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Taking these young people to Africa was an enormous undertaking - one to which I would only have trusted my son's amazing school and your remarkable tour company. We have had two children travel with EF Tours. The tours have been organized yet flexible. They have been wonderful value. Exposing these young people to history, life in other corners of the world and to other cultures has an immeasurable benefit. This trip to Africa exceeded all others. I think perhaps the moment that best encapsulates how special this experience was revolves around an inevitable little planning "hiccup." One of the vehicles transporting the kids got a flat tire. While the tire was being changed our students noticed children playing soccer - an unremarkable observation save for these kids were playing with a ball of rags. Our students located a soccer ball (many had been taken along to give to Kenyan students) and gave it to these children. The unscheduled stop became and opportunity for kids from our school to play soccer with delighted local children. The tire was changed and off our kids went - one soccer ball the poorer, but much the richer for the opportunity to play with these African children and appreciate that something they took so much for granted was a prize half way across the world. This tour was, in so many different way, a life changing experience - something that we believe will change our boy's perspective on the world. What a wonderful education travel provides, this experience in particular.
Where to begin? The trip was just absolutely amazing! I never imagined I'd get to see the things I did on this trip. Getting to experience all the different things EF set up for us was amazing. Seeing the glo-worm caves, learning about the maori, our time in Australia, it was all fantastic. The sydney opera house is beautiful and stunning from the outside, and just as stunning from the inside. The 2 weeks I spent on this trip will always stay with me and remain 2 of the best weeks of my life.
We started paying for this trip 16 months before the tour, yet when we got to Paris, we were not scheduled to tour the Eiffel Tower or Notre Dame Cathedral and we only had an hour to tour the entire Palace of Versailles. Our tour guide indicated the line ups were too long to go into these sites and advised us to go shopping instead (3.5 hours). EF Tours had 16 months to book a tour at these sites for us. VERY DISAPPOINTED. Poor offering of nutritious food as well - minimal fruit and vegetables. Our group was excluded from the hot breakfasts offered at our hotels -- instead we were offered a variety of breads and jam.
I loved this trip, the people, food, tour directors were all great! It was defiantly an experience of a lifetime.
EF Tours 2012, this was the most emotional, awesome experience EVER! I wouldn't have missed this tour for anything. EF you did a fantastic job!!!! WELL DONE! I can't say enough about the job you did! I knew you were an awesome Company but boy did you blow it out of the water with this tour! I have travelled exclusively with EF and I plan to continue as long as I can! The students we took on this tour were totally impressed! Thank you from all of us!
Overall travel experience was amazing and we had the opportunity to see many things we always dreamed of seeing. However, hotel in London was in disgusting condition, and would not recommend to anybody travelling to the UK. Hotel staff could have been more accommodating by providing daily housekeeping, however, room was not touched, garbage was not changed while we were there. Room had a broken mirror, television was not working, and this particular portion of the hotel had a problem with fire alarm which was beeping throughout the whole two nights stay. One group of students also had a shower which did not work. Aside from this experience, hotels in Paris and Barcelona were amazing. Great customer service. Tour guides were knowledgeable and organized. A lot of hidden costs... had to pay additional for things once we arrived (Cooking Class, Bike Ride).. most things we didn't all agree to do. We thought all we needed was spending and lunch money.
The opportunity to travel was excellent but there were many things that did not measure up to the expectations. The pace was way too fast and then adding in extra excursions gave us less time to enjoy what was already included and paid for. The day at Vimy was fine except the impression that ef gave was that there would be tents to take shelter....there was one tent that held a few hundred people ...there were about 5000 there..,we got no shelter all day. Ef could not control the weather but could have had more tents. The food was not good. Almost every meal was a disappointment. Bottom of the line almost everywhere we went. Almost all hotels were nice except for one place we stayed in a university residence which was not clean....no phone or wifi available. We were rushed wherever we went,, there were times when we could not even take a moment to take a picture. Almost everyday we had hardly any free time to explore and enjoy where we were. I would not take, nor would I recommend another ef tour