Reviews of STS Tours (Travel Agency)

Andrea Makkay

Mark and Gail at STS tours are really the best! As a tour guide, I work with many travel agencies and tour operators and I really can say that their precise ad careful work of planning the trips is the key to their success!!! They always make sure that the clients have the best trip, service and itinerary. I can just highly recommend them to all the travellers out there! Andrea Makkay (tour guide - Budapest/Hungary)

John Varacalli

Great to deal with! We have been working hand and hand with this company for over four years! I highly recommend!

Laurie Mitchell

Our school has traveled with STS for the past 20 years and has always had excellent, authentic, caring and wonderful service. They deliver a personal touch, go the extra mile to ensure a smooth trip from customized itinerary, transfers, daily agendas, step by step maps and details to guarantee worry free travel. When you choose STS you are not just a contact and a number - you are a valued customer with a name. I have compared their service and prices to other larger companies and STS comes out on top in every area every time.

Dawn Van Skiver

Our STS trip was amazing. Mark helped us to plan and edit our trip as fit our individual needs. He was very accommodating and understanding of what our particular group required. The trip itself went well. The guides and transportation were high quality, well trained, very knowledgeable and passionate about their country. There was someone to meet us at the airport, take us on all our excursions and then take us back to the airport, making sure all we had to do was make sure our group was together. We enjoyed our trip so much we are planning another one with STS Tours.

Cheryl Lee Causley

What a fabulous experience working with STS Tours! As a teacher, I have worked with them on school trips to New York (3 times) and London, England. Other colleagues from my school have used them as well. Excellent, detailed itineraries with lots of flexibility and personal choice on what we think is best for our student group. Mark, Barry, and Gail are incredibly organized, personable, detail-oriented, flexible and patient! They are experts on travel and on what they think would best suit our goals for each trip and what students might enjoy; I value their suggestions. After relocating to Istanbul from Vancouver, I still use them and just had an excellent trip to London. I can not recommend them enough! The personal touch and ability to contact them at anytime is a bonus! Thank you so much for your hard work, professionalism and wonderful, memorable trips! Cheryl Causley Crofton House School, Vancouver, Canada/ UAA Secondary School, Istanbul, Turkey.

Jennifer Davies

Our school has travelled with Sts Tours more than 10 times to both Canadian and American locations . All Tours have been absolutely phenomenal. The planning which goes into every event on the trip is extraordinary. This tour group definitely understands what it is like to plan trips for students. We appreciate the care for details put into each day for our students. We are thankful there is a travel group which operates with this high level of professionalism in Canada. I would absolutely recommend to any school or community group to work with Sts Tours.

J Gillis

I have had the privilege of planning and undertaking four trips to New York City with STS Tours. My first trip with them was back in 2006 and my most recent was just last year for Springbreak 2019. This is absolutely the BEST tour company to plan a school trip! Unlike other "corporate" companies, STS provides individualized trip planning that never foregoes quality over profit. Every trip that I have taken with STS has been carefully planned with Mark or Barry and they have always managed to accommodate all of my requests. I have thoroughly enjoyed the "one on one" planning and the tremendous hard work that has gone into making all four of my trips AMAZING!!!!!! From start to finish - planning and undertaking a trip with STS tours is the way to go, I guarantee you will never consider the "corporate tour companies" ever again.

Christine Paget

In June 2019 we traveled with 25 students to Poland, Germany, and France for an 11 day World War Two, Juno Beach 75th anniversary, and Holocaust Memorial Tour using STS Tours as our Tour Company. The tour was fantastic. All of the travel plans were customized – we saw what we really wanted to see, and nothing of what we didn’t want to see. The tour was private – we weren’t lumped together with other groups on buses or in hotels. The hotels we stayed in were centrally located and an easy walkable distance to attractions and markets to let the students safely explore the city without ever having them too far away. The hotels were also of excellent quality - comfortable, clean, modern, and nice without exception. The tour was brilliantly planned, transitions were easy, everything was fun and interesting, and it had the right balance of activities and free time. What made it better than the larger tour companies we’ve worked with before was the customization – not just the activities but the whole tour itself! We weren’t stuck on a route that was already planned, we chose our countries and cities. We didn’t get bumped or lumped with other groups. We weren’t stuck in a hotel way out on some highway with nothing to do in the evenings. The whole thing was exactly how we wanted it AND it was exactly $500 per student LESS expensive than the big tour companies. We will be using STS Tours from now on. The tour was simply better than the competitors, hands down. -Rosie Thind, Trevor Stead, Christine Paget at West Vancouver Secondary School

Doug Schellenberg

I have had the privilege to travel using STS tours on two major trips. I have found their staff to be a great resource to the amateur and experienced traveller. They organize trips to your specific needs and will pass on any savings once the date arrives back to your group. I really appreciate the local, one on one, personal style of service. They get to know you and you get to know them. Once on a tour they are but a call away should you need them and their contacts in other cities are extremely professional and provide your group with the best tours and historical information. If your school group/organization is looking to organize a tour I would immediately recommend STS tours as your first choice - my only choice -- as I am planning my third tour to Costa Rica 2018, with them right now. Doug Schellenberg - Teacher, Burnsview Secondary

Heather Dodge

Mark with STS was awesome for our high school NYC art trip. He was actually present in NYC during the whole tour, and happily joined us on some of our activities. The trip went perfectly, and he was great at helping us make changes to our itinerary for bad weather. His enthusiasm and knowledge made our trip that much better. We'll be happily booking with STS for our next trip!