KE Adventure - Keswick

Carole Tate

Fantastic holiday adventures with top class guides. All the tours are well organised giving the opportunity to relax and enjoy sights you would not normally see.

David

The UK staff are generally very friendly and helpful and holidays are a bit more unique than other operators like Exodus/ G Adventures.

The bad part is they have very little understanding regarding how their local operators run the trips, so their itineraries are often wrong. For example, there and back routes instead of linear, group sizes 25+ instead of up to 16 etc. The rockfall they refer to in the reply was not recent, it was over 6 months ago. The Germans referenced walked with us, took breaks with us, even washed in the river with us. It wouldn’t be so much of a problem if it was just sharing a campsite. No effort whatsoever made to separate us.

I’ve only done 3 trips but other people in my group who have done many more said this is nearly always the case. KE don’t know whether to believe their customers or their local operators so do nothing. I consider it to be unethical to knowingly mislead their customers in this way.

I’ve done 3 trips with KE. 2 had wrong itineraries. All 3 were still enjoyable, just not as good as described.

Jan Fenn

I've just completed a trip with KE to the Lofoten Islands in Norway.
A memorable and beautiful journey, perfectly organised and enjoyable in every aspect. The accommodation was traditional, as specified in the trip notes, in good locations and perfectly acceptable. Our guide, Charlotte was amazing with her positivity, knowledge, encouragement and capabilities.
I'd happily travel with KE again.

Gra_ Hay

Just returned from completing Gran Paradiso in Italy, I can honestly recommend this experience, from start to finish we had a brilliant time, even with a slight change to our agenda KE we're always concerned for their clients experience. Thanks to Kathy the KE agent in Chamonix. So from Hotel to hostel to completing the experience and some Via Ferrata thrown in (I think you should add this to the agenda for this trip)the food and the training and support from our AMAZING guide, Pavlos who could not have done more than what he did, so supportive, great training, so thorough and such a gent who was more than happy to socialise either us as well, made the trip more enjoyable, helping even the lesser experienced team members to complete the trip. Thank you Pavlos

Sue Tuckett

Fjords and Fjells of the Lofoten Islands.
The scenery and walks were amazing. However the accommodation and food was very basic - we lived like hard up backpackers for over £300 per person per night ( flights not included) !
Poor value for money especially compared with other walking/ adventure companies

Sarah Bradley

We have just got back from a brilliant trek in the Indian Himalayas organised by KE. The area is extremely beautiful with fantastic views of snowy peaks, but very little frequented by western tourists. The whole trip was very well organised, with an excellent local leader and an unfailingly helpful crew. We would happily recommend KE to other travellers.

Björn Nordgren

I've now been on two cycle trips with KE (Bhutan and Jordania) and one trip with another provider (Namibia). KE is best hands down. The guides are great, the set up and service as well.
But my advice for you and for your tribute to the group and of course the overall feeling of the trip, is to come very well prepared to theese harder MTB trips. You will certainly enjoy it more and so also your travel friends.

Peter Rothery

A great company who creates brilliant trekking holidays. I just completed the Gosainkund and Langtang trek. The staff at ke helped guide us through the pre trip process and made the whole experience seamless. The trek itself was put together very well to maximize good times and minimize any altitude sickness issues. Would highly recommend this company for anyone who wants to go trekking around the world with minimum stress.