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Family Holidays
Our team is full of family travellers, meaning we know what it takes to make sure everyone enjoys the experience just as much as each other.
Honeymoons
We’ve been crafting dream itineraries for newly married couples for years. Learn more about the ins and outs of our honeymoon service here.
Solo Holidays
Our travel experts have experienced the thrills and challenges of solo travel, all with the aim of producing some of our most immersive and exciting itineraries.
Couples Holidays
Our couple itineraries are paced perfectly for you to enjoy the very best a country has to offer whilst making sure you enjoy the quality time together you’re after.
Group Holidays
No matter what the size or the occasion, we’re well versed in taking larger groups of people away for those special adventures.
Safari Holidays
With a team of experts that have worked as conservationists and wildlife photographers, we have the expertise to make your safari dreams come true.
Remote Destinations
We’ve chosen these experiences, destinations and adventures to bring you closer to the great outdoors. This is your ticket to our wonderful world.
Unusual Holidays
The world may be conquered, but enough secrets remain to keep us up all night, dreaming of ways to whisk you off to the most unique corners of the globe. Where first?
Adventure Holidays
Hike across mountain ridgelines, scramble across glaciers and kayak down rivers – these trips are designed to immerse you in vast wildernesses and ancient cultures.
Beach Holidays
Porcelain shores, perfect seas and swaying palms; the allure of a beach break is hard to ignore. Which is why we handpick the best beachfront boltholes to offer you…
Food Holidays
Food and travel have long gone hand in hand, and we have put together some mouth-watering trips that capture the palate, of countries across the world. Bon appétit.
Slow Travel
As the world becomes busier, slow travel has never felt so fitting. Whether it’s meeting fishermen in Maine or learning the Dukha-way in Mongolia, take time to connect.
Eclipse Holidays
Eclipse travel celebrates our place in the wider cosmos. Let us take you to wherever in the world the eclipse is at its most arresting, and we’ll do it in style.
Proposal Service
Found the one and want to propose in style? The moment will be a memory forever and we’re here to help you make sure it’s the most perfect moment for you and your loved one.
Train Travel
“It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” We’ve all heard this, haven’t we? And with these captivating luxury train journeys, we’ll show you the joy to be found travelling across the world by rail.
The Pursuit of Feeling
From impassioned and emotive journeys, to podcasts and our Feelings Engine, you’ll find something to move you and something to soothe you. We want to fire your heart and provide food for your soul.
Set Jetting
Swapping salubrious saloons and questionable lodgings for sumptuous hotels and eye-opening experiences, each of our show-stopping journeys will take you behind scenes of some of TV’s most awe-inspiring locations.
See You in the Moment
You need only bring yourselves – your people, your histories. We’ll provide the moment itself. The anticipation, the togetherness, the memory. This is something to savour. This is something to remember.
Field Trip
Education begins in the classroom, but it’s IRL that younger generations put their lessons to the test. Field Trip is a curriculum of educational encounters around the world.
Take me on a Story
A series of family experiences celebrating the transformative power of the books we loved when we were young, and the stories our children have come to adore.
Get Lost
Designed as a once-in-a-lifetime challenge, train with elite survival experts before traversing a polar, jungle, coastal, mountain or desert region in your mission back to civilisation.
Blink
The ultimate luxury camping retreat. From the Sahara desert to the Andean Mountains, with Blink anywhere you can envisage it, we will create it.
Bring it Back
Bring It Back will embed you in an entirely different way of thinking, and of learning about a culture directly from its experts on the ground. You may be surprised by what you discover.
The Great American View
This series of breathtaking journeys culminate in some of America’s most legendary sights. They are the places you’ve always sought out, and now it’s your time to find them.
James Bond
We are proud to have been selected as the official travel partner to curate James Bond inspired trips.
Agatha Christie
We’ve been hand-picked by Agatha Christie Limited to help bring Agatha’s world-famous Grand Tour to life through a series of episodic trips across Africa, Australasia and North America, and a unique prelude in London.
Tasting Notes
Eating at a Michelin – starred restaurant is one thing. But now you can learn about the country through the lens of some of the most critically acclaimed chefs in the world, by travelling with them on the ultimately culinary experience
Eater Journeys
We’re often asked who we’d invite to our ideal dinner party. Ernest Shackleton? Amelia Earheart? The entire editorial team of Eater? Easily. So we invited our friends at Eater over to dinner and quizzed them about their favourite foodie trips and then created them for you to experience too.
Surf Air
We’re proud to launch a brand-new series of exclusive US trips with ground-breaking private air company Surf Air. Bringing our combined knowledge of ground and sky together, we’re helping you to see the world in style.
Take the Open Road with Auberge
With the iconic hotel brand Auberge Resorts, we’ve created a new series of tailormade, luxurious road trip itineraries. Emblems of America’s most iconic landscapes, regions, and people.
Remarkable Drives of Discovery with Auberge
Following on from the much lauded ‘Take the Open Road’ series, here’s five brand-new bespoke, multi-destination trips created with our friends at Auberge Resorts Collection. Delve deeper than ever before.
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Once a year – during the month of August – the world’s largest arts festival descends on the craggy, grey-stone tenements and grand boulevards of Edinburgh, Scotland‘s lauded historic city. The Festival Fringe, often referred to simply as ‘The Fringe’, was founded in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival. Each year it encompasses some 317 venues and thousands of individual shows. It is a wild celebration of laughter, art, and creativity. But with so much to see (and do, and laugh at, and eat), we’ve compiled our own brief guide to a festival that has caused more tears than any other (tears of laughter. This isn’t Euripides.)
If you go and see the names you already know, then you’re doing it wrong. Almost every show is listed in the official brochure (available online, in print and as an app), covering theatre, dance, music, comedy, and cabaret. Go off the beaten track and stay there. After all, it’s called the fringe festival for a reason. Personally, we always enjoy Summerhall – as a venue which consistently puts on the most boundary-pushing theatre. Monkey Barrel have among the best comedy line-ups or simply walk down the Royal Mile where performers will pitch their show directly to you. Sometimes the best plan is no plan at all.
Because there are so many shows and things to do – honestly, it’s overwhelming – it’s best to pick something that sounds interesting to you. If a show has hundreds of reviews it might mean it has the backing of a very active PR. What’s more, there is an underbelly to the reviews-writing scene, where free tickets might be exchanged for positive reviews. Trust your instincts. Follow the Fringe on social media, and the chatter surrounding it. The national Newspapers will have more resources to conduct in-depth coverage, but they won’t be able to cover it all. Keep your nose to the ground.
No, and yes. Some shows are ticketed (normally between £10 – £15), while others operate under free and pay-what-you-want schemes. For the latter, you might be asked for a donation at the end of the show (often the suggested donation is £5).
We’ve been on a lot of train journeys. A lot. But the train journey up from London is probably one of the world’s greatest. From the window you’ll glimpse the Scottish countryside at its most beautiful and bucolic. You’ll see the thorny peak of Durham Cathedral, and glimpse the haze-soaked seas of the North.
That’s a big question, and a controversial one. Mother India is one of the best restaurants in the centre of town. Book before you go. Brew Lab is a must for coffee lovers, while Valvona & Crolla is a superb Italian cafe hidden at the back of a food store.
Edinburgh is a beautiful city, so make sure you see more of it while you’re there. Only a few minutes away from the centre of the Fringe you can walk around picturesque Stockbridge (there is a fantastic art gallery there which has loads of work by Eduardo Paolozzi – and the most unusual toilets in the world). You can also go to Portabello Beach, and Cramond Island. There’s also Edinburgh Zoo, with its own quite perfect penguin parade. And – last but not least – walk up Arthur’s Seat for incredible panoramic views across the city.
There’s more to Scotland than the Fringe. If you’re up for exploring enigmatic lochs, craggy mountains, and stunning port towns, then call us today. Bagpipes are entirely optional.
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