My criticism is about the organization and prior information from Simien Trekking in preparation of a one-day trip from Gondar to Simien.  I tried several times to get information about route, length, timing, etc. and wanted to start earlier than 8am to get a 4 hours hike, but I was just given the spiel from the website, and told that departure was fixed.  On the day, the guy (Micky I think) shows up in a tuc-tuc and expect us to go for one hour to pick-up place, which we refused, and then he yelled at us!! Absolutely horrified at his unprofessionalism, our hotel graciously offered their shuttle.  We left our hotel at 8am, Gondar at 9am, and did not arrive in Debark until almost noon.  By then Micky had collected the money and left - he is not even on the trip! When the guide came onboard the bus in Debark he had NO IDEA that there were one-day trippers on the bus.   And he said since we would not get to the drop off for everybody else until after noon, there was no way we could do a 4 hour hike, ALTHOUGH WE WERE PROMISED THAT IT WAS NOT PROBLEM.   The guide was actually great and did all he could to make sure we had a great time once there, but we were so disappointed about the lack of information and the fact that we had been misled about the options for a one-day trip.  Micky basically just took our money and left the guide to take care of things.

My rating is directed at Micky and Simien Trekking and NOT the guide - he was great!