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Brilliant holiday .. visited amazing places .. well organised

The boat experience was fantastic, the logistics of getting to the ride could be daunting. The captain and crew were excellent and, the food was very good. The evening extras were often the highlight of the day.

Good rides. Good excursions. Excellent food on board. When unexpected things come up such as weather, they make alternate plans quickly. I’ve done 6 tours and signed up for 4 more!!

Experiencing Southeast Asia by bicycle is obviously unique. The riding routes provided were an appropriate balance (for us) of adventure vs comfort. The base riverboat was very comfortable, and the routes had a little bit of navigating adventure, but we felt safe with adequate support if needed. The rural nature of many of the routes gave a perspective that is hard to imagine could be achieved by traditional touring options and compelled reflection on how we were experiencing SE Asia compared to those that experienced it in the 1960's. Excellent balance of beauty and history with cultural immersion in the itinerary - including the non-riding days.

I wanted to first tell you what a great time that I had on the Greece trip! It was truly amazing. Its such a wonderful job by you and the staff to make all of our wishes come true. Thank you.

Best cycling trip and rides I have ever done. Read some bad reviews but decided to try it out anyway because most the reviews were affected by Covid one way or another and this has added confusion to every touring business. My wife and I were not disapointed. The Columbia River Cruise had beautiful rides and the American Empress River Boat was exquisite. The service and food on the boat was great, especially the Main dining area which had a great atmosphere and menu. What they don't seem to tell you clearly int their own ads is its truly all inclusive. Any museum or visitor center and even the jetboat rides are included. However, only 3 of the buffet lunches were covered as most were on the fly catch as catch can while on the long rides, many which had interim stops in beautiful spots. If your a regular rider that can do 30 to 50 miles you'll find this 7 days of consecutive riding challenging, but very doable. If you are a more casual rider there are variations of the same routes that everyone rides that are shorter. My wifes and my orbea internal ebike batteries were accomidated by letting us charge them in our state room. Ebikes with external batteries are accomidated by removing the batteries and taking them to the state room for charging. Rental bikes and ebikes are available from an associated but separate vendor. They had 3 trucks on this trip storing bikes an moving them from stop to stop with bike mechanics driving them. They van can get to you in an emergency, but intermittent phone reception can delay a responce while riding these beautiful outlying rides. It is best if you bring spares tubes and a kit to care of flat tires an minor issues yourself. However, many of the riders in the group will be passing by andif you cant handle it yourself and you can reach the SOS truck, you can flag another rider in the group for help or ask them to let the trucks up the road that you are having issues. All in it was a great experience and we are going to book another as soon as we can manage to.

My girlfriend and I have had the most overwhelmingly wonderful experience on both of our Santana Adventures, Memphis to New Orleans 2023 & Tahiti 2022. Our trips were both incredibly spectacular, so much so we’re teed up for two more trips this year, Columbia River & Barcelona to Lisbon 2023. Tandem touring is not for the faint of heart, it takes dedication, planing & of course fortitude all of which my cycling partner share as well as the team at Santana Adventures. The packages offered & accommodations are exceptional, can’t wait for our upcoming adventures.

This was our second trip with Santanna the first being New Zealand 13 years ago. Prior to our departure to Japan there were a few concerns that we wanted to address in some of the emails that were sent out but, as other people have stated our e mails went unanswered, I finally was able to get a hold of Pam and she was great, answered all our questions via text. We had no problems with direction. Bill suggested we use Bike GPS which we downloaded every morning, the nice part of this app was that there was a blue line and as long as you were on the blue line you were going the right way, now the garmins might have been different but for us the ride GPS worked great, the map the Bill drew was nothing more then a overview of the route. The people that had Garmins we told to leave there chips at the desk so the new route could be uploaded. Cycling in Japen was awesome the drivers were extremely kind gave us plenty of room to pass and if you didn't like riding on the road there were bike paths everywhere. We were lucky since we did the second week tour we hit great weather everyday. As for snacks the 7/11, Lawson and Family mart had fresh Sushi, and finger sandwiches, nothing like the places in the states and about every mile were vending machines with drinks so as long as you had Yen you were good. Some people complained about the time lines on departure but we never had a problem we usually rode the 40 mile route and got back in plenty of time to change, help load the bikes and eat before the ship left the dock. Every night there was a meeting of what to expect the next day on the ride which was informative, funny and help full all options were give so you could decide while route you wanted to do. Some of the planed food stop were a bit frustrating 50 or more people showing up at a ma and pa food stand they got overwhelmed service was very slow, we actually left on place because if we waited we wouldn't make it back in time. The Windstar and our steward were both great the staff was friendly and the food was ok to great depending on were you ate. I do wish there was a way for Bill or the ship to have authentic Japanese meal on board Sushi would have been great or some other dishes. Over all we enjoyed the trip, After the second day you knew what to expect and as long as you kept a open mind and a sense of humor things went pretty smoothly. If your looking fo support vans, guides to ride with, and snacks every 10 mile then this is not the trip for you.