karan kapoor

Review of Backpacker

We went to chase the Northern lights! That was the...

We went to chase the Northern lights! That was the title of our trip.

However, that requires luck, coordination and chase indefinitely till you see it and BACKPACKERS CO did exactly opposite! We saw the lights but, ON OUR OWN (by coordination of 15 people). We drove into the wilderness, deep into the forest and managed to see the lights over a frozen lake! That should have been done by backpackers. What they did was just a dinner with bonfire and waiting in a closed cottage to see them, which was more of a gala dinner with bonfire. We could have done that in delhi as well.!

Biggest flaw was the inexperienced and naive first time coordinator who had no clue, information, planning, knowledge and authority which was sort of a complete mess. The coordinator did absolutely nothing except clicking pictures for backpackers social media handles. For e.g the bus for new year party left more than half of us (including the coordinator) at the hostel while the coordinator was busy clicking pictures.!

All the activities were timed as such, that were unable to use the entire day as they were in the middle of the day. Arctic hotel was done in a hurry just to finish it as a task. We requested to see the glass igloos. They told us that were occupied and the coordinator did not bother to do anything as usual. Nothing exciting was planned for 2 days in helsinki, except the walking tour on second day.

All in all had there been no unity and coordination among the 15 travellers in the group, it would have been a total disaster. Most of the coordination was done amongst ourselves.

Lastly, most important thing that backpackers did NOT do was - CHASING THE NORTHERN LIGHTS!

REGARDS
KARAN KAPOOR
28712/18 to 04/01/19
DELHI