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Superb as always - thank you so much Lloyd

It would have been good if it had flagged up on the Jaaneman Riad’s details that they serve dinner if pre-ordered. Especially for people arriving early evening. The Riad was excellent and the staff were extremely friendly and helpful. Would highly recommend it. Thank you Ewan and Lee

Thanks for your support Jed. Rwand Air were very trying

The staff onboard Titan were polite, helpful and went the extra mile. Also thank you to Mason and his wonderful team

Great as always

Pete is always brilliant

Doug, you're simply the best. All went to plan.

I've used your company several times and will continue to do so. Although not the cheapest you offer excellent service with superb communications especially, when through no fault of yours, things went a bit wrong with the airline.

Only downside of the trip was BA. Punctual smooth flights but on board was very poor; they offered us roast chicken for breakfast and quickly ran out of fruit. DialAFlight support was great.

Matthew is always brilliant. We have recommended him to so many. We feel absolutely supported on our travels and wonder why anyone makes their own bookings when they could benefit from the support given by DialAFlight

I have used your service many times and have even recommended you to other travellers during my trip

Great planning and attention to detail. Thanks again Billy

The car hire inclusion was seamless - definitely do it again and many thanks for your help and efficiency.

I will be back for further bookings

The holiday was perfect in every way and the service from you was superb. FYI flying economy class with British Airways was poor and I would never fly with BA again.

Ethan was great - very helpful.

We will definitely use the company again

Although we booked ourselves into Rosenhof Boutique Hotel Oudtshoorn South Africa and Lemoenfontein Game Lodge Beaufort West South Africa they were both very good and we would recommend these places.

We’ll do it again.

Perfect holiday arrangements. Everything went like clockwork. Jeff who we deal with was very helpful

Excellent as always.

Your personal service and problem solving was superb throughout, particularly when RwandAir kept changing their flight times at very short notice. Sorting out the mistake that RwandAir made in splitting our bookings from Lusaka to Kigali on the return flight was gold dust - I wouldn't have known what to do. Thank you very much.

Marshall was excellent, as always. I will definitely be booking with him again in the future.

Julie is top of the pops.

Warn customers about immigration time in Marrakech - 2.5 hours queuing. They may be able to book priority

Marrakech airport has horrendous passport control queues. It took 3 hrs to get through so our transfer taxi had left. It was over 2 hrs when leaving the country. Clients should be warned of the delays, as should taxis waiting for clients.

As usual great service Kirsty

Emirates flights are a bit long to get to South Africa via Dubai, but very clean, comfortable and reliably on time! TIP 1: I booked a "Low Fat Meal" and got served long before anyone else, which gave me more time to cover my eyes and sleep during the flight! TIP 2: I booked aisle seat on the inner seating so as to have just 1 person disturb my sleep during the flight. Luck had it that I have nobody seated next to me on any of the 4 flights!

It would have been helpful to get more information about the trek. We received some great info by Altezza - but only upon arrival.

Fantastic holiday only gripe is there was no transfer from hotel to airport arranged on way back

Colourful Bangkok

A taste for Bangkok

Bangkok is more than just a stopover, as Isabelle King discovers on a culinary tour...

Bangkok is known as a stopover – somewhere to spend a few hedonistic hours before going on to the coast. Well, that may have been true 20 years ago. Now it's a place to linger.

Zoom up Silom road - through the commercial district - towards the shopping centres of Siam Square to see how the city has flourished.

The Skytrain monorail moves silently overhead. Designer labels abound. The shiny Siam Paragon shopping centre has a car park just for supercars.

Then there's Asiatique, a bustling night market of 1,500 shops on the banks of the Chao Phraya River.

Handicrafts and trinkets sit alongside fashion boutiques and gadgets and nothing closes before midnight. If you are laden with goodies, as I am, a fleet of tuk-tuks is waiting outside.

Racing away, we fly over holes in the road. A dramatic swerve and a loud judder tell me we've arrived back at the swanky Mandarin Oriental. They've seen it all here.

From writer Somerset Maugham, bedridden with malaria, to Mick Jagger insisting the windows in the royal suite be blacked out and Billy Idol wrecking his room completely.

Dining on the riverfront at the Mandarin Oriental

Celebs aside, the hotel has a cooking school and I take a class with chef Narain. A kaleidoscope of ingredients is laid out before us. Those we know: ginger, lime leaves; fish sauce, lemongrass. And those we don't, the tiny butterfly pea – a flower from which a brilliant blue dye can be used to colour desserts.

We watch, ask questions and taste. Then attempt Siamese baked desserts (small, dome-shaped pancakes); braised pork; fiery tom yum soup and a salad of grapefruit-like pomelo.

I slice, chop, juice and pummel. Chef Narain chats away. Chillies, it turns out, are a matchmaking tool. 'Mothers looking for a suitable wife for their sons spy on the neighbour's daughters to assess the speed with which they grind the spice,' he laughs. 'The faster the grinding, the better wife she will make.'

Food is a big deal in Bangkok. Take the Skytrain to Thong Lor and Sukhumvit Soi 38, a line of steamy, noisy, kitchens-on-wheels. There can be no better initiation to Thai street food.

Grab a wobbly table and gobble sticky rice with mango, curries, pad Thai, squid and duck. Delicious.

First published in the Daily Mail - June 2016

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