Ipoh Secrets
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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Award owner of Certificate of Excellence for both year 2017 & 2018, IPOH SECRETS (Ipoh Secrets Tours Sdn Bhd) is a licensed tour company with vast knowledge & experiences about the unique culture, interesting spots, beckoning nature, and the incredible list of delicious authentic food in and around Ipoh & Perak region. We take pride in offering the best and most unusual tour experience, and provider for Ipoh City Tour, specialized Custom & Private Tours, showcasing Ipoh first, Taiping and Kuala Kangsar, (Royal Town) and eventually the whole Perak State of Malaysia. Co. Reg. 1155280-U | Ministry of Tourism KPK/LN 8499
Ipoh, Malaysia

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jordiv28
Barcelona, Spain11 contributions
Our guide, John CJ Lee, was very flexible during the tour, improvising some unexpected stops like a soya source facility we had never seen before. He also was very explicative during the visit to the Gua Tempurung Cave in Gopeng and the temples visited. And he took us to a very authentic local breakfast and a convenient local place for lunch.

Our only concern is that the tour was quite different of the described tour in their web page. So we expected to visit the Perak Tong temple or the Kellie Castle that were theoretically included, but we did not. The city tour was also shorter than expected but we did it at the end of the tour and we were already tired of a log day touring.

In summary, good job of John but the company should be more clear about what is included in the tour.

Anyway we
Written 19 May 2023
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IpohSecrets
Hi Jordi, thank you for your review! Your honest review are important to know our strength and weakness, and how to make our tours better. In regard to Perak Tong (cave temple), it is never listed in our itinerary (but it is in your Lonely Planet). As for Kellie's Castle, John did asked your opinion and he was told to bring you to the best places of interest, which he did, customizing the tour and went to Gua Tempurung which is actually much further away from the castle, and some small stop along the way, soya sauce house and trying the King of Fruit - Durian. We planned all of our tour to be 8 hours long as we noted any time longer than 8 hours, our guests will start to struggle in the hot & humid Malaysian weather. From our record, your tour started at 8:00am and ended at 4:20pm (with about 10+ minutes of restroom stop at your hotel). The feeling of shorter duration than expected is actually a great compliment, as the saying goes "GOOD time tends to feel short... and the horrible ones feels like a lifetime"!!! 8 hours feeling short means you are hunger for more! So if you're available, we also offers day tours to Taiping, Kuala Kangsar, UNESCO Lenggong, Sitiawan, Teluk Intan, Cameron Highlands, and if there's more time & days, we can even plan more for you. We will advise John to reconfirm with his guests about customizing the itinerary so cases like yours will not happen. Thank you again for the writeup and hope to see you, maybe in the near future!
Written 20 May 2023
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choy338
Singapore25 contributions
May 2023 • Family
Highly recommend the Full Heritage Day Tour . Our guide John brought us to local eateries and imparted a lot of interesting and fun facts on Ipoh’s history and culture . Covered all the main sights I’ve been wanting to see .Bonus was the biscuit outlet and pomelo shopping
Written 13 May 2023
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Keng Onn W
2 contributions
Mar 2023
We booked a full-day private tour and John was our guide.

We appreciate how he customized the tour for us (there were several tourist attractions we did not wish to visit) and enlivened the tour with his in-depth knowledge of Ipoh's history and how it impacted the city and surrounding region.

It was a really interesting day.

Thanks! :)
Written 16 April 2023
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Wanderer
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Apr 2023 • Friends
It was a last minute decision to take up this pte heritage tour, and we were glad we did. Our guide was Simon. He was pleasant, polite, patient and was flexible enough to adcede to the change in itinerary. Due to expected thunderstorm in the afternoon, we requested to do swap the morning old town tour with the afternoon caves tour. The tour went smoothly. The caves were beautiful, esp like the Kek Lok Tong cave. Due to Qingming Jie, we went to Perak cave instead. Lunch was at a buzzy unpretentious coffee shop for an absolutely delicious Yong Tau Foo lunch. We decided take a cursory look at Kellie Castle from outside, and then proceeded to Pomelo plantation, an extra "complimentary" stop! Afternoon was a quick run in the rain through the old town. Highly rec this tour to provide a quick overview of Ipoh's key attractions!
Written 8 April 2023
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TPjeffrey
Singapore, Singapore64 contributions
Mar 2023
Booked a full day heritage tour from Ipoh Secret on 15 Mar 23. We had John as our guide for the day.

Overall experience was very good. John was very knowledgeable in explaining the history during the guided tour. (The kids really learnt a lot) We went to places such as Kellie Castle, Ho Yat Ho Museum, and Concubine Lane. John was also helpful in sourcing the perfect place for our meals. Love the Yong Tau Foo.

John went an extra mile in helping us sourced for a less crowded breakfast place for the next day, which we really appreciated.

Please keep up the good work buddy!
Written 19 March 2023
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KL
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Mar 2023
9 March 2023 6.20am in the morning, John picked us at Kinta Riverside Hotel. We bit the morning traffic and arrived Lenggong Valley at around 7.30am for a coffee shop breakfast. We were then proceed to our UNESCO Archaeological Heritage tour.

The heritage tour guide could not speak much other languages except Malay. John assisted in translation and provided additional insight and helped our senior folks to complete the adventure. We were told tha our 73 year old participant was the oldest that the tour had ever received!

John took us to Kuala Kangsar for lunch and visited the royal town of Perak before heading back to hotel.

We thanked John for his friendliness, patience and professionalism.
Written 12 March 2023
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IpohSecrets
We're glad you enjoy the tour and are lucky that the soil is a lot drier compared to a few days before where the group had some lich bites. You all came out unbitten! :)
Written 13 March 2023
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Ray Yeo
2 contributions
Dec 2022 • Family
We had a great time in the 1-day private tour led by John, our tour guide, visiting Ipoh old town, beautiful limestone caves, and the ionic Kellie's Castle. John was friendly and helpful throughout, sharing his knowledge on the history and culture of the various attractions and helping us take many photos throughout the day. Overall, it was an awesome experience and we highly recommend John as your tour guide for your next trip to Ipoh!
Written 19 December 2022
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Walter
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Dec 2022 • Family
We booked a last minute four days tour package with Ipoh Secrets because we were travelling with young children that required customised itinerary. This turned out to be the best decision for our family trip! John, our assigned tour guide, was extremely knowledgeable, thoughtful and accommodating. Words cannot express our appreciation and satisfaction and I would highly recommend John and Ipoh Secrets to anyone who’s keen to explore Ipoh and Perak area.
Written 7 December 2022
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Jackie
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Nov 2022 • Friends
Ipoh Secrets were fantastic on our recent visit to Ipoh when we decided to book a last minute trip to the Cameron Highlands. We were told that due to our last minute booking we would just have a driver and not a guide, but it ended up that John, our driver, was a fantastic tour guide! He was really professional and knowledgeable, we really enjoyed his insights as an Ipoh local and he was also easy to get along with. He knew all the best photo spots and even gave us a list of coffee places to try!

It was also very reasonable price-wise and flexible with what we wanted to do.

We would definitely use Ipoh Secrets again!
Written 3 November 2022
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Poyau
2 contributions
Aug 2022 • Solo
Old city vers intéressant Witherspoon the House Tea. Temples too. Sympathique guide. Good explications.
Written 9 August 2022
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