Letters and comments from our pilgrims

We had a good time. We enjoyed the pilgrimage, great accommodation, and delicious food, our tour guide Sylvia is very nice, friendly, and knowledgeable of all the places we visited, Love it! I hope to see more places with your agency in the future. By Jessica A E on Sep 22, 2023

We had a great time and wonderful memories! On our trip! A heartfelt thank you, Silvia, for your incredible support and assistance. Your dedication is truly outstanding, Wishing you God's guidance and blessings on your journey, my friend. Blue Heart is the best !❤️ By Rahel B on Sep 22, 2023

Uplifting, Spiritual, and Amazing trip! Just returned from the Marian Shrine Pilgrimage with Blue Heart Travel. I went with my sister and 19 other pilgrims along with Fr. Sony from Rome. Our excellent tour guide, Sylvia, brought so much knowledge and understanding to the wonderful sites we got to visit. She was the “Rock”...

Marian Shrine Pilgrimage; I was a little leery of booking a trip with a company outside the U.S. My fears were allayed by the professionalism of all involved in this Pilgrimage. Gordon was responsive to my inquiries and kept me posted before the trip. Once on the trip, we were kept on track by our fantastic guide, Silvija Maric. We were...

Dear Gordan, I would like to extend my profound admiration and thank you for the wonderful trip time our group took to the Vatican and the various Marian Shrines in Europe and the other Sacred sites and for what I experienced through Blue Heart Travel and through you. The places we visited, especially the Vatican, Fatima, Lourdes, and Medjugorje,...

Oberammergau and Holy Land, Oct. 2022

This is my first time with Blue Heart traveling from Sept 28 to Oct 10, Oberammergau and Israel and I give it a 100% satisfaction grade. and I would like to thank Gordan for this wonderful experience, he was there all the way. Also, thanks for giving us a very good tour guide, Said. I would love to travel with Blue Heart again. You will not go wrong traveling through Blue Heart.

By Vincent Lagula F on Oct 20, 2022

Passion Play and Holy Land, Oct. 2022

This was a wonderful Catholic pilgrimage for me and my mom which started in Germany for the Passion Play then off to a week in Israel and 2 days in Jordan. We met wonderful people on our tour and we had a wonderful time with them. We had Gordan, as our tour escort and he made us feel welcome and that he really cared for all of our travel experience and us. Our trip was well organized and we were always in a comfortable big bus, we had the best local guides and the hotel accommodations were excellent. The breakfast and dinner buffets in all the hotels were yummy and all the local cuisine was delicious and exotic. I highly recommend this tour company and looking forward to future trips with them. Thank you for the wonderful pilgrimage experience.

By Marites C on Oct 19, 2022

Our group from Texas was all praises for how our tours were handled. We had great accommodations and nice and interesting tours and we love Marijana with all our hearts. She is a fun, loving, and very devoted Catholic. We have surprises on our tours and even went to places not included in our tours because we have extra time. We want her on our...

This trip was well-organized, great itinerary, excellent accommodations, good food, and most of all wonderful and very knowledgeable tour guide and local guides. We learned so much from them. The travel agency made sure that we were taken care of and made it fun for everyone. The group was really happy with their service. We highly recommend...

My wife and I enjoyed this journey. We had an amazing and very friendly tour escort named Gordan, a person with a good personality, very organized, and who took very good care of us. The food was very good and so too were the hotels we slept in. The Marian sites were really beautiful, and inspiring and had a great impact on us. The weather during...

Two of my sons (18 and 22) and I booked with Blue Heart Travel for a Marian Shrines and Passion Play trip in July of 2022. Our expectations were met or exceeded in every respect. Gordan, our wonderful host, had a wealth of information about the places we visited. He ensured that we had excellent local guides, and worked tirelessly to ensure that...

Gordon, Thank you so much for the help you gave our family in planning our pilgrimage. We so much had been looking forward to this opportunity for a year and a half and you made it all come together for us. The hotel was great and Marija was fantastic! What a blessed way to start Holy Week. I pray travel is safe again soon and that you will be...

World Youth day, Krakow August 2016, Diocese Tyler, Texas

Gordan,

Everything was excellent.  The hotels, the food, Marcelina, Camiel, and everything else. 

We had a great experience and your staff exceeded my expectations. 

I felt bad having to change dinner times just a few days out.  Everything did work out – and there was never a time that was frustrating except for when I landed in Frankfurt and wasn’t sure what was going on.  A detailed itinerary (even if it gets adjusted a bit) would have helped a lot. 

Other than that – We were all very very pleased.  I’m thankful that you worked with our payment schedule and all the people that we worked with.  I hope to use your travel services again soon. 

I will be planning a mission trip next summer, a pilgrimage to Rome/Assisi in 2018 and one to Panama in 2019.  I’ll be in contact with you over the next few months. 

Mark Knox
PIlgrimage Coordinator of the World Youth Day in Krakow with Bishop Strickland
WYD Krakow & Vienna August 2016
Diocese Tyler, Texas, USA

Moring Gordan,

I wanted to send you a quick message to let you know that I loved our Pilgrimage, my favorite was Medjugorje not only for the Blessed Mary, but for the beauty of Croatia. I loved Silva, I loved Dragan, Miro as well we had very little time with him. I hope to take my family back one day to your beautiful country full of wonderful people, great food and breathtaking scenery.

Keep me in the loop for Holy Land Tour in future, make sure Silva is the tour leader! 

PS....If I put together a Pilgrimage in future I would like to go through you,

Mrs. Mary Scaturchio  - TPI Travel

Sept/Oct. 2015
Marian Shrines Tour

Dear Mr. Gordan:

Sincerely wishing you and your family a blessed Christmas season filled with peace, happiness and a prosperous New Year 2016.
I did not get a chance to write to you sooner because my computer has virus. Just cleaned up but still some other issue still exists on a computer.
Thanks for organizing such a beautiful pilgrimage trip. Thanks for the wonderful tour guides, 
Thanks for everything.

May God return abundance graces to you and your family for all the wonderful works that have done for the pilgrims.

Thank You & God bless,

Anna Nguyen

Medjugorje - Rome - Lourdes - Fatima Anniversary
120 people on Tour from Sept. 28 - Oct. 15, 2015

Marian Shrines & Medjugorje Tour

Dear Gordan,

We got home on Sat. It was a great trip. Everyone was so pleased. I can't thank you enough for all your hard work..... You did a great job for us. Several people from home and from the trip asked me to do another trip next year.
The interpreters were very good. The one in Italy was very-very good, Elana. Medjugorje was great also. Dragan and myself had a wonderful time....

Mr. Dwello,
September 2014
Medjugorje Tour
 

Dear Gordan and Kevin,

I just wanted to say a word of thanks to you for making my group's pilgrimage to Lourdes and Paris possible. Everyone in my group enjoyed the trip and had a good time. 

The flights on Air France and the TGV train were all smooth and pleasant. The hotels were good. The guides and drivers were all kind and helpful. David, the driver in Lourdes, decided to bring us a little too early to train station; and Renee, the guide in Paris, arranged a Mass for us instead of showing us around at Rue de Bac; but overall everything was good. 

Thank you again for making all the arrangements. I look forward to working with you on future trips!

God bless!

Fr. Vincentius Do
Lourdes Pilgrimage
August 2014

Dear Gordan,

God Bless Us All!!
We got back to the USA yesterday morning, June 12, 2014 after 10 days of Pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
It's a lifetime dream to experience this kind of Pilgrimage. It could have been done without your help, our Huong, our Msgr. Hodge and our great historian Hani and our driver.
Please extend, our personal regards & thank you to Hani. We definitely miss him. He is one of a kind!!

Myself & my husband, Ramon
are so grateful for all the great experience we had for the last 10 days.

Also, thank you to my cousins Edna & Eddie for joining us.

We are looking again to have another Pilgrimage & to see you all again in the near future.

Come & Visit us here in the USA.

Kind Regards,
Emma & Ramon Javier

Holy Land Tour

Dear Gordan,

As you see, how joyful, happy and peaceful all of us after did the trip to Medjugorje via Vienna, we really very enjoyed the Christmas in Vienna and have attended the Christmas mass which celebrated by Cardinal Schorborn. The hotel was so perfect, just nice and so easy for us to go to anywhere by walking distance, surrounded by shops and restaurant, we also went to the concert, we are really appreciated and so blessed to let you arranged the wonderful trips for us.

We love Vienna so much, and will come back to Vienna again sometimes, and to Medjugorje too. We would like to visit more often to Medjugorje and other places too and will introduce to our friends and relatives to you Gordan, so they also will have a good and wonderful experiences too, as we had in our pilgrims trips.

We will stay in touch with you and will introduce our friends and relatives to you.

Wishing you to have lots of the Lord blessing in 2012 and God bless you always!

Peace in Christ,
Cynthia Leowardy and family
Oakville, Canada.

Family pilgrimage to Vienna & Medjugorje
Dec 24 2011 - Jan 4, 2012

Hi Gordon

Thank you very much for everything. The itinerary in Lourdes and Paris was excellent. My family thoroughly enjoyed themselves and my wife can’t stop talking about how much she enjoyed the holiday. The tour guides were excellent and very friendly. They made us feel very special. The transfers went very smoothly. My wife says it was the best holiday we have ever had.

Thank you very much, again, for everything

Thanks
Leslie and family, 
Lourdes - Paris
Nov. 2011

Good day Gordan,

We are back in Trinidad & Tobago safe and sound.

Many thanks for your assistance and encouragement during our problems in getting to the Holy Land.
We wish to tell you we had a beautiful and spirit-filled pilgrimage.

Please be advised that the Tour Operators were very good. The Driver, George, and the Tour Guide Tony were very professional and did your company proud. 
Also, the assistant at Israel airport, Sami, was very good. 
They are all polite and kind and patient.

Tulio and Lydia 
Fiat Apostolate Trinidad & Tobago
Pilgrimage to Holy Land
August 2011

Dear Gordon,
We have returned from our trip to Europe on Tuesday and I just wanted to personally thank you for all the arrangements that you made for us while our stay in Medjugorje. Peter's pension was delightful as well as Peter himself. He made us very comfortable and the walk to Apparition Hill was very close from his place as well as to St. James. 
Viktors Restuarant was amazing. The meals were spectacular and Viktor and his staff were very hospitable. My family couldn't wait to have dinner every evening at Viktors. I wish we could bring him to America where he could open a restaurant here.....

God bless you and thank you,
Denise Voithofer, USA
Medjugorje Pilgrimage

Hi Gordan,
We arrived in Montenegro at around 3:30 pm. I am so grateful for this trip. It was the least stressful I've ever experienced..................Everything we experienced in Mejugorie was perfect, from the meetings with the visionaries to Holy Hour on Saturday night. You truly are a good organizer. I felt safe and like it was worth every penny. 
I will always recommend you for religious trips! 

Please thank your wife for the maslenica idea--now, I'm craving it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!!

Ok...................I'll be in touch soon.

Pax,
Dominika
Medjugorje Pilgrimage
May 2011
 

Hi Gordan,

The trip was so excellent. After looking at around 40 different tour agencies and then speaking to about 15 of them, it was immediately obvious you were the best one. Since I had a young adult group going with various ages from 25-40, we had a different itinerary in mind that involved a lot of activity and creating a tour that was in chronological order, so that we could understand the living Bible. I tried with other agencies and unfortunately, people were either unwilling to change their itineraries or work with my "crazy" ideas!

It was obvious that our tour was organized by a Catholic, since it wasn't just a historical tour, it was also very spiritual. We learned so much, saw more than we could have imagined and had the best journey! Everyone loved that we got a chance to go to Jordan, as well as the Holy Land. It was definitely an experience I will never forget and one that made me understand my faith on a deeper level (and I'm not the only one who said that!)

Happy Advent!

Dominika
Pilgrimage coordinator
HOLY LAND - JORDAN from NEWARK

Hello Gordan!

We wanted to thank you again for your part in making our tour of the Holy Land the amazing tour that it was. Every day was remarkable and special. We still feel it’s' impact, especially at Mass or in reading scripture. We know without your help; these treasured 10 days would not have happened for us. 
The tour guides were wonderful (especially George), drivers excellent (Steve still talks about how we maneuvered through Cairo) and security was great.
We do understand that all that was accomplished because you are professional, you are detailed, and have great "connections"....but how did you manage to get us such perfect weather, too??! (smile) 
We appreciate all that you did, Gordan, and know that it was a big sacrifice for you and your family, as you had just completed another group. 
We will treasure the memories of this tour forever.

Wishing you the Peace and Joy of Christmas,

Steve and Edie Paul
Holy Land Pilgrimage
 

Dear Gordan,

We wish to thank you for the beautiful pilgrimage that you accompanied us on. We so appreciated all that extended planning and help with logistics and your friendly presence adding the personal experience and constant attentiveness to our groups needs. It was a pleasure getting to know you better. 
We pray the experience deepened your spiritual life as it increased ours and that your family will be blessed abundantly,

Thank you so much,

God bless you!

Love,
Don & Mary Flegel
Holy Land Pilgrimage