If you have taken Big E's tour, can you please send your comments (good or bad) via one of the methods on the Contact page. All comments are appreciated and all will be used to constructively enhance and improve the quality of the tour.

Comments are summarised below, with only the first name and home city/country of the customer making the comment, as confidentiality will be maintained. When necessary, Big E's response to a customer's comments will be shown as well.

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Thank you!
Big E

"Thank you very much for our tour of West Belfast yesterday. As you know, we have been to Belfast several times before and have done the bus tour, but we found your taxi tour to be a totally unique way of seeing the city. Your policy of having two guides, to speak for both communities, is an excellent one, and meant that we got a really honest picture of the events of the last few hundred years! I will recommend your tours to anyone I know who is visiting Belfast in the future. I think that yours is one of the friendliest cities I have ever been to, and you and your colleague yesterday proved this to be true."

Stephen
Merseyside

"It's now about two weeks since we took your tour, and we keep thinking of this experience all the time...we are very impressed by our jouney with you...we really think that everybody should have the opportunity to take your tour...thank you for the great experience we were allowed to have with you!"

Anna and Frank
Germany

"Many thanks for your tour. I grew up with Belfast in the news at night. Your commentary gave us all an insight we could never get on the other side of the world. To see the streets we had only seen on television. To hear the stories, to see life carrying on and the hope for peace was a privilege none of us took lightly. Your obvious passion for Belfast, knowledge of history and an ability to communicate to your clients is something special. We wish you well and recommend your tour to anyone interested in your city."

Sue
NZ

"We are a family of four with two teenagers and we were all appreciative of such an educational tour. We were promptly met by Big E, as pre-arranged via his contact page email. Big E was professional, informative, and fair. We were very impressive."

Michelle
Washington (DC)

"I have travelled all over the world and taken dozens of tours, but the tour of Belfast with you has been the best ever! Your tour cost me only £8stg as part of the group, and it was definitely £8stg well spent. Thank you again for the great tour of Belfast."

Jason
Australia

"Thank you Big E for your very informative political tour of Belfast. You gave our group a very detailed insight into the Irish/British conflict, as well as the social/religious aspects of a divided society. Your tour has since been an integral part of many conversations and debates. An excellent tour, and we all wish you the very best for the future!"

Karen and group
NUI Galway

"Thanks Big E for a fantastic 90 minutes of Belfast history. I can honestly say it was the best tour I have done. Thanks again."

Mike
NZ

"As well as provide us with a wonderful guided tour of Belfast, my whole family felt fully at ease with you. We made the mistake of booking a tour on another website, and when we arrived for this we were told that the price would be almost twice as advertized on the website! The tour guide said that the website hadn't been updated for a long time, yet his email confirming the booking made no mention of this fact! I was very annoyed and cancelled the booking there and then. We were then lucky enough to find your tour, and I was impressed by your commitment to keep your website updated and stand by the prices you advertize there."

David, Jayne, Becky, Anne and Ross
Perth, Australia

"All of us girls really enjoyed your tour (post hen night 29 May 06!) which lasted just the right length of time. We found the session to be very comfortable, informative, educational and quite moving. It certainly makes people like myself (from Australia) appreciate our peaceful upbringings!"

Renee
UK/Australia

"Thank you very much for our political tour of West Belfast. It was very informative and gave a very fair insight into the Irish/British conflict. We all agreed that we could'nt have chosen a better guide."

Luned
Gogledd Cymru

"Great well balanced tour, learnt a lot and enjoyed it tremendously. Thanks."

Ben
UK

"Thank you so much for the tour, as I explained, it was to help me with my dissertation on visual segregation in N.I. Your info must have been useful, as I went home that night and wrote 1000 words!! I was also pleased with all the photo opportunities I got on the tour. Thanks again."

Lyn
Newtownards

"Thank you for the tour recently. I found it an excellent experience and I will definitely recommend it to any of my friends if they travel your way in the future."

Danny
UK

"We really enjoyed the tour around both communities. Big E really does know his onions about this area of Belfast, and we would reccommend the tour to anybody. Diolch Big E!"

Conwy Valley Boys
Cymru

"...there was so much stuff going on, on both sides of the 'peace wall' that I didn't know existed, it was such an eye opener. Belfast is certainly an educational option for our Higher Education students and I would certainly have no hestitation in using your company again. Kind regards and best wishes for the future."

Graham
UK

"Another tour which is much more interesting than the preceding (Belfast Tours). Much less commercial, Big E takes time to explain in a neutral way the Northern Ireland conflict while integrating the meaning of the wall murals with the history (Un autre tour qui est bien plus intressant que le precedent. Beaucoup moins commercial, Big E s'attache prendre le temps d'expliquer de facon neutre le conflit nord-irlandais en s'appuyant sur les murals)."

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France

"Thank you for your tour last week. I had done it before by bus but I found yours very complete, with a lot of information but very organized and with time enough to visit the murals. You also explain the things very clear for foreign people. I also found your web page very useful. Thanks a lot. All the best."

Nazaret and Vanesa
Spain

"I took the tour with two friends on the 14th December 07. It was very interesting and informative. A trip to Belfast is not complete without one of Big E's tours."

Mark
UK

"Thanks very much for todays tour. Looking at your site and seeing your comments...we have been discussing and our guess is that you are from the {deleted:-)} side of the divide?"

Kieran
UK(?)

Correct Kieran, one of the few who gets it right!

Big E

"I went on the tour (Big E's) on a cold foggy day in mid-February (2008), and despite the weather enjoyed it immensely. You gain a first-hand experience of the city in a way which would be impossible from any bus. Our guide presented both sides of the troubles and as such, West Belfast, with detailed information and conveyed a real sense of the meaning of what we were seeing. Thought provoking and moving, I would recommend the tour to anyone. Thanks for the experience."

Rory
Hull

"Fantastic tour, very balanced and gave real perspective of both sides of the divide. Big E was excellent in answering questions and giving you an opportunity to take pictures. We all hope that the strides made in peace continue...for all our hopes!"

Guy HW
Town/Country unknown