Top-quality and imaginative tour management Top-quality ground agents, and an experienced UK tour director, are essential to success. Spectate had both these. The idea of visitng the Dalai Lama for a private audience, months in the planning, was inspired. The only downside was the England cricket team's terrible performance in the Test at Dharamshala!

Recently returned from our fourth ODI… Recently returned from our fourth ODI cricket tour with Spectate/ICT. We had a wonderful experience despite one match being rained off. Many thanks to our excellent hosts Richard Nurse and John and Chrissie Lever for making sure everything went smoothly as expected. Thanks also to the lovely Emma Fountain for organising and booking the tour and going the extra mile to ensure we booked the trip we wanted. Bryan and Tina Hucker

Horse Racing in Mauritius A marvellous experience arranged for us by Emma at Spectate. We were collected from our hotel in a comfortable vehicle and with a most interesting driver/guide who made the 1 hour journey to the Champ De Mars racecourse in Port Louis really enjoyable. We were then met by a racecourse official who gave us a tour of the facilities and then took us to the Members area where a table had been reserved for us. He explained how everything worked and said he would look in on us from time to time, which he did. We had a great afternoon there and even got a couple of winners, and were then whisked back to the hotel by our driver. Would definitely recommend,

Irish Guineas week end What could be nicer than 4 days in Ireland, in the sunshine, visiting two major studs and The Guineas meeting at The Curragh🐎🐎? We stayed at the Horse and Jockey near Thurles then a couple of nights at the Kilashee Hotel 20 minutes or so from The Curragh both on dinner, bed and breakfast. Emma, the Spectate representative, met us at Dublin airport, looked after us and returned us back to the airport at the end of our trip. Busy few days, meeting new chums, all with similar interests, good atmosphere, another day might have been nice........ Coolmore and Kildangan studs🐎🐎 were such a treat, we met some fantastic stallions and one very special little foal. Thank you to both studs for making us so welcome and of course a visit to Ireland wouldn't be complete without a glass or two of the black stuff. 🍻Cheers, hope to see you all again soon.

Great sporting event, well organized Everything about the trip went well. There was a late change of hotel, but this was personally explained to us in good time before departure. Local arrangements were well handled by Spectate's excellent representative, Emma Fountain, and the event fully lived up to expectations.