Amazing Dolomites Alps – ITALY

Traveler Reviews

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  Amanda

  August 9th, 2024
  3
  To begin, I had a good time on this trek. The local guide was capable, funny, and experienced. What I didn’t like was...
  To begin, I had a good time on this trek. The local guide was capable, funny, and experienced. What I didn’t like was that, by booking through Bucket List, I paid twice as much for the same trek as nearly everyone else on the trek who booked through other brokers or directly through Cairn. There was one other person of 11 of us who booked through Bucket List, and the only thing we got that others didn’t was a shared hotel room on the first and last day of the trek. According to the hotel receipt, that cost was just over $200 per night, or about $100 for each of us since we shared. That definitely didn’t justify an additional charge of over $1700 each more than what other people on the same trek paid. We assumed that, since it was 9 days and cost quite a bit more, we were getting something unique for our money. We didn’t. Food was not even provided on the first day or the last evening, so calling it a 9-day trek was an exaggeration. It was 7 days, like what everyone else signed up for at a much cheaper cost. Also, because we paid so much, we would have expected there to be more than one guide for 11 people. We had a very fast group and a normal-paced group among us. No matter what, one group didn’t have a guide because he couldn’t be in two places at once. This made navigating the sometimes precarious trails a little tricky. Overall, the trek was quite an adventure, but I feel very cheated by this company and do not recommend booking with them.Show more
  Traveled in July 2024
  

  Reply from: Bucket List Group Travel LLC

  Hello Amanda thanks for your feedback, We we work with local outfitters and vendors, we also operates our own tours. Just to clarify our local outfitters has their own bookings and clients and they may offer their own price on which we do not have control. We have our fixed price package, also you have signed up for double occupancy package for hotel part of the tour so that is why it was a sharing with another solo traveler (same gender). If you have signed up for single occupancy then you would have your own hotel room. Our package includes 2 way airport transfers to the trail meeting location that is in Cortina, 2 nights of hotel accommodations and 24X7 customer support. All the above extra service are not included in the local outfitter price package. We offer 1 guide up to group of 13 people and as per your information the group size was 11 so it was 1 guide. Again thanks for your feedback and we wish you a good luck with your future travels.

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