Your calls always answered within 5 rings.
Always great service!
Thank you Russell for all your help during this very important trip to Vietnam. You are a credit to the company as you ensured at each stage I had information and support especially travelling on my own.
Great service and informative regarding upcoming trip
Flights were great (although no seat allocation wasn't ideal). Both hotels are fantastic (Park Royal is very family orientated - thank goodness for the adults pool). All in all, a great trip.
We have had assistance from Jonathan on a number of occasions and he has always delivered prompt, courteous and supportive service. The costs through DialAFlight are always competitive and everything is always explained fully. I always recommend this travel company
So happy with the booking process and our holiday. Will definitely be back! Freddie was great.
I have used DialAFlight for a few years now and they have always been very helpful.
Always go to Edward. He has sorted out my last 10 flights. I have recommended him to one of my friends who now uses him regularly
Everything was excellent. Thank you Claire Doherty. Much appreciated
Excellent flights as always. Huge thank you to Alex and his team for taking care of every detail. Looking forward to the next time .
The team at DialAFlight are always ready to give advice on travel arrangements and any queries that you may have. I would highly recommend them
Fantastic response to resolving an issue whereby our Qatar flights were cancelled at the last minute when we tried to check in at the airport.
Just keep up the good work you do
Superb organisation and communication from Owen to get this amazing trip booked quickly and exactly to our liking. Thank you!
Good and effective liaison as always. I wasn't impressed by Air France - (delays, poor provisions on board, lack of entertainment but good staff) otherwise all good.
Wonderful company, so helpful. Best I have ever dealt with.
Kept informed and updated - fabulous service
As always Alan White was excellent in finding flights for me
There is a reason I keep coming back to DialAFlight but this holiday exceeded expectations. Langkawi - what a place. Wayne did us proud. Truly the trip of a lifetime.
Very happy - always deliver
Great flights and always at the end of the phone for queries. Great service
Informed and knowledgable advice and support. My go-to travel company
Polite, courteous and very helpful
Jack was superb as always. Thank you DialAFlight. Will be using you again
I always book with DialAFlight. Staff are very helpful especially Oli. My husband and I are both elderly and need a lot of patience and understanding
Michael did a fantastic job. We were well taken care of and it was excellently planned.
Excellent seats in Business pre-arranged by Curtis. All smooth until return from Mongolia but even then Curtis was on the case and noticed we had missed the connection in Istanbul & contacted me. Very impressive. We highly recommend him and DialAFlight and have put several friends his way in past years!
The third time I have booked through DialAFlight and have received an excellent service. A very friendly and professional company.
As always, the service and attention to detail was perfect. Thank you Grant; here's to my next trip.
This is our 6th trip booked through DialAFlight and have recommended to family and friends who have also booked multiple trips with them now too. Can’t recommend enough!
Few countries have experienced such a rapid change in fortune and character as Cambodia, so recently a victim of the Pol Pot regime and now firmly established in the tourist firmament.
Our guide Vin introduced us to the 21st century charms of Siem Reap, in the north-west of the country.
'Now we are a peaceful people and the situation is different,' said Vin. 'I wish you a pleasant stay in Cambodia.'
It turned out to be very pleasant indeed. And Vin was right about the people: wherever we went, they were indeed peaceful and unfailingly courteous.
Siem Reap is enjoying its second coming. Following the 'rediscovery' of the temples of Angkor by French archaeologists in the 1860s (altogether the country is said to have about 4,000 temples), the town became a beacon for wealthy travellers.
It continued that way until the late Sixties, when the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Kennedy came to call. Then war, famine and fear kept outsiders well away right up until less than 20 years ago.
Everyone says you have to see Angkor Wat at sunrise to capture its full glory, but we felt relieved when Vin said we would start our tour at 10am. We were then amazed to find we practically had the place to ourselves.
'Where are all the people?' I asked as we drove around the massive moat.
'On the other side,' he replied. He meant we had approached via the East Gate, a grand ruin of a lodge leading to a gravel drive that takes you up to the main temple. With dappled sunlight foraging through the swaying trees and a crumbling building in the distance, we could almost have been visiting a stately home in Gloucestershire.
What took me by surprise was the perfect symmetry, the motifs, the detail on the bas-reliefs – and we hadn't even set foot inside yet.
Vin ushered us into the shade and asked us to sit on giant pieces of sandstone. We didn't move for the next 40 minutes as he went about his lecture, producing maps and plans and dealing patiently with interruptions from us that tended to start with: 'But how ...?' or 'So, why ...?'
Our questions were all trying to make sense of such an extraordinary feat, one that took 37 years to complete and involved stone either being dragged from a quarry 50 miles by elephant or on bamboo rafts 100 miles by river. No wonder King Suryavarman II is such a hero.
As we moved from one level to the next, getting closer to the central shrine, Vin pointed at scaffolding and explained that tourists were not allowed access to the highest point. He said the reclining Buddha was a sight to behold – but sadly one that would elude us.
'Do people ever just climb up when no one's looking?' I asked. 'There doesn't seem to be much security.'
'You want to go up?' he said. Vin made a call from his mobile. Ten minutes later, a man with a walkie-talkie appeared. 'Come,' he said. We made a dash for the scaffolding, ducking under some tarpaulin and climbing the steep steps. My new guide had two lookout men posted near the top. 'We have five minutes,' he said. We rushed here and there and, yes, I got to see the reclining Buddha looking majestically calm and serene.
It was almost 2pm by the time we got back to our town centre hotel. La Residence d'Angkor is the place to stay - it's lush and luxurious.
Vin also wanted us to see Ta Prohm (the jungle temple where Tomb Raider was filmed) and the mysterious Bayon, where the shapes of gigantic faces are etched into stone towers, before taking our positions high above the plain to watch the sunset.
We ate spectacularly well at La Residence, but we also came up trumps at the Rina Rino restaurant on Pub Street.
Next morning, we did watch the sun rise over Angkor Wat – along with a few thousand other spectators from all over the world.
Later, we drove 45 minutes to Tonlé Sap, the largest freshwater lake in South-East Asia and home to entire villages built on stilts. Houses are erected on rafts that can be towed to different areas depending on water levels. Families can move ten times a year.
We hired a dragon boat and explored some of the channels leading to the main lake. It was utterly enthralling. Men fish at night and spend most of the day beating the whitebait from their nets before selling it for next to nothing.
It showed us the authentic Cambodia - but tough as life on the lake is, it has, like the whole country, changed so much for the better in such a short time.
First published in the Daily Mail - October 2019
More articles below...
Not quite what you're looking for?
We can easily customise an offer to suit your exact requirements