24/05/2016
A little late posting, but below is a full review from a trip in April.
Hi Marcus,
I just wanted to say thank you for arranging our trip to Peru.
My husband and I had a fantastic time especially in Cusco - Aguas calientes and MP.
After i posted my pics on Facebook some of my friends have asked me info about this trip, and also some of my co- workers. So far, I've given my recommendation to 5 friends to book the trip with you at Venture Peru. Hopefully in the future, they will contact you if they decide to take a trip to MPicchu.
Here's my review about the trip,
Tour guide/staff
Jose Luis and his wife Magali, did a great job of taking care of us in Cusco. They're wonderful people, very helpful and polite. I enjoyed Sacred Valley tour & lunch with Magali, she's awesome. We just love Jose Luis, on our last day when he took us to the airport, i was wearing the same outfit as him (blue jeans and blue shirt) and we both looked so cute.
Sonia, also stopped by to meet us at the airport, she's very sweet and it was too bad we didn't have enough time to visit her at Lima office since we had too many activities while we're in Lima.
We didn't have a chance to meet your wife, but hopefully next time.
Itinerary/Tour
In 4D/3N we had a lot done, the scheduling are very well done. It was short stay but we didn't feel rushed. And great suggestion to stay overnight in A Calientes.
Our group tour in Cusco was great too. It was total group of 8 and everyone was so nice. I actually keeping in touch with an older couple from Holland and we send each other emails and photos.
City tour guide Cusco. Ernesto, was great and informative.
MP guide, Ricardo, was excellent. We enjoyed our 2 hours ruins tour with him, and seemed like we felt connected to him, so great job on that one.
Hotels
Great pick on the hotels.
Cusco Maytaq: great service, great location, free drinking water ( i filled up my stainless water bottle all the time when we stayed there) & coca tea.
A Calientes: love love love El Mapi, new modern building, great location from the train & bus station, restaurants, happy hours, bathrobes, extra large bed. The breakfast at 5am also helped to get ready for a long day in MP. Well done!
Restaurants
Great job for TUNUPA!!! We both are vegans but we ate plenty from the buffet - salad, rice, corn, potatoes and fruits. The restaurant is very elegant, with soothing live music & beautiful view. WOW!
Indio Feliz: what a great place to eat after a long hike from MP mountain. They're very accommodating since we asked for vegans dishes, the French owner was there and we talked to him, very nice guy. The restaurant played a really cool music from their playlist, we ended up staying there for hours listening to the music and drink coffee before we finally heading out to the train.
We didn't go to INCANTO in Cusco, since i found from the internet Green Point Restaurant ( address Carmen Bajo, Cusco). We actually went there 3x for breakfast, dinner and breakfast again for the duration of 2 days we stayed in Cusco.
It's a vegan restaurant, so delicious and reasonable price and we just wished that we have something like this in Chicago. So if you have vegetarian/vegan clients i highly recommend this restaurant.
We had great time in Lima. Our meal at Central was phenomenal, it was 17 courses vegan meal, 3,5 hours and i had an awesome afternoon buzz from the wine pairing.
We visited MATE, Museum Contemporary Art and Museum Larco. We walked the malecon all the way to Larcomar shopping mall and went back to Barranco.
I had manicure and Lucian had haircut (cheaper than in US haha). Although we passed Ayuhuasca Bar many times, we didn't go there, we stayed and drink wine instead at this charming cafe Las Vescinas across the street from Ayahuasca Bar.
As much as we enjoyed Lima, i think we would come back for Cusco in the future. We already missed the elevation, the stairs (not!!), the foods and everything in Cusco. Hopefully one day soon we can return, i'll let you know of course.
We're leaving tomorrow afternoon for our trip to Indonesia, my home country, for two weeks, so another packing to do tonight!
Once again, thank you so much for this wonderful trip.
We wish you the best, hope the business keeps growing, and i'll spread the words for it.
Please say hello to everyone at Venture Peru.
Cheers,
Dinar
