We loved the trip to Cuba. The itinerary and the staffing were terrific. Barb, the tour manager was enthusiastic and organized. Raphael, the tour guide, was exceptional. Food was wonderful and even I was provided with the gluten and dairy-free meals I needed. Will definitely book another Gate 1 trip.

We had the most AMAZING experience on this Gate 1 Havana Trip! Barb was wonderful, Rafael our Cuban tour guide was fabulous, and our driver Juanito did a wonderful job getting us around Havana efficiently and safely. I cannot begin to express our satisfaction with the entire Havana Tour experience. The selected restaurants provided wonderful meals and enhanced our cultural experience. It is a family trip we will cherish forever. From the initial informational meeting prior to our trip through the completion of our tour in Miami, the entire experience was seamless and efficient and TONS of FUN! Thank you for a wonderful cultural experience!

Trip was very successful and enjoyable on all counts. We have nothing but positive feedback and look forward to using Gate 1 again in our future travel plans.

Our trip was great. Our tour guide Sergio was one of the best I've ever had. He was very knowledgeable,upbeat, helpful and fun. Our local guide was also excellent. Adrianna spoke perfect English and was also pleasant and knowledgeable too. They took good care of the group and all were happy. Also, everyone was very comfortable with our driver. It was a top notch team team. I was very impressed and surprised with the restaurants. The food,service,and especially the ambiance was a pleasure.

It was fabulous. Tour director (Gigi) was great. Hotel was nice. Weather was perfect. Gate 1 does a great job of putting together a tour. We saw all we needed to see in the three days.

Douglas, the American guide, and Gretel, the Cuban guide, were wonderful. They were very knowledgeable, accommodating, and great leaders. I enjoyed the activities, meals, accommodations, fellow travelers, and particularly all the tours we took. I would recommend this trip to family and friends, and I would definitely do another trip with Gate 1 in the future.

We had an incredible time! Loved Tony our guide - it could not have been a better trip.

Our trip was amazing! My sister and I had a great time. Our hotel we're excellent and in a very good location. Toni are guide was so helpful and funny. He made feel safe and secure. He also provide great advice. Thank you for the excellent service!

The trip was amazing! The accommodations were outstanding and all of the services were seamless. I would recommend it to anyone. Thank you!

It was very nice. I want to highly commend Jesus who took me on two half day tours around Panama City. He was beyond excellent. Transfers and pickups went well, too. It was a nice little getaway. I have a unique need in recent years when it comes to travel; I can only take short trips. Very few companies offer these, but this is the second one I've done with Gate 1. I bet there are more people like me out there, who want to see the world but are very limited in time, so keep designing some short ones!

Very nice Great tour guide and drivers. Nice mix of guided tours and free time.

Our trip to Panama through your organization was superb - the transfers, the service, our wonderful guide, Recardo, the hotel, the tours, etc.....were very well done. We enjoyed our trip. thanks!

Our trip to Guatemala/Honduras was good. Great place for seeing Mayan ruins. Each one spectacular and different from any others. Estuardo was an excellant tour guide and group leader. This was our fourth trip with Gate 1 Travel this year and we have been satisfied with all four of them.

It was just lovely. We did not know what to expect in visiting Cuba and there were some surprises for sure. It feels important to have improved our understanding. Our guide Daniel was great.

Our trip was wonderful! Daniel, our USA guide, was excellent and our Cuban guide Romiro was also outstanding!

The trip was excellent! I have been on this trip before a few years ago and was happy and surprised that this guide took us to a few different places. The weather was great, and I stayed an extra day as I felt familiar with Guatemala City. I enjoy Gate 1 Travel very much as a single traveler.

Incredible Guatemala travel experience, Thanks to our wonderful tour guide Marco [Tony]. He was knowledgeable: the equivalent of the beloved antiquities college professor, plus thoughtful, kind, and courteous, and "over the top" helpful in all situations. I will travel with Gate 1 again for all of the "future Tony experiences".

We had such a wonderful time in Cuba and it was a so informative on all levels. This is the second time we have used Gate 1 Travel and our experience was even better than before. Lillianna was so professional and her travel experience was exceptional. Our Cuban tour guide was also excellent!!!! This was quite the experience and we shall never forget it.

We had a fantastic time. Great guides, great people. We will definitely use Gate 1 again.

It was awesome. Teo, our guide was great and was very organized. Loved it. The food was great and the accommodations were fine, especially with westin at the end. Thanks for having it all inclusive for us. What a treat! Thanks again.

The trip was absolutely fantastic! Carole and Graciel are amazing tour guides! They love Cuba, and it certainly shows. Everything was great - from the sites to the food to the hotel room!

It was absolutely fabulous. Karen, our tour director was the best ever, she certainly went above and beyond our expectations to ensure we learned all we could and enjoy our trip. Would certainly travel with her again. Donald, our bus driver was superb, he kept us safe, has a sense of humor, and always, always pleasant and smiling. Loved the itinerary, I feel like I have been to NS and can direct others. Thank you for the great trip.

The trip was wonderful. Great guides, accommodations & weather.

Gate 1 rocks! You guys blew me away this trip. I’ve taken two other trips with your company, which I also enjoyed. But this one was the best for a number of reasons. Most impressive was the fact that you fed us for all three meals, every day that we were in country. These weren’t average meals either. Every one was a feast that could be categorized as “gourmet” at times. Lobster! Swordfish! Red snapper. Amazingly great fare served at top-tier restaurants; and not just by Cuban standards. Every lunch and dinner included dessert, too. Not only that, but you ensured that we travelers had our whistle more than whetted. Imagine, a mojito (sometimes 2 or 3), AND a beer, every meal! How could we not have a swinging time? You folks did not skimp. I can’t tell you how much it relieves us travelers when we don’t have to go through the stress of finding a good restaurant in a strange country. One that has great food, and one that won’t make us sick. You have no idea how much stress you relieved by providing this service. The other thing that I enjoyed was how action-packed each day was. You took us to all the places I personally wanted to see in Havana. Visiting Heminway’s home was tops on the list of “must dos.” So was the ride in the 50’s era American cars. Here was another place where you didn’t cut corners. We got to ride in convertibles! So cool. The night at the Havana Club was also a highlight I will never forget. Again, you folks exceeded our expectations by paying for a number of mojitos, and even tapas on top of that. We had a blast. The show was terrific and so was the dancing that we got to do. Which reminds me, thanks for the Salsa lesson. Best of all, none of these “excursions” were extra! What a refreshing change from other tours I have been on. You guys rolled everything into one single price; which I might add was very reasonable. When it comes to value for your money, Gate 1 cannot be beat. Of course, we loved our guides. Sergio and Romero knew their stuff, and we felt very confident that they could take care of us throughout the trip. You sure know how to pick your guides. And yes, Juanito, the bus driver, was also more than helpful and patient. Did I say that Gate 1 rocks? I mean it. I can hardly wait to sign up for another trip with your company.

I enjoyed my Gate 1 escorted trip to Cuba very much. I took the People to People tour on August 22, 2016. It was everything the brochure advertised. I was very pleased with every aspect of the itinerary. It gave the comprehensive look of Havana I wanted and expected. I was very pleased with the accommodations at Memories Hotel. It was lovely and the staff there was very pleasant. All of the dining establishments we were brought to exceeded my expectations. The food was delicious and the service was excellent. The sightseeing destinations were all interesting. The air conditioned bus was outstanding. It was always clean and cool!!! It made it a pleasure to be driven around Havana. The local tour guide as well as the Gate 1 guide (Sergio) were very informative, organized, and were fabulous at their jobs. I would highly recommend this tour to others. Despite the fact that it was only 3 days, I felt I saw so much. I got a real peek into the life of the people of Havana.

This was a wonderful trip, saw great scenery, ate delicious seafood, and learned a lot about the varying cultures inhabiting the Canadian maritime provinces. Our tour manager Karen was pleasant and quite knowledgeable. She managed to keep the crowd engaged with appropriately timed information. A definite highlight was our visit to Hopewell Rocks in the Bay of Fundy during a time when the tide rose dramatically. Peggy's Cove is also spectacular!

The trip was the highlight of our summer travels, excluding our visit with granddaughters in California. Our guide Karen was absolutely the best. I have recommended this trip to several friends, even those who don't really like bus tours. Karen made it so enjoyable. Didn't want to leave Nova Scotia behind us to return to hot, humid TX. Thank you so much for your assistance in making a beautiful memory. Hope to travel again with Gate 1.

Thank you for an awesome trip! Gate 1 can't be beat, from the tour manager (Andrew Spark was awesome!) to the visits to sites, restaurants, Cuban driver and guide, to the entire experience. Next time, I will plan the longer trip as there is so much to see. My favorites: The old cars, Fusterlandia, the performance at the Buena Vista Social Club, and lunch at the Leyendhabana Restaurant -- the food there was the best of all the restaurants! The hospitality of the Cubans is unsurpassed.

Both the Panama and the Ecuador tours were amazing! As always, we are very pleased with Gate 1 tours.

Words cannot describe what an amazing trip we had. The beauty of the Canadian Rockies is indescribable. You have to experience it to know what I'm talking about. The choice of hotels was perfect and the excursions made the trip a wonderful adventure. Our tour manager, Robyn McGregor, was exceptional in doing her job. She was so professional in that she became our advisor, our "Mom", our protector, our friend. We were so blessed to have her as our tour manager. Gate 1 has a valuable employee. It is obvious she loves her job and we were the recipients of that love. Kudos for Robyn! Our bus driver, Matthew, was a great driver. He drove that big bus with such confidence. A NASCAR driver could not have done a better job. He went above and beyond the call of duty to make sure we were comfortable and the bus was immaculate. Plus, he had an adorable personality. Again, Gate 1 has a valuable employee. We are so glad we chose the Canadian Rockies Tour to celebrate our 50th anniversary. Thank you, John, for all your help. Look forward to your expertise with another trip in the near future. By the way, our friends, Buddy and Brenda, had a wonderful time.

It was very enjoyable. We saw some awe-inspiring scenery and enjoyed our accommodations. Gate 1 is fortunate to have Robyn as a tour guide for the Canadian Rockies tour!

It was a great trip. Our guides were very good - knowledgeable & fun. The group was the best - no one complained & everyone was always on time - amazing! We enjoyed seeing Cuba as it is because we fear that once the US starts pouring money in it will loose its charm. Of course, the country really needs the money. Everyone commented on how much they enjoyed a Gate 1 tour & would use them again

We had a marvelous time. Our guide Karen was great. She was very friendly, helped us get tickets to a musical, and was there always making the trip special. We had our 11 year old granddaughter with us and the group and leader couldn't have been better with her also. We all look forward to planning our next Gate 1 trip.

Our trip was absolutely wonderful, one of our best!!! Our tour guide Robyn was outstanding as was the bus driver, Bill. The scenery, sights, and activities were better each day, if that was even possible as everything was great. The weather was spectacular, cool crisp, sunny mountain air. I will highly recommend this trip to our friends. We certainly plan to travel with Gate 1 again.

Our Classic Panama trip was awesome! It was our second Gate 1 tour and won't be our last. Everything was wonderful. Our guide Roberto was fabulous and the tours were all great! Keep up the good work and keep those trips coming!

Our trip to Panama City, Panama was very very good. Thank you very much for arranging such a wonderful trip.

This was a good trip, nice people in the group and an eye opener on the conditions in Cuba.

My trip was amazing. It exceeded my expectations. Arriving in Guatemala as a "single traveler" I must admit I was a bit nervous. But from the moment I was greeted my the driver that all went away. The guide (Stewart) met me in the AM and my adventure in Guatemala & Honduras were spectacular. I found all aspects of the experience VERY BEAUTIFUL. Our guide was very informative, Stewart took every effort to make sure that we always were engaged, enjoying and comfortable during our travels. All of the Gate 1 arrangements were easy to navigate. I found it so rewarding that I have already recommended to friends.

The trip was wonderful ... an amazingly beautiful part of our world and the weather was perfect! In particular, our guide, Tom, made it all the more interesting as he is a retired earth science teacher -- he taught us so much about the rivers, mountains, glaciers and trees and how they all tie together. He also made it fun and engaging. We saw quite a bit of wild life. Of course, as in past trips, I met some wonderful people along the way. I was very impressed with Canada in general, and the people, who are most friendly. The people there obviously enjoy and protect their environment. It was very clean. Our hotels and meals, for the most part, were also very good. I look forward to another Gate 1 adventure!

All went very well. Most spectacular scenery and wildlife. From Waterton, Glacier Park in Montana, Banff, Jasper with all the lakes, glaciers, falls, boat rides and Bow River rafting kept us most busy. Great trip and worthwhile. Thx.

It was the best! I am not prone to group guided tours. I have always ventured out on my own. Heidi and her team really made the trip informative and fun. We had a wonderful group synergy and I'm sure that that has a lot to do with the guides. I loved Cuba and all the places we got to experience. I especially loved the heart behind the trip. I am very glad you asked people to bring gifts, which I did. It was wonderful to give. Heidi really has a big heart too, and I commend her on the deep connections she has cultivated during her years of travel there. I am recommending Gate 1 to any and every one who expresses an interest in going to Cuba.

The trip was excellent. Tom was our tour manager and he was the perfect combination of professional, knowledgeable, and just an all around nice guy who made us feel comfortable and added to the enjoyment of the trip. Gate 1 is fortunate to have him as a tour manager.

Our trip to the Canadian Rockies was terrific. Our guide, Tom, was excellent. He was very knowledgeable about the geological features of the areas we visited and about Canada in general. Tom had a great sense of humor, very personable, very helpful / considerate of our comfort needs and a great ambassador for Canada. Tom started every morning on the bus with a quote and a song. On the first day of our tour, when Tom said he would do this, the group was a bit skeptical. After hearing the first quote and song, we knew his verbal and musical commentary would be fun and thought provoking as well. My favorite quote described Canada as our attic ... you don't know what beautiful things you will find until you go up there to explore. The itinerary included many stops at points of interest and experiences including the gondola at Sulphur Mountain, the cruise around Spirit Island on Maligne Lake and the Maligne Canyon, the historic hotels built by the Canadian Railway and many, many wonderful vistas. We enjoyed spectacular scenery every day and we enjoyed every minute of this adventure. We were very fortunate to have Tom as our guide. He managed our bus full of 41 travelers very well including the unexpected mechanical problems of the bus that caused a short delay one morning. We appreciate all that Tom did to make this visit to the Canadian Rockies very special for my husband and me. Thank you for great service.

I could not be more pleased. This was one of the best travel experiences I have ever had (country #38 for me) and you guys did a great job. Andrew was a great guide and tirelessly worked to make it the best trip possible. I do not know when, but I would definitely book another trip through your company in a heartbeat. Truly a great experience and my entire party was extremely pleased.

Great Trip and Great Tour Guide. I enjoyed all the sites with printed info about each (including facts about Canada). We had a fun group; met many new friends. Thanks to Gate 1 for providing good hotels, good food, comfortable transportation, excellent driver, and great tour guide (Karen). I would like to book another trip with Gate 1 in the future.