Kimkim Trip Reviews

This was the best Hotel we stayed at in Vietnam!

Great location, amazing staff, amazing breakfast!

Our guide in particular was knowledgeable and flexible. She made this site one of the highlights of our visit.

Kimkim and Alfonso arranged front-row seats for our party of five. The experience (and my photographs) wete amazing!

I have attended several cooking classes - and this is one of my favorites. Our chef (Maria) and sous chef (Gaia) were knowledgeable and friendly. They interacted with guests and explained the uniqueness of Spanish cooking. I am a seasoned and knowledgeable cook myself, but I would return to attend this school as a student!

Once again, our guide was the “secret” to the success of this tour. The Prado is not to be missed!

The staff of this hotel is what makes this property a 5 STAR experience! Highly Recommend!

The service staff in the restaurant were so personable and made the experience even better. Also, Kiki was a joy to see roaming around the property.

This is one of my favorite highlights of a 14day trip to South America. The cooking class is what made it even more special. Leo was amazing!

The location was PERFECTION! The staff was kind and accommodating. The rooms were comfortable and so clean! We loved the breakfast. This was perfect for our family. Arigatō gozaimasu

Beautiful hotel in a perfect location. Close to many things. Super comfortable and clean. Has a wonderful breakfast!!

What an amazing experience and a top highlight for my boys! Everyone was so helpful and knowledgeable and kind. We learned a lot about katanas and respect and fighting. My kids won’t stop talking about it! It was also so fun for adults. We loved every second! Thank you so much for this recommendation.

Tammy made this trip for us! She is a wealth of knowledge and expertise. We could not be more thankful for her and her time spent with us. We learned so much and visited life changing locations. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts! We want to come back so badly!

From Genki and Kao to the MC, this experience was so fun and entertaining. The Chanko Hot Pot prepared for us by Kao (one of the wrestlers) was delicious! We learned so much about sumo and had a blast!

This experience was really special. What a beautiful form of art and culture. We really enjoyed our time with the Maiko! She was eloquent, super sweet and knowledgeable. The fan tossing game was so fun and my kids want to buy a version of it now! :) We love our hand painted fans we got from the shop and feel very fortunate to have had this experience.

Yuki was amazing! She took us to great locations in Tokyo and we learned so much! We loved it.

Although we didn’t get to see Mount Fuji due to the clouds, we had the best time riding the pirate ship, climbing up the mountain in a gondola and adding seven years to our lives by eating the infamous black eggs! We entered the day by going to the Hakone Open Air Art Museum, which was incredible for adults and children! The kids could run around and they were interactive art installations where they could climb and play.

Nara is quite the experience! The bowing deer are definitely a highlight of the trip. My children loved petting them and feeding them. We had no problems with them being aggressive, like some other reviews I read, and we had the best time. The temple was incredible. We went to an animal café afterwards, and held some amazing animals. Meri was super sweet and fun as a guide! Thank you so much!!!

Nao was an amazing guide! We had the best hike up to the top of the mountain passing bamboo forests and shrines. What an incredible place and has to be my favorite shrine of the trip! It is beautiful there and we even had the opportunity to meet a wonderful and kind man who makes the torii gates by hand. He’s done this for 50 years. He even let my boys try his special tools! It was a special experience that we will never forget!

I never in my life imagined how much goes into making washi paper from start to finish. Wow! We learned a lot and had such a great time! Everyone there was super nice and talented. We all enjoyed making our paper and decorating it with the dried plants and flowers. We would love to come back and make other things one day!!!! Thank you so much for helping us and this experience! We loved it!

We loved our tour with Alicia! She was fun and engaging. We walked the streets of Florence, experienced local cafe food, toured a local jewelry artisan and a gorgeous perfumery. So fun and highly recommend!

This is a must-DO in Positano! This was a highlight of our trip to Italy. We met Valentino and his wife Lalla who are local artisans who make food items and have an adorable little shop. We made homemade limoncello and tasted chocolates. Valentino is a character - so so fun! He also walked us across the street and took our picture. This was so much fun!

This experience was a highlight for us in Rome! This was such a classy event and an incredible treat. The two opera singers were so entertaining. We were not sure what we were going to experience with this and it was such an unexpected 10 out of 10! Highly recommend!

Very informative

We saw and experienced a lot on this trip. Vasco was a very good guide.

We saw and did a lot but it was also a long day. A bit too long.

We love everything about this hotel, the location, the staff, the rooms and the restaurant. We had been to the Milos restaurants in three other locations, and this one definitely held his own and was much more intimate.

We generally like this hotel a lot. Our biggest drawback was location in that we were further from the town and then we would have liked to have been and there wasn’t much to do in the area of the hotel since it was not really beach weather. Our room overlooked a parking lot, which was less than ideal when we were sitting on our balcony and trying to use the hot tub.

This hotel was ideally situated a short walk from the village of Naousa. However, we did not love our room. The sink and bathroom area were really unusable with nowhere to put anything and shelves where everything fell through. We thought the staff was great and were helpful, including when arranging for a rental car.

We loved the location and character of this hotel. It was great to be outside of OIA and Fira. We also received an upgrade to a senior suite which had an amazing balcony and view of the Caldera. It was extremely private, and we rarely saw other people and our stay.

We really enjoyed our tour and our guide as mentioned above. We particularly thought the new museum was fantastic architecturally and content.

We enjoyed touring 2 contrasting villages which showed the modernization of the island. We got to linger over a beautiful coffee and cookies moment and visit a jeweler who had the exact thing we are searching for as a gift for our granddaughter.

For this day, we rented a car that was dropped off at our hotel and drove to take the short ferry ride to Antiparos. This was one of the highlights of our trip. We were able to explore and have a coffee in the little village, drive to the ancient caves and walk all the way down to explore. We also drove the rocky roads to some very secluded beaches and even were able to take a swim. We had a fantastic lunch at Captain Pipini’s

Another highlight of our trip. We enjoyed our private cruise with lovely staff. We were able to swim in the volcanic hot spring mixed with the sea. We were made a lovely lunch and got to relax and view the extraordinary landscapes of Santorini from the sea. A special shout out to the kimkim team. Because of predicted for voting whether we were able to rearrange the timing of this trip to a day earlier than scheduled. They were able to do this seamlessly on the fly and it worked out great.

This activity was good, not great. We were looking for more of a farm Table experience and this was more of a generic tour of a store and working farm that really didn’t have much going on.

Because we had to reschedule this by a day, our guide was unable to do the scheduled trip to Attie. Therefore, we had to do this trip on our own in the morning of that day. Because of this there was not that much to do on this tour and while we enjoyed it, we sort of ran out of things to do by the end of the tour.

We found both Oia and Fira very crowded with tourists and cruise ship passengers., Weil the views in Oiaare spectacular the crowds take away from the enjoyment to the experience. We walked from our hotel to Vera and back and it was quite a hike with a lot of steps. Worth the view, but exhausting.

This is the oldest hotel in the Iberian Peninsula, rich in history and charm! We were delighted by our suite which was large and looked out onto the beautiful valley. The staff, especially Beatriz at the front desk, were so kind and gracious. We were pampered and loved every minute of our stay!

Beautiful renovated convent overlooking the central core of Tavira! We enjoyed a comfortable room with a balcony/terrace and found it to be a perfect place to enjoy a glass of port before heading into town for dinner. The weather was perfect, blue sky and warm, so we did manage to lounge by the swimming pool - and enjoyed our soft robes afterwards!

We had a comfortable room with a balcony overlooking the back garden which was a lovely place to relax after exploring the city all day. The staff are exceptional and very helpful. And the location is perfect. A very quiet place in the heart of the city!

A very comfortable room, spacious and clean. Not particularly fancy but had everything we needed. The breakfast was very good (best omelette of the trip!) and the front desk staff were exceptional, very pleasant and helpful. Only one issue came up and that wasn't the hotel's fault - because of the openness of the building layout, sound carries up. There was a group of very loud patrons drinking in the lounge until 3am on our first night and that likely kept most of the hotel awake!

Such welcoming staff! And a beautiful comfortable room that was very quiet! Each night we received a gift: a bottle of wine, pens, custom soap - so unexpected but truly made us feel appreciated. GREAT location as well! And the staff were helpful in steering us in the right direction when we headed to Belem!

Peaceful and beautiful! One of our favourite places during our trip. The location in the heart of the Douro Valley is spectacular! We would have loved more time to relax and enjoy the pool so next time, we'll stay an extra night! The grounds are beautiful, and the wine is delicious. They have an Honour's Fridge where you can help yourself to either the estate white or red wine. Please note, however, that there is no welcome glass of wine when you arrive as the app suggested. They do have a meal service - a choice of cold meat salads, side salad, excellent desserts, bread, cheese and charcuterie. Wine is extra but very reasonably priced. We ate in the garden both nights and it was so special!

This was our first tour and we got off to a great start with Dani, our lovely guide! We not only got a fantastic history lesson about the different areas of Lisbon, but we sampled some of the most delicious delicacies which I never would have guessed were part of the Lisbon food scene - not just delicious charcuterie, but samosas, burrana sandwiches (my husband's favourite), and, of course, Pasteis de Nata! Lots of good beer and wine too! A great afternoon!

Our guide, Joao, was one of the most articulate and interesting young men we met on our trip. His knowledge of Portuguese history and love of his home town, Porto, really stood out for us. We felt like he genuinely wanted to get to know us and understand our country as well as sharing what life is like in Portugal. It was a lovey exchange of ideas and perspectives. And the food at the market was fantastic! Again, very generous portions of charcuterie, main courses, desserts - and three types of vinho verde! Who knew there were so many variations. We finished with Pastel de Nada and a lovely Muscatel! Truly a memorable afternoon!

Our driver, Paulo, was much more than a driver! He should be a tour guide! At each stop, he encouraged us to take our time and told us about things we should look out for! As a result, we got to spend time in Obidos early in the day, before the major tours arrived, and we got to walk the ramparts with virtually no people in our way! It was wonderful! Paulo also took us to see some sites that were not on the "tour" but were on the way to Nazare, so we enjoyed beach views that were less crowded than those in Nazare itself.

Our driver, Miguel, was charming and really helped us to understand the power of Fado. The experience at the Fado restaurant was wonderful, great food and the singers were amazing, such deep sonorous voices. My husband managed to get some wonderful video so we can be reminded of the experience now that we are home!

Fascinating area and our guide, Paulo, was so knowledgeable! We really appreciated seeing a sight that is literally off the beaten track - the road to get there was quite a challenge! And as a result, we had the place to ourselves! Fantastic!

More time with Paulo, this time walking through the fascinating city of Evora. Paulo made each era of history come alive ! Later, we enjoyed drinking the very generous samplings of wine at the wine cellar. The wines of were all excellent and very different than the Douro wines we had sampled earlier in the trip.

This was a very full day! Our guide and tuk-tuk driver, Federico, was a lovely young man who provided us with lots of information and took us all over Sintra and beyond! If we had it to do over again, we would probably have skipped the Pena Palace - too many people and more interesting to look at from afar than from inside. Federico did take us to the Chalet on the Pena property - this was lovely and there were very few people there. The Regaleiria was much more interesting due to the beautiful gardens and the initiation well. And our highlight of the day was the visit to Capo de Roca, the western tip of Europe! Going there by tuk-tuk was so much fun and it was a great place to take in the marvel of the ocean - great photo ops!

We really enjoyed the Convent of Christ in Tomar but found the Fatima part was not of as much interest. We would have been happy to skip that entirely and spend most of the time in Tomar.

Really enjoyed our boat trip along the Douro. It was a beautiful afternoon and being on the river helped us to appreciate how immense it is! The port wine tasting afterward was very special - we learned so much about port during the tour and really enjoyed tasting the three very different offerings. We, of course, purchased some to take with us!

Once we sorted out where we were supposed to be to start the hike, it went well! Our guide, David, was great and took us on a moderate hike into the hills above Regua. We really enjoyed the vistas and learned a lot about living in the area.

Very interesting subject matter and I learned a lot during our time with Nuno. I did find him to be a bit aloof and at times, a bit crude - not sure if this was due to language issues or not. He did spend extra time with us and gave us some good recommendations re: restaurants and shops.

We enjoyed visiting the farm, learning about what they produce and cooking our meal! Will definitely be making a couple of the dishes here at home, especially the carrots! Anna was a very good instructor, gave us the experience of getting involved and learning about key ingredients in Algarve cuisine.

We loved having a day to ourselves to explore the Islas da Tavira! Wonderful time playing in the waves and enjoying beer and seafood at the outdoor restaurants along the beach boardwalk. A real highlight of our trip.

Beautiful property with a very helpful and friendly staff. Great breakfast.

Nicely appointed apartments with a small balcony. Close to all amenities....great location.

A real gem. Beautiful property with amazing views and great wines. Lovely dining room and great food. Staff were very friendly. A great wine tour provided by the staff.

Very cute hotel in a great location in the heart of Nice on the edge of Old Town. Room was a bit on the small side but was well appointed. Excellent staff.

Nice Hotel close to the airport with free shuttle. Good restaurant on the premise and a nice outdoor pool. Well appointed room.

Excellent tour with a very welcoming guide.

This has to be one of the best wine tours we have ever experienced. Our guide was very knowledgable and entertaining. We saw some beautiful country side and met several of the owners and families of the wineries.

If you are looking for an authentic Japanese Ryokan experience I that teleports you back in time, look no futher than Yunoshimakan. The service, facility, onsens, and food were all incredible. The location and town were also amazing. Highly recommend.

Very comfortable hotel. Good location and excellent breakfast.

Excellent hotel in a good location. Very comfortable and with a good breakfast. Nice spa area.

This was a fantastic hotel! As the name implies the rooms are in caves yet are very comfortable. Excellent breakfast.

This was a long day of driving and siteseeing. Troy, a legendary location, was very interesting but the ruins there are not spectacular. Pergamum is a fascinating site with an interesting history. The Pergamum Altar is an important site in Berlin but it was very interesting to see the town from where it was removed.