The Solo Female Traveler NetworkReviews of thesolofemaletravelernetwork.com

This was such a fabulous tour. I was worried about it being too busy and not fitting in with the other people in the group, but I really had the best time. I went to India with the company, and since it was my 54th country, I am an experienced traveler who is used to doing things totally solo. I chose a group tour because I have heard India is difficult and not that safe on your own, and I wanted an easier trip. I chose Sofe because their itinerary was so amazing and also included solo time. The itinerary ended up being so much better than I even expected from reading it online. The other people on the tour were amazing women who I have kept in touch with. My favorite day was the rickshaw tour in Jaipur with all female drivers. We stopped for chai and for photos, and you could just tell they were having such a good time with us. It felt so empowering all around. I could go on and on about this tour, buy overall. 12/10 LOVED this trip and would recommend it to anyone who is ready to experience India.

I really love this company. I feel so safe on tours with them and I always have a lot of fun traveling with other women. My last tour had women from 5 different countries and I’ve already visited one of them in Malaysia and another in Singapore. My first SoFe Trip was Morocco and then I went to Egypt. Next year I’ve booked both Japan and India, and I’m so excited! The accom in Morocco was stunning, that hotel in Fes and the rooftop in Marrakech were big highlights for me. We drank wine when the sun set and swam in the pool and took a ton of photos in our room, because everything was just so beautiful. That trip was a lot of driving but very fun. I hate camping but the tents in the desert were so probably one of the most comfortable beds I’ve ever slept in on my travels. Everything about that night in the desert was just as magical and more so than the website describes. I love Morocco so much that I went to Egypt next. This was the best trip of my life. Our guide was the best, I loved sailing down the Nile and meeting the Nubian people. We had so many foodie experiences And so much fun. Thank you so much, Sam, Sara, Amanda, and the whole team. You’ve literally made my travel dreams, come true and so many new friends and surprise experiences in the process. Can’t wait to travel with you next year

I've been on two trips with this company, and I absolutely love them. Sam, our guide in Egypt was fantastic! That trip is still my favorite trip of all time, and I've been to a lot of countries. I also went with them to India. I was pretty nervous to go to India totally solo, and I'm so glad I went with SoFe. I meant so many amazing women in my group and I loved how the itinerary was super local and female focused. Even the rickshaws we were in were operated by women and we visited a café run all by acid attack survivors. It was just a magical tour and I talk about my SoFe trips all the time. I recommend this company to everyone.

If I could give this tour 6 stars, I would. I went to Japan with Solo Female Travelers Network and IT WAS AWESOME. This was my 4th group tour, and I will only ever book with this company from now on. I made the best friends, it was like a girls trip but they started out as strangers. I never imagined I would get along so well with a group of women, let alone become such good friends with them. Our guide was really sweet and knew everything about her country, including the best restaurants hidden in alleyways and basements that I would never be able to find, even with Google maps. One of the most memorable things we did was spending the evening with a geisha. I really didn't know what to expect, but it was so fun and really cool to learn about why she became a geisha and how hard her training was. Kyoto was magic. I also really loved hanging out with the group at the hotel where we had private ryokans. The food was so good at that hotel too and the rooms were very modern Japanese. So cute. Anyway, I could go on and on about how much I loved this tour, but I recommend Japan with this company with my whole heart. 💗👘

I was so nervous to book a tour and to go alone, but I am so glad I did. My first tour was to Egypt, and it was the best trip of my life. Sam, or guide, was amazing and every day was really fun. My favorite was sailing down the Nile at sunset and then dancing around the fire at the Nubian village. Part of what made this trip for me was the group of women. There were 12 of us and everyone was nice and inclusive, we had no drama. I still keep in touch with most of the women from this tour. I loved Egypt so much that I booked India. I loved this trip, even though it was a different vibe. I really appreciate how there were so many experiences with women, like visiting Sheroes Cafe, where acid attack survivors are given a job and a community. We also celebrated Holi at a local family's house and had a cooking class with three generations of women at their home. My only complaint about this trip was that the group was sometimes challenging to stay positive around. India is not an easy or predictable place, it's chaotic and things just don't always go to plan. I was happy to go with the flow because even when the itinerary had to be moved around to accommodate unexpected traffic or a site being closed when it should be open, our guide always got us everywhere we wanted to go. Nothing was skipped, in fact it sometimes led us to cool roadside stalls and a little more time to chat with the locals we were meeting. But some of the group members were just always complaining, and I didn't leave with as many friends as Egypt. I still had a great time and I loved my roommate. I would book another tour with Sofe again for sure. I am even thinking about going to Mongolia next!

SoFe had a great program to show the life of Cuba, the activities were lovely, Ania was an amazing host and I enjoyed my time.

This tour was so much better than I expected. I was excited to finally go to Japan, a dream of mine since I was a kid watching anime after school. The itinerary on the website looked great, and compared to other companies the price was pretty good considering everything included. I expected it to be a solid tour, but it was so much more. When they say you get to go to a tea ceremony, it wasn't just a basic tea ceremony, it was so special. It was in a tiny place on the second floor of a little antique store. The lady started out by going through all the cups she had, all old and different. They all had a different story from the design and the decade they were made and what was happening in history at the time (my cup was literally 200 years old!). Some has been broken and repaired using gold. Anyway, this was one of my favorite days, because the town this was in, the people we met...it was all so sweet and traditionally Japanese. I would have never known this even existed, and I have read tons of books and been on IG looking for stuff like this in Japan. There were a lot of surprises like this, experiences just being better than I could have ever expected. The group of women I was with were so fun, I still talk to most of them even months after this trip. There was one woman who was kind of a negative person, and I appreciated that the rest of us were so happy and excited to be there, she didn't get us down. I wish I could do this trip for the first time over and over. It was the best tour I have ever been on, and I can not wait to see more countries with this company. If you are on the fence about whether you should give them a try or not, the Japan tour is a really good bet.

I went to Morocco with them, and I am probably about to book Egypt next. I had so much fun on this trip. After a few years of getting caught up in work and family obligations, I booked this trip because I wanted to be thrown out of my routine and I have always dreamed of seeing Morocco. Morocco is not a place if you want things to be perfect, it's chaotic and messy, but that's something I liked about it. There was one hotel we stayed at that I stalked before the trip that has 4.7 star reviews and is super nice, but when we were there, there were some issues with it not being as clean as I wanted. I told our guide and not 5 minutes later, someone was at my door to clean it. It wasn't a big deal, things happen. Some of the girls on my trip were really angry about little things, and that was probably my biggest complaint about the tour - some of the other girls seemed to look for things wrong and it sometimes brought the vibe down. Most of the group was great and I made two really good friends. Our guide was AWESOME. She was so nice and knows everything about her country. I left a gift I had just bought for my husband at our Fes hotel and she arranged for her driver friends on other tours to bring it with them, so that it got to me in Marrakech before we left! She was amazing. Once a man in Casablanca was catcalling us and kind of following us down the street for bit, and she turned around and said something angry in Arabic and he walked away. Pretty bad*ss. On our tour of Marrakech we stopped at little shops that women owned, which was surprising because it seemed like all the vendors were men. My favorite was a little tea/spice/sweets shop in the Medina where we got to taste everything and the owner even told our fortunes in the leaves of the spices. This was one of my favorite things, I never felt like I was in a sales pitch, I really enjoyed meeting shop owners and hearing about their lives, especially because so many were women. I wouldn't go to Morocco if you want everything to go perfectly. There were some changes to the itinerary, things being shuffled around last minute, but our guide handled it perfectly and explained that every tour is this way because that's just how Morocco is. SoFe was amazing though - the trip, the people, the guide, the women we supported, the beautiful riads we stayed in. I will for sure travel with them again and recommend them to anyone who wants a real adventure!