Most Inspirational Moment
Soaking up the stunning mountain landscape, especially at the end of a long, hard climb
Thoughts on Group Leader
Erlis Our local guide was simply outstanding in every way. He and his support driver mechanic Klodi made the trip for us. They are truly wonderful ambassadors for their country. Both of them keen and enthusiastic throughout the day and evening, ever ready to help and guide. Erlis’s organisational skills are 2nd to none, despite having a relatively large group and on occasions arriving at quite busy restaurants we never waited long for food and always received superb service. Superb presentation, superb food at a very reasonable price. He clearly has a very good relationship with all his contacts out there. Travelling alone it’s a real lottery to Find a nice place to eat or have a coffee and in some areas. These places were few and far between but he and the locals didn’t let us down. He made himself available, 24 hours a day and hand with everybody and every situation with total competence and superb people skills. His command of English was exceptional and one evening he gave us a talk on the history and culture of Albania up to today and explained how the Albanian people of moulded and why they are as they are today. Also why some of the younger generation are leaving for other countries. Even though the talk lasted over an hour it seemed far less.On occasions, I looked around and everybody was transfixed he was constantly gauging, the level of interest from the people around him, and accurately detected. They were all fascinated by his presentation of his country’s history.He Deliver this presentation, which included many small details in an incredibly eloquent way, applying chronology of events throughout. I don’t believe he has had any training as a teacher, but I wish my history teachers had been as good as him. He came across as someone who genuinely loved his country. and wanted others like us to be aware of its history warts and all so they could understand his culture. It’s sad that so many people in the UK make generalisations about the Albania And the flood of your legal immigrants. Throughout our time in Albania, we were greeted with friendliness and given wonderful full hospitality. The Albanians, we had contact with warm hard-working people.
Advice for Potential Travellers
Erlis Our local guide was simply outstanding in every way. He and his support driver mechanic Klodi made the trip for us. They are truly wonderful ambassadors for their country. Both of them keen and enthusiastic throughout the day and evening, ever ready to help and guide. Erlis’s organisational skills are 2nd to none, despite having a relatively large group and on occasions arriving at quite busy restaurants we never waited long for food and always received superb service. Superb presentation, superb food at a very reasonable price. He clearly has a very good relationship with all his contacts out there. Travelling alone it’s a real lottery to Find a nice place to eat or have a coffee and in some areas. These places were few and far between but he and the locals didn’t let us down. He made himself available, 24 hours a day and hand with everybody and every situation with total competence and superb people skills. His command of English was exceptional and one evening he gave us a talk on the history and culture of Albania up to today and explained how the Albanian people of moulded and why they are as they are today. Also why some of the younger generation are leaving for other countries. Even though the talk lasted over an hour it seemed far less.On occasions, I looked around and everybody was transfixed he was constantly gauging, the level of interest from the people around him, and accurately detected. They were all fascinated by his presentation of his country’s history.He Deliver this presentation, which included many small details in an incredibly eloquent way, applying chronology of events throughout. I don’t believe he has had any training as a teacher, but I wish my history teachers had been as good as him. He came across as someone who genuinely loved his country. and wanted others like us to be aware of its history warts and all so they could understand his culture. It’s sad that so many people in the UK make generalisations about the Albania And the flood of your legal immigrants. Throughout our time in Albania, we were greeted with friendliness and given wonderful full hospitality. The Albanians, we had contact with warm hard-working people.
Suggestions
Exodus information about this trip was disappointing. It’s not checked properly and there were errors which showed a lack of care and due diligence. In fact one of the excursions was priced at £75 when it was only £7.50 and this was not the only error in the calculations conversions so as far as I’m concerned, very poor attention to detail, and on the basis of this, my initial thought was. we would not do excursions as to expensive in the and we did move, and they were very reasonably priced, and it would’ve been a shame not to enjoy them or not budgeted for them It was only when I contacted Exodus that you realised it had not been checked properly. Also the photograph that is the introduction to your documentation for Albania to put it. Bluntly is dreadful. We saw so much beautiful landscape and culture and between us shared many photographs of this stunning country so I found it very disappointing to see such a bland poorly selected photograph on the documentation designed to attract people to visiting this country which so desperately needs tourists. It is only because I have done previous trips with you that I had sufficient faith and overlooked this, but to be honest if this was my first trip with you that I was considering, the lack of detail and checking, would’ve been a warning sign to me, and I definitely would not have signed up and paid hard earned money to join a trip. We were also disappointed that there was not more detailed information about where we checked in for our group. BA flights. Everybody went to several wrong BA desks or stood in the wrong queue before they found the right group departure desk having spoken to one of the staff. Apparently this is ALWAYS the case THEY HAVE SOECIFIC DESK FOR SUCH FLIGHTS and won’t deal with you at other desks for group bookings, a minor thing, but airports are stressful time is limited and it would’ve been nice to been given more information on.that.
