The 7 of us in the Briggs family want to express our appreciation and gratitude to you for your work in setting up our Thailand tour. As you may know, our daughter, Katie (Thai name Apinya) was born in Bangkok. We wanted to help her along with her husband and children return to her birthplace to see the culture she had come from. With her children on Christmas break, it was an ideal time for us to travel.
For the first 4+ days we were in the Bangkok area, our guide was Jane. It is difficult to adequately describe what a treasure she was to us. She was accommodating, thoughtful, flexible, and obviously had our best interests at heart. We cannot praise her enough. In addition, our driver, Pilar, was also outstanding. Jane made sure we saw all the most important sights, but also took us to places that only locals would be familiar with. She made sure we ate at only authentic Thai venues. There was always plenty of cold water available to us in the van, and that was important to us who were not accustomed to hot, humid weather. We thoroughly enjoyed our stay at the River Kwai Resotel Resort. We would love to have had more time there. The visit to the Erawan National Park was special because we all enjoy waterfalls and we all made it to the top at number 7. We were very sad to have to leave Jane when we traveled to Phuket.
But the events you had planned for us in Phuket were wonderful. We particularly enjoyed the elephant sanctuary. All of us got muddy, but the showers they have there took care of us, no problem. The boat excursion to Phi Phi Island and others was a lot of fun. It was a rough ride, but still beautiful. We would perhaps have preferred that it not be so crowded, but we had to take into consideration that it was just after the New Year celebration, and that it is probably normal for so many people to be doing the same things as us.
Our accommodations at the Centara Villas were excellent. Our only comment about them is that you should be in decent physical condition (which we all were) to navigate all the stairs.
We are so glad that Sue Cresci at World Wide Travel told us about you and your tour company. We would not hesitate to recommend you to anyone. It was the trip of a lifetime for us and we could not have done it without you and your excellent planning for our family.