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As November draws to a close so too does the deadline for entries for our photo competition. The last date for submissions to the final competition of 2019 is 30th November with the winning entry chosen by 31st December. We’re pleased to share a selection of the pictures we’ve received recently all of which were […]
If your weather has been like it has in Kibworth you’re probably fed up of dodging downpours and splashing through puddles. The forecast doesn’t look promising but a set of customer photos from recent walking holidays made for much happier viewing. The pictures taken on our walking holidays in Crete and in Transylvania in Romania […]
Western Andalucia –Isla Canela, Rio Tinto & the Guadiana River Our group to Western Andalucia recently landed back in the UK. Based at the Playamarina Hotel on Isla Canela, they visited the beautiful Doñana National Park, cruised along the Spanish and Portuguese border, and traced the footsteps of Columbus’ preparations for his journey to the […]
Thomas Cook update Following the failure of Thomas Cook we can confirm that all our passengers booked to fly with them in 2019 have been offered alternative flight arrangements on the same departure date. Customers departing shortly have been contacted by telephone and revised paperwork for holiday bookings for travel in 2019 has been sent […]
It was nice to start the week by receiving pictures from our Tour Guide Concha, leading our Best of the Baltics holiday. The pictures were taken in Helsinki, the Lahemaa Natural Park and Kadriorg Park in Estonia and in Riga at the National Library of Latvia. The next Best of the Baltics holiday will be […]
If you are a previous traveller or on our mailing list you will shortly be receiving copies of our new holiday brochures. Our latest Escorted Tours and Walking Holidays Collections with departures through to the end of 2020, the year in which we celebrate our 20th anniversary, will be landing on doorsteps early in September. […]
Winner – Photo competition Congratulations to Miss Adams of Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire on winning 2019’s first photo competition. Her picture looking across Praia de Marinha taken whilst on the third walk of our Walking in the Algarve holiday in February was selected by our judges. Miss Adams will receive £100 towards a Preferred Travel Services […]
Preferred Travel staff have selected their favourite entries from all the photos received so far this year to put together a shortlist of 8 pictures from which a winner will be picked. The lucky winner, as selected by an independent judge, will receive £100 towards a new holiday booking with us. The winning entry will […]
The closing date for entries for our first photo competition of the year is the 30th June. We’re receiving lots of entries from a variety of our holiday destinations. Here is just a selection we’ve been sent since our last update. A shortlist of photos, picked by our staff, will be posted after the closing […]
Our May Walking & Birdwatching in Menorca holidaymakers not only enjoyed some excellent walking weather (judging by these photos taken by our walking guide and expert ‘birder’ Javier) but also a very productive time for bird sightings. Javier has put together a list of the birds spotted by each of the walking groups during their […]
Our walking guides and representatives have been busy with our holidays to Catalonia this spring, but our guide Matt still had time to spot some very rare wildflowers while out with our walking groups. The Fritillaria and the Woodland Tulip were spotted on a ‘Trails & Rails’ walk in March and are extremely rare and […]