Luxury Tours

The Ceredigion Coast Path follows the spectacular and varied coastline of Cardigan Bay on the west coast of Wales. Stunning scenery, picturesque villages and a wealth of wildlife make for a fabulous few days of walking. Discover the area’s rich history, from iron-age hill forts, to medieval fish traps and 19th century harbours. At the end of a day's walking, dine on delicious local food and sink into a cosy bed in our favourite hotels and guesthouses, hand-picked by our team for their quality and charm of course. It's what we do best.

The Chilterns are an underrated part of England in our opinion and offer a perfect landscape for a gentle walking tour. Just as pretty as The Cotswolds but nowhere near as touristy, you really feel like you’ve got away from it all - and yet it’s only a short train ride away from London. Designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the Chilterns are comprised of chalk downland, dry valleys, pastoral and arable fields, sweeping hills and ancient beech woodland. Choose to visit in May and you are likely to catch the breathtaking bluebells in the woods. Majestic red kites are an increasingly famous resident after a successful reintroduction programme and are now frequently joined by buzzards wheeling overhead.

The Chilterns are fairly sparsely populated but peppered along the route are some very old and very charming towns and villages. At the southern end, The Thames cuts through the landscape making for some extremely dramatic and beautiful scenery. To the north, this gentle walking tour takes you to Wendover Woods, the highest point of the Chilterns and a different scene. Your route takes you past Chequers - country seat of the encumbent British Prime Minister and to Waddesdon Manor, a Rothschild family home and one of the most original country houses in England. Many parts of the region will be recognisable as film locations most notably as DI Barnaby's Midsomer County. Sample some very traditional hostelries and of course an excellent cheese shop, and you will see why we are so pleased to offer Chilterns Chalk and Cheese.

Enid Blyton once said, “My imagination contains all the things I have ever seen or heard, things my conscious mind has long forgotten. I don’t think that I use anything I have not seen or experienced — I don’t think I could.”

As the creator of the Famous Five adventures, many of the places in Enid Byton’s stories, are to be found in Dorset, more specifically in the beautiful Studland area where she often holidayed and where she and her husband bought property.

This walking and cycling tour discovers the places in Dorset that inspired her. We’ve designed the itinerary to be largely traffic free and gentle to enable young readers to follow in her footsteps. Where will your imagination take you?

We are thrilled to offer this walking holiday which includes so much of what is magical about Kent. You will amble along wonderful sea shores with sandy beaches, cliffs and remote marshes, taking in 6 very varied and remarkable castles with an overnight stay in the grandest of all - Leeds Castle.

Your route through the 'Garden of England', as this area is known, leads across rare chalk down land and through ancient woods and a plethora of orchards to a string of small, fascinating towns packed with local gems - medieval buildings, arty shops and oyster shacks. And the historic city of Canterbury with its stunning cathedral and ancient buildings is a remarkable place in its own right. We have chosen overnight stays in these locations so that you can discover all they have to offer. And with easy distances and walking, you will have time to enjoy the abundance of local produce, from vineyards and fruit farms to seafood restaurants and local beers and ciders.

Our gentle walking holiday in Suffolk combines the best of the beautiful and unique Suffolk coast and sandy heaths that lie between Woodbridge and Southwold. Brimming with boats and beaches, quirky pubs, wildlife and seafood galore, forest tracks and sinuous estuaries, this is a tranquil sometimes remote area perfect for gentle walking.

With a distinctive collection of hotels and 2 nights at each stop, you have the choice of relaxing on alternate days with a variety of boat rides on offer or exploring further on foot with the routes we include. Each overnight stay offers something different - the Deben estuary at Woodbridge, the spit at Orford, the town at Aldeburgh and the pier and sandy beach at Southwold - with a great deal of magic in between for you to discover!

The Lake District is a walker's paradise. With hundreds of walking routes, each with a myriad of variations, it has almost limitless possibilities. Whether you simply want to soak up the scenery from a gentle low-level stroll, or you want to scale the heights of Helvellyn, we can craft the perfect Lake District experience for you. We aim to give you a flavour of this World Heritage Site and include some of our favourite places. However we tailor-make all our Lake District trips to suit you, the customer. What you see on the itinerary page is a sample tour featuring mainly low level walks with a couple of more challenging days, but we suggest you drop us a line or give us a call to discuss your interests, needs, energy levels and more, and we'll put together an itinerary designed especially for you.

Perhaps you're interested in exploring the literary heritage of the Lake District, with its connections to Wordsworth and Beatrix Potter. Maybe you'd like to explore self-guided for a few days and then have a knowledgeable guide to lead you on a more challenging ascent and tell you about the local flora and fauna, history and geography en route. You might want to sample the area's famous haute cuisine restaurants like L'Enclume, or perhaps it's kayaking that tickles your fancy. Whatever it is, we're sure we can create a special Lakeland experience you'll treasure forever.

Our Celtic Caper is a wonderful introduction to West Wales as you gently walk the stunningly beautiful Pembrokeshire Coast Path. Find picturesque villages, a wealth of wildlife, and spine-tingling history along the way. At the end of each exciting day relax in a clutch of luxury hotels, each unique and offering some of the very best dining to be found in Wales.

From Neolithic standing stones to an Iron Age hill fort; medieval castles, and the final resting place of St David, the patron saint of Wales, you can immerse yourself in an ancient land. Climb the mountain where the blue stones of Stonehenge are reputed to have originated and walk down to the sea and explore the shoreline. Take a boat trip out, where you may see seals, dolphins, puffins, flocks of seabirds and maybe even a whale, and enjoy a drink in the favourite watering hole of Wales' most famous literary son. Keep your eyes peeled - you might even see a Welsh Dragon! This tour really has it all...

This relaxing journey explores laid-back southern state of Kerala, blessed with enchanting green landscapes of paddy fields, palm trees, golden beaches and forested hills. We experience old trading ports and idyllic backwaters along the coast to wild elephants and hill stations as also a spectacular Hindu temple in Tamil Nadu.

We start our tour in Kochi, the centre of the Indian spice for many centuries, before heading inland to visit the hill station of Munnar - a cool and serene town full of tea and rubber plantations and surrounded by grasslands and verdant forests. Christianity and even Judaism have left their mark on these coastal regions but it is Hinduism that dominates and hence a huge and elaborately decorated temple at Madurai – a treat for the eyes and the soul. High in the Western Ghats, Periyar National Park is home to a huge variety of wildlife where even colourful birds of various species are in abundance. We finish by relaxing on the tropical beaches of Kovalam but not before cruising along the picturesque Kerala backwaters with an overnight stay on a houseboat.

Highlights:

• Fort Kochi - an amalgam of Old Portuguese, British and Dutch architectural treasure.
• Munnar - a cool and picturesque hill station in the Western Ghats.
• Meenakshi Temple - one of the largest temple-complexes in India.
• Thekkady - famous for its spices like black pepper, cardamom, cinnamon and cloves.
• Periyar – for its Wildlife Sanctuary with vast wildlife; particularly elephants.
• Alleppey – for a memorable houseboat cruise through its backwaters.
  

Hadrian's Wall is Europe’s largest surviving Roman monument. It was the brainchild of Emperor Hadrian, who ordered its construction in AD122 to hold back the advancing Barbarians in northern England. As much of the wall still exists, and it traverses some of Britain's most ruggedly beautiful landscape, this is a remarkable and dramatic walk through history. As you follow Hadrian's footsteps from coast to coast, from Bowness on Solway, past Carlisle to Newcastle, you encounter a string of milecastles and forts, jaw-dropping vistas and details of life from two thousand years ago.

To this World Heritage walk we have added wonderful stays in boutique hotels, full of elegant charm, and private transfers to these and key related Roman sites.

This is an extremely varied trip that offers everything from fascinating ancient Kathmandu to seeing Nepal’s countryside during the drive to Pokhara and Chitwan and game-watching in Chitwan. However, the highlight is a short trek, with our expert trek leader and porters, visiting some of the most interesting villages in the Annapurna’s foothills surrounded by magnificent mountain views.

We use a series of picturesque luxury lodges that offer a much higher comfort level than is ordinarily available while trekking. Each lodge has twin rooms, attached bathrooms, hot running water, dining rooms, cozy lounges, gardens, and stunning views.

The trekking part is ideal for active persons from a child to someone in their 70s.