Gate 1 TravelReviews of gate1travel.com

Booked a tour online but we wanted to speak with someone - not just click buttons on a computer. This was all too hard for gate1 consultants who were tardy at responding to emails. Whilst waiting for a response about how to make the payment (because it was in USD), our booking fell over (even though we'd emailed the consultant to ask her to hold the booking because we were in the Northern Territory outback without mobile range for 2 days) and then the tour was booked out. We'd already booked our fares from Australia. The consultant called Nicole was most unhelpful throughout the process and is totally unsuited to that type of job. I'd never look at any of their tours because I see the reviews are very negative and I can see why. They need to pull their socks up before they go broke......

Today 25/8/2023 when i was in Monas , your agent(Is a man staff) never Line up to enter the Monas . Time is about 9am to 10am…i hope he can say apologize to other who Line up imfront of his Group…thank you

We toured Southern England. Our guide, Mark, was delightful. Our accommodations were awful. In Stratford-Upon-Avon, where it was in the mid-80’s, we had no air conditioning in our rooms. There were major traffic issues. I’d you don’t mind substandard accommodations, go for it.

This service is entirely unacceptable. I noticed that my name has an error and have been going back and forth calling every single day to speak with someone in regards to correcting this egregious mistake. Each day i speak with a new person and they inform me that they have corrected the issue and that it takes about 24 hours for the change to be reflected. Each 24 hours that pass, there is no change. It is exhausting having to jump through hoops for a simple mistake that 1- should never have happened and 2 should have been corrected after the initial phone conversation. Yesterday, was the 5th time i spoke with someone, Clinton Foley, at which point i required that i receive a confirmation email proving that amendments were being processed. Today was the last time i spoke with someone and again the name is an error. My trip is 2 weeks away and instead of preparing and getting excited for this experience i am left with a sour taste in my mouth and dont even want to continue my business further with gate 1 if simple issues like this cannot be resolved with me calling DAILY. Escalate this to the highest personnel and fix this mistake immediately.

My wife and I have been traveling with gate 1 for 10 years now. Ever since COVID, the costumer service has gone down the drain. On our most recent trip to yellow stone, with 2 other couples, we found out just a couple days before our trip that gate 1 only booked 2 room for 3 couples, instead of 3. We called costumer service to fix their error and with so much attitude, they made us pay double for the extra room. I do not know how it is logical for 3 couples to book 2 rooms. Be very careful and double check your flights, room, meals etc when booking with gate 1

I have been traveling with Gate 1/Discovery Tours since 2013 and have taken numerous trips with this company. Their customer service has always been very good. However, recently, they canceled a tour due to insufficient travelers. My airfare was already purchased. I found another trip leaving within the parameters of my airfare. G1 was willing to pay for a change fee. However, I called the company and also had my travel agent call to see if they would pay for the prenight since I would arrive early, instead of the change fee. We were told no. Asked to speak to a supervisor and still waiting for a call back. G1’s customer service has gone downhill. They would rather lose a good customer than pay around $200 for the hotel (which is what the change fee would cost). I will never book a tour with them again. UPDATE- My travel agent heard back from G1 and they are making the issue right. Don’t know why a supervisor couldn’t come to the phone to begin with and this situation would have been resolved immediately.

I wish I could give Gate 1 no stars. I canceled a trip, which I had insurance for. Now Gate 1 is saying I have an airline credit which Singapore airlines knows nothing about. Gate 1 is saying I can o my use it with them but can’t use it for the land portion . Well I booked a whole package with them $ they are staying my left over funds can’t be used for anything else and they won’t refund it. That sound ridiculous!! This company is TERRIBLE! I canceled way in advance and had insurance. They already took money for the cancellation fee, which I understand your policy is your policy but why are you scamming people. Why not let me rebook the trip? This doesn’t make since. BEWARE‼️ Looks like Gate 1 responded to my complain like they have in the past ONLY they never reach out. They only reply to make it seem like they will help. Today is 8/12 and this is the 3rd time they said they will Make this right and haven’t. Read the other review GATE 1 doesn’t care about their customers. I only wish I would have read the reviews first because loosing 2,300 is not okay especially when you cancel 3 months in advance and purchased insurance. I will file a claim with the BBB so this won’t happen to anyone else.

I took a tour with Gate One in the spring of 2023 to Portugal and Spain. I will probably not book with this company again. I trusted Gate One to take us to the highlights of both countries. I was wrong to do so. The city I was looking forward to the most was Barcelona, Spain. The website for that trip featured Gaudi's wall that overlooks the city. Disappointingly, the Park Guell which is portrayed in every Barcelona image collection that I have ever seen was omitted from our tour. Worse, by the time I realized this, no tickets were available for me to purchase independently. So I missed out on seeing the place I had most wanted to enjoy. Also in Barcelona is the Sagrada Familia. It is the top-rated activity on many tours. It was not included in the Gate One tour, and tickets were unavailable. The Casa Batllo' was also on my wish list. Since it wasn't included and tickets were unavailable, I missed that bucket list sight as well. Instead of these prime areas, we endured a drive-by of the defunct Olympic Village. We did have free time, which we could have filled with tickets for the three sites previously listed if we had known weeks or months earlier that those highlights were not included in the tour. My comments to Gate One were dismissed with the rationale that we should have known from the itinerary that those activities were not included. Never before have I felt the need to preview the highlights of an area before embarking on a tour and then cross-checking that they were included. This would certainly be my recommendation for anyone using Gate One. I can't afford to go to Barcelona again so will have to live with disappointment. I do not recommend Gate One.