First, I would like to say how much we appreciated our week on the Orient Pandaw! A wonderful experience I will recommend to all our friends! Thank you also for having given us cabin 302, a marvellous place to stay. Thank you again for the high quality of all your staff: polite, efficient and smiling. Everything was perfect, nothing bad to say.

Now, we are looking ahead for our excursion on the Andaman Explorer, November 12-19.

I have now been back in the UK for almost a week, and I admit I cried at Mandalay airport as I was so sad to leave - poor Patrick, our Guide, must have thought I was mad!

I cannot express my gratitude for all the help Pandaw gave during my stay - firstly, to Marco for the prize of the cruise, to ALL the wonderful crew onboard Kalay Pandaw, especially Maung Naiong (our Purser), Thura Tun (who I miss every day as he looked after us so well with food, drinks and generally anything we needed), Lin Lin Aung (our Housekeeper) and the rest of the staff who ensured we were escorted on tours during the day (Medics) and generally looked after us, and for the knowledge gained from our wonderful guide Patrick Saw Zaw Min Oo.

Having never visited Asia before, both my sister and I were thoroughly spoilt and overwhelmed by everyone's kindness and the Pandaw experience, so much so that I am looking to return next year. I see from the website there are selected dates for no single occupancy - I will be travelling without my sister - and wonder if there are special Agent rates, or would I be better off booking as a single traveller/past customer.

Please could you let me know so that I can then try and plan a month's stay in Myanmar which will include a week's cruise or longer. I am thinking of the Upper Irrawaddy, possibly in conjunction with another cruise and along to Inle Lake, so would appreciate your thoughts on this.

Many thanks once again.

Kind regards,
Cathy