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🇯🇵 Kumano Kodo and Shikoku 88 (Japan)
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[QUOTE="Former member 104756, post: 1168551"] Hi [USER=41]@HeidiL[/USER] I've walked only the Nakahechi Trail, on the Kumano Kodo as part of three weeks travelling in Japan. It was wonderful. As I posted earlier, [USER=93571]@dick bird[/USER] has given a great description. We have such wonderful memories of this time, the glorious scenery, the FOOD and the warmth of the local people we met, especially in our home stays. We made all our own bookings using the community online reservation system, rather than a package offered by either Kumano Travel or another provider. I agreed with the comment above that I found the system 'maddeningly slow and cumbersome'. It was not a complaint, just a statement of fact. There were times when I almost gave up. But I also appreciate the reasons why it's so slow and cumbersome, including this as stated on the Kumano Travel home page. '...[I] many of the accommodations in our community are small, family-owned establishments that do not use computers often. [/I] Here's a link to the Kumano Travel Site. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.kumano-travel.com/en[/URL] For those who want to make arrangements directly using the community reservation system as we did, I'd recommend starting as soon as you know your preferred travel dates. One of the aspects of the system (at least when I used it) is you need to choose and receive confirmation of where you are staying, say, for night 1, in order to reserve night 2. The bookings are not in real time. Confirmations sometimes took 7-10 days and 40% of the time we were unable to stay in our first or even second choice. So, it was back to the drawing board. It took me weeks just to secure 5 nights accommodation. With hindsight, I'd have started booking much earlier than we did as we may have had less difficulty. Kumano Travel does offer self guided packages, infrequently, where they will have made all the bookings. That would be a good option, if the dates happened to suit. We would look at that next time. In addition, there are other reputable providers - who have a good relationship with Kumano Travel (we discovered that while we were there) - including the one mentioned by [USER=93571]@dick bird[/USER] . [/QUOTE]
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