Reviews

It was fascinating visiting Giza pyramids, all the temples and necropolis, specially Luxor and Abu Symbel. Both Muhammad Abdel-Hamid and Toqa Mohymen were very friendly, caring and knowledgeable. They looked after us so well, there was nothing they wouldn't do to help us.

However, in my opinion, the tour felt a little rushed and it would have been interesting to go to a place were they make the papyrus. Also, maybe we could have had some time to do some sightseeing in Cairo and Aswan and have a tour of an important bazar.

All in all, it was a very enlightening tour, visiting some fascinating, beautifull relief and hieroglyphic-covered temples. An unforgettable experience!

Excellent tour showing us everything we’d ever dreamed of seeing.
Excellent guides and some fantastic hotels and places to eat

The pros
Excellent variety of places visited in Japan and the hotels were all of a high quality with the exception of the last one prior to flying home. This was very basic.
Restaurants used for lunch and evening meals were excellent and the range of Japanese food chosen was good. The tea ceremony, origami and noodle making
sessions were all great fun and enjoyed by all.
Our second guide Nana, was absolutely excellent and would be a good role model to follow for the others. We were very sad to lose her when she passed us on to the next guide.
The cons
However, we were disappointed that we had three different tour guides in 10 days and their ability to communicate in English was very different. The first guide neglected to pass on the microphone attached to our headsets which meant after the first 3 days we could no longer use headsets for commentary wherever we went which was a limit to the knowledge we could take in.
We also missed out on the included breakfast prior to our early flight home and when queried, the guide said we didn’t get this refunded even though we had paid for it and was on our itinerary.
Overall though we had a fantastic time but felt Wendy Wu had let us down with the succession and limitations of the guides given to us.
We would definitely recommend the tour but it was definitely not as slick and well organised by the two inexperienced guides . We had expected a different level of organisation after a previous Wendy Wu tour we had taken to Egypt in October 2023.

Great holiday, exceptional guides, wonderful sites to visit. Hotels and cruise excellent. Both guides very professional and informative, The whole thing was very well organised

Excellent Tour
Well paced
Comprehensive itinerary which includes Bucket list attractions
Knowledgeable guides

Good all round arrangements and sites to visit. Excellent guide. Good quality accommodation and food.

Mostly reactive rather than proactive. It would have been so easy to send a group email as soon as the issues began in Israel/Gaza saying that they were monitoring the situation. Instead they answered each travellers concerns informing them to follow Foreign Office guidelines, did not instill confidence in the tour company. The tour was hectic with early starts and some late finishes.

An excellent holiday in general but a few issues in Jordan over accommodation.

Great 10 day trip covering all the major sites with attentive and informative guides and comfortable accommodation

Well organised. Saw lots of sites and felt safe whilst visiting all the places we visited. Everyone of the staff that looked after us both from Wendy Wu and the boat and hotels were excellent and also the airline used.

Although rated level 1 difficulty by Wendy Wu I found that the lever of exertion in the heat exhausting.

Excellent tour guides, hotels and cruise plus lovely food especially on cruise. Loved all the visits to temples, museums etc and we learned so much about the history of the country both past and recent

All meals & entry tickets included; excellent hotel & boat accommodation; Guides very knowledgeable, helpful & efficient.

All went so smoothly. Hotels were super.

Some of the coach journeys too long and some restaurants unsatisfactory. The worst example, after driving 3.5 hours to Alexandria and seeing little of the city we spent an hour in heavy traffic to reach a restaurant, an hour there then a further hour in traffic to return to a very sad hotel which was barely adequate for the one night we stayed there.

Apart from Alexandria the rest of the tour was excellent in content and duration. Our guides were wonderful, very informative and nothing was too much trouble for them.