pepel

This itinerary is for a couple ages 65 and 67
Suggestions are always welcomed...

September 16: depart Salt Lake City,Utah arrive in Lima at 10:40pm(pick up has been arranged by the owner of the apartment)
Lodging 16 &17 kiki's apartment in miraflores district [email protected]
Booked through air b&b

September 18:flight to Cuzco 9:50 arrive at 11:10 am
Take a taxi(prearranged) to Pisac..making one stop in Cuzco to pick up tickets and pay the remainder of our bill for tickets,transportation and home -stay.
Lodging: Pisac Inn

September 19: after going to local market .... private driver to take us to Ollantaytambo
Lodging: Hotel Iskay
September 20 : leave luggage and take small bag on the vista dome train to Machu Picchu
Get picked up and brought to bus...to entrance of Machu Picchu.(all tickets have been purchased and will pick them up upon arrival in Cuzco) Stay the day in the ruins. May hike mount Machu Picchu. Return on bus and stay at Hotel Taypikala Machupiccu .
September 21: take vista dome train back to Ollantaytambo lodging: hotel Iskay.
September 22: take public transportation to Huayopata...spend the day and evening at Julia's family.(coffee farm)
September 23: picked up by private driver....making stops and back to Cuzco. Market at Chinchero.
Lodging in Cuzco:Ninos Hotel Hacienda
September 24: Cuzco lodging: lodging Ninos Hotel
September 25: picked up by private driver....7 -10 hour drive to Puno
Lodging: San Antonio suites, Puno
September 26: picked up at 10:00am Reed Island stay. Boat to island(cultural,exchange)www.uroskhantati.com
September 27: brought back to Puno. Private driver to take us to Arequipa..5 -7 hour drive.
September 27,28,29: lodging Posada El Castillo
Cooking class September 28
September 30: flight at 10:30 arrive in Lima at 12:05
Lodging: Hotel Runcu
October 1
Depart form USA at 11:50pm
October 2 arrive in SLC 11:40 am
I used Agnos Moes at Responsible Travel in Peru to help with some of our arrangements..tickets,private travel and home stay at Julia's. The rest I did on my own.
I'm very excited about the lodging in Cuzco...the monies are used to help orphans in Cuzco.


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mlgb

Do not "pick your tickets up in Cusco". Have whoever you used send you the ticket codes and print them out at home before you leave. This way you know that they have actually bought them for you. You don't want to hear the sad stories over on TripAdvisor about the people using a particular agency and finding out they have no tickets.

pepel

Thank you ,
I emailed responsibletravel company and Agnos said they were purchasing the tickets next week and would send us our confirmation code. Agnos has arranged our driver and coffee stay after we visit Machu Picchu and our ride to Cuzco, so I think we will be okay. Thanks for the heads up...and glad I contacted them and expressed my concern.

Patti Pep

mlgb

Next week? Good thing you are not going during a busy time.

BTW I hope you realize that you cannot hike Machu Picchu Mountain on the spur of the moment. Unless you buy the combination ticket, just as for Huayna Picchu, in advance. You would need to have arranged that with the travel agency. The last entry up to the mountain is at 11 am.

I suppose they didn't mention that?

I don't have as good a feeling as you do. There is no excuse for not having purchased your tickets. It sounds to me like they don't want to do anything until you pay them in full.

Did they not buy your train tickets either? Those you can do on your own, the website is not as much of a problem and if it is PeruRail will allow you to pay by fax.

BTW it is better not to reserve the train tickets through an agent. I heard some other sad tales of the ugly change fees that a couple were going to be charged when they realized there were later trains than the one the agent put them on. They wanted to have more than a few hours at the site.

pepel

I bought my own train tickets..

And yes, Agnos told me about buying tickets for climbing the mountain and we discussed our timing....
So all in all he did a fine job covering all of that material. We are being picked up by the hotel ..they will take the luggage and drop us off at the bus stop... And so we will have time to make it to the 11:00 deadline. I had previously discussed all of this with responsibletravel company.

We will complete our payment when we arrive in Cuzco and go over everything at their office.
I just asked them to purchase the tickets this week, I was trying to do it on line..I either couldn't do it or they were charging a fair bit more for the combine ticket.

Thank you for your concern

mlgb

Okay, have a good trip!

pepel

Thanks....I'll report back after our trip! It's nice to know reliable and affordable travel companies...here's hoping

mcmarya

Would like to hear about your trip. Please give us a report.
Thanks