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Reviews:

The service is superb, the itinerary was tailor made to meet my need, non-mainstream tourist attraction spots were suggested and visited. The guide was carefully picked and assigned who was very knowledgeable in response to my specification. As there will be cultural differences, it will be perfect if a briefing session beforehand is arranged to pre-empt the expectation.

We loved our personalized private tour with Travel Local to Egypt, Israel, and Jordan! We rode camels, explored ancient tombs of the pharaohs, toured Luxor in a horse-drawn carriage, went on a felucca, saw Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and Petra. We had fabulous personal drivers and guides. We stayed in beautiful luxury hotels. We designed every aspect of our trip with the help of the tour company. I had trouble verifying that this company was legitimate, but it really is! I hope that Travel Local will become even better with their communication, so that people will look to this company with confidence. We felt we got a great value for our money--luxury hotels, professional drivers, and quality private tours. The Nile cruise was a highlight! But everything was great!

I contacted Samir to ask for his help to arrange a trip for group of 10 people in both Jordan and Isarel. Samir did a really good job. He’s one of the very best agent. We must have communicated over100 emails just for the planning, Samir was extremely patient with all of our questions and requests. And he tried his best to meet our requests. He booked us the finest bubble camp in the desert which was the best experience in Jordan. Once we arrived Jordan, the whole itinerary was smooth. It stared from VIP service in the airport at 2am. The driver and guide made the trip flexible to meet our request. We added some programs, changed to a different hotel, etc. all the hotels were 4 or 5 star as promised. we asked to watch the night show in Petra, and the guide purchased the ticket, the driver waited for us during the night to drop us there and later for a pick up. The trip in Jordan was perfect. The only thing is that our Isarel trip was through a local agency, which did not meet our expectation. I had very bad experience in Isarel from the tour guide, the hotel, the food, etc. The local agency screwed it up. Especially if we compared our experience in Jordan, it was not very friendly. Samir was always online to help me! He has tried all of his resources to resolve the conflicts such as to give me free meals to compensate the bad hotels, and I understand it was not in his control. So I still appreciate that he was trying to help even in the late of night, and listened to my frustration. Overall I would recommend Samir to all of my friends to have a wonderful Jordan trip!

Travel local was a good platform. What was less than satisfactory was some of the guides provided (by Memphis tours) in Egypt. When we were picked up at the airport we were given a lecture on tipping and what was expected of us. Then we had a guide who was always in a hurry to go smoke his sheesha, so we were short changed and rushed at many venues. We had an excellent guide at Abu Simbel (Georges).

Travel Local provided us with an exceptional vacation that was tailored to our own expectations, we do not want to purchase a trip will we be spending it with 50 of our friends, on a bus. They also gave us highlights that we will remember.

The ability to custom make the trip at least to a certain extent. Having someone in Spain I could contact at any time was the best feature.