My wife and I booked a tour with AAT Kings which were we so excited for. It cost us over $500 which for us is a lot of money. Long story short, my wife was ill and wasn't sure she could make the tour. Even though we had booked it within a few hours, when I rang up the office they said if we couldn't make it, we would be forfeiting our $500. We didn't want to lose our $500 and we felt pressure from the AAT staff, so we got on the tour. My wife did not improve and proceeded to get much worse. She was ill repeatedly and it would have been dang...Read more

Had to get up and meet the coach at 6:50 am. Drove to another bus and had to sit on the other bus for a half an hour. Then the driver had to go to a hotel to pick up a client who was given the wrong time by attkings. So far on bus 45 minutes and only went 2or3 miles. Got up early for this.

Went to KAKADU and visited one site for pictographs. Bugs were awfull. ATTking didn't warn anyone for bug spray or head net. Waste of time at pictograph as everyone was just slapping bugs the whole time. Tour guide knew nothing about the plant names etc. ...Read more

Our group of 5 were last to be picked up from our resort so therefore had the worst pick of the small bus seats. Only seats available were over the wheel humps or right up the back row. My seat was a single over the wheel hump and being 173cm tall i had absolutely no room to put my legs other than in the aisle, therefore i was unable to wear my seat belt and was dreadfully uncomfortable for the entire journey.Upon mentioning the problem to the tour guide/driver we were more or less told that it was bad luck. I feel very angry that i had to pay...Read more

On Tues, 2 Apr 13, I booked two one day tours from Darwin, the first for Litchfield National Park on Wed, 3 Apr, and the second for Kakadu National Park - for both my wife and myself. I specifically asked and was reassured by Kimberley that although we would be picked up by a small city tour bus we would be transferred to a large coach - very important to me for the needed leg room. Turns out we were on small bus for full day! When I called to cancel the next days tour at 16:20 on 3 Apr from mobile phone while small coach returned to Darwin,...Read more

Where do I start? We have travelled with AAT Kings and APT in 2001 and 2006, both brilliant, stress free, relaxing holidays. Because of this we had no hesitation in booking our 2012 tours with both companies, at no small cost.

The fact that AAT Kings had taken over some of APT operations caused our travel documents to be delayed and were only received 3 days before our departure from the UK, after hastening our travel agent - not a good start. We booked what we thought to be organised tours, 3 Day Red Centre Highlights, 6 Day Top End Esca...Read more

On the whole the drivers were excellent, the problems occurred when my dietary needs were not accounted for on the day trips. I have a metabolic disorder (inherited) with the inability to digest sugar (raw/honey/maltodextrin/artificial sugars/glucose/fructose. I was hungry on the tours as although Flight Centre had passed this info to AAT Kings, they didn't pass this on so I basically went without.As I was half expecting this,it meant I lived on snacks for several days. Just how do you get dietary needed catered for on tours then. Planning a tr...Read more

We recently went on an escorted coach tour with AAT Kings, through both the north island and south island of New Zealand.
Ours was a low cost escorted tour but I was impressed. The driver was first class and we always felt in extremely safe and capable hands. The tour director was exceptional and several others on the coach, who had done other tours, said she was the best they had come across. Her commentaries were informative and entertaining.
I liked the way the company arranged a seat rotation also. This worked by moving up a number each d...Read more