Postcards from the edge!

Dear Mark

We returned from Egypt on Friday 20 after a great trip. Everything worked very smoothly. The felucca was great, and by far the best hotel was the one in Luxor. Other arrangements and additional day-trips were well-organised at short notice. The airport transfers were very good as well.

The guides were excellent - Abdul was a very effective organiser in Cairo, and Ahmed (our main tour guide) was excellent, very popular, great company, and explained the history and sites very well indeed, particularly in the museum where his commentary was superb. It is a very difficult task to highlight such a vast collection in a few words for a mixed audience with some knowledge/interest and also none. We had a very nice bunch of friendly people, which made it very companionable and fun. There were very few other tourists at most of the monuments - nice for us. It was generally sunny but not particularly hot most of the time - I suggest you recommend with slightly greater emphasis to people travelling in January that they should bring a warm jacket, woolly hat, and if sleeping on the felucca, a proper outdoor sleeping bag.

I am sure I will be doing another tour with 'On the Go' at some stage in the future.

Best wishes,

I had such a great holiday. Great group and tour guide and driver made it vey special. Would really like to visit again.

This was by far the best tour i have been on. Faruk our guide was beyond brilliant and i throughly enjoyed myself. Turkey
is definately the place i would visit again.

Metin Was an excellent guide & clearly very passionable about his work.

Good tour - food & accomodation was better than I expected. Very knowledgable & friendly. Great sightseeing & activities programme. Really enjoyed my 10 days in Turkey!

This was an excellent way to see + experience su much of Turkey. Metin Was an excellent guide, providing both interesting historical information + handy hints + tips that reflected his many years of experience.

Our tour guide was fantastic. Very knowledgable, seemed to really enjoy his job. Very funny. Gave us enough time to explore all areas. Metin made our tour extra special + more enjoyable.

I have just returned from your Sandblaster tour and wanted to say how much my family appreciated your guide Mahmoud Ramadan. He really went the extra mile to look after us, which was very much appreciated – especially since my husband was unable to join my daughters and myself for the desert portion of the trip. He was also always fascinating and informative on all of the sites we visited and was great at even making the longer journeys interesting, with the little surprise stops he planned – a tea-break in the desert for Bedouin tea, our own special, secret “crystal mountain” away from the one frequented by other tourists and many other things. His knowledge of Egyptology is very impressive and he is a great ambassador for Egypt, and Islam and a very honest and pleasant young man. We felt completely safe in his care and he represented OntheGo as a company in an excellent light. The two off-road drivers who took us through the desert (Henay and Mohammed were also very good. In addition to being excellent drivers, who made us feel completely safe at all times, they worked really hard and cooked some great desert meals). The whole trip – the desert, the felucca and the monuments - has been memorable and, despite the current electoral situation – we felt completely safe in all locations.