Just to let you know that your tour guide Kumiko was excellent.
Your tour guide Yoshiko was great and made our stay wonderful. Highly recommend her to all our friends and family. Very considerate and knowledgeable.
NLT-260511-CJ153222 received an evaluation from Chad Knox
1=poor, 2=fair, 3=good, 4=very good, 5=excellent
Aspect | Mark(1-5) | Advice or Remark | |
| Travel Consultant | Cindy:5 | ||
| Private Tour Guides | Miho Nakamasu Tokyo May 12 - 15, 2026 | Command of English: 5 Knowledge of Subjects: 5 Ability of Explain: 5 Attitude: 5 Flexibility: 5 | The greatest tour guide & interpreter. She felt like family |
| Private Drivers and Cars | 5 | ||
| Sights or Activities | Worthiness of Visit: 5 Meet Your Interests: 5 Too Tight or Too Loose: 4 | Not too tight and not too loose. Perfect | |
| Any Other Aspect | Super fun and informative | ||
| Overall Score of the Whole Package | 5 | ||
It was good. We had a good time.
You have been most helpful. Thank you so much for ur patience and all the arrangements. I believe it was not easy even though u do it everyday. Appreciate the attention to details and meet all our needs.
Yes, it’a been great! Thanks so much
Everything going great so far thanks,Really enjoying it.
1=poor, 2=fair, 3=good, 4=very good, 5=excellent
Aspect | Mark(1-5) | Advice or Remark | |
| Travel Consultant | Melody:5 | Very responsive and proactive in providing the best solution and proposal to suit our needs. | |
| Private Tour Guides | Masaaki Shimamura Osaka Apr 25 - 26, 2026 | Command of English: 5 Knowledge of Subjects: 5 Ability of Explain: 5 Attitude: 3 Flexibility: 4 | Masa-san was very knowledgeable and able to explain everything in detail. However, one main concern was there were instances where he might be in fatique or tired during driving for long distances. |
| Nobuaki Nagata Kyoto Apr 27 - 28, 2026 | Command of English: 5 Knowledge of Subjects: 5 Ability of Explain: 5 Attitude: 5 Flexibility: 5 | Nobu-san been fantastic and funny. | |
| Private Drivers and Cars | 5 | ||
| Sights or Activities | Worthiness of Visit: 5 Meet Your Interests: 5 Too Tight or Too Loose: 5 | Suited our requirements and expectations perfectly. | |
| Public Transportation | 5 | No comments | |
| Any Other Aspect | No comments | ||
| Overall Score of the Whole Package | 5 | We are very satisfied with the package and execution. | |
from Ashok Patel
1=poor, 2=fair, 3=good, 4=very good, 5=excellent
Aspect | Mark(1-5) | Advice or Remark | |
| Travel Consultant | Kate:5 | Excellent. Responsive and looking ahead to proactively tackle any issues. | |
| Private Tour Guides | Asuka Koyanagi Kyoto,Osaka Apr 6 - 7, 2026 | Command of English: 4 Knowledge of Subjects: 5 Ability of Explain: 5 Attitude: 5 Flexibility: 5 | |
| Chuji Fujihara Kyoto,Osaka Apr 8 - 10, 2026 | Command of English: 4 Knowledge of Subjects: 4 Ability of Explain: 5 Attitude: 5 Flexibility: 5 | ||
| Yukinori Hashimoto Kyoto,Kanazawa Apr 11 - 13, 2026 | Command of English: 5 Knowledge of Subjects: 5 Ability of Explain: 5 Attitude: 5 Flexibility: 5 | ||
| Shiraiwa Yukiko Tokyo,Hakone Apr 14 - 18, 2026 | Command of English: 5 Knowledge of Subjects: 5 Ability of Explain: 5 Attitude: 5 Flexibility: 5 | ||
| Private Drivers and Cars | 5 | ||
| Hotels | Mitsui Garden Hotel Osaka Premier | Location: 5 Comfort: 5 | Great location. Great Breakfast. Close proximity to International resturants |
| ANA Crowne Plaza Kanazawa | Location: 4 Comfort: 4 | Good Location for Bullet train. Close to a Mall that offers great shopping (UniqLo) and has a good foodhall, esp for groups that have vegeterians. Negatives - No self operated Laundry facilities. No facilities/area for groups to meet. | |
| Hotel Metropolitan Edmont Tokyo | Location: 5 Comfort: 5 | Excellent Location. Many resturants that serve international food near by. Has a room for small groups to meet/chat. This room also has 8 fuly automatic laundry machines and 2 microwaves. | |
| Hotel Vischio Kyoto by GRANVIA | Location: 5 Comfort: 5 | Excellent Location. Close to a Mall that offers great shopping (UniqLo) and has a good foodhall, esp for groups that have vegeterians. Has 5 full automatic laundry machines. Had a room for a group of people to meet that had free drinks (however no food allowed). Excellent Breakfast. | |
| Aura Tachibana | Location: 5 Comfort: 4 | Very authentic hotel. 7 course meals but can't really do western food well - though they tried very hard to accomodate our group of 10 which had 6 vegeterias. Good local walks. Onsen (Public baths) If one is looking to experience how the Japanese go on holidays then this is the place. There is a roof top bar that's worth a visit if the weather is warm. | |
| Sights or Activities | Worthiness of Visit: 5 Meet Your Interests: 5 Too Tight or Too Loose: 3 | We had a group of 10 and restuarants are small esp in the rural places. To add to this we had 6 vegeterians. So many of these resturants weer booked ahead. This means that when you have a long road trip you need to get there early to make sure you arreive punctually. A better plan would be NOT to book and get some sandwiches from 7 Eleven or similar mini markets which serve great quality sandwiches, smoothies, fruit etc. After all people will have had a good breakfast.We would with hindsight allow more free time in the places we stayed and not go to so many shrines and temples. | |
| Pocket WIFI | 5 | Excellent facility. very good signal strength. We had two units - 50gb each. More than adequate for 10 people, esp if phones switch to hotel wifi when available. One issue is to advice tourists to make sure the retune parcel is as slim as possible as it will not fit thorugh the post boxes. | |
| Any Other Aspect | Diet: Japanese food, esp in rural areas consists of Cold Noodles in a cold broth. International visitors may find this very bland and want a hot meal. In my opinion better to buy packed food to go from 7-11 or similar. Better flexibility, better value.The Pizza/pasta resturants were good and saved the day for our group. There are also plenty of internation resturants around - people need to do their own research once they get to a hotel. | ||
| Overall Score of the Whole Package | 5 | Excellent. I would advise to not try and pack so much in and allow free time for people to wander local streets and see local life. We saw too many Temples/Shrines on the tourist trail and did not have much time to see how people live today in their day to day lives (a personal opinion). | |
