You shouldn't have to, but have you tried either calling ABD or signing up at the website?I didn't get anything yet either here in Texas. We had our first ABD in June. I've even friends with our guides on Facebook.
My understanding is it has something to do with customs to mail things like that out of the country. I know they've had a dickens of a time in the past just getting "the box" to folks in Canada. Not that I think they shouldn't still do it, but I guess it was just too much of a hassle.
This is the line that ABD gives its Canadian guests when you contact them...however, I received my annual passholder giftbox in Canada without any hassles (I think it was the promotion in 2013-2014). Everything in the box was promotional items with ABD on it and the customs declaration indicated that it was promotional material. I have also received other items from ABD with no problems. I think ABD just doesn't want to deal with having to complete the customs declaration forms and the excessive mailing costs to Canada.
Stephane is probably the best adventure guide ever ..Oh my.We adore Stephanie. I can't imagine making a comment like that on a public forum!
Should one of my family members join, or all of us?
One family member - usually the one who makes the travel arrangements!
That is your opinion I however think she sucks and hopefully never have to endure her as an adventue guide again. Dusty is probably the best adventure guide ever
We never had Stephanie as a guide, but I can say that sometimes guides deliver inconsistent performance. We thought our Scotland guides were terrible. My husband thought they were so bad (for the price we paid for the trip) that he refuses to go on a non-podcast-related adventure. Since our tour, we've heard nothing but praise about one of the guides. (Never heard anything else about the other.) We were their last tour before a much-needed break after many back-to-back adventures during the Scotland tour's inaugural year. I think they were burned out. Just posting this to agree with Tozzie that, yes, sometimes guides provide less-than-stellar service.
I think this is very true. The Adventure Guides are people, stuff happens, they are not always fabulous. Mostly they are, but not all the time. On my Alaska ABD, it was obvious that one of the Guides, Rae, did not respect the other Guide, Jesse. Who knows why that was. I think that on their own, they were probably both great guides, but the atmosphere caused by the lack of respect & chemistry definitely made them both less than stellar in this particular instance. I still loved the ABD, it was a wonderful trip, but the Guides themselves were not the outstanding part of the trip like they've been with my other ABDs. But that's definitely been the exception, not the rule.
Never had dusty , my wife was on your Scotland trip and she said dusty was awesome ,
