Featured Holidays

Archaeology of Denmark and Sweden

8 days
from £1795pp
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Arran - Scotland in Miniature

5 days
from £495pp
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Arts & Gardens in Cornwall

5 days
from £625pp
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Highlights of Orkney and Shetland: the 'Islands of the Simmer Dim'

6 days
from £995pp
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Rome, Ninfa and Castel Gandolfo (RHS Package)

4 days
from £1195pp
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The world is full of beautiful gardens, but there are few better than those in Great Britain and Ireland. From the Northern Isles of Orkney to the High Peaks of Derbyshire — we've got the lot. Biased? Us? Never...

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We have collaborated closely with our friends at the RHS to create a wonderful range of garden holidays at home and abroad. With added value, special openings, hosting by RHS staff, and a brand new members-only offer for 2018, these are truly something special. view tours

Explore Neolithic houses, Bronze Age palaces and millennia-old brochs; get up close and personal with bog bodies and Minotaurs, and admire frescoes and monoliths in the places where they were created thousands of years ago. On our archaeology tours, the past is ever-present.

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Tailor Made Group Travel

For 25 years we have provided tailor-made travel arrangements for many private groups and societies.

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“The tour was a great success and all the arrangements turned out very well. Christopher Bailes looked after us extremely well and took us on the most wonderful visits.”
Stafford Garden Society
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