Gotoco Thailand

Great organisation that will facilitate the trip of a lifetime and a TESOL qualification. The directors and leaders are lovely, very personable and experienced travellers. I would say that the company is quite disorganised: confirmation of trip details was very late and there were a few issues with hotel bookings and transfers to schools. Additionally, whilst the flights, your accommodation and food is paid for, you have to pay for the flights upfront (for most programmes e.g. Thailand) and then be reimbursed. I really believe in Gotoco’s ethos but they have perhaps over-expanded. Having begun in China, their programme in Bali, for example, is very well-run but not so in Thailand. The TESOL qualification is also quite an effort if you go on your trip in August when the company that administers the qualification are out of office and so you will probably spend the next 10 months trying to complete it yourself.