Contact Address:
The
Gambia Experience
(See also package holidays
and hotels)
Company Head Office: Cutter House
1560 Parkway, Solent Business Park
Fareham, Hampshire, PO15 7AG,
UK
Tel no: +44 01489 866939
(hotel bookings & flight reservations)
Fax no: +44 0845 330 2045
Email: customerrelations@gambia.co.uk
Travel Agents UK
Tel no: +44 (0) 845 330 2066
trade@serenity.co.uk
Customer Relations:
Tel no: +44 (0)1489 866951
customerrelations@gambia.co.uk
Contact Address in Gambia:
The Gambia Experience Resort Office
c/o Senegambia Beach Hotel
Kololi
PO Box 2373
Banjul
The Gambia
Office Tel no:
+220 4461104 / 4460317
Flight Reservations Information
Fax: +220 4464788
Admin: +220 4463867 (Holidays Bookings)
Customer Relations: +220 4463864
Email: flights@gxp.gm
Senegambia Hotel Office Hours:
Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 1pm
Sunday Closed
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What They Offer: |
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Lowest price guarantee on flights in the summer. |
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A total of 19 hotels on offer from budget to
deluxe. |
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Group discounts |
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3, 4, 7, 10, 11, 14 nights and longer holidays
available |
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Specialist Tours and Excursions Birdwatching,
fishing, sailing and tailor-made itineraries |
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Up-river trips |
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Upgraded Premium flights from Gatwick |
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Carbon Offset Scheme: Every tree planted will offset the
equivalent of 0.5 tonnes of CO2 over a 20 year period. |
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Flight Schedules Winter / Spring:
The Gambia Experience has a number of holiday flights
a week with departures from 3 UK airports to Banjul during
the winter season. They operate a twice weekly summer flights
on on Tuesdays and Fridays from London, Gatwick.
There is the choice of flight ticket only (one way or return)
with flexible durations of up to 6 months as well as Premium
Class upgrades from Economy with your hotel.
The Gambia Experience
(5-star AITO) is the market leader of the tour operators to
Gambia whose parent company is Serenity
Holidays Ltd. Serenity was established in 1984 and was
bought in 1987 by an Isle of Man accountant Stephen Wilde
and his wife Sandra, who launched Gambia Experience in the
same year. They started by offering a few seats a week. Today,
they have more flights from Britain and more hotels offered
than by any other tour operator; its resort staff is the largest
and most knowledgeable and its commitment to the country is
unsurpassed. In 2008 they celebrated 20 years of travelling
to The Gambia.
Over the past 20 years the owners, Stephen & Sandra Wilde, along
with their staff, have developed a large knowledge of The Gambia,
building relationships with hoteliers and can now offer many
properties or room types exclusively. They have a permanent team in The
Gambia and UK based staff regularly visit the country. Some members of
staff have worked for the company for over 18 years.
After the
bloodless coup of 1994 all the other tour operators evacuated their
tourist clients out of the country and cancelled their hotel
contracts. Only The Gambia Experience remained operating a once weekly
flight from the UK. Also after the September 11th attack in New York
when all the operators except Thomson reduced losses by cutting back
their programmes, the company increased their capacity and
introduced 1 more flight from Bristol Airport.
Local Initiatives:
In and around the Banjul suburbs it has provided road signs in the
company colours of green, yellow and burgundy.
Over 12 schools have
been built and equipped with funds raised the the company. Under an
ongoing School Development Project now in its 20th year.
In April 2008 they presented six cheques amounting to
D352,600.00 to six schools in the country. The annual donation forms
part of the money collected from company's customers as
its contribution towards funding school projects in the country.
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