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Testimonials
Creative Travel Partners, Inc. 14-Day Turkey/Greece Tour in the Footsteps of St. Paul the Apostle hosted by Pastor Larry Myers: Dear Mira: I have just completed a two-week study tour with my church group in Turkey and Greece that departed on April. This trip was wisely arranged by our pastor through Creative Travel Partners, Inc. The tour included an international flight; two domestic flights, an Aegean cruise and land travel in both Turkey and Greece. Creative Travel chose excellent hotels in good locations with accessible sights and shopping. The hotels were safe, clean, comfortable, and provided very good food and a friendly and helpful staff. Guides chosen for both countries were excellent and extremely knowledgeable. This trip was about the Apostle St. Paul and the staff was very knowledgeable about his travels and incorporated this into their lectures. They were also very respectful of our religious beliefs. The guides were able to answer any question posed to them. Our guide in Turkey was outstanding and shared personal knowledge about Turkish culture and the family life of the Turkish people, which was extremely interesting. The guides were very in tune to make sure that the needs of the group were met. The buses
provided were very clean and comfortable. In Turkey the buses
were washed while we took our rest
stops!
It was
fun watching
them wash in entire bus in a few minutes. The drivers
were extremely well skilled and careful about our
safety on
roads that were
difficult to navigate and narrow. Someone always
helped the ladies off the
bus. The Aegean cruise provided excellent food, comfortable rooms that were clean and wonderful entertainment. The shore excursions were well guided and interesting! Overall, I found the Turkish people extremely hospitable to Americans with a genuine like for us. Many times children would wave to the people on the bus or would try to talk English to us when we stepped off the bus. They were pleased to hear we were Americans. A little girl in Turkey gave me one of her rings as a sign of friendship. Turkey is an extremely safe country to travel in where security is taken seriously, especially at the airport at which they did multiple security checks. At the hotels, someone was always on duty to see who entered and at the larger hotels they had metal detectors at the doors. In Greece, they are getting ready for the Olympics and much needs
to be accomplished. I will be traveling to Turkey and Greece again the summer of 2005 for an international school psychology conference to be held in Athens. I am arranging for a preconvention tour of approximately 25 school psychologists to experience Greece and Turkey in the wonderful way that I have. I certainly will include Creative Travel and their outstanding staff in my travel plans! With warmest regards, Shirley G. Natzel
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