Travel Talk Tours Anmeldelser 

Coming to the end of the 11 Day Travel Talk Anzac special tour and this is hands down the best tour I’ve ever done. Our guide Mustafa has been an absolute gem and made everything such a breeze, an awesome person who is full of knowledge and very passionate about what he does. The tour itself has the best of Turkey included in it. Highlights were hot air ballooning in Cappadocia, Pamukkale and the Anzac service. 10/10 would highly recommend to anyone!

This has been a bucket list trip that did not disappoint. Such a great tour, organisation, guide and group. Our guide Mustafa has been such a legend and made this trip so memorable for us. So well organised and friendly. Our group are an an amazing set of people and turned solo travelling into such a warm inclusive time. So happy and grateful I did this travel talk tour with these lovely people.
And Gallipoli. Words left unsaid. Such a bucket list trip. Turkey is a great place with great people.
Thank you thank you everyone 🇦🇺🦘

Could not recommend this tour highly enough! Turkey is an incredibly beautiful country, and the itinerary was jam-packed with stunning sightseeing spots, fun activities and interesting and informative historical sites. Topped off of course by getting to experience the ANZAC commemorations at Gallipoli, as well as heading back to ANZAC Cove without the crowds the next day for a more thorough appreciation of the history of the site. Our guide Mustafa is the best in the business, and was beyond helpful and knowledgeable. He made the tour experience an easy and enjoyable one. Very happy with this travel talk tour!

Had a blast on the 12 day Anzac Day tour! So many wonderful experiences and memories made in amazing places with our super knowledgeable tour guide Mustafa and friendly drivers. Favourite experiences were the hot air balloon over Cappadocia at dawn, paragliding over the Pamukkale travertine terraces, exploring the ancient city of Ephesus and attending the Anzac dawn service at Gallipoli.
I highly recommend this tour and the full 12 days so you don't miss out on the stunning sights and opportunities Türkiye has to offer! The tour was affordable and the website was extremely easy to book through. This is my second tour with Travel Talk, now I need to decide where to go next...

I was on Turkey tour with TravelTalk. It was a great tour. l really enjoyed it.

I have been to Turkey with Travel Talk last month and it was an amazing experience, worth remembering every second of it! Tour guide was pretty knowledgeable and very friendly throughout the tour:) I recommend this company and their brilliant tour guides to everybody who is looking for a real culture tour!

We had a great Trip in Cambodia and Thailand landscape, the people and culture were amazing, our tour guides Sophia and Andy were very informative, helpful and funny. Great accommodation and meals. Met some great people and made new friends. Thank you Travel Talk for the great adventure!

Worst trip I’ve ever been. If you want to travel in Asia for 8-10 hours a day on a bus choose the Cambodian and Thailand trip! If you want to be mislead on venues take this trip. Yes the hotels were all really nice but when you arrive after 7pm most nights- nothing is open and you stay in places quite a distance from anywhere 7/11 stores are the chose of stops for many days! Just where you want to eat when travelling. My suggestion go with someone else. My rating would be zero except for the guides.

My partner and I have recently just completed the Egypt & Jordan tour and would like to share the following feedback. Overall, we had a great time but there's definitely some big improvements that Travel Talk can make that would make the trip a lot smoother. The itinerary posted on the website was not 100% accurate and should be updated. You may be lured by the low prices but there are a lot of optional activities (beware, you need to select and prepay these on the first day) which do add up quite quickly. The optional dinners during the trip (Nubian and Bedouin) felt very unauthentic and were overpriced.

In Egypt, the first tour guide we had (Mostafa) was an amazing guide and made us all fall in love with Egypt with all of its history. However, we found that there's a lack of communication between the the guides as during our trip, we had 4 different guides (for different areas of the trip).

On one of the days, there's a 2am start to do a 9+ hour drive from Cairo to Dahab but this was only communicated to us the night before (when Mostafa finished his portion of the trip and we had the welcome meeting with the next guide for Dahab). Although there's nothing we can do about it, it would've been nice to have a heads up especially given that there was an optional activity that finished at 10pm that night, but Travel Talk has a 24 hour cancellation policy where you will lose the money if you don't go (be careful of this rule as they will not refund you even if you become unwell and can't attend regardless of whether or not they are incurring additional costs by having one additional person as this happened to us).

During the crossing of Egypt to Jordan, our guide in Dahab did not tell us any information at all. He dropped us off at the ferry terminal with a 9am start and left us there. The journey ended up taking 12 hours. Reading the itinerary which states that there could be delays but with the delays, it still suggest that we would arrive in the afternoon and hence, we did not have any food with us and were starving until we arrived which was at 9pm (the Jordan guide mentioned that 9pm was an early arrival so the itinerary should be updated as we would've arrived in the dark even if everything went smoothly). It was advertised that we would have a traditional Jordanian dinner followed by music/ dancing. In reality, we arrived at 9pm, ate in a tent as the workers were desperately trying to get us out so they could close up. We wanted to sit by the campfire, but the campfire had already burnt out and no one was assisting us with it. It would have also been nice to know that the heating cuts out at the camp at 11pm. We did the camel ride the next morning which was nice but we only had 12 hours in Wadi Rum and it would've nice if we had more time.

Most of the accommodation was great apart from Cairo which was the main base. The hotel is very far away from the city and had no hot water, brown water from the tap and no wifi (not sure if it's just our room?). Reconsider having the buffet there as it is expensive and not very good.

We really enjoyed Petra but be warned, you are only there for 1 day so you don't need to buy the 2 day Explorer Jordan pass as suggested on the Travel Talk website. Our guide Faisal in Jordan was very funny and kept us entertained.

Overall, the trip was fun but we would reconsider booking with Travel Talk again in the future.

I have done tours with several other companies, and this one did not meet my expectations due to the following

Although the website mentions 13-35 people in the tour, mine had around 40 people.

The guide didn’t always follow the itinerary and he was changing the times constantly which caused confusion. He mentioned itinerary changes was done by the company side but company never informed us previously:

- Petra was cut by one day despite the fact the company specifically ask us to buy the Explorer Jordan Pass ( more expensive as it include 2 days of Petra access)
- Deas Sea experience was cut to literally 2 hours as result of changing the scheduling of previous activities
- Amman Roman Amphitheatres not visited as it was seen from the ‘citadel’ ( 5-7 km appart ??)

On the positive, the tour group was good and I met amazing people. Although, due to the large size, we didn’t get to know everyone. If this was my first group tour, I wouldn’t think it was too bad, but knowing that my experiences with other tour companies were much better (they followed the itinerary,timings and group size)

I would never recommend Travel Talk and would not be booking a tour with them again.

I have done tours with several other companies, and this one did not meet my expectations due to the following. PLEASE READ BELOW BEFORE BOOKING

Although the website mentions 13-35 people in the tour, mine had 41 people. I also heard tour was overbooked and someone who paid a single supplement didn’t get their own room for the sail portion of the trip.
The guide didn’t always follow the itinerary which caused confusion. He mentioned itinerary changes were for the best interest of the group, but in many cases we didn’t get a choice on whether to accept the change. Guides should be following the itinerary unless the tour group approves of the change.
There were sales type places we visited (pottery workshop, jewelry shop, carpet shop). We were not given a choice in whether we wanted to visit the pottery or jewelry shop. This decreased the time we actually spent in places.
Troy and Ephesus were completed on the same day. This decreased the amount of time we spent in Kusadasi. I emailed the tour company and they said this was because people preferred more time in Fethiye. However, we wasted time at the pottery shop and still didn’t get to Fethiye until the afternoon.

On the positive, the tour group was good. Due to the large size, we didn’t get to know everyone. If this was my first group tour, I wouldn’t think it was too bad, but knowing that my experiences with other tour companies were much better (they followed the itinerary, group size was consistent with the website, explained if tour was joint with different portions, etc.) I would not recommend Travel Talk and would not be booking a tour with them again.

I travelled to Bansko, in Bulgaria, for a ski holiday with Travel Talk over Christmas.
Customer service were helpful in answering my Covid related queries.
The trip moved fairly smoothly, although this was not aided by the fact that we lacked an experienced guide for the tour.
Our eventual guide, Rebecca, made absolutely stellar efforts to fill this gap. We had excellent excursions arranged for us, such as a transfer to thermal baths and a traditional Bulgarian meal. She was also great fun, and particularly beneficial to the group dynamic. However, Rebecca had never been to Bansko previously, nor was she a tour guide. It felt that she had been rather thrown in at the deep end by her employer. This meant that Travel Talk had rather neglected and short changed their tour participants, in my opinion. This was not addressed.
When I travelled with Travel Talk previously, it was our fantastic guide who really set the tour apart from what could be offered by competitors. By not providing an experienced guide, as promised in the tour description, my faith in Travel Talk has been diminished.

Despite advertising a vaccination policy that requires all travellers to be fully vaccinated, nothing is done to verify that travellers are fully vaccinated before or during the trip. Out of 17 people on my trip, 4 individuals willingly admitted that they were completely unvaccinated. I was lucky enough to hear this information from those passengers directly on the second day of the tour and to say I was horrified is an understatement. Not only are you spending long periods of time with the other travellers, but you are forced to eat and even room with them in close quarters on the felucca boat, so risk of transmission is high. I immediately brought the issue to Travel Talk's attention and their response was completely unsatisfactory – not only did they not apologize for the situation after I stated that I was very fearful for my health, but they deflected the blame to "travel agencies" saying that they may have failed to verify the vaccination status of some of their passengers. I booked directly through Travel Talk, yet I also was never asked to provide proof of vaccination status at any point before or during my trip. Other than saying that they were "launching an investigation," I received nothing further from Travel Talk regarding this issue.

In addition to the above issues with unvaccinated passengers, health and hygiene issues were also a problem for me and other passengers on this trip. The provided accommodations were truly a mixed bag - some of them, including the hotels in Aswan, Luxor and Dahab were great, but unfortunately, we only spent (literally) a few hours at the Tolip and the Steigenberger respectively. The remaining accommodations in Cairo, on the train and especially on the felucca were very substandard. A warning to others – the Oasis Hotel is infested mosquitoes, mites and other insects, which caused very painful bites on my legs and feet which persisted throughout the entire trip. As for the felucca, this was by far the least enjoyable aspect of my trip - although it was neat to sail down the Nile, the beds (which also doubled as your eating area) were very uncomfortable, absolutely infested with mosquitoes with no netting of any kind, and were not hygienic at all. Myself and a couple of other passengers experienced mild food poisoning from the food served on the boat.

It's unfortunate that the above issues tainted my opinion of the tour, because the sights we viewed and Mo, our tour guide were truly exceptional. Mo was the only Travel Talk employee that wore a mask at all times, encouraged hand-washing and mask-wearing and listened to our concerns. He is truly passionate about Egypt and its culture/history and was incredibly funny and upbeat throughout the trip. Even if you know nothing about Egypt, you will walk away knowing some really cool stories and interesting facts about Egypt's Pharaonic and modern history. Mo was the saving grace for this tour and the only reason I chose to remain with the group.

Travel Talk's initial price tag may be appealing, but for me, it was not worth the stress, and at times discomfort that I experienced throughout my trip. I had much better experiences with Intrepid and Top Deck for similar tours, so I encourage people to do their research in advance, especially when it comes to COVID-19.

My first tour with Traveltalk to Jordan was fantastic. Everything was very well planned, the itinerary was timed to perfection and jam packed with amazing experiences. The tour guide Issa went above and beyond to make everyone happy and have the best experience possible, taking us to local restaurants and telling us the best things to eat. Our bus broke down on the way to the Dead Sea and he dealt with it really quickly, and a replacement bus arrived in less than an hour. He treated us all like his friend rather than just a job which make the tour even more special. The hotels were fab and had everything that we needed, all I great locations to local attractions.
I booked another tour but had to cancel due to Covid and Traveltalk have placed my deposit aside ready to use on the next trip. I can’t wait to book again with them.

The whole tour was absolutely amazing but the credit really has to go to Sam. Amazing tour guide, host and travel companion. Highly recommend

I had an amazing time doing Travel Talk Sail Croatia, the leader was insanely knowledgable and easy to be around. The onboard staff were a treat and even when things didnt quite go to plan, they made it fun anyway!

I had a tour with Travel Talk Tours in 2019. The 8 days in Morocco was such an amazing trip. Everything was carefully organised and perfect for this trip. The guide we had for the all 8 days is an amazing guy, Abdoul Moussali. He is knowledgeable and funny and we had a fab time together. Look forward to the next adventure with Travel Talk Tours.

Travel Talk made my exploration through Egypt and Jordan so easy, care-free and fun! I was able to make the most of my time, tick multiple items off of my bucket-list, make new friends and create lasting memories.

We did a tour of Turkey with Travel Talk and had the best time!
Our guide, Yavuz was so knowledgeable, helpful, and hilarious!
We learned so much local knowledge that I feel you don't get from other tours, having done others in the past with different companies.
The accommodation was great, and everywhere we went the staff treated us so well.
I feel like we walked away with so much more than expected, and have some really fond memories to look back on.
What an incredible experience, Travel Talk absolutely smashed it out of the park!