Reviews

Booked few tours with Wendy wu. Perfect service. The advisors talk through everything you need. Very patient and friendly. Very reasonable priced tours giving you everything you need. From visa to flights to the tour itself with guides .amazing locations. Hotels every stay. Meals all included. Just simply pack your case get on that flight and off you go to amazing places in Asia. Any problems advisors on hand every step of the way. These amazing tours will want you going back for more.

Our first escorted tour and probably the best holiday we had! From being greeted off our delayed flight in Osaka with a big smile from our Wendy Wu greeter, ensured we were on our way to our hotel. A big smile and greeting from our guide, Taichi Imamura at the hotel although late, made us feel "at home" and he ensured that we had our bentobox dinner.
Words cannot describe how Taichi made sure that everyone knew what was happening at each place we stopped at, where the best rest rooms were, places to pick up snacks. Even taking photos for everyone with their cameras and phones to ensure all memories were saved of the magnificent sights we saw. All the coach drivers were fantastic throughout the tour, hotels were very good and generally spacious and the places we were taken to for lunch and dinner had excellent facilities and good quality food. I can safely say that all the people on the tour, which comprised Australians, New Zealanders, Tasmanians and English, from the very first evening to the last all got on and mixed amongst each other and some great fun times were had by all.
We even found time to locate a few "Irish hubs"(pub) on the evenings and had some great laughs with Brian and Brenda from New Zealand, Tom and Kim and Stella/Julia in them. There were so many places we saw including Mount Fuji, Hiroshima dome and museum (which brought the heartache of suffering to mind), so many beautiful shrines and temples, finishing with seeing Sumo wrestling and the gorgeous Imperial East gardens and Shabuya scramble crossing.The views from the Sky Tree Tower were unbelievable too!
So clean, so cultural, so friendly, so beautiful. That was Japan uncovered for us!
Thank you Wendy Wu Tours

Excellent service with a smile

Cheryl was extremely helpful and patient in finding solutions for our preferred travel routes and other queries that we raised prior to booking.

Fabulous holiday but the group was too big (28). Good interesting itinerary, First guide charming but not knowledgeable in any way. But guide at the end of the tour very good and a lovely smiley person

We rang to make a reservation for a holiday next year. The representative was very efficient and made the booking for us. It was straightforward.

The food was as expected for a large group of 26 and a bit ordinary. Hotels were large international ones. The trip focussed on temples and castles and tourist sights, with little chance to interact with Japanese people. Overall, it could have been a lot more interesting, but it was worth going for what it was. Little pension hotels in the country are often a better experience, and small groups eat better because the chef is not cooking school dinners.

Excellent service helpful staff. Looking forward to my holiday next year!

The whole trip was very well organised from enquiry to departure. Every little query was answered in a friendly, professional manner. The 11 night tour ran like clockwork and covered a large number of locations spread across Japan. We travelled by coach, bullet train and local express train, which all ran exactly to schedule without a hitch. The tour content was so varied and covered temple visits, snow monkeys, the deer at Nara, mount Fuji, two boat trips (one a meal in Tokyo bay), tea ceremony, origami, sampling sake, a trip to the top of the Sky Tree in Tokyo and numerous other locations. Meals were all included and allowed us to sample Japanese cuisine to its full at some really nice restaurants. Our guide for The Experience Japan tour was Naomi, who was an absolute delight to spend time with. She was so knowledgeable, friendly, helpful and funny and made it her mission to ensure that everyone in the party had the best experience possible. She was an absolute credit to both herself and Wendy Wu Tours. Both myself and my son had the experience of a lifetime and would thoroughly recommend both this tour and Wendy Wu.

Colleagues on telephone extremely helpful and patient in dealing with a myriad of questions

Japan is an absolutely beautiful country, it was brought alive by our very competent Guide Reo Sakamoto and Wendy Wu tours.
GO if you can … it’s amazing !

This was an enjoyable, informative, interesting and, sometimes, extremely beautiful experience. However, I was denied the spoken commentary, and sometimes important information, unless in transit on the coach; because the 'Whisper' system is not compatible with hearing aids, and I am hearing impaired. Although, I find the total dependence on such systems (given poor signals and inferior sound quality) is a very mixed 'blessing'. Our guide, who, in all other regards was exemplary; intended, I believe, to offer me brief summaries or other assistance, but mostly either forgot or was too busy, which is understandable in the circumstances. Constructively, I would urge a greater awareness of hearing impaired travellers' needs. The only other improvements I might suggest would be a more traditional setting for the tea ceremony experience, and serious consideration regarding the purpose of driving to the 5th Station on Mount Fuji which seemed to be a waste of, always precious, time.

Busy tour of many historic and picturesque sights of Honshu. Travelling mainly by bus - but plenty of spare seats so not crowded - which has the advantage of being able to go through and stop in the mountains which wouldn't be so easy with a rail tour. Excellent guide - knowledgeable and entertaining. Hotels were mainly big international tourist branded chains - mostly good with a couple more average. Breakfasts catered for just about every nationality and taste. Food was mainly Japanese - deliberately as varied as they could make it but it helps if you like fish - with the occasional western style meal. Many of the stops had large tourist shops and there were other opportunities for shopping and wandering around on one's own. I recommend adding a day before and/or after the tour and also Tokyo National Museum where we went on our last day. Altogether memorable.

We went to so many of the most iconic, and deservedly so, places in this stunning country. Everything was perfectly arranged and managed day-to-day by our in-country guide, Coco, to give us the very best experience. So many wonderful memories - no downsides anywhere in the whole 18 days.