APF Travel Inc

A Google User (10.03.2009 02:42)
After spending nearly seven grand, my wife & I just came back from a 10 days trip to Brazil & Argentina. The entire trip including airline tickets, hotel accommodation, ground transportation, as well as the tourist visa to Brazil was all arranged & booked through APF.

My overall empression for APF is that they don't care about anything & only care about getting the customers to pay first. APF demands that you pay first with credit card over the phone and the balance via check right away or they can't confirm your airline tickets or hotel accomodation. We had to prepaid APF without seeing the bill first (reason from APF: because their accounting system can't issue invoice prior to issuing tickets)??? I never saw our tickets either!!!

Tourist visa to Brazil costs $135/person -> APF charged $175/person + $50 service charge if they couldn't get the visa for you in time. (You have to prepaid APF before they submit the visa application) lead-time: 2 weeks

APF advertised that the hotels are 4 stars...and the hotels we stayed in Brazil & Argentia were 2 stars. Hotel rooms were old, with tiny bathrooms, one room we stayed at even came with bed bugs & huge cockroaches. Phone & internet rates at these hotels were outrageous!! One good thing about these hotels were their locations... They are strategically located in the middle of crime infested downtown area therefore, an evening walk around the block is out of the question!

Most of the locations visited during the tour were of free admissions. Places such as parks, museums, churches, beaches, memorials, & shopping mall. You must pay out of your own pocket for other activities or you'll just have to wait it out. i.e.: we're left at a shopping mall in Rio de Janerio for 3+ hours because we didn't want to pay $175/person for Paragliding. 3+ hours at the shopping mall would be great if the stores were open (We found out that all the stores were closed due to The Carnival after we walked into the shopping mall).

The food & meals were not up to par either....we mostly ate at the same Chinese & Brazilian BBQ resturants everyday. Chinese food were terrible since the cooks were local NOT Chinese.

My fellow trevalers & I will never book another trip through APF. I hope you take my advise and take your biz else where.

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