“Great birding trip with a good mixture of walking and traveling most days. Guides were knowledgeable and there were extras like a Great Barrier Reef boat trip with snorkeling. I like that the company offsets its carbon footprint. Highly recommend Eagle Eye.”
“Our Australia guide, Barry Davies, is not only a bird expert, but reads people well and adjusts accordingly. He also has built great relationships with local contacts, from other guides right through to restaurant wait staff, which added to the whole tour experience.”
“A wonderful experience seeing the migrations of Whooping Cranes and many other birds. We were fortunate to find a large flock of Whooping Cranes on our first day. Our guides were very knowledgeable and strove to show us as much variety as possible.”
“I was very happy with this tour - it was a real adventure! I loved the contact with the communities and the excellent presentations and workshops on board to give us the background of the area and people. The booking done through Eagle Eye went well and Kirsten did and excellent job. Thank you.”
“This trip was one of my best so far. My Arctic trip was well-organized, and I had all the information I needed, with a lot of extras. Communications were easy and prompt. It was easy to get insurance quotes. My questions were answered right away. I will definitely travel with Eagle-Eye again.”
“Personal help all the way through.The tour we went on was perfectly suited to us,and our guide Alex Lamoreaux was superb.I would recommend this company to anyone.”
“Alberta Birds and Dinosaurs Tour - excellent tour, highlighted by Nick and Jody our enthusiastic, knowledgeable and accommodating guides. I felt well looked after by email by Kerstin in client services. From registration to windup dinner a successful tour. I plan on the Rocky Mountain tour with Eagle Eye next year. Behind the scenes tour at Tyrrell was fantastic, adding new birds to my list also great, however I must say the people associated with Eagle Eye are also a standout. Thank you.”
“Eagle-Eye Tours is an excellent company with a proven commitment to authentic adventure travel. I had great communication with their staff in the planning of this trip. Adventure Canada is also an excellent company with years of experience in adventure travel and access to a wide range of highly qualified resource experts and local contacts. Unfortunately bad weather on this trip posed numerous challenges to the AC staff who were constantly having to react to the weather and modify itineraries. Consequently we were unable to experience many of the anticipated highlights. AC staff worked hard to arrange the best possible alternative itineraries at short notice under challenging circumstances.”
“Good sample of Newfoundland birds and landscapes. Good response to bad weather: travel and museum periods. Good picnic lunch fixings, and evening restaurants with local simple charm and cuisine (fish fresh). I would have preferred earlier dinners due to medical problem (GERD) when going to bed shortly after dinner. But early bedtime hour was needed due to early birding start the next day. (Not everyone in group had my problem.) I would have preferred a little more time on marine bird nesting colonies (one was in pouring, wind-driven rain), as I can see most of the upland species at home in Maine (although boreal chickadee and blackpoll are uncommon here). Overall, an excellent trip, and compatible group.”
“Tour on the small cruise ship Ocean Endeavor advertised as "adventure travel" included multiple 4-9 hour bus tours to land-based sites. These trips had 50+ folks on board. These trips were in complete contrast to a tour by Adventure Canada on the same ship 2 years ago ("Arctic Safari") to West Greenland/Baffin Island/Resolute) where the "adventure" spirit was MUCH more in evidence. The inclusion of so many bus excursions on the North Atlantic tour was not adequately described in the preliminary tour info packet, in our opinion. Other aspects of the tour such as interpretive lectures (geology, local history, birds, marine mammals, plants, and the arts), meals, accomodations, and ship entertainment, were indeed excellent, as on our Arctic Safari tour. So, in our opinion, if the spirit of adventure travel does not include coach tours, we might advise you to inquire very closely with the tour operators on this particular journey, in order to ensure you pair the best possible tour to your particular interests.”
Dear Andy and Ellen,
Thank you very much for your feedback. We are pleased to hear you enjoyed the presentations, meals, accommodations, etc. Based on this feedback, we will endeavour to do a better job of describing the shore excursions for this tour in our online material.
Thank you again!
Best wishes,
Cam
President
Eagle-Eye Tours
“The narwhal and polar bear trip was great. The place was stunning and the guides looked after us well. A few minor gripes but nothing considering we were camping on an ice flow off northern Baffin Island.”
“It is not easy to offer a comfortable, safe trip to the flow edge on Baffin Inlet but Eagle-Eye did a fantastic job of putting me in the right place to see narwhal, polar bear, bowhead whale and all the other exciting wildlife.”
“The tour guides were wonderful, knowledgeable and clearly passionate about birding and the opportunity to share it with others. All the stops were interesting and combined birding with geology and local knowledge. We were very impressed and had a great time.”
“I'm a birder. So my review must be seen in this context. I had chosen this trip as an introduction to birding on the North American continent. So my priority was birding everything else was secondary. My birding experience was incredible. The accommodation was comfortable and never far from the birding locations we visited. However as I don’t eat meat, I was concerned about meals and their content. My concern was unwarranted.”
“This was a great trip. The guides, Ernesto and Lev, were very knowledgeable and professional. I'm giving this trip a 5 star rating because of the abundance of wonderful birds we saw and for the tenacity with which the guides sought them out. I did not like the Paraiso Quetzal Lodge in the cloud forest. The weather in the cloud forest is rainy and cold and our room was a long way from the main lodge itself, down a steep hill. Also, the rooms are not heated (there is a very small space heater in each, but it is not enough to make the stay anyway near enjoyable). Everyone wants to see the Resplendent Quetzal, and seeing one here is almost guaranteed, so that's why this location was chosen.”
“Both leaders did excellent jobs of coordinating the logistics, driving the vehicles, including everyone in the activities, and making the tour FUN! On top of all that, they are both excellent birders and birding leaders. This is the first birding tour that I've been on that I wished could be longer. Other tours in the past have not been so.....to the point that on several I wished them done sooner than scheduled. Kudos to Eagle Eye for setting up the accommodations and logistics.”
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