Christine Stranger - Travel Professional

Wherever in the world you wish to go I would love to assist you with your travel.

My career in photography has been followed by an another exciting career in the travel industry. This has enabled me to visit and live in many locations in the world.

I have travelled extensively over the years to many exciting destinations. I am passionate about Europe having lived in Greece, France and London for many years. I have so many favourites its difficult to choose.

Due to my many years in Europe I have been lucky enough to have toured France extensively and am particularly interested in the history of the Normandy area of France, I have visited the war cemeteries and all the Normandy beaches where the D Day invasions took place. Then there's the rest of France, the stunning Loire valley, and the magical French Riviera where I spent many months in St Tropez.

Greece is another favourite, having been to most of the Greek Islands, Santorini is spectacular. There is something magical about eating Calamari and drinking the local retsina under the bougainvillea in Greece.

In 2010 I travelled to Andalucía in Spain to the stunning cities of Seville and Granada and stayed in the Algarve in Portugal where my family live, see my Portugal page.

To other areas of the world. Bali holds a special place in my heart. I holiday there yearly and also enjoy Phuket when time allows.

Other destinations I have experienced are Malaysia, San Francisco, Honolulu, Curacao and the gorgeous Pacific Islands being Rarotonga Tahiti, Fiji and Vanuatu. There are so many more places on the wish list.

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Testimonials:

Charleen & Glen

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Hi Christine,

Regards
Jo

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Good morning Christine,

Our tickets and travel documents arrived this morning. No problems with the flights from Auckland to Rarotonga, that is completely fine.

We would like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you for you assistance with our travel. Rest assured we will be using you again. I turn 30 next year, Lawson asked me the other day what I would like to do, and of course I said "let's travel overseas". He's just as happy with that as I am, so we will be in touch with you soon.

Thanks again Christine, and have a nice day.

Best regards
Kellee and Lawson.

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Hi Christine,

I arrived back on the weekend. It was on my mind to send you a note to let you know that the trip was great. In particular I think the success can be put down to the excellent organisation and leadership by the Cosmos Tour Director, a Spaniard called Angel. He was superb and ensured an enjoyable time. For future reference, I am guessing but I think, the average age was around 55 to 65 there were a few around my age, three younger girls in their late 20’s and several older people.

The group was made up of half American, half Australian with Singaporean, Malay and South African thrown in. Nothing is perfect but it all worked. Thanks so much for your efficiency and help to arrange, I really appreciate it, Cheers, Suzanne.

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Hi Christine.

May I take this opportunity to thank you so very much for all your efforts in firstly making this booking for us, and secondly, your efforts over the past 10 days when everything 'turned to custard' due to my accident. I would most certainly use your company again, if they'll have me after this debacle, and if I could deal with you again, all the better.

Regards,
Stan

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Hi Christine,

I just wanted to say thank you for all your help with my Italian Trip.

I had a wonderful time with no dramas and saw plenty of awesome sites.
Hope your trip was everything you expected and that you were not effected by the Volcano or political unrest.

The Hotel in Milan was basic, clean, very nice people and good breakfast. All good for the price I thought.

My Hotel in Amalfi (Il Nido) was excellent, fantastic views, very comfortable good size rooms, helpful staff, clean and good breakfast, all in all a very good deal for the price. Thought you might want to know for your trip next year.

Best regards
Cathy

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Hi Christine,

The Croatia tour was great. The hotels and coach very good; the guide left something to be desired- all the group agreed on this but apart from that and of course, worrying about family at home in ChCh as we arrived in London at almost the exact time the earthquake struck so this did put a dampener on things.

The scenery was great and the local guides provided were very good. Could definitely recommend the tour. Thank you for suggesting it.

David & Gloria

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Hi Christine,

THE CHINA HIGHLIGHTS TOUR - OCTOBER 2010

Admittedly excellent weather throughout made it possible to enjoy everything in a pleasantly warm environment but beyond that we were very impressed. Our days were packed but not too packed, the sights were very well selected, we were well organized by the guides and the local guides were very knowledgeable and fully attentive to our needs and interests, no hassles with tickets and few with queues, the pre booked live shows were excellent and the additional “Impressions” show that was recommended was spectacular. Our hotels were good to excellent – only one bed was harder than we could comfortably manage – and the food was by and large very good.

Well done. Please find a way to thank all concerned very much for great service and good value.

Regards Philippa and Johannes

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Hi Christine,

Just wanted to thank you for all the hard work you put into the Italy tour. there definitely was a huge amount of details and thought you had to put in to make that trip work! all went spectacularly well, was a once in a life time holiday for the Amalfi Coast. also, Puglia was very, very interesting.

Matera and the Sassi (and the hotel with the swimming pool in the basement that ran thru 3 caves!) were fabulous and the trulli houses were also quite amazing, the host there was superb, very nice young Italian lady.  Would highly recommend both the Sassi hotel and the Alberobello b and b.

Ravello was an wonderful town, the symphonies in the Villa Rufalo were superb and a wonderful end to a day. wish we could have heard more of them.

All of the drivers and transfers were very professionally handled, was impressed. would not want to drive a car over there!!

The Sassi is a city that everyone should see in their lifetime, very amazing place. could have easily spent even more time there it was so fascinating. The city guide we had there, unfortunately I can't remember her name either, was very good, gave an excellent personable tour.

Naples was interesting, had heard it was a dump but actually it was just old........what else would one expect from the historic centre of a European city!

Glad you briefed us on what to expect when walking into the hotel, the hotel was, as you said, beautiful inside once you got past the entrance way.  Was very glad to have had the extra days to see Naples (we skipped Capri as the weather was awful for those couple of days and my wife gets seasick so we decided against the ferry, would have to have gone to Sorrento to get it as the seas were way too rough in Positano for the ferry to get in).

All in all, I would highly recommend the tour as you put it together. great selection of cities, hotels, guides.

Thanks for all your effort and look forward to meeting you and your husband in January if that can work out okay with your schedule.

Best regards

Rick

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Good morning Christine

Holiday was a great success.  Enjoyed Globus tour and the only moan would have that with the transfer to Madrid airport Globus were late, but fortunately had printed off the Ryan air boarding passes before we left Auckland and managed to catch flight with about 5 minues to spare so stress levels were up!

Croisi Crotia cruise was excellent and no problems with speaking French as everything was said in both English and French.   All the comments I read on tripadvisor are not accurate at all.  It's a lovely area and the timing we spent at each at each port was just right with plenty of time to see everything.  One thing that we did notice that every place we visited was on how clean it was.   As usual enjoyed our time in London but glad we are not there at the moment!

Once again many thanks for arranging a great holiday and will be touch again as we are thinking Hawaii for next year.!


Regards Jan

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Thank you Christine,

We had a fabulous trip. Would recommend the Aston Waikiki Beach hotel to anyone. Great location.

Thanks again,

Bruce & Helen

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Hi Christine,

We loved The Little Polynesian in Rarotonga and were upgraded to a sea front room - the day bed was just fantastic.  The snorkeling was great - so many fish and a little coral further out. Kayaking and swimming was good. We even saw some humpback whales from our room one afternoon.

The provided breakfast was great with fresh fruit, cereals, toast - more than adequate - had a fruit platter prepared for us the night before our early departure the next morning. Dinners there were average and highly priced we thought after trying different resturants.

The rooms were kept spotless and the turn down/tidy up evening service was lovely. Enjoyed the large shower and spa bath in our court yard. Alex and all the staff we met were very friendly and helpful. Just the relaxing break we needed.

Everything went smoothly - thank you Christine!!!

Regards Peter & Jacky