Reviews

Tricky start when trying to organise flights, and never really resolved satisfactorily. The content was comprehensive, however, the overall walking pace was just too fast. The physical rating was one, indicating long periods of being on your feet, which isn’t a problem, but the speed to keep to the schedule was too much. The tour guide was exceptional, informative and with a great sense of humour.

A well organised tour. A great variety of experiences. Hiroshi our tour guide was very passionate about his love of Japan. He was always willing to assist if and when needed. A lovely country, with a very different culture.

This is the second time we have travelled with Wendy Wu Tours and cannot fault them in any way whatsoever and will definitely be travelling with them again in the future. The tour was extremely well organised from start to finish and our guide was with us all the way and really helped to make the holiday perfect. I had a dietary requirement and I was catered for on every occasion above and beyond. The tour takes in all the essence of Japan, its lifestyle and culture. Absolutely perfect in every way.

Great hotels, good variety of places that we visited, good tour guide but awful food. This is the reason that I would not recommend this tour, very little variety in food, no choice apart from breakfast buffet, hot pot nearly every day, sometimes for lunch and evening meals on the same day. Sometimes pork for lunch and dinner on the same day. Meals were beautifully presented but very bland and for us this meant that we skipped many meals and went off and brought our own food. We have travelled all over the world and not particularly fussy eaters but the food provided by Wendy wu was not applicable to the high cost of the tour. Definitely needed more options and choice to fully enjoy the tour . Also there is very little free time which can be tiresome. Needed at least half a day free time in Kyoto and Osaka and wasted time in filler activities such as visiting a miso factory, a wasabi farm and a chair museum which were all incredibly boring. We booked our own activities in Tokyo in order to get more of what we found interesting, such as a sumo experience and night walk. The tour overall was good but awful food had a very negative impact on the overall experience.

The trip was good and the guide very experienced and knowledgeble. However the group was too large 27 in total. The problem with a group this large contributed to all the meals being served eithe luke warm or cold. The explanation was they had to cater for a very large group.

The trip to Hong Kong was disappointing with the inexperience of the guide. On the first organised trip we were obliged to move on very quickly, not being able to look around as another group, who had allegedly booked had arrived. I did question the fact we were on a paid organised trip and she should not have allowed this to happen. It was really not acceptable.

Very well organised. Our guide was exceptional. Hotels were very good.
Its a full-on tour though, early starts and some time on the coach, so would recommend some rest time added in to future tours.
Food was excellent. I would make one more recommendation - on occasion its better to have a simple lunch box provided in the daytime to avoid additional coach journeys to a lunch time venue away from the days attraction.
Overall though - a fantastic holiday full of experiences.

Katie at Wendy Wu Tours in Auckland has been awesome to communicate with and very quickly provided information I required to make a quick decision to confirm bookings.

Our guide Midori was wonderful and knowledgeable. But we found the tour number too large and this limited the facility to go into more detail about the history and people of Japan. We also needed more time for ourselves, particularly in Kyoto and Tokyo. We felt there was no need to provide three meals a day, and especially no “western” ones! For example the pseudo Italian meal in Tokyo was awful. Having said that we had some amazing delicious Japanese food.

I have previously Wendy Wu and the service provided was straight forward

Was very and uneventful, answered the questions, and gave a very clear quote on different flight options.

I just returned from Japan Uncovered and I couldn’t recommend it highly enough. The food was amazing and a great variety , the guide was fantastic , organised and very knowledgeable. Itinerary was perfect a couple of long days but generally we had a couple of hours free time before dinner .

This is my second attempt to book with Wendy Wu. The first time nobody rang me back, which for £10,00 was a little off. I booked this time despite not being offered another airport. We don't all live in the south-east! Wendy Wu doesn't offer a taxi service, which most other companies do, but they do offer a useless few days in Hong Kong, which if you are part of a solo group isn't very useful, particularly as a woman travelling alone. I fully expect to be charged an extortionate amount of money to fly from Manchester, which plus the car will add a substantial amount. I do hope you are going to be worth it.

Excellent first impression from our telephone enquiry on Saturday 23 August with your representative, Artie regarding a trip to Japan.
We decided to follow up and the holiday was booked that very afternoon because in addition to all the details in the brochure everything was explained to us in a concise and informative manner.

I have always found Wendy Wu excellent.

Very prompt in replying to messages and calling. Sorted out alternative flights. Took account of coeliac needs. Very efficient and personable staff