Farouttrek

Jasdev Uppal 12 months ago

The tour operator Mr Fabian is not trustworthy. He did not show up for the trek. We paid a princely amount as asked by him in full advance. He delegated the trek to third party. The third party local contact conveyed the facts about harsh ground reality to Mr Fabian however he kept us in dark. Despite our asking repeatedly. We could have delayed our trek. The local contact accepted and conveyed us the facts. Days and night wasted as they couldn’t find porters. I can go on writing about his faulty or no planning. He may put the blame on local contact however the 2 stars rating is due to local contact Mr Onge and Mr Denchen who eventually tried to save his face. Don’t book a trek with him for sure. Book with experienced trek operators. Best wishes!!

Deepak Shivhare 12 months ago

In continuation of what my friend shantanu singh had written about the bad experience we had with booking farout trek! We were a group of 5 friends who went to trek on the time recommendation of owner and had multiple times asked him, if the conditions were favorable or we could have postponed the same.However our trek was cut short due to misguided information on weather conditions. The element of weather may be unpredictable however when you are trekking you got to have adequate support in the form of porters or mules to carry on the tents and other trekking stuff, this support was seriously very inadequate. Secondly, the first day and second day of our camping was miss planned, when we were suppose to have lunch at the camp site, we waited very long for the vehicle to take us to the camp which was unavailable and it only after 4 pm that we were carried in vehicles to the camp site and further arrangements of Dinner was done very late by 9.30 pm as they were busy trying to arrange porters/helpers for carrying the luggage!! Next trekking day was also disturbed due to faulty cooking stove and it was only after 9.30 am that breakfast and warm water was made available at the camp site. Weather conditions , faulty stove, lack of porters were nagging issues but it was the owner of farout trek who was not picking up our repeated telephone calls and later switched off his mobile phone when we needed to talk to him the most!! As a professional tour operator when you charge something then it should be made to count, trekking arrangements cannot be made a family affair and compromised with home run vehicles. My friend Shantanu has given you three stars rating as it is only due to the good and helping nature of Mr.Dinchen & Mr.Ongey!! People should opt for reputed professional tour operators as nothing is cheap, we all plan a trip after very deep time planning, the execution of which should be relied on people who can put in experienced team to execute it!! it is not always that people would replan their trekking trip on the same trekking route!! So choose wisely and make it count!!

shantanu singh 12 months ago

We booked a trek in North Sikkim through farout treks in the 2nd week of April,2023 and realized that we were misguided about the expected weather conditions. The trek was outsourced to third party who then tried to best salvage the situation. I Strongly suggest not to book your treks in Sikkim through this company as the owner of this company is hard to reach and refuses to answer phone calls