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We visit Trinidad on 19 November from 0800 to 1700 aboard Caribbean Princess. We can't seem to find any private excursions or suggestions regarding where to go or what the snorkelling is like. The ship only has one tour which we don't fancy. I am aware of the travel advisories.
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I was wondering if anyone has been on a snorkelling trip recently with this company? I have emailed them 3 times without reply. Although they are highly rated on TripAdvisor there are numerous reviewers who have posted on this company and that is there only review.
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Just sent another e-mail to Irie Tours and got a reply from Geno (Intern). We are booked.
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They are still very much in business and are slow to respnd because it's so busy. Send another message and but "urgent" in your subject box.
I don't know how they can be too busy to answer e-mails sent a month ago for a booking. On the other thread people are giving up booking due to not getting a reply to their e-mails.
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I have been trying to book the West Beach Hopping Tour since the beginning of February. I have e-mailed info@irietours.com on 4/2, 7/2, 8/2, 14/2 and 22/2 without confirmation. Has anyone had a reply from there e-mail address?
If anyone from Irie Tours reads this please can you get back to me.
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Pasted from Mail Online 4 Feb 2014: A British man on a dream sailing trip to the Caribbean to celebrate his wife’s 60th birthday was shot dead by robbers who boarded the yacht and attacked the couple.
Roger Pratt, 62, is believed to have been shot dead as he defended his wife Margaret from the gang of thieves in St Lucia.
The couple were half way through a year-long sailing trip to celebrate her milestone birthday when the yachting adventure ended in tragedy.
It emerged that they had been forced to stay the night in the port of Vieux Fort after being denied clearance to leave by customs officials.
Local police spokesman Anel Innocent said Mr Pratt was beaten up and shot after three armed men boarded the boat on Friday night.
Officers were said to have then killed one of the suspects in a dramatic shoot-out which followed the murder, and arrested the suspects.
Mr Pratt was rushed to hospital but died from his injuries. His wife was also taken to hospital with cuts and bruises and was later discharged. Detectives were understood to have taken a statement from her yesterday afternoon.
Mr Innocent said yesterday: ‘We do not know the full facts about this case yet. We are trying to ascertain what happened and then to get to the bottom of it.'
‘We can however confirm that the man died and that we will be conducting a full post-mortem examination which will reveal the cause of death.’
Just days earlier, the couple had celebrated Mrs Pratt’s 60th birthday with a meal out at a restaurant. They had posted pictures of their expedition around the Caribbean in an online blog to keep family and friends updated on their trip.
The couple were keen sailors and had spent years planning their 12-month trip across the Atlantic and around the Caribbean. Before leaving the UK in July last year, Mrs Pratt wrote on her LinkedIn page: ‘Off travelling! The plan is to be in the Carribean for my 60th birthday in January 2014 . . . all a bit of a leap into the unknown.’
They had been in St Lucia since mid-December and were planning to leave the island on Thursday but could not get clearance from the customs authorities.
Instead, they were forced to spend the night in Vieux Fort.
In her latest blog entry, written just hours before her husband’s death, Mrs Pratt bemoaned local bureaucracy.
She wrote: ‘So here we are in Vieux Fort, the most southerly port of clearance in St Lucia.
‘It’s very different. There’s a port; an airport and no tourists – and so it’s a regular town. It’s determinedly normal. It has a lot of churches: I counted seven and is different from the Catholic north. It seemed more wealthy, and of course isn’t reliant on tourist bucks.’
Mr and Mrs Pratt ran their own financial consultancy business, Okra Associates, based in Cannock, Staffordshire.
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Traveler Palm Excursions (Brandon) - stopped trading?
in Martinique
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We are visiting Martinique next week and fancied a trip with Brandon of Traveler Palm Excursions. We have sent three emails to Brandon over the last 3 weeks with no reply. We have rung his US contact number 310 710 6635 numerous times. There is no answer apart from a message saying the voicemail has not been set up. Looks like he has stopped trading but left his website up. Not very helpful! There is a distinct lack of companies running trips in Martinique.