Submitted by: Sue Corbett

Hi,

I would just like to take the time to feed back on my experiences of Scotland…I t is an amazing country with an incredible history. Both guides …danny and jamie had very good history information and the design of the trip was brilliantly designed to complete a cirle of historic events……Jamie was one of the best guides i have had in 10 years of traverlling with a variety of companies and if it were my company he would be my guide trainer…. His mannerism and thoughtfullness of each and evry passenger is highly co mendable. His driving was executed to passenger comfort…and safety was always of upmost importance….Only recommendtion tha ti have is thqt he briefly meets the 9 dcay pax and gives the a brief run down of the days activities upon joining and perhaps invites them for breakfast….the kitty on his part of the trip was a hugh diffence with enough money to go out for dinner on th elast night and as well have (pounds)8.20 remaining and the food we had and the quantities was equal to if not more thqan the first 5 days.!!!!!!!!!!!!
Danny for the first 2 days was also brilliant and then something happened, he got extemely streessed …he was worried that people were not having a good time but they certainly were, he appeared to not be real sure about how may nights we were staying and we seemed to go around the island of lewis a few times with a lot of back tracking. the upcoming visit of his girlfriend saw him off with the fairies, especially the last couple of days….from the itinery i believed that we would be visiting the harris weaving as part of our trip not having to pay more for it…2.40pounds is not much ( $ NZ6) which all adds up…for dinner on night 5 he asked what we wanted to cook or go out…i think he could have better advised us as in stornoway ther ewas a lot more food options to do our own thing as opposed to our 5th night stay…very limited and by the time we got in some places had closed….lot of people not happy about it…..we got back 5.50pounds but incomparison for what we did and ate it is a hugh differnce to the last 4 dsays….He didn’t tell us about the lock ness or that Urqurt castle was visitable at night, even though i had a ripped achilles tendons i would have like to have the information… thanks to the efforts trying to get acupuncture….
I am glad the tour went they way it did, i would have been dissappointing for the it to have been the rev ersal…..Danny could perhaps slow down as we were getting flung around..and not because of the bumping road that we were on..just more comfortable….
As a driver/guide of 8 years, in various countries and styles of tours i know that with out feed back nothing will change…. Danny has a lot of potential and i hope that in the future his mind is on the job and not the flight arrivaling at the end of it…
I have a enjoyed the variety of what you have been able to cram into 9 days and was happy that we had a few days of scottish weather….
thsnk you

regards sue corbett