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To enhance your holiday experience, all our European and UK tours are now smaller groups. This means you'll enjoy more unique excursions and stay at hotels a larger group wouldn't be able to. You'll also get to spend more time with your Tour Manager, benefitting from their experience and passion for travel as you explore with new friends.

Harder Kulm look-out point

Enhanced, Experience-led Itineraries

We know the best holidays are filled with immersive experiences that allow you to soak in the culture of your destination. With a smaller group, we can include excursions that not every tourist gets to enjoy. Explore the Vatican after hours on a private tour, go truffle hunting in Umbria or sip wines cultivated on the fertile slopes of Europe's most active volcano.

Dordogne street scene

Experience Life as a Local

There's no better way to explore than with a local. They know all the best stories about their hometown, as well as the hidden nooks and crannies most people would miss on their own or in a larger group. Our local tour guides bring history to life right before your eyes, their passion, knowledge and people skills making for a truly engaging experience.

Group of travellers in Antwerpen

Small groups, winners year after year

Your feedback is essential in making our holidays even better, and one thing you were sure about was that less is more. Smaller group sizes have been successful year after year and are just as sociable an experience, if not more so, than if there were more people. You'll get more one on one time with your Tour Manager and find it easier to get to know your group.

Discover why premium small group tours are so rewarding

The best of both worlds, in a smaller group, you'll have a Tour Manager looking out for you throughout your holiday, just like our larger groups would, while also getting extra time to benefit from their hands-on expertise. You'll get a more in-depth insight into the cultures and traditions of the places you visit with locally-led tours that everyone can get involved in, excursions to sites not big enough for larger groups, and accommodation at unique or boutique hotels. There'll also be the chance to explore your way, with a more sedate pace set for viewing the attractions. On trains, it'll be easier to get a window seat and admire the views, while you and your new friends will be able to stay together yet still socially distance.

La Truffadou train in France

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Edinburgh, Highlands & Islands
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The Northern Lights & Lapland
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Vintage Railways of the Isle of Man
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Sirmione on Lake Garda
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Tresco Abbey Gardens
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Our customers love our Small Groups tours
Skye, Orkney and the Wild North
28/Sep
Kathleen Stanley
5 stars
“This trip was simply amazing. We could not have asked for a better tour manager!
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Norwich, Sandringham and the Norfolk Broads
28/Sep
P Wood
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“Sandringham was very good and felt very homely and not like a museum. Norfolk Broads was a very good experience. All trains were very enjoyable and interesting.
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Classic Glacier Express
28/Sep
Mark Barry
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“Booked this trip as a treat immediately after retiring. Overall the trip exceeded expectations and despite a couple of days of poor weather got to enjoy the scenery amd the company on the whole trip. Slight word of warning though. This issue didn’t affect me or my travel companion but the trip did involve quite a bit of walking that wasn’t explained in the trip description. This was an issue for a few of the group who were not the most able. It was a particular problem when moving from train to accommodation and many on the group were trying to cope with luggage while only having a couple of minutes to get on or off trains, and when walking between station and hotel. We used the Sherpr service offered to move our main luggage about so we only had backpacks but apparently some in the group were let down. Nevertheless even without luggage there was more walking than anticipated. As you can imagine Switzerland is very hilly so if you have difficulty walking this isn’t for you. Personally, although I am terribly unfit, this wasn’t an issue for me and the extra exercise did me good.
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Traditional Glacier Express
28/Sep
Mrs Lynn Cole
5 stars
“The scenery was stunning with wonderful mountains, glaciers, valleys and lakes whether on the Glacier or Bernini Express or a local railway. Very well organised trip with an exceptional guide. Switzerland impressed, everywhere was so clean and well looked after.
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The Outer Hebrides and the Highlands
28/Sep
Carol H
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“Enjoyable, well managed trip. Interesting historical and cultural sights.
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Grand Imperial Cities
28/Sep
Chris Wright
5 stars
“Grand Imperial Cities is a magnificent tour of four capital cities, with guided tours to set the scene in each capital, you will then have free time to complete your personal tour of the city. Hotels are excellent, and quite near the centres. It is a very active tour and you need to be relatively fit to sustain the pace. Together with a Tour manager your holiday will certainly be less stressful.
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Puglia: Italy’s Undiscovered Coast
28/Sep
C Pascoe
5 stars
“A very enjoyable holiday with a great group of people and a very professional tour manager. We visited so many unspoilt features of Puglia and experienced good quality local food and wines.
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Avignon, the Rhône and Provence
28/Sep
Sue
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“Avignon is a delightful centre for the visit and the Hotel L'Horloge is excellent.
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Railways and Castles of Wales
27/Sep
G Richards
5 stars
“We've been on several Great Rail holidays and this was definitely one of the best. It fitted in a lot in three days of escorted tours (with one free day), not just the railways and castles of the title, but some unusual gardens, the fascinating Gwydir house, the National Slate Museum and Portmeirion, a fantasy Italian village on the Welsh coast. The local guides at Caernarfon and Conwy castles were both excellent. The only disappointment was the Snowden Mountain Railway, which couldn't go all the way to the top because of the weather. The hotel was good too, especially the food.
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