Linda Lee
GBWe have just finished 12 days 7:28-8/8 Africa Safari We have just finished 12 days 7:28-8/8 Kenya and Tanzania Africa holiday. A&K has pride itself to be a luxury tour operator which is definitely not our experiences. It’s more like flying economy plus. Issues are 1. A&K cars are old and have lots of wear. 2. We were stuck at a air strip in Kenya border for over 2 hours. The local representative of A&K did not give us updates and told us it’s operation issues in different cities (Arusha and Nairobi). I kept on calling the A&K customer service lines and was promised he would call back and he never did. 3. 1st Guides in Anbrosi English is difficult to understand. 4. Many members in our group all have stomach issues during our trip. 5. Our departure from our last spot was moved up about 2.5 hours and from our perspective, it’s for A&K convenience and cut short of our enjoyment 6. Our main guide instead of apologizing to guests to mid-handling and poor A&K operations, he keeps on saying “Let me tell you…”….this is my 3rd trip to Africa and have travelled over 110+ countries around the world and this supposed “luxury” experience has to be the worst. Our fellow travel members ran into various issues and very unfortunate.
A F Baker
GBBooked a flight on Emirates Airline… Booked a flight on Emirates Airline through them - espensive - had to cancel due to Covid - Promised refund in 6-8 weeks - now been over 10 weeks - agent says it is an "accounting issue" - manager no help. I'm sure Emirates refunded A&K - but A&K refuses to do as they promised and refund my money back to me. Very poor form
Albert Belsky
GBIf It Was A Free Trip, I Would Not Use A&K I will NEVER, EVER, EVER use A&K again and when asked I tell people to use another tour company. They give you bad and incorrect travel information. They do not return inquires and tell you they are too busy. I am waiting for two refunds. We went to South Africa and Kenya with them. I cannot say enough bad things about them. Interesting that they do not ask their customers to review them at the end of a trip
Christopher James
GBExtremely unhelpful and unresponsive Extremely unhelpful and unresponsive. I place at several calls with the agent assigned to my trip to assist in logistics. None of the calls were returned. For assistance they refer you to 3rd party vendors that charge you an arm and a leg... not the kind of service one expects for even the least prestigous of tour companies.
Sandra
GB.Refund of monies SCAM . June 1st, 2020 cancelled a trip to Egypt & Jordan due to COVID 19 concerns. To my great shock, I was told it would take 4-6 weeks for A&K to process the return of my monies (over $20K). Now I am not stupid....it does not take that long to enter my credit card in their machine and hit the button "refund money". I asked the agent if I was booking a new trip and needed to make the required deposit, how long would it take them to process my payment....her quick response was "oh, it would be done immediately!" The takeaway is that when A&K wants money...that transaction can be done immediately....but when the guest wants a return of their money.....gee that transaction takes 4-6 weeks. It is obviously NOT a priority to return money to a guest. It's best for them to have my money sitting in their bank account. You have to wonder....what else is not a priority for A&K?