My family (wife and 2 daughters aged 16 and 7) wanted to visit Islamic Spain this July. We were looking for a guided tour in order to learn and understand the history of Islamic Spain. We searched the internet and sent emails to a few websites advertising such tours.
www. Islamic-tours.com was one such website. Our first email correspondence with Adam Haque (Destination Manager Europe & Middle East tours – as per email title) was on 28/01/2016. He invited us to join the 'Al-Andalus Gems Islamic Spain' educational heritage tour. He was willing to accommodate us during the dates we requested. He shared the proposed itinerary, the cost and services to be provided.
The cost (for 8 days) for the 4 of us was GBP 2317 excluding airfare. We paid 80% of the cost in April 2016 via bank transfer and the balance GBP 480 we paid in cash to Adam Haque on arrival on 15 July 2016 at the Madrid airport.
The final itinerary for 7 days (it had been changed since emailed to us a few weeks before) was as follows:
Friday night and Saturday day – Madrid
Transfer to Seville on Saturday night
Saturday night to Monday night at Seville
Tuesday visit Cordoba on route to Granada
Tuesday to Thursday night in Granada
Friday morning transfer to Madrid to catch the flight on Friday afternoon.
GENERAL OBSERVATION AND WARNING
www. islamic-Tours.com is a misleading website. It portrays a service of a structured organization providing many tours across several Muslim countries employing professional tour guides and operators. However in reality Islamic -Tours is a one man show.
Adam Haque destination manager as introduced to us also happens to be known as Emad – the Director of Islamic tours.com. This came to light during our tour when we met an old acquaintance of Adam Haque alias Emad.
Adam (Emad) is a man with limited knowledge of history. He is a man with poor management and organizational skills. He has a loud and aggressive personality not suitable at all for the job of a guide. And worst of all, he is not honest, does not keep to his word and twists and turns what he says to suite his own convenience.
SPECIFIC ISSUES in relation to services promised and services delivered
Islamic Tours Reviews
My family (wife and 2 daughters aged 16 and 7) wanted to visit Islamic Spain this July. We were looking for a guided tour in order to learn and understand the history of Islamic Spain. We searched the internet and sent emails to a few websites advertising such tours.
www. Islamic-tours.com was one such website. Our first email correspondence with Adam Haque (Destination Manager Europe & Middle East tours – as per email title) was on 28/01/2016. He invited us to join the 'Al-Andalus Gems Islamic Spain' educational heritage tour. He was willing to accommodate us during the dates we requested. He shared the proposed itinerary, the cost and services to be provided.
The cost (for 8 days) for the 4 of us was GBP 2317 excluding airfare. We paid 80% of the cost in April 2016 via bank transfer and the balance GBP 480 we paid in cash to Adam Haque on arrival on 15 July 2016 at the Madrid airport.
The final itinerary for 7 days (it had been changed since emailed to us a few weeks before) was as follows:
Friday night and Saturday day – Madrid
Transfer to Seville on Saturday night
Saturday night to Monday night at Seville
Tuesday visit Cordoba on route to Granada
Tuesday to Thursday night in Granada
Friday morning transfer to Madrid to catch the flight on Friday afternoon.
GENERAL OBSERVATION AND WARNING
www. islamic-Tours.com is a misleading website. It portrays a service of a structured organization providing many tours across several Muslim countries employing professional tour guides and operators. However in reality Islamic -Tours is a one man show.
Adam Haque destination manager as introduced to us also happens to be known as Emad – the Director of Islamic tours.com. This came to light during our tour when we met an old acquaintance of Adam Haque alias Emad.
Adam (Emad) is a man with limited knowledge of history. He is a man with poor management and organizational skills. He has a loud and aggressive personality not suitable at all for the job of a guide. And worst of all, he is not honest, does not keep to his word and twists and turns what he says to suite his own convenience.
SPECIFIC ISSUES in relation to services promised and services delivered