AAT Kings Tour Reviews

This was a great tour, run by an experienced and knowledgeable tour guide and an excellent driver. We enjoyed everything about the trip, from comfortable accommodation, fabulous food, well planned excursions to some truly lovely and unique places. The booking process was simple and everything went to plan.

Our amazing guide Caroline looked after everyone exceptionally well. Her knowledge of the Island's history and the people was outstanding. So not only did we see the sights (and the extras Caroline was able to take us to), we got to "know" Tasmania.

The bus driver was excellent and the bus comfortable and perfectly clean at all times. All of the ...read more accommodation was of a high standard. Perhaps our only comment was that the Wrest in Hobart was a little too far from the city center for walking.

Optional excursions we found a bit disappointing. Cataract Gorge - the boat struggled through the mud around the wharf area then only spent a short time in the Gorge. Bicheno Penguins - a rushed visit. Wrong time of the year to visit, so only saw 3 penguins. Was looking forward to the penguin experience.

We would recommend travelling on an AAT Kings tour and booking with Global Journeys. Leanne and the online system made it easy to keep up with information and payments.

We covered a lot of ground and I learnt so much from our wonderful travel director Pete. We saw some amazing scenery (I loved the forests on the West Coast), stopped at some quirky little towns (Sheffield), and became better acquainted with the convict and aboriginal history of the island.

We were very well catered for with breakfast and dinner and ...read more most of the accommodation was very good. Best Western Launceston was my least favourite accommodation. I felt safe with our excellent driver Tom, even on those very winding roads. The 2 night stay in Launceston was most welcome and perhaps another 2 night stay could be included, or a full free day.

We had a minor hiccup with the change of starting hotel not noted on all the documents we received and my query via email to Global re this was not answered, although I had previously been notified of the change of venue. Some of our group initially went to the wrong hotel.

This tour is an excellent introduction to Tasmania and I am ready to return soon. AAT Kings take every opportunity to make every post a winner and I will travel with them again.

Excellent holiday, everything was well organized and would definetely book with Global Journeys again. Carolyn was a great tour guide and was always willing to help. Her commentary was very informative.

We would definitely book through Global Journeys again. Madeline Lewis made our tour exciting from our first contact. She answered our questions promptly and kept us informed. Thank you Madeline for all your help.

Our Tour Operator, AAT Kings, Tour Guide and Driver were professional and both the guide and driver had a great sense of humour which ...read more helped to make us and all our fellow passenger comfortable with them and each other. The accommodation and meals were varied and good quality. The scenery must be seen to be believed and I think we all fell in love with the mountains. Our only regret (not a complaint) was that the short stops were not a little longer.

All round it was a wonder-filled holiday.

Excellent tour, guide and driver. The hotels and food were excellent. Great sightseeing and highlight events. Some great included trips. Highly recommend.

Liz was very good.The tour started off bad for me first i had a bad fall prior to boarding the plane in Perth, we were delayed one hour and I wasn’t met in Brisbane. I enjoyed the tour until I had to pull out with knee pain. Was sorry to leave as I am sure that the rest of the tour was very good. Thanks for all the help I received. If I travel again ...read more I will contact Global Journeys again. Thanks Jemma.

My daughter and I went on the 17day NZ coach trip on AAT Kings which incorporated both islands of the country. We thoroughly enjoyed each day. The group was cohesive and we met some lovely people. The tour director Aaron and the driver, Mike, were great ambassadors for their country. Having cruised to NZ many times, the coach trip was a way to see more ...read more deeply into this beautiful country. We would highly recommend this tour.

Global Journeys, in particular Yvonne Brooks, made the whole process simple. Her communication was friendly and personal. She returned emails promptly. I have already booked another Global Journeys tour with Yvonne and if she reads this and calls me back, I will have another destination for her to organise!!!!

Good value. Well organised. Excellent tour director and coach driver. My fellow travellers - all whom I met for the first time on the trip - seemed to also enjoy the experience. Overall, well worth it.

Coach crew were very good and accommodation & food were also very good. We would definitely travel with AAT Kings again. We were lucky as the weather was good in December too.

Organisation of our trip with Global Journeys was very good. Other passengers were a good group. Overall, no complaints. Thanks for a good travel experience.

Thoroughly enjoyed this trip, Especially the visit to Craig's sheep farm. The meal he put on for us and his talk on sheep rounding up and shearing were great and the place had a pleasant welcoming, homely feel. Immersing ourselves in the history of Ned Kelly and his gang as we visited the places where his story took place really made us feel the harshness ...read more of the times when they lived and how injustice could soon turn to tragedy. Unfortunately, heavy rain in Melbourne dampened the last day of the trip curtailing excursions but then we can't order the weather. Travelling by coach certainly teaches you the distances and nature of the terrain journeyed over.

Well organised. Would have liked rooms with a good view in Hobart ( Grand chancellor very noisy) to start the holiday. We did the alcohol history of Hobart tour which was quite a disappointment - tastings were so stingy you could hardly taste the whisky or gin. Food was good, however prefer the set meals rather than the buffets.

Guide - very knowledgeable - hotels - good including breakfast - pace - suitable to most people's ability -
rotation system - great, never seen this before and gives everyone a chance not only to sit in best seats but to
meet all the other passengers.

Tasmania put on some wonderful weather for us and we were fortunate to visit places which would be inaccessible in bad weather. Accommodation on the whole was good. Very impressed with accommodation, meals and service at Bicheno.

Top class driver - Tom. Coach always clean - even the tyres. Some optional excursions were difficult to see where the ...read more value was particularly the afternoon delight Tamar River cruise. Overall rating is very good with the best of Tasmania on show together with genial company and great commentary from the tour director.

Whole tour was very enjoyable. Accommodation was first class. I was a single traveller and my room mate was very good. No problems. The world heritage areas were spectacular including Cradle Mountain where the Chalet has an very interesting history which was very well explained. The tour guide was brilliant and her ability to impart the history of ...read more the Murder of the Aborigines, and the cruelty to the convicts, was appreciated . My fellow travellers were all kind and courteous.

This was the perfect tour for us. The 4WD tour was excellent. Rich was a passionate guide and got us climbing the rocks to see some awesome rock art. This was done at a leisurely pace and no question was stupid. Beautiful lunch by a billabong. Croc hotel was a good base for this tour as well and food was reasonably priced. We also did the scenic flight ...read more on the first morning and was dropped off at Jabiru Airport and flew over Kakadu to Cooinda where we met the coach again to do the Yellow River tour. We would recommend doing this flight as it really puts everything into perspective. The river cruise on the last day was also a highlight and the number of crocs by Cahill crossing really opened your eyes. We would thoroughly recommend doing this tour.

A busy but rewarding and fulfilling tour. AAT and staff were brilliant, particularly the small female bus driver (Monica), wow, some of the tight squeezes she manoeuvred the bus into, many would not have fitted a car!!! Overall brilliant, so will just mention the couple of low lights. New room access cards used at one motel, didn't work, and many ...read more had trouble with them, and lift situation at one motel was woeful, it took 45 minutes for the last of our 48 crew to get into a lift to get to their room after a long day.

Great taste of southeast WA! Many kilometres covered by an excellent driver. The guide was very informative and entertaining - aiming for all to enjoy their holiday. Wonderful variety from Monkey Mia to the Giant Trees and across to Esperance and Kalgoorlie. A highlight was Wave Rock and the lady who fostered local tourism there in an environmental ...read more way - a most interesting character.

Impressed with AAT Kings organisation. Overall the hotel accommodation was good and the meals provided were of good quality. Main complaint was that there were no separate shower recesses - only shower over baths. I find it difficult to get in and out of baths. Perhaps when filling in future details there be space to check that need.

A great coach tour which comprehensively covered Tasmania. The well planned itinerary showed us much of the beauty of Tasmania and the character of it's people. The hotels and included meals were all very good. Our tour director Margaret and driver Tom were world class, keeping us well informed, entertained and safe. Global Journeys were again very ...read more helpful - thanks Madeline. Our highlight was the snow dump that greeted us at the Cradle Mountain hotel. The only thing we didn't like is the very steep middle steps on the new AAT coach (front ones were a bit better).