Fijian Weddingmoon

Bula Lori,

Sorry it has taken me so long to get back with you. Things have been quite hectic since we have been back. We had a great time, thank you. Our wedding turned out beautiful. The photographers were great. I would definitely recommend them to anyone who is having a wedding. We enjoyed both islands. If we were to do it over again, I think we would do 5 nights at Matamanoa, 5 nights at Qamea and then 5 nights at a nice hotel on the main island. The staff was very friendly and wonderful, but the service isn't what we were are used to in the States. The massage therapists at Qamea were fantastic, probably the best we've had. Jordan and I got many massages. Overall, we had a nice time. Thank you for all of your help planning our Wedding and Honeymoon.

Thank You Again,
N. Bedard
Richmond, VA

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Fiji Vacation

Hi Robin!

We are back from Fiji and we wanted to share with you. There was an unusual amount of rain, but everything was beautiful and one of the few days of sunshine happened to be on our wedding day. Mere and Maravu was just wonderful, I was so thankful for her.

Thanks again for all your help. It as truly wonderful!
K. Mulhall
West Chicago, IL

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Memorable Hawaii

Dear Robin!

I would like to personally thank you for helping me to arrange this memorable vacation. We have had a truly wonderful time and everything has worked out to almost complete perfection. Your choices of accommodation were really excellent and my family enjoyed the hotels and resorts tremendously. Special thanks for that superb unit 27B2 at Kapalua Bay Villas! We were especially fond of the personalized greetings and gifts - my two daughters were overjoyed. Again, kudos to you and McCoy travel! We have precious memories almost too numerous to list. We swam with spinner dolphins off the coast of the Big Island, swam with numerous green sea turtles at the Turtle Beach of Oahu, snorkeled at many places on all four visited islands and photographed dozens of fish species we have never seen before. We have encountered endemic species of birds on the slopes of Haleakala, including nene, apapane, i'iwi, and amakihi. We met a monk seal on the Tunnels' Beach of Kauai. I could take beautiful pictures of both red-tailed and white-tailed tropic birds at the Kilauea Lighthouse of Kauai, the species I missed photographing on the Galapagos. We watched the lava flowing into the ocean from a distance of 40 feet on a very special pre-dawn boat trip. We have completed two fantastic helicopter tours, one on the Big Island and one to Molokai's northern cliffs from Maui. The Hanauma Bay, Napali coast, Waimea valley, Mauna Kea, Hamakua coastline, Kilauea caldera with the nighttime orange-red glow of the fumes from its crater, the nighttime lava flows, the fauna and flora of the subalpine forests, the Haleakala crater, the Iao valley and needle, the road to Hana were all beautiful and mesmerizing. We have also visited the gravesite of my childhood hero Charles Lindbergh. Again, the list of our planned and impromptu activities is very long. We were very fortunate to have had favorable weather conditions and were able to adjust our busy schedules to occasional rains and winds. Again, I cordially extend my gratitude to you and McCoy travel.

With best wishes

I remain,
P. Bozner
Lafayette, LA

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Hawaiian Vacation

Tish,

I was absolutely thrilled with the service and advice you were able to give to us regarding our Hawaiian vacation. You listened and offered the best advice. For instance, when I told you I really didn't want to take a tour for the Hana Highway venture, you suggested going to Long's drugstore to get the self-guided CD tour instead. We did, and that was perfect. We were able to linger in places we wanted to, skip some of the places and take the tour on our time - not someone else's but still get the benefit of knowing approaching historical sites and locations. That was right on!! We enjoyed driving up to Haleakala National Park and I had a blast on the zip line excursion. One day we visited Ioa Valley and then took the coast line all the way around to Kapalua, Napili, Kahana, Honokowai, Ka'anapali and Lahaina. That was a wonderful and relaxing day as well stopping by the little lagoons and coves (and of course coconut candy and banana bread!). The Feast at Lele was fantastic. We were so smitten with the area of Lahaina that we went back and dined at Bubba Gump's and strolled down to the shopping area. My best sunset shots were taken there with the boats parked right off shore and the sun coming down. However, I would have to say that our best day (besides relaxing by the pools and beaches) was the Blue Rater Rafting tour (leaving out of the Kihei Boat Dock). I wish I could remember the two guides because they were superb! We had a woman captain (Capt Kim, I think and Dominic was the geology major guide sidekick) anyway their education proved a valuable asset when explaining the volanic rock formations which line the coast. We were quite impressed with their knowledge. It was a wonderful vacation and we had tons of great memories. We had such a wonderful time we do plan to return in two or three years. (waiting for my daughter to get just a tad bit older) Thanks for all your help and assistance. I will be posting comments on tripadvisor to let others know who to go to!!

Thanks Tish and have a wonderful summer!
C. Grist
Bryant, AR

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Hawaiian Activities

Hi Tish,

We just returned home to Chicago....we had a wonderful time and the activities you assisted us with were fantastic. The Feast at Lele--was a quality show, the Zipling was fun and the day trip to Lanai was good.....snorkeling not so good due to high tide....but we still had fun in the boat and at the beach over there.

Thanks again, let stay in touch and I will be sure to pass along your contact info to friend s planning a trip over to Maui.

Aloha,
M. Manning
Oak Brook, IL

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Fiji Dream Honeymoon

Bula Lori,

I've been so busy with school the past couple days i haven't had time to get to you. I can't thank you enough for you work and attention to Kayla and I and wanted to share my experience to show you how grateful for you we are

With all the wedding planning i was only given two jobs and one was the honeymoon. I had never before dealt with a travel agent as I have always travel inside the 48 continuous states up until this point. I had been given dozens of names, agencies, tips, cautions etc. and was very overwhelmed. I did as much research as possible before I was ready to start talking to people but was still rather clueless. On the day that I began to give my information to travel sites on the web McCoy Travel was one of the first because you're company was one of the recommendations I had received. Obviously being a normal American consumer I looked at many different sites to find the best price. After sharing info with 'Tripology' 'South Seas Adventures' Travel Wizards' ' Fiji-Honeymoons' and about 6-8 others, I sat back and waited to see if anyone would call me unprovoked as I don't Email when I don't have to. I feel an actual conversation is more personal. 2 people did call though I received about 5 other emails. You were the 2nd person to call me which automatically pushed the other man to the top of my list until I found out the time zone difference and realized that you called FIRST THING in the morning where as it took him half the day to get to me. Not a huge deal all things considered but this is my honeymoon and I want to be treated like it's the biggest thing in the world even from the beginning because to us, it is. All told I talked to 6 trip planners in the next three days, as some didn't bother to call or email at all, all the while still planning to get the best deal possible. That, however, didn't last long because your service far exceeded the competition for many reasons.

As I mentioned before, you the quickest to call me back which spoke volumes to me being that I hate waiting and especially with the excitement I had about my first overseas trip. I knew everyone I talked to would have worlds of info about Fiji otherwise they wouldn't have the job they do and was correct. Every person I talked to 'knew' resorts and had plenty of knowledge to offer. Having already looked at more than 50 resort myself before all of this thought I had a great idea of what I was looking for and had already narrowed it down to 5. Three of the other people I talked to did nothing but try to discourage me from where I wanted to go. One in fact insisted on other resort so much I had to hang up on her because she would not listen to me. You did. My fiance and I wanted to stay in one resort for 12 days. We DID NOT want to island hop. We're there for relaxing, not packing and unpacking every couple days. It seems to me that if you're planning a trip for someone you may want to listen to what they want. Call me crazy I guess. Others insisted on strict itineraries that included hikes and village visits. Again not listening! We wanted to hang out with nothing to do except what we want to at that time. Spontaneity! You listened, YOU cared, YOU wanted us to what we wanted to do where we wanted to do it, and worked QUICKLY to ensure we could do so. The only other person out of six that agreed to put us where we wanted to go said he'd call me back "in 4 weeks and go from there." I did get a few quotes from other people but not for what we wanted. I even had one lady that spent the first 20 minutes of MY cell minutes talking about her rate. Really? I know you don't do this for free!

After you called with our final quote and we hung up the phone I talked with my fiance and both said instantly we wanted to go with you no matter how much cheaper anyone else could get it for. We simply didn't care at this point because YOU did. We felt like we were your only client! You really made everything easy and fun. We are both VERY 'brand loyal' people who love to travel. I am graduating for Radiology school the month before our marriage and trip to Fiji and will be traveling quite a bit in the future and because of our experience with you on this trip, NO ONE but you or someone at McCoy that you recommend will be helping us plan. I cant thank you enough for your help Lori and I hope you continue the outstanding work.

Vinaka,
J. Janosik
Richmond, VA

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Wonderful Fiji Vacation

Faye,

Everything was just wonderful on our trip. I could not recommend Taveuni Palms any higher to anyone else. They were absolutely wonderful! Our experience was phenomenal with them. I have traveled many places over seas and usually I am glad that I went, but then am ready to explore other places later.....but honestly, this is one place I would go back again and again. Kelly and Tony's staff was so attentive and the place was so peaceful and quiet. We did feel so spoiled and like we were their most important people. Kelly was so helpful with so many things. We felt right at home.
I also want to thank you for all of your information and for helping us with everything. Matt and I are both very controlling and making sure every detail is handled, and with you....you took care of everything and that was so comforting to us. We thank you for making this time in our lives the absolute best it could be!
If there was any one thing I could change, it would be to have stayed in Taveuni that extra night instead of overnighting in Nadi. Their next clients didn't come in until the next morning, so although our original plan was to leave there and then get on our plane....then the plane go changed to the next day....it would have been nice to have just stayed there since they weren't expecting people until the next day anyway. Other than that, we really had a fantastic time and great start to our live together.
Thank you again, and Taveuni Palms is really the best place to connect and feel pampered with the one you love!

Thanks again!
E. & M. Colyer.
Farmington, NM

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Fijian Weddingmoon

Bula Mike,

I wanted to thank you so so so much for arranging our Fiji wedding/vacation/honeymoon. We had an absolutely fantastic time. It was beyond our expectations. You were right about Vomo, we absolutely LOVED it. The are the friendliest people in the world. They went above and beyond anything we could have imagined for our wedding. Having our wedding on Thursday before Lovo night was fantastic, as they made us feel as if it was wedding celebration. David got to be Chief, and of course, every guest offered him kava, so he was feeling good :) hehehe.
We are already talking about going back to Vomo, it was just absolutely fantastic. I am so glad we got married there. It was absolutely spectacular. The folks at Vomo were so excited about our wedding, we were treated like royalty the whole time. They even surprised us one night decorating our bure with candles and flowers. And we also got a surprise champagne breakfast the day we departed (they even wrote our names on top of our cappuccinos). They trully made the time we spent there unforgettable.
As promised below are pictures, so in case you need to show anybody what a Vomo wedding looks like. Yoshi did an amazing job, he is phenomenal.

Likuliku was also very nice. The facilities are fabulous and the staff very friendly (although nothing like the folks at Vomo, they are hands down the best). Food in both places was spectacular, thus I have to say I enjoyed Vomo's better as they had more seafood in the menu.
Thank you for the tip on getting some wine at the Airport, this was good call.

Panto the Rosie's driver is such a sweetheart, and speaks very highly of you and Melissa McCoy. He also told us where you go to get your beef pies that you like .. hehe.

Anyway, take a look at the pictures and I hope that it will help convince other couples for a fantastic wedding celebration at Vomo.
Thank you so much for arranging all of this for us, we had the wedding of our dreams! Thank you for making that possible.

Aloha,
M. Echezuria
Falls Church, VA

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Fijian Honeymoon

Hi Lori,

Thank you so much for all of your work to create such wonderful and lasting memories for Daniel and I. This was a dream honeymoon! Thank you for all of your work to ensure that we had a terrific time, your personal touch was evident in how you took care of every detail for us. We loved Qamea and our stay at the resort. We are looking forward to returning one day.

We stayed in the honeymoon bure the last two nights of our stay and were so grateful for this added luxury and experience. Thank you for checking on this, it was incredible! We did meet Jordan and Nicole on the last few days of their stay. Danny and Jordan played volleyball together one of the afternoons on the island.

I have attached a few photos of our trip.

Thank you again for all of your work in creating this honeymoon for us. We'll have memories for the rest of our lives!

Many Thanks,
E. Macias
Gaithersberg. MD

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Hawaiian Bliss

Hi Holly,
Well we are back on the mainland , yep I wanted to cry all the way home, Hawaii was sooooooo wonderful and beautiful.
Wanted to give you a great big THANK YOU for planning such a wonderful and joyous trip for us. We got the free upgrade you requested upon our arrival so we had an ocean view room, and what a view it was. It was so great waking up and the first thing we saw before even getting out of the bed was the beautiful ocean and Molokini. The Maui Prince was fabulous, very nice accommodations and all the management and staff were absolutely great, friendly and helpful! We will definitely be back to this lovely place and will definitely call you for our travel plans!

Thank you so much again for a trip we will always cherish and remember!

Mahalo !

M & D Ramey
Enid, OK

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Fiji Honeymoon

Faye,

Thank you so much for your card. We are here and made it with no problem. We are so very tired, but this place seems to be bringing us back to life with no problems. We are so happy this is the way we could begin our marriage and are so grateful to you for making it so stress free and taking so much time to personalized this and care about us. You are truly wonderful! Except that I will l blame you for the extra ten pounds I know I am going to gain here. The food is insanely good and we have only had a couple of meals so far. Wow!

Love,
E. & M. Colyer.
Farmington, NM

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Wonderful Oahu Vacation

Brenda

I just want to say thank you for your hard work. The travel to Ohau was great. We got to the memorial, and PCC. It rained, but we had a good time. Got to the hotel around 10:00pm. Hotel was nice. Left at 6:00am. When I set up my next trip to Hawaii I will give you a call. I love having a good time, and so does Francine. We travel great together. Thanks Brenda, for caring enough.

Thank you so very much!
Floyd & Francine
York, PA