Veloso Tours Traveller Reviews

Two-week holiday in Costa Rica primarily with an interest in wildlife, in all its forms, and of conservation ideas, policies and practical application. All objectives met within a very caring and polite people, with high standards of travel, refreshment and accommodation. It was also a very humbling experience to be in the natural world where all forms of wildlife - birds and animals - had no fear of human beings; we were, truly, entering their world and on their terms, but that is what we wanted to achieve.

Veloso could not have been more informative and helpful from the very beginning in helping to shape our ideas and of developing the associated itinerary, through to the end of the holiday when we found ourselves in some difficulty in arranging and booking my wife's seat on the plane back to Gatwick. Having contacted Veloso to explain our predicament, Veloso arranged for us to be collected slightly earlier from our hotel on departure day, and of arranging for an operator to meet us at the airport to help resolve the mini-crisis, which he was able to do in very quick time. We therefore have the highest praise for the Veloso staff.

We had a great time visiting Guatemala - for the Mayan ruins, the culture and the wildlife - and then Belize for the birds and wildlife.

our local tour operator was Sin Fronteras in Guatemala - all went well except that the driver was not there to meet us in Flores until later. In Belize, we were with Chaa Creek or Lamanai Lodge, where we had the same wildlife guide throughout. This was all put together by Veloso Tours.

The perfect holiday to Brazil for great variety with the vibrancy of Rio ,the sights ,culture and so much to experience.then . Then the breathtaking Igassu falls staying at the wonderful Belmond then finally relaxing in Búzios ,

Return customer for the third time because Veloso really know how to put a package together for South America! Well recommended,well organised,excellent hotels and guides and great value considering the package .

Captivated throughout the whole trip.

Well organised with lots of useful information.

A holiday in two parts. Firstly a 5 day train trip through the spectacular Copper Canyon staying in hotels overnight. And then a flight to Cancun from Mexico City, to stay at Playa del Carmen, visiting a few more sites and chilling out on the beach. The Mexican people were really friendly, the food and hotels good and, the weather just great.

A complicated itinerary involving trains, flights and road travel was planned and executed by Veloso exceptionally well. Travelling around was never an issue. English speaking Guides ensured everything ran really smoothly.

First visit to south America but not our last great experience, well organised trip great guides, scenery food and country

Sign of a good tour operator is when everything goes without a hitch, we had a great insight into a new continent

We went on a three week trip to Chile, covering the middle of Chile, Patagonia and the Atacama desert. Wee started off in Santiago for a couple of nights, drove to Valparaíso in a hire car via the Casablanca wine region. We thenheaded south to Santa Cruz, Chillán, Pucón and Puerto Varas. We flew down to Patagonia for five days then finished off with four days in the Atacama desert.

Excellent organisation of the itinerary and logistics with plenty of time allocated to each place. Hotels were chosen for quality and location. Everything worked well.

We booked our Guatemala holiday on the back of our Mexico holiday last year with Veloso. We travelled through various places in Guatemala and then on to Belize. We were met at every place and escorted around. The guides were brilliant and Very well informed on everything we were interested in. Guatemala was interesting and I had no idea that it was so mountainous with 3 active volcanos! It would have been helpful to have seen the relief map of the country in Guatemala City on the way into the country...we sorted a city trip out on our return to the city before an early morning flight.

Veloso did a brilliant job of sorting our holiday which we booked fairly last minute! They managed to get us booked into the hotels they recommended. We also used the operator in Guatemala to add a few extra things and sort out an issue with a hotel!

Lots of people go to the Galapagos, but not enough of them take the opportunity to include time exploring the Ecuadorean mainland. The Veloso 'Primavera' Tour offers 11 nights in Ecuador followed by a seven day exploration of the Galapagos and takes in many of the main sights of that fascinating country including four nights in the remarkable Napo Wildlife Centre deep in the rainforest of the Amazon Basin, together with time in the capital Quito, exploring the 'Avenue of the Volcanoes' and a couple of nights in the splendid colonial city of Cuenca before flying from Guayaquil to join our small (max 20 passenger) boat to explore the Galapagos in the company of a couple of enthusiastic and knowledgeable National Park guides. Ecuador was welcoming, friendly and safe and the Galapagos were everything we had expected.

Veloso are a small and friendly operator based in West London who we have travelled with before to South America. Their staff are knowledgeable and helpful and if you ring their office there is every chance that your call will be answered by Paulo Veloso! In our experience they select excellent local guides and agents.

We arrived in Buenos Aires and spent two days exploring the city with the help of a very well informed young lady.From there we went to the Iguazu falls we spent one day exploring the Falls from both the Brazilian and Argentinian sides they were awesome but really too much to do in one day we all came back shattered partly due to the heat and humidity, The next day we went to Neuquen for one night. We took a coach to Bariloche (the coach was 2hours late arriving and then the brakes overheated and we had to transfer to another coach) not highly recommended!! Bariloche was a remarkably beautiful place mountains and lakes and a lovely town for browsing round and enjoying drinks at the numerous cafes, From there we flew to Calafafe where we went to the glaciers and had a memorable boat trip. then on by air to the end of the world ie Ushuaia 2 interewsting trips here and then a flight back to Buenos Aires for our return trip to London. I must congratulate the airlines as all 6 of our flights were on time,

We had many different tour guides all very informative but the lady in Bariloche was exceptional.