Testimonials
We had such a great time on this trip - it was amazing! Thanks to Eliu and
his staff for arranging everything and making it so easy for us.
While there are certain things that can typically make travel
difficult (long plane rides, no knowledge of the local language,
getting from the airport to the hotel, etc.) - booking our trip
through you made it so much easier. Every time we arrived at a new
place, there was someone there to meet us and escort us to our hotel -
and that was not only a treat that made us feel special, but added a
level of comfort to our trip that I'm sure we quickly took for
granted. All of the tour guides spoke English and were excited to show
off their country. The drivers were excellent and the car rides very
comfortable. It was that much easier to use the vouchers you gave us
instead of having to figure out the bill at each hotel and activity
along the way. Thank you so very much for your help and your hard work
to make our trip the "best honeymoon ever!"
I would highly recommend using your company to book a trip or even
part of a trip within Peru. Thanks again!
Emily Gersh and Lucas Hitt Washington DC.
With mixed feelings we arrived in Lima, as we had booked the trip over the Internet and
didn’t really know whether everything will work. It did work and the whole trip was a real success!
Even a canceled flight and a rescheduled excursion (both not in ECS travel’s power) didn’t interrupt the trip, as Eliu immediately found alternatives and was always available when we had a query.
The most superb experience is Machu Picchu, where one has to stay overnight to see the site without the masses late in the afternoon or early in the morning! But also the Nasca Lines, the Condors in the Colca Canyon, the Macaws at their clay lick site at Heath River Lodge, Cusco as a city and with its surroundings and last not least the North with Chiclayo and it’s Sipan and Sican sites made our 3 week trip a wonderful experience we wouldn’t want to have missed!
Marc Lindt/Joshua Chuang, Switzerland
Thanks for making our trip toPeru an excellent experience! ECS Travel is the most personalized and flexilbe customer service oriented travel planner I have used in travel to 14 different countries. I was nervous about sending a deposit payment sight unseen, but was relieved to see someone at the airport there to escort us to the hotel and make sure the rest of our trip went smoothly. From booking the exact hotels and trains that I wanted to giving us an (unpaid for) tour of Lima so that we did not have to sit at the airport during our layover, ECS Travel far exceeded my expectations, and at half the cost of all of the American travel agencies. I would highly suggest anyone loooking at a trip to Peru contact ECS Travel. All flights gothrough Lima so they are ideally situated (unlike many of the agencies based out of Cusco) to ensure that the trip is coordinated from start to finish. The pricing was cheap and the customer service excellent.
I have personally known Sr. Eliu Campos since 2002 and he has planned three excellent trips into Peru and Bolivia for me. He is a very dedicated travel agent and will go to great lengths to ensure that your needs are met and exceeded. This includes meeting you personally when possible. The first of these, to Bolivia, from Lima was done on a very short notice when another travel company’s plans fell through. In this case, he was able to procure passage to Puno, Peru, Lake Titicaca, La Paz, and Tiahuanaco on the Altiplano. All of the reservations were done in one week and all worked out very well. Visiting Tiahuanaco is definitely worth your time. Sr. Eliu also planned a trip into the mountainous area of Huaraz for me and arranged a delightful country hotel there that was far superior to in-town accommodations. The excursions into the mountains were superb. Finally, during Christmas of 2004 Sr. Eliu arranged a visit to Qosco (Cusco) and Machu Pichu. On the way we stayed at a delightful mission in Ollantaytambo. All of the transfers and accommodations were superb. Spending Christmas eve in Qosco was very interesting as it involved a lot of fireworks and huge crowds of people. Finally, Sr. Eliu took me and my guests to Caral, a lost city now known to be ~5,000 years old which is in the Supe valley 150 KM of Lima. Very few people visit this site but it is suspected to be the oldest city in the Americas. It consists of multiple pyramids up to ~80 feet in height and is being re-constructed. So this city was developing at the same time that the Egyptian pyramids were built. I highly recommend Sr. Eliu Campos for your travel agent in Peru.
Dear Eliu Our vacation this last July 2004 was just incredible! Besides all the beautiful sights we saw, I keep telling friends that the best part of the trip was how your people cared for us! Whenever there was the tiniest problem, from a change of plans on our part to a country-wide strike, you and your people were there on your cell phones quickly and efficiently figuring out alternates and options. It was the biggest help of all in a strange country, to have a ³babysitter² like you and your gang to fill in all the blanks and take care of difficult issues as they arose. We felt totally safe and secure in the knowledge that you were looking after us.
I won¹t go into how many times you saved us, as you know yourself, but for example, just being there every morning precisely on time to move us on to our next destination, (always a friendly crew too!), the times you saved us when there WASN¹T any transportation due to that strike and you got the Police to give us a ride, that was a great story, and the time the students went on strike and you had all the info beforehand and had alternate routes already figured out for us to avoid the traffic blocks and get to the plane on time!.The daily help at airports, (the magic way WE always got ahead of everyone in line, how did that happen?) and bus stops and hotels, it was really overwhelming and there is NO WAY we could have seen as much as we did in the time we had without your help!!
(I DO recommend, however, that you give more of a warning to gorditos and viejos and people who just aren¹t in shape,about that island hike in Lake Titicaca. THAT was hell on earth, sorry, I thought I was going to DIE, in fact I got very ill that one night from altitude and exhaustion, so you might want to tell people that is a difficult climb before you send them off to The 500 steps de Infierno!!)
I would also like to recommend to other tourists that they really try and stay overnight, at least one, in Aguas Calientes. There is no way we could have had such a beautiful, relaxed time in Machu Picchu without staying the night. And the town itself is a hoot, like a frontier/Ewok (Star Wars!) town in Peru! We would have liked to spend more time there but it didn¹t fit into our plans
Other than that it was mysterious and beautiful, albeit very, very busy, and we were constantly amazed at how your crew kept us going and out of trouble. We thank you a lot and couldn¹t have done it without you. Seriously, no way could we have done that without you, the attention to detail, comfort and our safety went far beyond what we even could consider.
Thanks again and I highly recommend it all.
Your friend
John Marchant |
