Most Inspirational Moment
Seeing the ancient monuments and magnificent churches along with stunning scenery.
Thoughts on Group Leader
NA
Advice for Potential Travellers
Not a huge choice for vegetarians at dinner in the hotel.
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great gozo
A great holiday. Ta chenc is a lovely hotel. Single storey buildings with very spacious room and bathroom.
A fabulous choice of food at breakfast with plenty of choice for dinner.
Staff very friendly and helpful.
Gozo is laid back with a very good public transport system to get you to start walks.
Gozo go slow
An ideal escape, even in the winter months when the sun is not so reliable.
Most Inspirational Moment
I'm really pleased to look at the map of Gozo and know that I have walked virtually all of it. The walk booklet led me across the island in all directions but knowing that it was very hard to get lost gave me more freedom to explore 'off piste'.
Thoughts on Group Leader
Not applicable
Advice for Potential Travellers
The Ta Cenc hotel was very welcoming and the rooms comfortable and heated! The spa was a bit tired but the heated pool a must. Staff were lovely. Winter in Gozo was okay but it would have been even nicer in the spring. As a single female traveller I felt very safe.
Gozo; self-guided walking holiday Feb.2016
Excellent Hotel (La Cence). Lovely weather Walking was excellent. Food great. Peopl,e very nice and very friendly.
Most Inspirational Moment
Cliff walks.
Thoughts on Group Leader
N/A
Advice for Potential Travellers
Go to Gozo Don't hire cars. Use the buses - the service is cheap and covers everywhere, regularly.
Exploring Gozo - Calypso's Isle
Great holiday to take in Feb to get away from wet cold UK. Easy walking with a beautiful coastline, hilltop villages and lots of churches to visit.
The hotel was amazing, with cottage style rooms in the gardens, delicious food and a great Spa & Pool.
The local bus stopped outside and we used the local buses to walk in different parts of the island, so convenient and very good value. We did all the suggested walks, we saw some beautiful views and the route notes were all excellent.
Most Inspirational Moment
Arriving at San Blas bay having walked down a very steep hill, the beauty of the small, sandy, rocky cove in the sunshine was breathtaking. It was well worth the effort of the descent and subsequent ascent (by a different route) (Bays and Towers walk- we did it on our last day too and had seen almost all the island)
Thoughts on Group Leader
N/A self guided
Calypso isle
Lovely hotel even if had to share with film crew.
Staff helpful and attentive.
Pool very relaxing
Enjoyed the spa and facilities
Most Inspirational Moment
Hard to answer this
Thoughts on Group Leader
Not applicable
Advice for Potential Travellers
Make sure no film crew in residence!
Reply from Exodus
We would like to thank Jacqueline for her review. We were very sorry to learn that her holiday was affected by the film currently being shot in the area surrounding her hotel and we have responded to her directly on the matter.
luxury hotel to return to after lovely island walks
a week of luxury and lovely walks on this quiet and relaxed island
Most Inspirational Moment
walking through the beautiful spring flowers with the pounding sea in our ears. Amazing cliff walks the food in the hotel was amazing. heated pool was great. walking through the local's fields and being given freshly picked oranges to enjoy at lunch
Thoughts on Group Leader
self guided - good map and notes, helpful and very friendly locals if needed
Advice for Potential Travellers
getting the local bus is easy, get a map from the ferry/bus station in the capitol and buy a week ticket for just a few euros so that it is easy to hop on and off. There is a hotel shuttle to Victoria but the local bus is also convenient. take clothing that will still fit after a week of 3 course meals and enormous, well stocked buffet breakfast.
The Adventure of Being Lost in Gozo
I was given much misinformation when booking this tour. I am not fond of running into loose dogs, when alone on trails. I was told that no reports had been made of participants encountering dogs and that there was a leash law on the island. I was accosted by dogs on 3 separate walks in a week. Other fellow walkers had the same experience. Exodus outsourced everything to Headwaters and there seemed to be little if any communication between the companies. I was told that I would be the only one on the trip, although I was told at an earlier point that there would be 8 others. Why book a tour, if you will be totally alone? The walking tours book was useless. I was unable to complete any of the walks as indicated.
Most Inspirational Moment
I loved the walk along the cliffs to Xlendi, until the winds starting picking up and I couldn't find the path down to the village. The prehistoric megaliths in Ggantija and Mjandra were awesome!
Thoughts on Group Leader
There was no group leader. A man named George handed us some paperwork, coordinated our departure schedule and then disappeared.
Advice for Potential Travellers
My advice is to book the hotel on your own and buy a walking trails book on Gozo. The book provided by Exodus (Headwaters) was totally inadequate and who knows if it has ever been updated. All of the walkers using this book were lost and called the book "rubbish". You will save money and have less wasted time and frustration by booking on your own. I was provided with no value add by booking through Exodus. I feel totally ripped off, since I could have booked the hotel with meals and transfers for less than half of what I paid to Exodus. I never got to see many of the sites that I walked my butt off to see.
Reply from Exodus
We are aware that there may have been some confusion over Bonnie’s expectations on this self-guided departure and we have contacted her directly about this. We are very confident in our route notes for this trip; they are checked on a regular basis and there have not been problems with them before, but we regret that Bonnie was so disappointed.
Calypso's Isle
We’ve just returned from a week in the stunning Ta’Cenc Hotel on the cliffs of the south coast of Gozo, which was a last-minute booking and proved to be an excellent choice. We had a very comfortable room which opened out onto the poolside, in this well designed single storey complex of rooms and trulli, in its own landscape of limestone and flowers. While the weather was quite warm and sunny, there was always a breeze (or more) which stopped us using the pools, but there was also a spa with warm in/outdoor pool and all facilities – the perfect end to a day of walking. The food was superb, with buffet breakfasts and four course dinners, and the service was immaculate.
The holiday is self-guided and we did most of the walks suggested by Exodus, sometimes bumping into other hotel guests on the way; the walk notes we’d been given were so detailed we never got lost. But we did miss the group activity that are such a feature of the previous Exodus group holidays we’d been on and that people benefit enormously from.
The hotel had a courtesy bus into the main town Victoria, from where local buses went out to all the villages, so we either caught them or walked from the hotel. The cliff walks were amazing and the flowers a myriad of colours; the views were stunning. The limestone quarrying and the salt pans fascinated us but we were upset by the evidence everywhere of the shooting of migrating birds.
Being early in the season, some of the villages were sleepy, but there are many fine churches and archaeological sites to visit, as well as the citadel and museums in Victoria. We liked the folklore museum in Gharb and it was good to hire bikes and explore the villages (though the drivers are crazy!). It would have been easy to have a day on Malta by bus and ferry but we had no time.
Most Inspirational Moment
Climbing steep rock-cut steps out of Xlendi bay among all flowers of all colours, to catch the view at the top. The view from the bell tower in the church at Xewkija and the bells tolling right above our heads!
Thoughts on Group Leader
Self-guided.