I have traveled all over the world and in many asian countries. I do usually like to have a few friends to travel with on a trip to Asia - it just makes traveling easier sometimes. This is probably the first time I have been looking into doing a tour vs. on my own just because of safety and really services (no phone service, medical, etc). Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
Myamar: Tour company or on your own?
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No reason to do a tour in Burma. But you will likely need a local travel agent to book flights and hotels for you. Burma is the safest place I've traveled. You may want to get medical evacuation insurance, as you would want to get to Bangkok if you got ill or injured. There is phone service in Burma, though your cell phone probably won't work... I'm not clear on what you are worried about.
Kathie offered good advice. I'm a 65yo male. My trip reports are here: http://www.fodors.com/community/asia/trip-reports-myanmar-visit-november-2012.cfm
I planned and booked much of my travel myself, but I used an agent in Yangon by email (Bravo) for my flight bookings and for the hotel in Mandalay when the city seemed to be booked out. For the other hotels I used either Agoda or direct emails to the hotels; occasionally I rang the hotels direct on Skype.
I didn't use the phone service at all. I travel with a netbook. Almost every hotel had wifi, although most were extremely slow. Despite the speed I was able to use Skype a couple of times back to Australia.
I never leave Australia without travel insurance; that is absolutely essential in my opinion. However, be sure the insurance company covers Myanmar; some don't.
Hi, Jenni. We travel a lot independently but sometimes take a tour. Although you can certainly tour on your own in Myanmar, after reading trip reports, we decided to book a tour. So we're going next November with Odysseys Unlimited and their Myanmar tour. It's a small-group travel company that we've used twice before and were very pleased. After the tour, we're traveling on our own to Siem Reap (Ankor Wat) for four nights before we fly home.