Graduate Tours
 

Just wondering if anyone has any experiences with this company. I did a "search" not much comes up on this forum. www.graduatetours.com
Thanks!

I know that they are NOT registered with TICO (Travel Insurance Corporation of Ontario) where they are located, so that means you are not covered by the province if you use their services.

Graduate Tours is wonderful! Our safari in East Africa was everything we could have hoped for. We saw many, many animals, very close up. The places we stayed while we were there were of excellent quality.

We had the trip of a lifetime, and I heartily recommend Graduate Tours to everyone.

wouldn't recommend Graduate Tours - they sent us out in a van with the four wheel drive broken (we only had rear wheel), two bald tires (which we didn't notice until they punctured), and two spares which didn't fit the safari van. We spent a total of 12 hours on 4 different occasions waiting for the car to be fixed.

Graduate tours also had problems getting the lodges they promised us. Even though we booked almost a year in advance, and they told us we would have no problems booking the lodges we reserved, they changed our lodges at the last minute and had us staying in their tented lodges. The tents were kind of fun, especially for a couple days, but they weren't as nice as the lodges, and the food wasn't as good.

I would look for a different tour company.

Hello Simbakubwa. I thought I'd investigate the TICO registration online and Graduate Tours is indeed registered. The link is http://tico.asicanada.net/source/cus...fm?ID=50015764

My wife and I did a trip to East Africa covering Kenya and Tanzania (Game Tracker) a couple of months ago.

Had a fantastic time - saw the big five - intro'd to the local culture and they were very flexible. Mind you that is what you are paying for with a private guide.