Tanah Lot & UNESCO Heritage Small Group Tour

Posted By : phX1302SR
An awful experience, this was a scam. I participated in a day tour in June 2023, advertised on the website to have a "local guide" for the tour. In reality, our driver Rai didn't introduce any of the sights; instead, he was busy on his phone, chatting with people, and even directly informed us that he was going for lunch, telling us to explore the sights ourselves.

We didn't receive the "local guide" service as stated on the website; it was merely a regular chauffeured trip. We should have immediately requested our credit card company to stop the payment because this was clearly a scam.

The driver's English communication skills were very limited, we could only have a very limited conversation. Most importantly, the driver didn't treat us with integrity and honesty. When we asked if we could have lunch before visiting the second attraction, as the restaurant we chose was within 200 meters of the entrance, he agreed but still took us to buy tickets for the attraction. Despite my repeated requests to go for lunch first, he kept saying yes but kept directing us towards the entrance, claiming the restaurant was in that direction (even though Google Maps clearly showed the restaurant was in the opposite direction). Eventually, he rushed us to take photos, forcing us to quickly finish touring the attraction before having lunch. If he didn't want us to have lunch first, he could have simply told us instead of resorting to such deceitful tactics. His treatment towards us left us with a very negative impression, ruining our enthusiasm for the trip and spoiling our otherwise perfect vacation.
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Posted On : 2024-03-28 09:15:55

Posted By : lindagA3018HW
Very good tour with very good people. Dewa was the best guide ! Very patient, always happy and good conversation. And he took amazing pictures from me ! Thank you so much to him !
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Posted On : 2023-11-23 02:01:40

Posted By : EricHesed
I had a great day enjoying the beauty of Bali.
My guide Mega purwantara is a nice & helpful guy. We had good conversation the whole day.
I will highly recommend the tour agency Trip Guru and Mega as a great guide 😊
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Posted On : 2023-09-21 09:16:42

Posted By : W7686RTcherylt
The tour is as stated and our tour guide Agus was excellent. He was professional, courteous and personable. He answered all of our questions, was patient and assisted with photographs. Agus was one of the best tour guides that I've experienced...

I have a major issue with the Tour Operator though. The Tour Operator needs to be considerate and efficient when planning pick up points. Individuals within a group should be no more than a few miles apart from each other. I was the first pickup at 7:20am in Kuta. Second pickup was in Sanur, with took a half hour to forty minutes. Third pickup was in Ubud, I don't even recall how long that took. Our tour ended at 5:30pm. I was the last one to be dropped off and I arrived at my hotel at 8:45pm. It took 3 hours and 15 minutes for me to reach my hotel after the tour ended. Over 13 hours in total and only visiting four sites is utterly ridiculous and extremely inconsiderate.
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Posted On : 2022-11-16 10:04:28

Posted By : thatsrawat
I did this tour on my last day of Bali vacation in January, fortunately I got a very good guide Dewa he was awesome clicked very good photos and have very good knowledge of temples and rice fields.
Coming to tour this tour is mix of non-touristy and ultra-touristy locations Tama Ayuh temple and Ricefield were very good and not very touristy. The last two temples tanha lot and another temple were touristy but still worth the view. I recommend this as a light tour if you don't want to trek or walk too much in a day this tour is worth taking.
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Posted On : 2020-01-29 03:20:37

Posted By : patriciaCalgary
Travelled with Komang with Trip Guru to see the various temples, lake, rice fields, Indonesian dancing and sunset. He was a wonderful, knowledgeable, humouris guide who took excellent pictures. One of our members who was physically handicapped was given much care by Komang who was very patient with her. We all thought he was “a cool man”. Komang and Trip Guru made our experience especially memorable.
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Posted On : 2019-12-05 22:15:54

Posted By : ivaniS1780GZ
The best trip we have in Bali thanks to our driver-guide Dewa Yasa he was very professional and friendly guide,answered all questions we needed to know and explained everything about the
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Posted On : 2019-10-04 23:48:57

Posted By : MarcoP7106
Did the one day trip with my wife (and another couple also joined the trip). Visited the tanah lot, jatiluwih rice terraces, bratan temple and taman ayun.
Great spots to visit!
Our guide, Hendra, was very nice and helpful.
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Posted On : 2019-09-08 00:02:21

Posted By : TravelAddictMeg3007
Thank you Bello for a superb tour to Tanah Lot. Fantastic day tour and guide. Very polite, good standard of spoken English and comfortable 4x4 car too. Thanks for the SPA recommendation too.
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Posted On : 2019-07-01 21:52:36

Posted By : Pugaro
Paid $75 AUD for this tour and had to pay entrance fees to each site on the day as well as lunch so be aware of the excluded costs before booking. We had difficulty communicating with our tour guide at times as his English wasn’t great but it was the lack of historic information about the sites that was disappointing i.e at Tanah Lot we guided ourselves around the site. I feel as though we would’ve had the same experience paying a driver for much less to take us to these sites and self guide our way around with the same outcome
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Posted On : 2019-06-26 20:00:28