Explore Tour Reviews

Thank you - fantastic trip and I will DEFINITELY travel with Explore! again!

Superb trip but would benefit from adding a couple more days and slowing down a bit so we could enjoy some of the beautiful accommodation that we stayed in.

Best Explore trip that I've been on. Due to the opening of the new airport at Istanbul our original flight was cancelled. Explore immediately informed us of this change and offered an alternative. Everything was taken care of effectively and efficiently. Thank you.

Balcik was fabulous and a lovely contrast to being in big cities.

Some members of the group were not as fit as they needed to be for the trek. If I remember correctly, Explore asks you if you are fit enough for the trip you are booking and you self-certify. It may be worth thinking of other ways of ensuring people can cope with the rigours of the trip.

Really enjoyed our tip and would recommend Explore to others but maybe they need to emphasise the need to bring appropriate clothing for temple visits in the travel notes. i.e. tops that cover shoulders and bottoms that cover the knees and socks to protect feet from the hot paving.

A great holiday. Really enjoyed it and would recommend Explore to others.

As a family we all really enjoyed this trip. There was plenty to see and do each day. We made many very happy memories. I would definitely recommend this trip to other travelling families!

Massive thanks to Evan, Van, for his excellent leadership and thanks for the wonderful insight into rural Japan, provided by the trip to Hirado

I really enjoyed my trip as I have always enjoyed my Explore trips. The group were great company and Van looked after us really well. Will definitely recommend to others.

Lalit Regar, our guide, really was the best! Cool calm knowledgable professional and flexible. Couldn't have asked for more! Excellent trip. Excellent leader!

Leech socks are definitely needed and were provided by the guide - if we had known this we would not have gone to the expense of buying our own. Other than that we had an amazing time and would definately recommend this trip to others.

It's great trip I would definitely recommend it. We were lucky also to have a really good group. A thoroughly enjoyable and thought provoking trip in the best tradition of Explore.

Optional trips really did bump the cost up. Some felt overpriced, considering the cost of living in Egypt. I did most of them, they were all enjoyable but at times there would not have been anything else to do.

Thank you, this was a brilliant trip made outstanding thanks to Rejanish's professionalism and wonderful personality. Thank you, also, for sorting out a flight home without delay, after Jet Airways folded.

There was a lot of concern in the group regarding 'free time'. Those not on the Group Visa were sometimes allowed to go off alone, and at other times were not. I trusted our Guide to have the information and knowledge to advise us day-to-day on this.

Departure arrangements at Marrakech airport were shambolic. It may be worth warning travellers that, after security, they face a very long queue at passport control, with hopelessly inadequate arrangements for prioritising those with imminent departures.

Great trip, just wish I'd read the information provided by Explore more carefully before I packed. It was generally cooler in the central uplands than I expected but I coped!

The airport transfers were very good, but I would not recommend Uzbekistan Airlines, except for their food which was good. Excellent trip. Excellent leader! Would recommend.

Great trip all round, the beginning 80% was absolutely brilliant but the travel/traffic and general hanging around at the end put a bit of a dampener on the trip.