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 Posted: Fri Mar 2, 2007 11:50 am |
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| I am interested in doing the 'fantasy gap year' with Frontier just had my phone interview, and would like to hear from people who have either been away with them or hear about them - good/bad I would like to hear from you.
Thank you Jennie |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 2, 2007 4:41 pm |
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| I don't know lots about them tobe honest. What's the fantasy gap year? Sounds cool!
I remember them being on the news cos of something in africa a year or two ago thoh. Something to do with pirates? Was that them? |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 6, 2007 10:59 am |
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| Frontier 'fantasy gap year' involves a travel and conservation trail around South East Asia and Central America and a Marine Conservation project on Fiji = 30weeks/7mths! It basically just fit the main places I wana go with conservation work and scuba dive training - what more could a girl want?
Definately sounds cool!! I duno if it was them on the news - but I do know they have projects in Africa Then Im planning to travel 15wks through Australia and NZ and travel/work through South America. What you up to? Where you at? Hope your having fun! |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:00 pm |
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| I really wouldnt recommend Frontier at all, I am currently in the process of trying to get a large sum of money back off them, as they didnt deliver anything near what we had been promised, it seems that their london HQ have very little communication with their field offices, and that seems to be where a lot of the problems come from, their field staff were cool but also got mucked around by the company. I was speaking to someone else who's been with them, and she is equally unimpressed with the, | |
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| Posted: Thu May 8, 2008 11:04 am |
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| I too suggest you avoid Frontier, having had financial difficulties with them.
I signed up to their Tanzania Savannah project last year. A local charity awarded me £100 towards the project cost, and sent the money directly to Frontier, but on my behalf. However, as I'd already paid the full amount, Frontier said that they'd return the £100 to me. Despite repeated assurances that they'd return the money, they've yet to do so after a year. They say that they've sent me emails explaining the situation, though somehow none have got through. I'm thoroughly sceptical that they even attempted to contact me, and even more sceptical that they intend to return the £100, either to me or the charity that donated it in the first place. The project itself was also not as described. At the time of me signing up, the project involved monitoring puku, an endangered species of antelope. However, the project actually involved monitoring butterflies. According to the Tanzanian staff, we weren't able to get out to the puku as Frontier London weren't willing to repair the truck necessary to transport us from camp to the plains. Tanzania is a wonderful place, and the Tanzanian staff are wonderful people. But Frontier, as an organisation, has been wholly untrustworthy in my experience. [Edit: after I posted this message, Frontier returned £95, retaining a £5 "administration fee". Whether there was a causal relationship between this post and them returning the money I can't say] |
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 10:30 am |
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| Please don’t go with Frontier – the whole thing is a scam.
I wouldn’t want anyone else to suffer what I suffered because of their total lack of professionalism and honesty. I was left to fend for myself in Latin America. There was no project manager, no other volunteers, no food and the volunteer house (which was not one of Frontiers) had extremely basic facilities. Despite complaining they have not responded once to any of my letters and I am in the process of taking legal action against them. I would be interested to hear from anyone else who has similar experiences |
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| Posted: Sun Nov 1, 2009 1:09 am |
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| http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/article-1205226/Not-profit-gap-year-firm-Frontier-shares-fees--directors.html | |
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