Holiday review by Mrs. Catherine Bernadat Ep. Frenzel

Tribes Service: "The contact and information given by Paul were excellent, with a very good communication on all the questions we had. One comment however: the details that were supposed to be given by the local travel agency were very light indeed. In fact, nothing really more than what Paul told us. In my opinion, this could really been improved.
The food was a very good surprise – with the best rating maybe for Tortuguero. It’s not something we had in mind when deciding to go to Costa Rica but definitely we managed to discover Costa Rica specialties and all the fruits and vegetables it can offer. Very good surprise indeed – fresh, tasteful, inventive. Congratulation to the cooks! "

Guides: "We had basically 4 main different guides along our trip. The first one, a woman who went with us from San Jose to the boat to Tortuguero, was very nice and interesting. A very good first contact and introduction with the country. In Tortuguero we spent most of our time with Angelo, with was very knowledgeable about his village and very nice. The best guide was definitely Fabio, in Corcovado, a young and very nice guide, with already passion and knowledge about Costa Rica wildlife. The very last day, an the other hand, the guide we had was much more a "mass tourism" guide, who unfortunately managed to bring us to the typical kind of tourist shop you can find all over the world for naive tourists - in addition it was not supposed to be part of our program. Part of the day with him was the only thing we disliked during our trip, because this was typically what we want to avoid while on holidays."

Social & Environmental Responsibility: "The most memorable moment was the time we spent at the local school in Tortuguero, to "teach" English to young kids! Building this kind of relation between tourists and young locals is definitely a very good idea (despite the fact that we were a bit reluctant at first because we are French....)"