Andes National parks Trips

We had beautiful weather and the places were beautiful! We had excellent tour manager and our tour driver was excellent! Katie Hart and Paul our driver went out of there way to help everyone and stop at everything we needed to see! My best park was Zion and Bryce Canyon but all of them were great!

The wildlife and postcard scenery on this tour is the best I have seen. We went in June and the weather was perfect. Our tour director was young organised and a lot of fun. She gave us lots of local treats to try out during our journey. Highly recommend her and this tour. Make sure you do Vancouver to Calgary. The scenery gets more spectacular each day. I felt very safe with the very experienced bus driver. He was always on time and kept a clean bus. The accommodation was very good except for our first night at the Vancouver hotel fifteen minutes from airport which was not up to standard. We arrived a day early. They do provide a free shuttle from the airport which was not mentioned in our travel itinerary. It was only doing some research myself that I found out. The hotel did not have a restaurant but there are restaurants next door. Breakfast was provided by the local fast-food restaurant next to the hotel and you only had one choice for your included breakfast. That choice for us was not nice. After the first day we ended up buying our own breakfast. This hotel was about a 25minute drive to downtown which was very inconvenient. I assume our accommodation was changed from the original downtown because of The World Cup. There was a good mix of tours and free time. We saw lots of wildlife including Bears and Moose. Overall, I highly recommend this tour.

Our tour manager, Becky, made our trip the most memorable. She connected with everyone and knew how to engage us at another level. Each daily eco tour we went on emersed us in nature and wildlife. Becky's enthusiasm was contagious. I felt like I had a personal assistant always looking out for us, and sharing her culture with us. Now I have to go on another Collette tour to see if they are all like our trip to Costa Rica. We never felt rushed, always knew what was next, and the itinerary was excellent. I especially loved the random stops and local interactions we got to experience.

I loved the Rocky Mountaineer! The meals and service could not have been better. I also liked the "alert" the personnel were able to give us when wildlife was present.

We started in Calgary went to Waterton park for a couple days then to Banff and back to Calgary . The road trip to Banff was great scenery was amazing we even got held up by a cattle crossing and a long horn sheep crossing as well . Ben (tour manager) and Ash (the bus driver) worked great together . They even bought coffee and donuts on the ride with trivia

Our tour guide, Steve was excellent. He sent info about getting to the hotel a week before we left home. He answered questions quickly. He sent links to the restaurants that we would be near at lunchtime. He was friendly and professional. The hotel was in an excellent downtown location, close to numerous restaurants. I would highly recommend this tour. It was fantastic staying in one hotel all week