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The staff were so helpful. I travel a lot and use DialAFlight every time
Good communications whilst being stuck in Barbados. Helped me with alternate flight, always responded and called me back as I could not make outgoing calls on my phone
You arranged our return flights to Barbados but within two hours of arriving we were told that our cruise was cancelled. You then arranged for us to fly back to the UK 24 hours later and since arriving home have provided an excellent customer service.
Always very helpful. Tyler is the person I deal with and he always sorts out any problems quickly.
Thanks to Logan and Cody for all their help. We are all home safely after having to return early from our holiday. Hopefully we will be booking our next trip when all is well.
Thanks so much for all your support. I truly appreciate all of you and the help you gave me to get back to the UK safely. Thanks to Bradley and all who helped.
We have used DialAFlight for over 12 years and cannot praise the team enough for their excellent support. From the early days of handling an airline going bust to repatriating us this last week under very difficult circumstances your professionalism and personal care has always been exceptional. We must have been through your entire team this last few days, calling you at all hours, but every one of you has continued to provide that special service we have come to take for granted. You have a unique team spirit that is rare these days and we wish you all the very best.
Adele is always on hand for any help we may require and is a pleasure to do business with.
Very helpful agent - excellent value flights and good communication.
Wonderful service as usual, thank you
Very efficient service in a very stressful time
Jordan was superb during this difficult time for travel. He allayed my fears and ensured we shall use your company always in the future. Well done him!
We were impressed with the interest John showed. Very personal and considerate.
Without you we wouldn’t be home. Thank you Spencer. We wouldn’t travel if we didn’t have you and your team.
I missed my flight but you found me a fight 2 days later while Virgin could not get me a flight until Friday
Ben was very efficient and managed to get us home early from Barbados this past weekend. Excellent service.
Matthew gave us outstanding service and got us home safely
Laura helped us return to the UK with new flights. Virgin Atlantic would have left us behind after cancelling our flights.
You are all brilliant
Can't thank Tim enough for the excellent service he always gives us
Teddy and Brian looked after us and got us home under very difficult circumstances
Noah is excellent - giving me a good deal each time I book through him
I can highly recommend DialAFlight, the customer service was excellent and the staff highly professional and helpful.
Everything went well until Covid 19 spoilt in in many ways but service at DialAFlight was excellent particularly that of Luke and Laura. Most helpful and friendly.
Nick and his team were on hand whenever we had a query especially when we thought we might not get back from Barbados on Thursday.
As always it was quick and easy to contact your very helpful and knowledgeable staff. Flight was changed quickly and I got home safely
Lawrence listened to our needs and delivered exactly what we wanted
Jenson contacted us in St Kitts to let us know our plane was flying
Mickey was excellent in getting us home in these difficult times. Will definitely use again in the future.
We would just like to thank Richard and his staff for all your help in getting us home.
The clue is in the name.
Moored alongside the sun-scarred pier, amid a smattering of yachts nodding at anchor, the Happiness ferry boat is waiting.
Untie the mooring ropes, Skipper. Point the bow to the horizon. Destination: Sandy Island - where you'll find perhaps the most beautiful remote restaurant in the world. Happiness indeed.
Sandy Island (again, the clue's in the name) is a tiny spit of white powder a few miles off the coast of Anguilla.
Unfamiliar with Anguilla? Partly, that's because it's not the easiest of Caribbean islands to reach, involving a transfer through Antigua.
But unlike nearby St Barts, Anguilla's 33 pristine beaches aren't stalked by paparazzi, even though this is where Justin Bieber spent a Christmas, Jay-Z wooed Beyonce, Robert De Niro comes to eat Italian beachside, Paul McCartney is a regular and where Leonardo DiCaprio and his posse came cruising aboard Steven Spielberg's superyacht.
And where did Leo choose to drop anchor for a spot of lunch and snorkelling? Sandy Island.
Little more than a tin shack and a few sun loungers spread out along a few hundred feet of shifting shoreline, it manages to serve up the most deliciously simple seafood imaginable.
Carrie Bogar inspects the day's catch for her restaurant Veya
We opt for the lobster, Sandy Island style - super-sized, flashed over the grill and licked with a lightly curried coconut sauce. Exquisite.
Here is an island where the great food is a reason to visit in itself. At 16 miles long and three miles wide, Anguilla has more than 100 restaurants, many among the best in the Caribbean. My tip: hire a car and work your way round as many as you can.
Our base for the week is Meads Bay, a crescent of golden perfection that plays host to two of the island's most stylish hotels. At one end is what was until recently The Viceroy, and now under the Four Seasons banner - and still a benchmark for slick service.
After a day spent exploring the island on a pair of hotel bikes, we head to the spectacular bar where a chilled reggae soundtrack is the backdrop for a chance encounter with the island's young British Attorney General and its recently appointed police chief, formerly a chief superintendent from Sussex.
'So how do you land plum postings like this?' I ask, over a passion fruit and chilli margarita. Their life, they claim, is not quite the mixture of idyll and intrigue of TV's Death In Paradise, but as the sun dissolves into the ocean, it must beat a post-work pint in the Dog & Duck.
At the other end of Meads Bay lies the Malliouhana, an intimate 44-bedroom hotel perched on its own headland. If the Viceroy/Four Seasons is a symphony in muted Armani greys and neutrals, then the Malliouhana is a celebration of colour, with Hermes orange and Tiffany pale blue to the fore.
For those of a nautical bent, there's a treat in store. The Tradition is one of the last seaworthy wooden trading sloops that were once the juggernauts of these waters, shipping rum, tobacco and spices between the islands, not always with full regard to the customs office, but don't tell the Attorney General.
Laurie Gumbs at the helm of The Tradition, one of the last wooden trading stoops
Now restored and taken on by local bar owner and master yachtsman Laurie Gumbs, she takes day trippers to hidden coves and islands. With neither winches nor windlasses to help haul the canvas up, this is big-boat sailing in the raw. 'Wanna take the helm?' offers Laurie, passing me a tiller the size of a fallen oak.
Tucking it under my armpit, we yaw against the wind as the surf froths at the gunwales and the rest of our passengers look on with alarm at their novice helmsman. Scurvy lot.
Next morning, we drive to the far north of Anguilla where we find a winding track to remote Junks Hole. Here, local legend and grandfather Nat Richardson serves up grilled crayfish and johnny cakes, a sort of savoury doughnut with a slather of hot pepper sauce made to a secret family recipe.
Judging by the nuclear reaction it provokes after one bite, I'm guessing it includes a generous dollop of enriched uranium.
We buy a bottle to take home, and as the winter chill descends in Britain, it comes out every now and then to bring back those warming Anguillan memories — a reminder that this is an island that packs a whole heap of good taste into a very small package.
Amazingly, it is simple old-fashioned service that sets us apart from other travel firms. And yes, we really do answer the phone within 5 seconds!
Check out the reviews on Trustpilot and the word ‘service’ appears again and again. And you’ll find many reviews from customers saying they wasted hours trying to plan a holiday themselves before calling us - often on the advice of a friend - only to find we could offer numerous options not available online, which also saved them money.
Our team of 300 travel managers has been arranging tailor-made holidays for almost 40 years and we believe no one does it better. Judge for yourself.
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