Travellers Worldwide

I am extremely disappointed…

I chose this company in good faith when I decided to go to Australia to have a rewarding working experience. As it turned out, the large amount of money to find me a training experience was no more than coffee making placement. We can say that my experience was extremely good in increasing my skills in the use of a photocopy machine. I met 2 other people who made an internship by Traveller and they were both disappointed, but they were lucky to didn't take several months as I deeply regret!

At the beginning, the staff of Travellers were nice (I mean the minimum), which is quite normal I guess as they want you to choose their company... But once I started my training, I contacted the person in charge in Australia to talk about my deception regarding my work, and she just tell me that "it's probably gonna be better after"... so I continued my internship, doing all the tasks even if it was really useless in term of experience and even for the company, until the end, by respect to my colleagues and regarding my commitment. But I have to say that doing a useless job when you don't get salary it's already a waste of time, but if it's a useless job and you also paid a lot of money for it, I just call this a big scam.

Furthermore, I was also really disappointed by the staff of Traveller and their lack of courtesy and respect. As an exemple (but I have several), I had book my accommodation by Traveller: at one point, I wanted to leave the hostel few days (for a trip) and come back after, so I informed the hostel and also the staff of Traveller of my departure (as others have done). But when I came back, Travellers staff claimed to have used my money to paid the hostel when I wasn't here, and they told me that they will not refund me those days. So I could understand this without any problem. But the truth is that the hostel didn't received any money from Traveller for those days, and the manager of the hostel gave me the bill as a proof. Traveller just lied to me and tried to keep my money instead to use for the services I paid for. When I contacted the headquarter to talk about my deception of this program, they didn't treat me with respect or even as a client, and they asked me to justified all the time, and even with the proofs that I sent to them, they never recognized their mistake and in addition they were unpleasant.

I have to say that my biggest disappointment wasn't really about the money I lost, but it was about the minimum of courtoise that I never get from this organism (staff in Australia as well as the office in UK).

So the result : I lost a large amount of money in this, no experience gain at all, and I was treated with no respect until the end. I really advice you to choose another company for professional experience, you could easily find better company and cheaper.

A great Tamarindo Family Vacation

My folks and I just returned home from our stay at the Best Western Vista Villas in Tamarindo and we had an extraordinary time! Vis location, quality, and price, you actually can not do better. Our room looked out over the sea, and it's tough to describe how pretty it actually was without seeing it for yourself. Particularly come sunset!

Getting to the beach was literally a minute's walk. All you have to do is cross the street and you're there. I also would endorse utilising the beach as your most important source of travel getting in and out of Tamarindo's major strip, which is just 5-10 minutes away on foot, dependent on your destination. Not that you can't walk along the street / path, it's just much nicer dipping your toes in the sea on the way over.

If your kids are not extremely keen on the sea, like my kids of 8 and eleven, the Vista Villas has a great pool for children to play in, which also has a swim up bar and lounge chairs so us adults can have our own fun, while pretending to cater to our children = )

Breakfast was definitely great! If you aren't into gigantic meals in the morning, they provide juice, milk, cereal, baked products, toast, and array of fresh local fruit absolutely free. If you are like me and you like a hefty breakfast, for a little charge you can get the local treat of gallo pinto a rice and beans dish served with numerous egg preparations. We only ate dinner at the hotel once during our stay, but again, it left very little to desired. Other than the undeniable fact that it wasn't as aimed towards local cuisine, my spouse and I both had a great bit of fish served with multiple pineapple salsas that were truly flavorful, and my kids had pizza, which I am glad they did not finish, as it was shockingly good.

The hotel can also get you set up to take tours if you have an interest in doing something similar to zip-lining or a day of sailing

The rooms are easy, but have all that you need on a visit to Costa Rica snug beds and air-con. If you're planning on visiting the area, and if you do not need to spend a third of your annual salary by going to one of the areas top quality resorts, we discovered that the Best Western was the ideal place to stay!