East West Tours - Bothell, Washington

Siew Cheng

I must give a big shout-out n thank you 0to Ms. Dora Rozet of Nordic Saga Tours for making this wonderful 8-day Guided Iceland Circle trip possible for us! This is because we made the booking at the eleventh hour (a week before Day 1).
Even though the hotels were fully booked under this tour, Dora managed to secure the hotels fr other sources and voila, we made it!? She's really very helpful n prompt in solving some teething issues.
If not for her resourcefulness, we wouldn't have captured the wonders of Iceland (some pics ?).
Thank you very much, Dora!
Siew Cheng, Malaysia
18-25 Aug 2023

Paul Thomas

Review of MOBY SPL

A great way to see St Petersburg and the Baltic states

We have just come back from a Stockholm-Helsinki-St Ptersburg-Tallinn-Stockholm trip on Princess Anastasia organised via East-West Tours and would recommend it highly. The ship is not the newest but it's well-maintained, the staff were efficient and helpful, and the food was varied and good. We chose a De-Luxe cabin (not really a fair description but it was quite comfortable and reasonably well-equipped) in order to benefit from the priority disembarkation and embarkation, which was well worthwhile. The 2 nights in St Petersburg (which was fabulous and where we were part of a group of 5) were spent at the 5 star Solo Sokos Palace Bridge hotel which was very good, but what was really special was the quality of our guide Maria Ganina. She has excellent English, is very knowledgeable about all the key sights and about Russia generally, very open to any kinds of discussion and has a really nice touch. The driver Alexander was also very good.

Date of experience: October 2019

Andreas Kischel

I have been using East-West Tours since 2006 for various services such: air tickets, visas, hospitality accommodations, full tours and I have nothing but great things to say. The staff here at East-West are Professionals with a capital P in their sphere of work. Honest, courteous, highly knowledgeable individuals who will go extra mile to accommodate every need of yours when you work with them.

Jane Walden-Newman

We want to let everyone know what a wonderful time we had on our trip to St. Petersburg, Russia due to all the arrangements and services provided by East West Tours. The hotel was excellent, but most of all, our guide, Maria Ganina, was outstanding! She was thoroughly professional and knowledgeable about all the sites in the city and on excursions. It frankly was incredible how her skills and kindness made our trip one we will never forget. You are so lucky to have her working for your company - and this is coming from two people that have high expectations!

Victor

Our Grand Tour of Russia was a really grand and over-the-top travel experience! It's amazing just being in Moscow and soaking up all the different sites steeped in history. Sergei, our guide around the Golden Ring, was superb, very knowledgeable, really striving to make it interesting for us and to get us to appreciate these historic towns of which he is a native. We concur that St. Petersburg was stunningly beautiful and our guide there, Maria Ganina, is the best guide ever, with her encyclopedic knowledge of history, art and architecture and outstanding personal and professional qualities. All in all we highly recommend this tour.
The excellent customer service from East-West Tours is also much to be commended.

Patti Lock

We can thoroughly recommend East West Tours! They provided us with superb hotel accommodation and It was a complete delight to have Masha as our tour guide in St Petersburg. Not only was she full of amazing facts and information but was also a charming lady who never ceased to “look after us” during our busy couple of tour days. Her knowledge of her lovely city was exceptional. Masha ..........you, and your torquoise fan , did a wonderful job and many many thanks to you and our driver ( who never had us hanging around for more than a few moments ) .

Patti & Michael Lock

Tim Lowe

Highly recommended. Alex did a great job arranging everything for us. He even reached out to us before with vacation tips and after to ask if we were happy. Yes we were.
Beautiful beach in Mexico with whales visible in the distance. The hotel staff was very friendly and accommodating. Very nice place to stay. The food was plentiful but only average. I won’t hold that against them. Difficult to feed that many people all hours of the day. We were always well fed with plenty of drinks.
Thank you for your assistance. It was really a great vacation.

Ronnie Duberstein

Recently returned from a wonderful "splendors of Russia" tour, which went to Moscow and St. Petersburg. East-West-Tours provided excellent hotels, two personable and knowledgeable tour guides, good choices of restaurants and a well-thought-out itinerary. I felt safe and at ease. Both cities have so much to offer. Only suggestion is more days there and more free time to explore in our own. Thank you, guides, Natasha and Masha! Thank you, East-West-Tours.