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The staff have been exceedingly helpful during this difficult time as I repeatedly had to change my flight itinerary - with special thanks to Vinnie and Geno for their patience.
Always a pleasure to book with Oliver and the team - very informative and friendly service.
Very efficient and helpful
Gary provided excellent service at all times
Lily did a fantastic job as always.
Harry and members of his team are always helpful and reliable. I have been dealing with them for years. I would recommend them highly.
Alfie was the best! He booked my flights, changed my flights when needed and he was able to email travel information to ease my journey.
The DialAFlight team are always happy to help with any questions or advice with flying in these difficult times.
Any help you can give with organising the necessary tests required for travel would be good, as it's confusing. My daughter was almost not let on her flight in the US because they weren't sure she'd taken the right kind of covid test prior to flight. If travel companies could book the tests as part of the flight, it would help enormously.
Always a very good service
Special thanks to Dylan for sorting everything
Top quality as always. Been using them for over 5 years. Eric and all the staff are second to none, always there to help 24/7 and come up trumps every time. A professional company with truly professional staff that really care.
100% confidence in Philip.
Very good customer service . Willing to answer any queries, give good advice and chase about to find stuff out that both we and yourselves were unsure about.
Always a pleasure dealing with the staff. The professional approach and guidance they offer really helps in preparing for a flight in these strange times when there are so many new rules and paperwork to complete. Thank you so much - it makes things a little easier.
Many thanks Otis and team for being so helpful with my son's various comings and goings over the past few years. You've been absolutely wonderful!
All staff are very helpful above and beyond. Excellent service which is why I continue to book with you.
Super helpful and couldn’t fault. Many thanks Jenson and team
Excellent service. Kept us fully informed of changes and travel restrictions. Can’t praise them enough
Very grateful for your help in amending my flights home from the USA several times recently under difficult circumstances,
Fantastic, informative, accessible and friendly service
Very helpful
We had very good service
Adrian was brilliant
Great staff and excellent customer relationship
All very good. Professional and prompt service. Thanks for all during this difficult travel period
Great customer service and very helpful with questions - love using DialAFlight
Always helpful, always prompt with responses. Have recommended to friends already.
Great service from all the team especially Tristan
Really very good service. Keep up good work.
Sitting on San Francisco's famous Pier 39, sauce-stained children slurp huge bowls of clam chowder. In the background, Alcatraz's forbidding, mist-shrouded silhouette rises from the ocean.
The nearby gift shop is doing a roaring trade, churning out striped underpants and replica prison-issue toiletries bearing the tag line, 'don't drop the soap', all to a soundtrack of the pier's famous blubbery, barking sea lions.
Fresh crabs are available to buy from vendors in Fisherman's Wharf
WHERE TO FIRST
But the waterfront – with its many fresh crab restaurants – will soon look very different. The green-fingered team behind New York's urban High Line has now turned its attention to the Presidio – a beautiful, sprawling park overlooking the bay.
The tunnels burrowing through it will soon form the base of a spectacular, 14-acre park known as Tunnel Tops. When it opens in 2019, there will be beautiful views of the bay and meadows filled with fragrant wildflowers.
During 1967's Summer of Love, pier workers fought their way through crowds of garland-waving hippies who gathered here to shout about the Vietnam War.
THEN AND NOW
Now, more than 50 years on, hipsters have replaced hippies in Haight-Ashbury. A handful of psychedelic shops filled with tie-dye are squeezed between boutiques and organic cafes.
The closest encounter I have with a possible hippy is when I crouch down to take a picture of an enormous rainbow-themed piece of street art and accidentally disturb a dreadlocked local dozing in a doorway.
Take a winding walk on picturesque Lombard Street
At Pork Store Cafe, a 40-year-old Haight Street institution famous for its huge breakfasts, I meet Amanda, a local, who tells me how the area's beautiful, Victorian, pastel-hued houses are being snapped up (and lovingly refurbished) by dotcom billionaires. She complains that prices have rocketed.
As I cycle towards the city centre, a smiling skateboarder shouts his encouragement and speeds past me – uphill. I realise his skateboard is battery-powered. I recall my chat with Amanda and wonder if it's Mark Zuckerberg or someone similar.
MOMENTARY ESCAPISM
On the recommendation of a friend, I stop by Hotel Zetta in downtown San Francisco. Since last spring, it's been home to the world's first hotel-based virtual reality room. It's free to try – those in need of a moment of escapism (without the mind-altering drugs) can simply walk off the street into the padded room and slip on the headset.
I do so and find myself standing atop a shipwreck, one of several colourful worlds to be explored.
VIRTUAL SIGHTSEEING
Neon fish swarm around me and when I turn around, I'm face-to-face with a huge, blinking whale. The next moment, I'm in a mountainous valley (apparently it's modelled on the landscape of Washington State).
The cable car system is an icon of San Francisco
Despite being just metres away from the rumbling trams, I can wander to a cliff edge and peer into a valley so deep that my stomach flips.
On my final night, I check out China Live, one of the city's newest restaurants. The walls are lined with hand-painted tiles showing local landmarks, such as the Transamerica Pyramid.
CHINATOWN
I sit at one of the communal tables and try jellyfish for the first time (it's salty, rubbery and delicious) with a potent, dragon fruit tea-infused cocktail.
Golden Gate Park: one of San Francisco's greatest treasures
Chinatown borders North Beach, a bay-side neighbourhood with a huge Italian community. I cycle home past Italian flags painted on lamp posts and delis blaring opera music.
In a nearby park, Chinese women perform perfectly choreographed tai chi routines near students making the most of California's decision to legalise marijuana. Suddenly, that Summer of Love doesn't seem quite so far away.
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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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