We had booked this tour with the rest of the other tours back in 2012 with g adventures it was just over 3 weeks long mostly camping with 5 hotel stays. We were doing the tour in may so thought it would be sunny in the day and colder at night, we had a pair of thick trousers each and a jumper we thought this would be enough! We were wrong!
I think everyone will be aware by now we were dissapointed with the tour. Many things contributed to our disappointment, mainly being the guide! the group also contributed to our disappointment and the locations we camped. The tour itself and the places we visited were great, we had picked this tour due to the amount of places we would see in such a short space of time and we saw a lot. That unfortunately was the only good thing :( we enjoyed seeing these places and everytime we arrived somewhere new we would do things on our own without the group or with our friend jasmin which is why we enjoyed them so much! But unfortunately the locations we camped were uneven and rocky & we were always a long way from town so more often then not we had to rely on the guide for information and lifts, the group were so young and clueless (not all....but most!) this isnt g adventures fault however we felt the guide could have made some situations better had he had more experience and this would have made the trip better on some level! The guide himself.....i could quite litrally write an essay on everything he did or didnt do as a guide. He was just awful and i hate saying that as i feel guilty for him! (Thats just my nature!) But the bottom line is we paid alot for the tour and he is getting paid to do a job he isnt doing! Just so you get the picture....He gave us no info on the places we went to, the food he was suppose to prepare and we would "assist" cooking was shocking, he didnt once cook and the meals he bought for us to cook were diabolical! He drunk everynight until early hours and then drove us all day to the next location, we visited roswell (famous for ufo sitings!) and we got taken to the zoo!...the list really does go on....needless to say i am on the case for a refund! I believe its our right to get some kind of a refund as a lot of the things that were suppose to be included were not! i also feel the tour was misold and the guide wasnt yet experienced enough to do the job he was getting paid to do! When we return i will sit down with my mum and we will write this letter together and believe me it will be long and i WILL get the outcome i want! Its not just about a refund its also about making things better for future groups that will have the same problems. Watch this space!
The other thing that made the tour less enjoyable was the snow! No one is at fault here as you cannot help the weather! But it was minus degrees and the tents provided were not suitable for that temp we feel a different form of accomodation should have been used on those awful nights even if it was one room we all share it would have been better and warmer, i have asthma and spent the best part of 2 weeks having a cough due to the temp and i feel that the guide should have been thinking about other forms of accomodation for the health of the group if not for anything else! Even if it was just for a couple of nights! Sleeping in the snow was no fun and having ice inside of your tent was even worse :( its a shame it snowed as i really quite enjoyed the camping experience :) having camped alot as a Child with guides and brownies i was quite looking forward to it!
Overall, we enjoyed the sights and different places we visited, but unfortuately will not be recommending the tour to others or g adventures. We really feel quite angry about the whole experience and spent most of the latter part of the tour wishing the days away and counting them down :( and it was actually quite sad :( we still feel angry about it now but feel a bit of relief that its all over and we just want to concentrate on enjoying the last part of our tour and not think about it again until we get home! One good thing about this tour is that we made a good friend "jasmin" she really helped to keep us sane on this tour! And we had a lot of laughs with her! Maybe one day we will jet off to germany to visit her :) its defo on the list :))
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