To all the people who are thinking of travelling. Do Not Booked your flight to New Millenium…read moreHolidays Travel Agency (vancouver)! I booked my flight back to Asia ( Philippines) Mid July cause I know I need to get a proper seat for me and my 2 year old son. This charming lady from the said travel agency told me that the seats are all on hold on Korean Air and will be open in October ( is that true?- she said airlines does this and they decide where to seat their passengers). So I called her October and she said, she "emailed" the airline with my request to seat me, my son & my parents beside each other. Me & my dad called her cause my dad told me that "once you booked, they should give you your seat number". We ended up calling her 10 times (no joke!) cause during our conversation with her, the line drops! whether they put the phone down or not we don't know. They were also very rude considering we explain to them that if not for my son, we couldnt care less where we all are seating. She said call them first week of December which we did and Nobody is answering the phone now! My dad ended up calling the airline (which we should have done a long time ago) and the manager was able to give us proper seats after hearing our situation. The manager said Nobody called them from the travel agency or in connection with our seats. This Travel agency is a Lazy, Useless Agency. How hard it is to call & get a seat number? Isn't that what they are paid for to do? DO NOT DO any transaction with them. Hope everyone will spread the word. 1 star cause that's the lowest. They don't deserve a star at all.

We went in there 2 months ago inquiring deals on japan and Taiwan travel. We waited patiently until…read morethe lady finished her call and asked her about travel deals. She just pointed us to the wall and said go find it there. We told her that we already looked there and didn't see anything. To be honest, I already checked online and saw that there is something so that was online but I didn't tell her that. We told her that we are looking to book because we are going to attend a wedding in Taiwan in March. The lady took down our information and said will contact us afterwards. I am not sure if it because we look young and think we can't afford to travel or she thinks we are not serious on our trip planning but up till this day we still weren't contacted. I will not give business or recommend any of my friends to this travel agency ever!

I love Silkway at Crystal Mall! Best travel agency for cruises, flights, and tours. 1st class…read moreasian specialists are always ready to help. Professional, courteous, and trust worthy. Prices are the best especially for tours to asia. I like their 3 day Portland sightseeing and shopping tour.

Our advisor was Akshay Sadh. He is very responsive and make all of our trips very smooth! His email…read moreis asadh@odenza.com I would 100% recommend him and appreciate this service very much. Can't wait for our annual trips.

Shiori Anik was great. She booked out trip and worked with us to make sure everything was covered…read moreand that we got the best deal. It was a smooth process and will definitely use her again.

Well, I should'nt be so hard on myself if I can't speak Mandarin, right? LOL. So wouldn't recommend…read morefor non-Asians, or if you are looking for any specials. Elva barely could speak English but managed to get a quote from her for NY, Feb 19th Departure fr Van, so that's nice. But not the price of $585, all in. About 4 agents here. no amex

Highly dissatisfactory experience (including a scam)…read more I don't normally write reviews, but I am extremely upset right now because we've been severely taken advantage of. I am still overseas, in China, as of the time of writing this review. We just barely finished our 6 day tour two days ago. I couldn't find the Tian Bao Travel Agency page for my local establishment, so instead I'm writing out my thoughts for this very same unethical company in a different location. As other reviewers have mentioned, throughout the duration of the tour, the tour guide takes you to many places to buy overpriced tea, pearls, jade, and silk goods. You may think that you have the restraint to not purchase items that you didn't even intend to buy in the first place, but the unassuming tourist can easily fall prey to their pushy ways and sweet talk. The tour guide and his accomplices have very practiced mouths and know exactly what to say to encourage heavy spending. They play upon your psychological weaknesses. Each day, a new salesperson native to the city you are visiting "fattens" you up (so to speak) about a product famous to that city. This benefit and that benefit (for health products like tea) or how husbands should spoil their wives (for jade and pearls) or Chinese people really value health and spending now is better than it being too late (traditional Chinese herbs). My family and I all agreed that we wouldn't buy jewelry or silk because we have plenty and are in no need, but the aggressive salespeople at these stores and the "buttering up" resulted in thousands of dollars spent. When we attempted to say no and fend off certain salespeople, they persisted and wouldn't relent and said things along the lines of "health being number one" or "ignoring health now could cause regret later" while knowingly selling us products marked up by several times. My dad would reluctantly agree just to leave without being rude. The tour guide and these city natives would pretend to be our friends and say that they'll try to fetch us the best price. In retrospect, they have so many customers, it must be something they say to everyone. The kicker of it all is the scam on the last day. We were sold fake items at a "lower" price on the pretense of being friends and being Chinese (and not foreigners). This article (written four years ago) retells it accurately: https://medium.com/indian-thoughts/how-we-got-scammed-out-of-100-000-in-shanghai-fbfbc6954549 Almost all of the elements of this story are exactly what happened to us (and at the same jade store). All in all, do NOT join this travel agency. They have unscrupulous business practices and prey on people of all ages, worst of all the elderly. (We joined the 6 day Jiangnan tour visiting the following cities: Hangzhou, Suzhou, Wuxi, Nanjing, Shanghai)

Usually you could get your Visa on arrival if you land in an airport. However, my wife and I…read moreplanned to enter Vietnam at the land border from Cambodia so a full Visa is required. You could send your passport to the Vietnam embassy and they could do it for less but... they're in Ottawa. You'd have to put your passport in the mail which would make me too nervous. Once you pay for a more secure method of delivery, price doesn't make a difference anyway. So enter Vietnam Travel Centre where I just submitted my documentation online and it was done within a week. No problems, no issues. The only thing is when I went to pick it up they were almost closed and they didn't know where the Visa was because the person who was dealing with it left already. They wanted me to come back the next day but that would be out of the way. Finally they were able to call the person and then I got it no problem. The $90 for this slip of paper was cheaper than other travel agencies wanting $100-$120. In the end I got in and out of Vietnam no problem so it was legit!

bought Vietnam visas for a reallllly goood deal. happy with…read morethere service searched a lot of places for Vietnam visas they had single and multiple entry's for pretty good deal happy with them

We used Finesterra to book a custom trip to Peru -- it was fantastic. Keri was very responsive and…read morethoughtful when answering all of our questions and really created a trip for us that was nearly perfect in terms of content and pacing. The accommodations booked exceeded expectations in almost all cities. All of our multiple transfers, flights, trains and guides were highly organized with minimal hiccups. This was the most worry-free trip I've even taken. I'm already trying to decide where our next destination with Finesterra will be! I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them.

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