HOW SAY YOU? The average visitor rating is:
Review by: Bettina Clausen, Bad Bramstedt, Germany
Garden Route (April 2011)
We had a great time. The trip was very well organized and our guide, Derek, was the best. Thank you!
Garden Route (April 2011)
We had a great time. The trip was very well organized and our guide, Derek, was the best. Thank you!
Review by: J.VAN de WALLE., Belgium
Garden Route (March 2010)
Dear Sir,
We had a perfect tour;Johan,the driver-guide was excellent and very professionnal.The various hotels were very good with a special mention to 'La Plume'.
Kind regards.
J.VAN de WALLE.
Garden Route (March 2010)
Dear Sir,
We had a perfect tour;Johan,the driver-guide was excellent and very professionnal.The various hotels were very good with a special mention to 'La Plume'.
Kind regards.
J.VAN de WALLE.
Review by: Maggie Chegwyn, Australia
South African Discovery (May 2009)
Hi Frans,
Thanks for organizing an amazing 'holiday" for Margie and myself. Truly wonderful experience and all accommodation was just what we had hoped for!! Transfers etc all went well!
Maggie & Margie
South African Discovery (May 2009)
Hi Frans,
Thanks for organizing an amazing 'holiday" for Margie and myself. Truly wonderful experience and all accommodation was just what we had hoped for!! Transfers etc all went well!
Maggie & Margie
Review by: Shirley Burgher, Houston
South African Explorer (March 2009)
Hi, Frans,
Thank you again for giving us Alida; she was perfect in every way. It was fun to be just "girls" so we could stop for photos, coffee breaks, etc. w/o a guy telling us "not yet"...
Your choice of B&Bs was excellent; many thanks! I couldn't get over we stayed in B&Bs for under US40 a night, and ate for under US10 at lunch and dinner. Things were so reasonable there.
Thanks again for everything.
Shirley
South African Explorer (March 2009)
Hi, Frans,
Thank you again for giving us Alida; she was perfect in every way. It was fun to be just "girls" so we could stop for photos, coffee breaks, etc. w/o a guy telling us "not yet"...
Your choice of B&Bs was excellent; many thanks! I couldn't get over we stayed in B&Bs for under US40 a night, and ate for under US10 at lunch and dinner. Things were so reasonable there.
Thanks again for everything.
Shirley
Review by: Dieter Siebörger, Munchen, Germany
Kruger Park & Mpumalanga (October 2008)
Although there was this misunderstanding about the duration of my tour, these three days were just magnificent and worth the money. Chris did a very good job in showing me both the sights of Mpumalanga and the animals at Kruger. He showed me the big five plus wild dogs plus hyenas, and he was able to name an incredible lot of the birds we have seen. So if I ever come for a tour around South Africa again, hopefully with more time to spend and much more time for you to organize, I'd like to have Chris as a guide again.
Kruger Park & Mpumalanga (October 2008)
Although there was this misunderstanding about the duration of my tour, these three days were just magnificent and worth the money. Chris did a very good job in showing me both the sights of Mpumalanga and the animals at Kruger. He showed me the big five plus wild dogs plus hyenas, and he was able to name an incredible lot of the birds we have seen. So if I ever come for a tour around South Africa again, hopefully with more time to spend and much more time for you to organize, I'd like to have Chris as a guide again.
Review by: Janice Isom, Johannesburg
Kruger Park & Mpumalanga (October 2008)
Hi Frans,
The tour was a great success & we'll be recommending your services to anyone who needs a tour organising in South Africa.
I can only repeat how impressed I was that you managed to organise something at such short notice and in the middle of school holidays.
Thanks again for all your efforts
Regards
Janice
Kruger Park & Mpumalanga (October 2008)
Hi Frans,
The tour was a great success & we'll be recommending your services to anyone who needs a tour organising in South Africa.
I can only repeat how impressed I was that you managed to organise something at such short notice and in the middle of school holidays.
Thanks again for all your efforts
Regards
Janice
Review by: Loretta Tsang, Ontario, Canada
Panorama Tour (July 2008)
The tour was AMAZING! I enjoyed every minute of it. Thanks for finding Alida to be my tour guide; she was just great - very knowledge and pleasant to be with.
All in all, I really enjoyed this tour and am very glad that I signed up for it! It was actually great to have a personal tour guide, especially at Kruger! :)
Best regards,
Loretta
Panorama Tour (July 2008)
The tour was AMAZING! I enjoyed every minute of it. Thanks for finding Alida to be my tour guide; she was just great - very knowledge and pleasant to be with.
All in all, I really enjoyed this tour and am very glad that I signed up for it! It was actually great to have a personal tour guide, especially at Kruger! :)
Best regards,
Loretta
Review by: Leonie and Colin Metcalfe, Leeds, England
General Review (December 2006)
Returned two weeks ago from the best holiday we`ve ever had (South African Highlights). The holiday far exceeded our expectations, just got better and better as it went along. I had found Panorama on the internet and it was purely pot luck. I picked your Company purely because it seemed to offer just what I was looking for - small tours to the places I wanted to go to, allowing for independent travel at the end. I had no idea what to expect, in fact I was expecting something middle of the road to basic, probably with some hitches along the way. I was certainly wrong there!
We couldn\'t believe it when we were picked up at Johannesburg by Eugene who was to be our guide for the first leg of the holiday (Kruger Park), when he told us that the tour comprised simply of the three of us, he would take us to our hotel, and collect us next morning (time to suit ourselves so we could have a lie in after long flight). We thought Fantastic... don\'t expect this again. After a wonderful few days in the Kruger (personally I had not been bothered about visiting the Kruger, as I`m not particularly \"into\" animals, but this proved to be one of the many hightlights). we flew down to Port Elizabeth to join the Garden Route Tour, where we were met by Peter. Again, to be another individual tour .. just the three of us.
To be individually chauffeured around with what in effect were personal drivers was a fantastic experience. Not only did we have their personal attention the whole time, but as we got to know them, and they us, they each knew what we would be interested in seeing, and went out of their way to show us (eg garage of vintage cars in George) - well off the beaten track and certainly not on the itenerary. Again, if we were not interested in something on the itinerary, they would make sure they took us somewhere else they knew we would enjoy more. No way would we have been able to see many of these things had we been on a large tour, or done it ourselves on a self drive option.
Both guides were superb, and can\'t possibly be beaten for their knowledge, friendliness, helpfulness and sheer good company. In fact, after leaving Peter at the end of the tour in Cape Town, we had arranged our own accommodation, where we dropped us off, and on his return home to Port Elizabeth a few days later, he telephoned to make sure we were ok and to wish us well on our return home. Not only that, but as we were staying a good way out of Cape Town and didn\'t want to hire a car, we were anxious as to how we were going to get around Cape Town and surrounding area. No problem there... Peter put us in touch with another guide who he knew of in the area. What service!
The hotels/lodges were excellent (one even included Basil Fawlty Mark 2!) and as for La Plume ..... I\'ll say no more ... in no way could that \"B & B\" be bettered. Certainly equivalent to 5* in UK.
I would thoroughly recommend your Company (and have done), to anyone and everyone. I only hope that next time I book with you (which I will), the holiday we chose will be as good, as it can\'t possibly be any better.
Keep up the good work and keep me posted of any new trips you organise.
Many thanks - will certainly be booking with you again.
General Review (December 2006)
Returned two weeks ago from the best holiday we`ve ever had (South African Highlights). The holiday far exceeded our expectations, just got better and better as it went along. I had found Panorama on the internet and it was purely pot luck. I picked your Company purely because it seemed to offer just what I was looking for - small tours to the places I wanted to go to, allowing for independent travel at the end. I had no idea what to expect, in fact I was expecting something middle of the road to basic, probably with some hitches along the way. I was certainly wrong there!
We couldn\'t believe it when we were picked up at Johannesburg by Eugene who was to be our guide for the first leg of the holiday (Kruger Park), when he told us that the tour comprised simply of the three of us, he would take us to our hotel, and collect us next morning (time to suit ourselves so we could have a lie in after long flight). We thought Fantastic... don\'t expect this again. After a wonderful few days in the Kruger (personally I had not been bothered about visiting the Kruger, as I`m not particularly \"into\" animals, but this proved to be one of the many hightlights). we flew down to Port Elizabeth to join the Garden Route Tour, where we were met by Peter. Again, to be another individual tour .. just the three of us.
To be individually chauffeured around with what in effect were personal drivers was a fantastic experience. Not only did we have their personal attention the whole time, but as we got to know them, and they us, they each knew what we would be interested in seeing, and went out of their way to show us (eg garage of vintage cars in George) - well off the beaten track and certainly not on the itenerary. Again, if we were not interested in something on the itinerary, they would make sure they took us somewhere else they knew we would enjoy more. No way would we have been able to see many of these things had we been on a large tour, or done it ourselves on a self drive option.
Both guides were superb, and can\'t possibly be beaten for their knowledge, friendliness, helpfulness and sheer good company. In fact, after leaving Peter at the end of the tour in Cape Town, we had arranged our own accommodation, where we dropped us off, and on his return home to Port Elizabeth a few days later, he telephoned to make sure we were ok and to wish us well on our return home. Not only that, but as we were staying a good way out of Cape Town and didn\'t want to hire a car, we were anxious as to how we were going to get around Cape Town and surrounding area. No problem there... Peter put us in touch with another guide who he knew of in the area. What service!
The hotels/lodges were excellent (one even included Basil Fawlty Mark 2!) and as for La Plume ..... I\'ll say no more ... in no way could that \"B & B\" be bettered. Certainly equivalent to 5* in UK.
I would thoroughly recommend your Company (and have done), to anyone and everyone. I only hope that next time I book with you (which I will), the holiday we chose will be as good, as it can\'t possibly be any better.
Keep up the good work and keep me posted of any new trips you organise.
Many thanks - will certainly be booking with you again.
