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"We are never satisfied until you come back and travel with us again" - Wendy Wu, Founder & Chairwoman

At Wendy Wu Tours, we want to know what you think about the service you receive when you book with us and what you thought about your tour itself. It's this vital information that helps us to improve in the future.

With this in mind, we have teamed up with independent review company feefo. Once you have made a booking or returned from one of our tours, you'll receive an email from feefo asking you to rate your experience with us.

We then display these reviews right here, completely untouched by us, so you can trust them 100%.

We were humbled to receive so much positive feedback from clients affected by the onset of the Coronavirus crisis. We hope the positive experience of customers, who still managed to enjoy their tours even as the pandemic hit, shows how wonderful your experience will be once we all get travelling again.



We also have more fantastic reviews from around the globe on TripAdvisor, including many 5 star!

 
Rating
Customer Review

Treasures of Turkey

Tuesday 01 Oct 2024
Overview Rating:
Our Tour: Excellent
A very comprehensive tour with a lot of different experiences. Istanbul was busy with many tourists visiting the main sites. The tour of Gallipoli was very well laid out and the information boards and the words of our guide brought it all to life.
The historical sites of Ephesus and Hieropolis were very good and well preserved. The highlight was Capadocia and the hot air balloon ride from which you got a fantastic view of the landscape. Pamukkale was also a great place to visit although very busy.
Be prepared for long coach journeys and sometimes having lunch and dinner quite close together without checking into your hotel until later.
A very good but exhausting holiday.

Treasures of Turkey

Saturday 08 Jun 2024
Overview Rating:
Our Tour: Excellent
A very well organised tour as expected from Wendy Wu. We enjoyed a wide variety of experiences and learned a great deal. Our guide, Erdal was always helpful and informative and Mustafa, our driver, was a real star.

Treasures of Turkey

Saturday 18 May 2024
Overview Rating:
Our Tour: Excellent
Was as described in the brochure and the Tour guide was excellent. A good knowledge and practical when dealing with any issues. Not a relaxing holiday but very interesting and visited a large number of different venues including Troy, Ephesus and Cappadocia as well as other sites of interest.

Treasures of Turkey

Tuesday 14 May 2024
Overview Rating:
Our Tour: Excellent
A fantastic tour visiting some breathtaking sites.
Wendy Wu organises everything so you can thoroughly enjoy the experience without worrying about practicalities.
The tour guides knowledge and experience was infectious.
Accommodation was generally of a high standard.
We happily recommend this company and this tour.

Treasures of Turkey

Thursday 09 May 2024
Overview Rating:
Our Tour: Excellent
Excellent tour with a wide variety of experiences including visiting local homes and private boat cruises. Quite a lot of walking though including uneven steos and unmade paths.

Treasures of Turkey

Tuesday 30 Apr 2024
Overview Rating:
Our Tour: Excellent
Another successful WendyWu holiday, excellent guide (Ilhan) with great knowledge of the places visited on the itinerary. Lovely hotels & good variety of food from many different sorts of restaurants.
Coach driver Mustafa's patience driving group safely around the sights of Turkey was second none.

Treasures of Turkey

Monday 22 Apr 2024
Overview Rating:
Our Tour: Poor
Multiple problems with the logistics of the tour, missed advertised highlights, some poor quality food, some unwanted additional "shopping" opportunities. Despite going to ABTA stage 1 arbitration Wendy Wu refused to offer what I considered adequate compensation, just £200. Wholly unsatisfactory will not be travelling with Wendy Wu again. Great for China but forget the rest of their white boxed offering which on this experience seem poorly researched. Customer Service response appalling but prompt.

Treasures of Turkey

Saturday 13 Jan 2024
Overview Rating:
Our Service: Excellent
As always very friendly and helpful. Also efficient and explained costs. Gave me my VIP discount without me asking

Treasures of Turkey

Sunday 29 Oct 2023
Overview Rating:
Our Tour: Poor
Tour was ok, but the food was mostly inedible.

Treasures of Turkey

Tuesday 17 Oct 2023
Overview Rating:
Our Tour: average
This was our 5th Wendy Wu holiday and it was the poorest. Group was too large at 30. In Istanbul, more time was spent queuing than visiting the attractions and the hotel was very tired.

Many of the meals were repeats of each other, some served twice on the same day. Very long travelling times on the bus. Very little free time. No shopping opportunities.

However on the plus side, we liked our tour guide Samih. He was very knowledgeable (perhaps too much information at times). The best meal was the home visit closely followed by Cappadoccia Home Cooking, although we did not get our promised cookery lesson as stated on the itinerary. Another highlight was the visit to the stone house. Appreciated seeing and hearing the owner's way of life. These are the sort of things that Wendy Wu do well.

Overall, the tour tried to cram too much in too short a time.

Treasures of Turkey

Tuesday 17 Oct 2023
Overview Rating:
Our Tour: Good
Very good itinerary but we didn't have enough time at some of the sights, especially those in Istanbul. The hotel in Istanbul was in a good location but otherwise was not up to the usual standard of Wendy Wu.

Treasures of Turkey

Sunday 15 Oct 2023
Overview Rating:
Our Tour: Good
Pretty good but too many n group for one pwrson to lead and guide. Three people were lost on the first day and others almost left behind i a different place. Some very long days with no warning.

Treasures of Turkey

Saturday 14 Oct 2023
Overview Rating:
Our Tour: average
Accomodation not the best and one hotel was awful Food was repetative and our best meal was cooked by a local family in their garden. Guide Ilhan was fantastic but the group size was too large 28 people. Itinery was good but there was not enough time to fit it all in. Too much time in an uncomfortable bus and not enough down time

Treasures of Turkey

Saturday 14 Oct 2023
Overview Rating:
Our Tour: Good
The holiday was a bit less "polished" than previous Wendy Wu trips we have been on.

The food was repetitive and variable in quality. All hotels had a buffet service except the Kalehan Hotel where the food was excellent, it would have been nice to eat in the hotel the second night rather than going out and having a substandard meal that was served too quickly, 28 minutes from beginning to end.
Maybe with lunch and dinner it might be an idea to know what type of food is to be served, we often got the same meal twice in one day.

The hotels were good except the Oran in Istanbul. As a welcoming hotel for the first few nights the bar area was never open for people to get to know each other. Rooms were tired looking and there was no sound proofing, it was very noisy from other residents.

We would have preferred more time at Gallipoli. The waterfall (Manavgat) was not worth the trip. The guide (Ibraham)was good and knowledgeable. The driver(Ali) was great.

The tipping arrangements seemed confused. On previous trips the guide handed envelopes to the local guides and driver from the £90 euros we had paid but this didn't appear to happen and there was an additional collection from the group for both the driver and the guide..

The Magnesia trip was very informative with an extremely knowledgeable local guide.

The flight from Ankara to Istanbul seemed an unnecessary complication, with a lot of time spent at the airport in Ankara followed by a bus journey of over two hours to get back to the hotel in Istanbul.

All in all we had a great trip, we loved the places we went to and finding out more about this historical country. The balloon ride in Cappadocia was a real highlight of the trip.

This feed back form could be a little more detailed.

Treasures of Turkey

Tuesday 10 Oct 2023
Overview Rating:
Our Tour: Good
Hotel in Istanbul left a lot to be desired not in my opinion Wendy Wu Standard, access for coach impossible so cases have to be carried to hotel as porterage not included.