Kimkim Trip Reviews

It was a great experience and very nice people.

Very nice d pleasant. With great breakfast and lunch buffet. Helpful people.

We enjoyed the whole place it was great and a type of place we had never encountered before.

Lovely groundsNot

Thoroughly great, enjoyed our time on these activities.

Mt Fuji was just as you see in pictures. We had clear skies and could see the top most of the time.

As in any trip you can't control weather and some other things so some things didn't work. But you have to be flexible and so do the guides. And we were and the guides were.

Ka did a great job guiding us around Seoul. Lots to see and very interesting.

Fun to explore

The hotel is in a great location, within walking distance to many locations in Auckland. The rooms were serviceable and clean, best as a base of operations for city exploration rather than a relaxing retreat.

New, large rooms, comfortable.

a bit older hotel already, but great location

It was a nice day, we loved the Victoria Peak, the tram ride, the Star ferry and the Mid level Escalator area; ideally we had bit more time in Central market and at Victoria Peak, We loved the dumpling and cream cake shops.

The nature at Zhangjiajie National Forest Park is fascinating, but the issue is the crowds and the noise they produce. One can't really feel the nature, a lot of tourist groups with guides with loud loudspeakers.

It was very interesting to go for dim sum to a place where locals go.

The Grand Canyon was better than the Great Forest Park - less crowded though busy. Walk in the Great canyon gorge was feeling more natural, and also the glass bridge, zip line and slide were fun for family, though very arranged. We missed the timing to catch the cable car to Tianmen mountain - here better time management through the day by the guide would be expected. If the crowds on Tianmen mountaing were as they were the day before in National forest park, then we would not like the experience. We suggest kimkim clarifies the guest preferences when planning for visiting nature parks so expectations are clear.

Really fascinating exhibition - both the warriors as well as chariots - both halls as well as the area around.

We really liked going to a home of a local person to see how people live. We liked the class and the lady preparing the good but have not really had time to work the whole preparation adn cooking process. ideally a longer cooking course is organized so some other meals could be prepared too.

Really impressive city wall and a nice bike ride around it. Fascinating to see girls and ladies taking photos in the old traditional costumes. As we went for a Tang dinasty show, we did not have time for a Shanxi museum.

Really nice to walk the Muslim quarter with all the food stalls and to see the puppet show. Having bit more time for trying food would be great.

The Forbidden city and the Tiananmen square are fascinating. Thanks to our guide Alice for getting us into the square really fast. Visit to hutong with small rishaw tour and a local food in one of the hutong dumpling places was great.

The Wall is great and a must see. We went to Juyongguan area of the wall as the traffic to Mutianye was very heavy due to public holiday; this was a bit closer and less busy. The guide and the agency were very flexible to move the trip for a day due to some health issues on our side, which we appreciated.

Great location - close to Bus Stop to MaPi, Train Station, restaurants etc

Excellent on all counts

Great location, service and location if you are looking to get in and out of Lima airport. Great breakfast buffet, excellent staff.......

The cabins were excellent - great views, great food, staff and property. Very privileged stay there.

on time

On time

Simply excellent. The guide was EXCELLENT> Highly recommend the tour and the guide

Didnt do the HuaynaPicchu leg coz its extremely steep - almost a straight wall up

Loved!

Hotel was in a great location Had a pool, restaurant and rooftop bar.

Very pretty - rooms where nice size. Restaurant on site was not great. Limited menu and quality not great.

The rooms were on the smaller size. No ventilation in bathroom and no sound proofing - you could hear every sound and every conversation.

Location was beautiful! Restaurant was nice and staff super friendly. Food was ok - cold and nothing to write about.

David made the tour memorable and he made sure we were all comfortable

This was amazing! We had perfect weather. Llamas walking around- it is amazing and so well maintained.

Lovely sites - natural

Amazing - we had the perfect day and great weather

We loved the walk and nature -

Lots of walking but worth it!

This tour was ok. We spend lots of times in and out of restaurants looking at the architecture - which was redundant and very weird Twice the restaurant told us to be quiet and we could not talk. It felt intrusive and unwelcome. We did not see many of the sites we were told we were going to see.

Nice location and great breakfast.

Great location. Nice breakfast and room.

Great location. Cozy room.

This hotel was charming and quaint—perfect for our honeymoon! As a thoughtful gesture, they gifted us a bottle of port wine to celebrate, and even refilled it two days before our checkout. The room was spotless, the bed was very comfortable, and we had a spectacular view of the city. The location was excellent—around the corner was a yellow tram and it is also just a short walk to Lisboa Rossio and many other attractions. On our first day, we strolled around Lisbon and, without realizing it, passed by several landmarks we would later explore more deeply on our walking tour the next day. A wonderful start to our stay in the city!

This was one of the nicer hotels we stayed at with five star staff. Their breakfast was delicious with plenty of choices with the option to order from the menu. It is centrally located, with quick 5-10 minute walks to restaurants and sites. It was extremely clean, with a very comfortable bed. The hotel also gifted us with sparkling wine, strawberries, grapes, chocolate and a traditional Portuguese treat for our honeymoon. Each night we received a little "happy" that was tied to Portuguese culture. For example, we were there the night before Freedom Day where they left us a red carnation. Highly recommend this hotel!

This hotel is perfect for that "getaway" feeling due to it's location. The hotel is equipped with services in case you forget items (i.e., straighter, anti-wrinkle spray, books, stroller, etc.). The view of the Douro River from our bedroom window was spectacular and the drive to the resort was beautiful. Due to it's location and the winding roads, we had to drive ~30+ minutes to our experiences, which means vineyard hopping was out of the picture. We did not mind the drive, but something to keep in mind! Due to the hotel being built on a hill, the layout of the hotel is atypical - which gives it a fun feel. They have two beautiful infinity pools, one outdoor and one indoor. Their spa services looked amazing. Although we do not have kids, the hotel seemed to be very kid friendly with a kids playroom located near one of the restaurants. They have two restaurants on location, one of them holding a Michelin star. I'm a big foodie and love trying Michelin star restaurants. My husband and I both ordered the tasting menu. They seemed understaffed, which made the service slow. We recommend saving your money and eating at the "casual" restaurant or eating a la carte. Not worth $350 euros in our opinion.

This was one of the coolest hotels we stayed at. An old convent converted into a hotel and spa! This hotel was absolutely beautiful inside and out. It was brimming with history and authenticity. There was a beautiful church connected to the hotel. They did a wonderful job restoring the convent. We enjoyed the location of the hotel and it was only a (true) 10-minute drive into Evora. The breakfast was absolutely delicious! Highly recommend staying here!

Very nice resort! Staff was very nice and did everything to accommodate us. We arrived on the day of the nationwide power outage actually and the staff did everything they could to make sure our trip wasn't impacted. The hotel had couple of restaurants that made sure the guests were taken care of. The cliffs right outside the hotel were amazing and a great walk at sunset.

Amazing hotel in a perfect spot in Cascais. Easily walkable. Staff was excellent and the rooms were nice. The bar in the hotel was very nice as well and the breakfast was just as good.

We absolutely LOVED the walking tours. Our guide was Claudia, a native of Lisbon. The walking tours are such a great way to see the city with the added bonus of learning about the city. We had accidentally seen the areas she was going to take us to the day before, and Claudia did a great job meeting our requests. We asked her to show us her favorite spots as a local. One of our first stops was to taste some ginjinha - absolutely delicious! Unfortunately, it started to rain during our tour so we had to seek cover for part of the tour. At the end of the tour she typed in my notes app her favorite places to shop, favorite sites and bars (things we had asked during our tour). Our tour ended with a short wine, port and cheese tasting!

The winery tour in the Douro Valley was a blast! The guide was knowledgeable, and seeing the traditional grape squishing vats was fascinating. We also had a special treat of a supercar convention with over two hundred cars at the winery, which was an unexpected bonus. Highly recommend the wine tasting experience.

The Tuk Tuk tour in Belém was a delightful experience and our tour guide was fantastic! It was a fun and unique way to explore the area.

The Fado experience was really nice! The restaurant, Mesa De Fratus, had a fantastic atmosphere with a singer who performed beautifully. She really knew how to use the acoustics of the place, and it added to the cultural feel of the evening. Overall, a ten out of ten experience, though I haven't compared it to other Fado venues.

It was beautiful to walk around the palace, but unfortunately, we missed out on a lot of the historical context because we didn't realize there was an app we could download with explanations so good to check that if you visit!

Fabulous location in a cloud forest on a fully sustainable coffee farm. Great walks, bird tour and farm tour with outstanding guide, Jose.

Fabulous location on the River San Juan with great staff and excellent food.

We arrived after a long day of travelling back up the San Juan river and across Lake Nicaragua to Rivas and then across the lake to Ometepe. The hotel is on the lake shore which was lovely and although we had booked a standard room, it was not in a great location so we asked to be moved to a better room. The receptionist was very helpful and understood our thoughts, (the standard room was quite small and didn't have a lake view). We were moved to a larger room with two double beds a separate shower and WC and a lovely sitting area outside with a hammock and lake view - perfect! The hotel was quite busy but service was good, except they had run out of fruit for breakfast the next morning. The hotel organised a motorbike for us for a tour of the island which was great fun.

Fabulous hotel on a huge sandy Pacific Ocean beach. Great architecture of main dining/sitting/entertainment area and spacious comfortable cabana.

Beautiful hotel in the centre of Grenada overlooking the main plaza. We had a room overlooking the plaza but it was incredibly quiet when the balcony doors were closed at night.

Outstanding guiding by Jose Maria.

Outstanding guide, Orlando

Outstanding guide, Orlando

Unfortunately we felt that our guide was a bit tired of taking yet more travellers on this tour, everything was a bit rushed and we had to tell him that we wanted more time at the Masaya volcano museum to look at photos and read signs after his good description at the beginning of the tour around the relief model of the volcano. In addition, as the volcano is a bit active at the time, only one small path and area where the smoke/heat vents are located, was open. We enjoyed the visit to the pottery but again there, the potter and his staff were a bit bored with the presentation and we were in and out in about 10 minutes despite asking questions. The Pueblos Blancos were a bit disappointing overall as it was very touristy although the pre ordered lunch was nice and in a quiet spot away from the parking areas. In hindsight we should have chosen the Mombacho volcano tour which would have given us (hopefully) a more in depth visit to the area without the touristy part of the tour although we did want to see the handicrafts of the villages but only saw these at the market in Masaya.

Spacious room with fridge and big bathroom. Great breakfasts and tasty dinner options. Close to glaciers and Diamond Beach.

Guide was local and humorous.

Beautiful and great experience. More touristy than other locations. Glad we had a couple of different types of experiences to compare.

Overcast day with some rain, rustic feel but all the luxury in the spa. Many different pool areas and able to do a cold plunge in the lake should you feel so inclined lol

Loved everything about this hotel! The location, the breakfasts, the staff, the service. Highly recommend.

Unfortunately they insisted we pay for our room, even though it had been paid for. Easily sorted by Kim Kim. 👍🏻

Excellent communication and transport at both ends.

Driver didn’t show. Our plane was early so we understood there may have been a wait. We had no communication from the driver and travel company and they did not respond to phone calls. We were still at the airport well after our plane arrived. Fortunately Kristy from Kim Kim assisted and we arranged a taxi and were reimbursed.

5 stars for our transport to the airport in Santiago. Our driver for early and provided great communication, however a poor experience at the airport in Buenos Aries. Whilst we had communication from the transport provider which was pleasing, it took a while to locate our driver outside the airport. Our transport was a taxi and the driver was too busy scrolling through his phone to look for us. (He scrolled through his phone for the whole drive). Unimpressed.

Marcello was an outstanding guide, a fantastic experience made even better by having a private guide who was passionate about his home. Highly recommend.

Another great experience with Marcello!

Very nice staff. A little shabby

Wonderful service, delicious food & memorable sights.

Such a fun tour in Saigon, my favourite night of our 2 wk holiday. Thanks to the lovely ladies who drove us around the city & gave us a great insight into the culture of the Vietnamese people.

I enjoy this accommodation. Very comfortable and clean. The staff and the owner were very hospitality and accommodating.

This was a great experience and I’m glad we added it on. During my own research I did find several vendors that were about half the cost of our booked hot air balloon ride, so I thought it was slightly overpriced. Nonetheless, it was a great experience and worth doing.

I really enjoyed this experience. I possibly would’ve have added more stops to historical sites or attractions but it’s also hard to fit so much in the allotted time.

not exceptional.

Small ,intimate Ryad. Very different experience Unfortunately very noisy at night. Food not exceptional.

Lovely hotel and beautiful gardens. We had a wonderful room on top floor with outstanding view. The walk from the car to hotel a little disconcerting - a very narrow alley and not very clean. Then the entrance to hotel transforms into a paradise. Quite an amazing experience. Staff extremely helpful and friendly. Gardens beautiful.

This was paradise. Peaceful , tranquil . The gardens were absolutely amazing . Intimate outdoor eating areas: Large but intimate dining room.

Beautiful hotel - full of history - intimate seating areas, The decor so authentic you would believe you were in a different century and living in an ex patriots dream.

Not quite as we expected but we were in the desert. Accommodation basic. Heating (for the nights) and a/c( during the day) was not very efficient. Food not good.

Fabulous. Highly recommend. Beautiful setting. Accommodation superb. The dining experience not quite up to expectation. Service extremely slow and food not as ordered.

Marvelous location. Beautiful setting. Very large but furnishings and decor superb. Easy to get lost in the cavernous halls and public areas. Food not exceptional.

Marvelous guide with great sense of humor

Wonderful experience with great guide. Much more compact Medina therefore easier to negotiate.

Rain rather dampened the experience. A definite stopping place to experience the real Morocco.

Long drive - but full of experiences . Guide at Volubilis not very good. But the site was amazing. Not enough time for Moulay Idriss and only a drive thorough Meknes. Wish we had more time there.

Long drive but interesting and scenic. Erfoud very dramatic.

Interesting stops along the road.

Best lunch we had was in Merzouga. Interesting driving around the Bedouin camps.Such resilience aginst all the elements. Music cafe was very enjoyable. That was an excellent experience. Camel ride OK

WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE. Lunch with a Berber family a heart warming experience. The market gardens were wonderfully kept by the farmers who owned each of the allotments. Great guide who explained how the gardens were allotted and cared for. by each farmer.

Overwhelming. People, smells and noise. Felt perfectly safe and free to roam anywhere. Cafes interesting but food not exciting.

A must do. Book well ahead. Beautiful gardens and lovely cafe for lunch or tea. Museum a little disappointing. Not many fashion displays.

Did not enjoy the experience. Food was awful and guide not interested in sharing knowledge. Do not recommend.

Rabat a beautiful city. Modern intermingled with lots of historic and traditional buildings. Chellah Necropolis magical. Wonderful atmosphere. White storks a spectacle in themselves. Beautiful waterfront. Royal Palace and Mausoleums gorgeous. Late afternoon perfect time to go. No crowds.

Not a very interesting city. Do not recommend more than one night. Very very crowded and traffic jams everywhere. Also very polluted. El Hassan Mosque magnificent but very overpowering. Not much else to see.

Absolutely beautiful. All our needs taken care of - efficiently and courteously. Dining room a wonderful experience . The dinners on both occasions were excellent. The coffee station at breakfast could have been a little more efficient.

Too long and not very interesting

Guide was excellent and knowledgeable.

Rained out

Rained out

Guide was excellent. Walked to many places off the beaten track Wonderful