecomers.

It was a great trip. Everything when to schedule. We were picked up on time. The tour guides were great. Accommodation was good but expensive, but no real problem. Would recommend it for all Australians to do.

The trip was excellent and we'd have no hesitation recommending AATKings. Everything was well organised and the meals and accommodation were without fault...a real credit to those involved, given the isolation of the Kimberly.

I booked this trip on behalf of my father John Crabtree who was 83. Georgie was excellent in organising this trip for us, nothing too much trouble. My father had a marvellous time on this trip from the first night in Auckland to the finish in Wellington, The tour director Marty was great and made it a very pleasant trip. My father particularly enjoyed ...read more the Bay of Islands and the Maori Village in Rotorua. As this was a small group of 16 everyone got to know one another and my father was always well looked after. Thanks again.

Thank you for a very pleasant tour. We particularly enjoyed the Kakadu part of the trip, especially spending time with an aboriginal guide. He showed us many interesting things as well as revealing something of his delightful personality and his artistic talents. The driver and guide were at all times very helpful and hospitable. It was a great time ...read more to relax as well as learn about this unique part of Australia.

I have been home for a week however this is the first time that I have had to sit and inform you of my trip to New Zealand. Had a super time. Cannot complain about accommodation or meals and the weather was to die for. The tour became known as the 'sunshine tour'. We had cool mornings in a couple of places but really nice crisp days and luke warm sun. ...read more North Island turned on especially good weather, one day of rain but about 23 degrees for all days. Super! I reckon I met the best driver and the best tour director - two people who were passionate about their country and it showed - they provided brilliant commentary and a history of your country. If I had hired a vehicle and driven myself I wouldn't have gained the information that I did. Thx Georgie, it was all good!

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!