Highly recommended full day trip. - We had a fantastic full-day trip visiting Tatev Monastery, Shaki Waterfalls, and Areni Winery. Our tour guide, Anastasia, was exceptional—her knowledge of Armenian geography and history really enriched our experience. She made the trip not only informative but also engaging. Our driver, Murad, was incredibly kind and ensured our journey was comfortable. Just a tip: bring some food with you, as it’s a long day. Overall, a highly recommended trip for anyone wanting to explore Armenia with Yerani Travel tours.

The best experience of Tatev Monastery - It was an amazing tour with scenic mountain views throughout. Our guide Mrs. Anastasia was enthusiastic, entertaining and made the journey even more enjoyable.

Excellent tour - I have a great time with this tour. It is operated very professionally. The guide is very fluent in both English and Russian and very knowledgeable. She is also very friendly, helpful and know how to connect people. The driver is very skillful in the mountain road. The tour leave enough time at each point for me to enjoy instead of rushing from place to place. The only minus point is that due to a timely densed tour, we don't have enough time for dinner.

Incredible trip with Gaya - We had Gaya as our tour guide. She was amazing and switched between Russian and English fluently. She gave us plenty of information and was very knowledgable about the history of the country. The four hours to Tatev went by very quickly with a stop at a food court to get food, drink and the bathroom. The cable car was incredible as was the waterfall and the wine tasting. The lunch was also super tasty (especially the tolma) and there was lots of Armenian dancing which everyone got involved in. All the guides and drivers were super lovely and they even let us have control over the song choices on the way back to Yerevan. If you are in Armenia you HAVE to do this tour, you won’t regret it!!

Breathtaking & memorable - Our guide, Anastasiya, knew both Russian and English. She was exceptional from start to finish by showing her knowledge of Yerevan and all the areas outside the city. She answered all our questions in detail and kept us hooked throughout the tour. Marat, our amazing driver drove us safelly the entire time and was such a happy and kind person. This trip was stunning; we got to take the cable car (Wings of Tatev), explore the Tatev Monastery, and see the beautiful Shaki waterfal. A bonus was tasting traditional Armenian food at our first lunch stop. I booked this for me and my parents, and we all were in avsolute awe the entire trip. Thank you so much, Anastasiya, for being the most amazing and fun tourguide!!

Marat and Anastasia were very lovely people. - We enjoyed our trip . Thank you, Anastasia, for being helpful, positive and well organised. And thank you Marat for our save journey and being flexible for our additional stops.

Amazing guide with a lot of knowledge! - Anastasia was a fantastic, caring and thoughtful guide. Garen was a great, confident driver. I enjoyed the trip. I especially liked the history Anastasia shared during the trip. I felt the stop at the monestary could have been briefer. Also the cost for the cable cars should just be included in the main cost.

Our tour experience - We had a great time with Gayane and our driver (unfortunately, I forgot his name). We visited different places, and everything went well. However, we had a concern: we requested to be picked up at Hotel Armeni and arrived at the location indicated by Google Maps, but their contact on WhatsApp was unresponsive. The sad part was that it was raining, and we spent 20 minutes looking for the place and trying to reach them but no luck. Al When Gayane asked us what we wanted to order for lunch, she could have explained the different types of food available, but she didn’t mention any specifics. As a result, we didn’t end up ordering lunch, and while the others were eating, she also could have checked in with us to see how we were doing or if there was anything we wanted, but that didn’t happen. Gayane and the driver were nice, but we felt a bit out of place as she seemed more focused on the Russian speakers than on the English speakers. We also met a married Indian couple who felt the same way. We just hoped that she would treat us fairly. Overall, everything was on schedule, and on the way back to Yerevan, she helped create a more pleasant mood. Thank you!

Disapponting - Disappointing tour. 1. The driver, Marat, was awful, reckless driving in fog. 2. The tour guide, Armine, was not good at her job at all, she had pretty poor knowledge of Russian, she was not very communicative and was not ready to say another word apart from her memorized obligatory text. 3. The restaurant where they took us, "Arina" in Shinuhayr, was terrible - I was sure that there aren't such awful restaurants in Armenia, since practically all Armenian restaurants and cafes offer rich and diverse culinary experience with excellent service. The food was of very poor quality, traditional Armenian barbeque was terrible, meat was stiff, dolma did not taste like dolma at all, the salad was not fresh. The dining hall was full of flies, one dead fly was on our table. 4. For wine tasting they took us to "Arpeni" wine making facility with strangely high prices for home-made wine, which were sold much cheaper for the locals. 5. We took the tour, although the weather forecast for that day was showing "rain", but knowing the area, they should have advised that there was high probability of fog, which made the tour experience non-impressive.

Expectations vs reality - UPDATE: I received a full refund and apologies from the travel agency. Got this tour because it had high ratings but things didn't go as expected. The biggest problem was the driver, Marat, for whom the safety of the passengers was not important at all. Apart from not being able to drive smoothly, he surpassed other cars when going uphill and on curves where there was no visibility, and we were in dangerous situations several times. The tour guide, Armina, was OK even though she talked monotonously and didn't seem passionate about her job. Her English was OK but her Russian needed a lot of work. It was rainy and foggy in Tatev, which the travel agency must have known and so they could have cancelled the trip, as riding the longest cable car in the world in the fog was not fun at all, plus watching the driver racing with very limited visibility was traumatic. Then, after visiting the monastery, we were taken to Arina restaurant for lunch in a nearby village. It was one of the worst restaurants I've been to in my life. It was dirty and the food was really bad. It was clear that they were somehow connected to the travel agency otherwise they wouldn't have taken us there. It was cheap but I would have paid more for good food. Everyone had to pay cash at the end and watching the manager/owner in a golden chain necklace count the money at a dirty table was like a scene from a movie about mobs. Afterwards, we were taken to a winery. On the website it says Areni which is the most famous wine producer in Armenia. AND it's also the name of the village where the famous wines are produced. We did go to that village but it was not Areni company, it was Arpeni, another run-down place where they produced wine. The wine-tasting seemed strange to me since the owner served us a red wine first, then a white wine. Overall there were 6 wines and when I asked him about the alcohol content, he seemed somewhat perplexed, then he said they all were 13% ABV: a red dry wine, a white, a pomegranate wine, cherry, currant and raspberry wine. How they all ended up with 13% ABV is a mistery to me. The fruit wines were quite good and I decided to buy a bottle of cherry wine. It turned out they had only 1 litre plastic bottles and they were not sealed as they didn't have the official license. Then we also found out that the prices for locals were twice as low. It was a very long and disappointing tour.