I've been a fan of LoTR since I was a little girl - in fact, my father couldn't decide whether to name me after Arwen or Eowyn, and made up a hybrid of the two names as my middle name.

When my husband and I went on this tour for our honeymoon, we had high expectations - and were braced for the inevitable disappointment that high expectations usually bring. Imagine our delight when our highest expectations were far exceeded by our experience! Vic and Raewyn were consumate hosts and made us feel like family from the moment they met us at the airport. All the others on the tour were excited, too, and by the second day we were all fast friends - it's been three years and we're all still in touch, visiting eachother when we can and feeling like your favorite relatives. Each night we would comment to eachother over dinner that that day had been the best experience ever, and each morning Vic and Raewyn topped the previous day! By the fifth day we absolutely could not believe it could possibly get better and yet each day it DID.

I'm sure this seems like very high praise indeed and quite improbable, but it's only the truth. We encountered other people on other tours and were able to compare notes with some of them. We found that Red Carpet Tours was the best - and I'm sad to say that many of those other people were a little disappointed in their experiences by contrast after what we shared about our tour. We have recommended RCT to everyone we know and can't sing their praises highly enough!

We shall never forget our first time with Red Carpet Tours, and we are eagerly awaiting our next journey into Middle Earth with them!

Reviewed over 3 years ago and experienced in February 2009