How Our Self Guided Holidays Work
Self guided walking and cycling holidays offer freedom, independence and choice, allowing you to tailor your holidays in the UK & Europe to your interest and travel style.
Our detailed Route Notes will contain all of the information you need to plan how you would like to approach each day, giving you the freedom to set your own pace. As you are not limited by the constraints of group travel, you are free to shorten or lengthen your walk as the terrain permits and can even take a day off, although you may need to travel onto your next accommodation by taxi or public transport in order to do so.
With our large range of self guided walking or cycling tours, as long as you are reasonably active you will be able to find a suitable tour. Find out more about our trip grading.
Inclusions
We have designed our self guided walking and cycling tours to include a number of elements to help you enjoy your holiday more, while leaving out some things to give you more freedom to tailor the trip to your needs and interests. Refer to the Trip Notes for more information on the specific inclusions for each trip.
What’s included:
- Detailed Route Notes
- Accommodation
- Luggage transfers
- Any scheduled transfers as per Trip Notes
- Emergency support
- Some meals (mostly breakfasts)
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What’s not included:
- Transport to/from start/finish points
- Most meals
- Any entrance/park fees
- Travel insurance
- Personal expenses along the way
- Unscheduled transfers required during the trip
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Route Notes
While our tours vary in terms of difficulty, route finding is made simple and convenient with our specially prepared navigation package. Our routes are delivered via a dedicated navigation app, making it easy to follow your walk with clear mapping and GPS positioning throughout. In addition, comprehensive PDF route notes are provided, which you are strongly advised to print and carry with you for reference during your holiday.
On many of the walks it is straightforward to navigate using the app, supported by the detailed route notes. As holidays reach the higher grades, you will need to take more care and we would expect you to have at least some knowledge of using a compass and interpreting maps. The differences in style, grade and destinations of our tours are features that make them of continual interest and delight to our walkers.
Each set of digital route notes (available within the app and as printable PDFs) may contain the following elements relevant to your route:
- History and information on the region and the route you are walking.
- Detailed maps including points of interest and accommodation.
- Detailed step-by-step descriptions of the route and information on detours/optional additions.
- Transport timetables and information for getting there and away.
- Safety information and advice.
- Contact details of accommodation, transport, local representatives and emergency support.
- Advice for things to do along the way.
- Suggestions for dining and self catering.
Accommodation
Accommodation for each night of your self guided walking or cycling holiday is included in the trip price and in some cases you are able to tailor the type/level of accommodation to suit your needs.
Luggage Transfers
Self-sufficient walking and cycling holidays are great, but they can include the hassle of carrying your own luggage. To remove this stress we include luggage transfers in all of our self guided walking and cycling holidays in the UK & Europe. Some restrictions can apply to the weight and/or amount of luggage that you can take and details of this will be outlined in the Trip Itineraries.
Emergency Support
Things don’t always go to plan and for anything that you need help with, 24-hour emergency support is only a phone call away. Emergency contact details are provided in each trip’s Route Notes and with the assistance of our very helpful accommodation and transport partners, we will do our best to keep any interruptions to your holiday to a minimum.