Argentina & Chile Vacation Review: El Calafate, El Chalten, Torres del Paine, Glacier Hiking, 12-Night Tour

Our experience with this tour company was overall very positive. Communication was, for the most part, excellent and the itinerary was mostly well planned. There were only two serious glitches, in my view. The first was a failure to tell us that one of our pick-up times had been delayed (significantly). Had we known we could have spent the whole morning exploring but instead we sat around in our hotel. The second was some bad organizing around El Calafate, which really has nothing of interest to offer except the glacier. If I were to do the trip again, I would have spent the morning at the hotel (doing morning excursions there) and then gone to El Calafate in the afternoon (it's possible that the logic here was that the hotel runs only one daily shuttle but the travel planner could have provided a driver instead of the hotel's service). The following day I would have done the glacier hike in the morning and moved on to El Chalten in the afternoon. This would have given us an extra half day of hiking.