Hi Alex Excellent tour. Good itinerary and mostly, well informed guides. Providing foot warmers, hand and camera heaters, as well as crampons to put on our shoes was really good. Not too many shops and not pressure to buy was good. Perhaps letting us know at the beginning about optional extras in Shanghai and Harbin would be better. The hotels were good except for the Holiday Inn in Harbin. Mostly clean buses. Good to have plenty of seats. I would certainly recommend this tour to the more adventurous travellers. Your help in organising the visa was greatly appreciated. Regards Sheila Stephenson

Hi and a Happy New Year to you. The trip to Harbin was as good but perhaps even better than the last one I took. Thank you for a wonderful time and preparation. All went very well. I am wondering if you handle just flight to China. I am thinking that perhaps next year I may fly to just Dallian. Do you handle such things, Thank you again and keep up the great work John Hunter

I'd like to thank Asia Discovery Tour ( Allan Huang, Sydney) for organising this Balkan tour 2023. Also I"d like to express my appreciation to Dejan (Tour Guide) for his enormous knowledge about Yugoslavia history, his dedication and hard working to ensure everyone has a wonderful, enjoyable, memorial tour. In addition, I'd like to thank Vikki ( Driver) who worked very hard to make sure everyone is safe and sound. Without these two amazing persons and all members in the group, this Balkan 2023 would not be completely awesome. I have learnt so much experience and everyone is my teacher. Wish all of you the very best in life! Take good care! Anh Nguyen

Hi Allan, Hope you are well, just a quick email, our tour is going wonderfully well, good group and we’ve had a great time in Egypt and a very good guide . Everyone is enjoying themselves and so nice to see so many return ADT travellers. We had a full day in Istanbul yesterday and a very nice cruise on the Bosphorus to start the day today before travelling to Ankara. Regards, Maralyn

Dear Allan, I am writing to thank you for the wonderful tour that you arranged for us in Vietnam. Vietnam is an extraordinary country as are its wonderful people. The tour that you provided gave us a very good insight into the culture, country and people. Our guides were excellent particularly for Hanoi and Hue/Hoi An. Our guide in Ho Chi Minh city was younger and maybe not as knowledgable as our other guides. He was a lovely young man and tried to be helpful. Our thanks also to the wonderful drivers we had who were always calm and knowledgeable about traffic conditions. Our hotels were excellent, with terrific staff and of course the wonderful food we enjoyed throughout our trip. We will be recommending to all we meet that ADT is an excellent travel agency for Vietnam. Once again we thank you for your consideration and excellent service and the program you put together for us. Vietnam has a special place in our hearts as we have lived through its turbulent recent history. The achievements of the Vietnamese people are indeed remarkable. We wish you the very best and trust your agency will continue to thrive. Kindest regards David & sally OConnor

We returned from the above tour late last night - flight delay out of Doha.

I had a wonderful time and Dejan, our guide was excellent - and so knowledgeable.

I took 3,555 photos - that is AFTER culling and sent off over 2,000 with my 73 pages of notes in about 90 emails - sent daily when Wi-Fi allowed.

In Belgrade I did a casual survey that you may be interested in.
From my notes:
I had done a rough survey one morning at breakfast asking a few questions. All but one (Eric, the negative German) said that the trip exceeded expectations, and was excellent value for money.

We were blessed with fine weather and it was quite warm until we arrived into Belgrade, then the winter clothes came out.

I will highly recommend this trip to anyone.

Thanks again

Sandra Frank

Itinerary
It was a marvelous itinerary with a full on program. Great daily activities from morning till late evenings. The phrase “waste of time” or “Discontented complaint” were definitely not being mentioned in this trip.

Tour Guide:
Mr. Dejan and our coach captains once again did an excellent job by touring us around. Their caring and willing to provide individual guidance had contributed to a part of a successful tour. During this trip, we had only one minor incidence that one of the members’ purse was stolen and lost about $1.500 Euro. However, Dejan helped her to report to the local police and hopefully she could claim one part of the stolen value back through her travel insurance. In brief, a good tour guide with a helpful coach captain could make everything different.

Hotels:
Most of the hotels provided excellent breakfast and comfortable accommodation.

Food:
A good mixture of buffet and proper dinners with entertainments. We were all over eating and put on weight. However, without lunch is always a good idea because we could extend our visiting times to buildings and other scenic spots. I would like to suggest that our following trips should be more or less like this. If lunch is un-avoidable, then I will suggest our overseas agency to prepare picnic lunch.

Scenic Spots:
This tour provided a mixture of city tour and sightseeing. It provided a combination of visiting old towns and national parks, fortresses etc. There were lots to be seen around all seven countries. I personally preferred Slovenia, Croatia and some coastal towns such as Dubrovnik and Montenegro. Other cities were also great and worth visiting.

Water:
A bottle of water per day was great and it saved us a lot of time to purchase and store up our own water.

Coach:
We had two excellent coach captains (Father & son) who were very friendly and caring. The coach captain worked co-operatively with our tour guide. Together they provided wonderful services and warm interpersonal skills.

The use of Public Toilets:
The use of local currency for public toilet entry could cause some minor problems in this trip. It was due to the short stay in some countries that did not recognize Euro. My suggestion for the future group is that Asia Discovery Travel collects one or two dollars from each member and passes this small sum of money to the tour guide who can pay for each toilet stop on our behalf.

What a marvellous tour you have organised! Accommodation, meals, and transport were just perfect. I wish I would go again next year with you. Thank you Asia Discovery Tours!

After returning home from 15-Day Best of China Tour, only one sentence can deeply express my grateful feelings -- "Thank you Asia Discovery Tours!" Without your thoughtful arrangement, we wouldn't have such a magnificent experience in China. People we met, places we went and the unique natural scenery we saw are all still in our memories. Everything was well organised, everything was well unforgettable. We are looking forward to the next trip again with you, and we will definitely recommend all our friends to share the experiences as we had before.

Dear Allan,

You may recall I travelled on this trip with Fran Herd. We want to say thank you very much for everything you did for us with this tour. We had a very good time. We learnt much about China. Your guides were excellent and they were always there to collect us at the airports and show us around the cities. The accommodation was excellent and we enjoyed the wide ranges of food. In particular I also want to say that the Yangtze Cruise was one of the most interesting things I have done in my life. We appreciate all the work you did - and we thank Asia Discovery Tours for a great job.

Yours sincerely,

Peter EJ Murray and Ms Fran Herd