Testimonials (still being built, as the website is very new !!)
Diamond Journey have taken my hotel guests on Auckland Sightseeing Tours - the last 2 occasions being travellers from China and Canada. They were stoked with the level of service given and the Canadian Tourists mentioned that this was one of the best tours they had ever undertaken. (Col (Retd) A Kochhar (Indian Army), Manager, Airport Gateway Hotel, Kirkbride Road, Auckland) - 27 Aug 2014, uploaded to website on 3 October 2014
My wife and I came from India in Dec 2013 on a short tour to NZ and were recommended Diamond Journey Tours for a quick half day tour of Auckland, as time was short - I think we saw everything worth seeing in Auckland (including Devonport and the Naval Base) in the shortest possible time - very interesting and informative. I thoroughly recommend these tours ! - Col (Retd) Anil Heble (Indian Army), visitor from New Delhi (India) 3 Jan 2014 (uploaded to website on 3 Oct 2014)
Wonderful tour - the best I have had for a long time, very relaxing. Amazing Host, like a history teacher but more interesting ! - Matt (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) - 15 Nov 2013 (uploaded to the website on 3 Oct 2014)
23 March 2015
Dear Ashok
We reached back home safely after a wonderful trip to New Zeland.We really appreciate your effort taken, to make our trip pleasant, memorable and exiting.! Your planning and organization of the tour was splendid. We felt very homely with you and Pratiti.
It was like an extended family tour with homely atmosphere rather then a commercial tour. Your hospitality was par excellence.
Though you did not come to South Island but it was meticulously arranged and well guided by you.
Over all it was a great tour, returned back with lots of wonderful memories..
Dr Uday Muddebihal and Sally Muddebihal - Bangalore, India
26 March 2015 :
We had an amazing holiday in New Zealand in mid March of 2015.
We were fortunate to have Mr Ashok Bhat plan and organize the entire tour (North and South islands) for us well in advance. We only had to provide Ashok with a very brief description of our needs. Ashok was meticulous in his planning of hotels , transport and flights within New Zealand. He is prompt, articulate and precise with his mails and this made us feel secure and in control at all times.
The Auckland tours that he conducted for us were exciting, contemporary and full of information. One got a proper feel of the pulse of Auckland after his tours.
I have no hesitation in recommending Ashok for conceptualizing, organizing and delivering on NZ tours.
Dr. Anil Sharma
MS, FICS, FRCS (Edin), FRCS (Eng)
President Elect- Asia Pacific Hernia Society (APHS)
Examiner and Clinical Tutor - Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCS Ed)
Associate Editor - Indian Journal of Surgery (IJS)
Vice President, Indian Association of Gastrointestinal Endosurgeons ( IAGES )
Senior Consultant Surgeon
Max Institute of Minimal Access, Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery
Max Healthcare, Saket, New Delhi
From K G Venkataram and Party -USA 8 April 2015
A large group of us (11 of us) from California recently visited New Zealand and Australia to watch the world cup cricket tournament. We took the opportunity to visit some places of interest in Auckland, Rotorua and the Coromandel Cove. Ashok Bhat did a great job of recommending the places of interest and organizing the entire sight seeing tour. Right from my first interaction with Ashok, I knew I could trust him to do a wonderful job. He was very prompt with his communication, prepared a detailed itinerary after determining our needs and executed it very well. It would have been simply impossible to see everything we saw in a short period of time without Ashok's assistance. I would highly recommend Ashok to anyone who wants to visit New Zealand. They would not be disappointed.
Sabitha (Auckland), Mr and Mrs Jai (Hyderabad) - 8 November 2016
We thoroughly enjoyed the tour.
Thank you
Sabetha
From The Bhosale Family - Mumbai 12 November 2016
First off, cannot thank you enough for the wonderful itinerary and planning and running around that you did for us to make our NZ trip so memorable. There wasn't a single glitch in the way the itinerary just ran itself, as smoothly and beautifully as the tranzalpine journey!
You managed to pack in so much in our short trip and looking back we realised we had covered most of important sights of the North and South Islands.
All this with ease, so that we weren't rushing around but taking in the places at a relaxed pace.
Plus you had accommodated several pockets of time, to enable us to do our own thing, and explore the country, which is so very important to get a feel of the place, to inhabit its rhythm, and for a short while, to become one with it.
So we did the segway ride across Queenstown on a cold sunny afternoon, travelled to bungee jump and drove an hour away from christchurch to skydive.
Each one of us had something to do, something to look forward to, even with our diverse interests and temperaments.
We loved the way you managed to include the Gondola and luge in Rotura, as well as the hidden village so that we were spared of doing those in Arrowtown , and so the time opened out for us to do other things in Queenstown. Though you planned the entire trip meticulously, booking and rechecking and confirming every last detail and keeping us in the loop throughout, there were these spontaneous plans happening throughout that made the trip so much more fun and personalised.
For all the things we missed this time, we'd love to have you plan - and accompany us the next time.
Warm Regards,
The Bhosales