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| AAT Kings |
0870 240 2440 |
Australia’s largest coach tour operator with tour programmes throughout Australia and New Zealand, including accommodated escorted tours, coach and camping tours and coach charters |
| All Ways Pacific Travel |
01494 432747 |
Good range of escorted tours and tailormade holidays |
| Anzcro |
01872 266899 |
Escorted coach tours, self-drive itineraries, golf tours, and tailor-made. |
| Archers Direct |
020 8879 7070 |
Escorted tours around the classic sights, eg Great Barrier, Ayers Rock, etc |
| Australian Affair |
020 7616 9190 |
Australian specialists with a wide range of tours and options. |
| Australian Pacific Touring |
020 8879 7444 |
Mainly fully-inclusive escorted classic coach tours, but with cruising & independent tour options, and tours with outdoor activity & adventure. |
| Austravel
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0870 166 2070 |
 Austravel have been selling holiday packages and components to Australia for a quarter of a century and are easily one of the best-known brand names in that market (TUI is the parent company, so the brand is a sibling of Thomsons) as well as one of the most awarded - they were 'Best Tour Operator 2005'. A huge range of packages, fly-drive, flights, accommodation etc, and their own charter flights from the UK. |
| Barfield Travel |
0870 442 3290 |
Grand tours of Australia under their Connoisseur Tours brand. |
| Bridge & Wickers |
020 7483 6555 |
New tour operator launched in the winter 04 by two well-known names in the travel business: David Wickers, one of Britain's most authoritative travel journalists, and Jerry Bridge, founder of the well-known Bridge the World travel agency/operator. They specialise in both tailor-made and off-the-peg holidays to Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. Their brochure offers a range of holidays focused on action and adventure, wildlife and scenery, stylish accommodation, family travel, beach life and culture. |
| British Airways Holidays |
0870 24 24 245 |
Self-drive independent holidays, locally escorted tours, rail tours and tailor-made. |
| Carrick Travel |
01926 514113 |
Tailor-made itineraries plus a programme of escorted tours. |
| Carrier |
01625 547030 |
Upmarket tailor-made specialist offering 5-star hotels, designer lodges and luxury island hideaways, with private aircraft transfers and star treatment all the way. |
| Collette Vacations |
01895 812333 |
American tour operator now operating from the UK and offering a choice of tailormade holidays to Australia or a wide range of fully-escorted tours. |
| Connections Worldwide |
01494 473173 |
Multi-centre itineraries & 'go as you please' self-drive holidays for independent travellers. Part of Titan Travel. |
| Contiki Travel |
020 8290 6777 |
Operator for 18-35 holidays |
| Dreamtime Travel |
01424 734747 |
Australia/NZ specialists offering tailormade travel to parts not reached by other operators. |
| Eastravel |
01473 214305 |
A selection of self-drive touring holidays all over Australia. |
| Elegant Resorts |
0870 333 3382 |
A selection of luxurious resort hotels in Western Australia, Queensland, Sydney & Perth, plus multi-centre holiday itineraries and tailor-made options. |
| Experience Holidays |
01323 416699 |
Tailor-made tours, motorhomes, self-drive, rail tours & coach tours. |
| Explore Worldwide |
01252 760000 |
Small group exploratory tours all over Australia |
| Freedom Australia |
0870 742 4000 |
All the componants - hotels, campervans, car rental, rail tickets, flights, cruises, etc - for self-assembly holidays in Australia. |
| Goldenwings |
0800 964 428 |
Programme of fully escorted tours all over Australia, operated by Scenic Tours. |
| Grus Travel |
0800 089 0003 |
Family-run travel company specialising in luxury small group tours in Australia. In particular a leisurely 35-day fully-escorted highlights tour. |
| Hayes & Jarvis |
0870 366 1636 |
Tours and resort stays for independent travellers. Large range of resort & hotel accommodation. |
| Hemmingways |
01737 842 735 |
Hemmingways are the motorhome & motorbike touring specialists. |
| Intrepid Travel |
0800 917 6456 |
Small group exploratory and adventure tours mostly to the coastal and outback regions of Australia. |
| ITC Classics |
01244 355 340 |
ITC specialise in luxury holidays in luxury hotels & resorts. They feature resorts in a wide range of locations all over Australia. |
| Jetset |
0870 700 3000 |
Tailor made specialists for over 30 years offering resort stays & multi-centre itineraries for independent travellers. Part of MyTravel group. |
| Journeys of Distinction |
01704 883 000 |
JOD specialise in fully escorted coach tours worldwide. They use scheduled flights & upmarket hotels and pledge to 'take away the worry not the adventure'. Their tour itinararies ar between 27-31 days. They sell direct, not through travel agents. |
| Kodak Travel |
0800 085 4488 |
** No longer taking bookings (Jul 06). Kodak have announced they are closing this division at the end of 2006 ** Yes, that Kodak! Films, cameras, etc. This is a "trading style and division of Kodak Ltd" specialising in honeymoons & weddings to exotic destinations worldwide, including Australia where they have a small selection of honeymoon holidays. |
| Kuoni |
01306 741 111 |
City & resort stays, coach & rail tours, self-drive & independent tours. |
| Lets Trek Australia |
020 8772 3770 |
Small group adventure, camping and lodging tours of Australia. Lets Trek Australia is an Australian company based in Sydney but part of the the Trek America Travel group which is based in London and is, in turn, part of First Choice (oh what tangled webs...!). |
| Man Around |
020 8902 7177 |
Gay & Lesbian tour operator. Tailor-made programmes to all parts of Australia including Tasmania and the Northern territories. |
| Manning Travel |
020 7702 3771 |
4/5-star luxury tours by coach or self-drive, for groups or individuals. |
| Mercury Direct |
01580 715222 |
Hotel & resort holidays in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane & Cairns. |
| Nomadic Thoughts |
020 7604 4408 |
Tailor-made itineraries around Australia |
| Oztalk |
0870 0663 123 |
**Ceased trading 03/04/06** Harrogate-based Australia specialists offering tailormade & escorted group tours in Australia. Sister-brand to Kiwitalk. |
| Qantas Holidays |
0870 5673 464 |
Wide choice of accommodation for independent travellers, soft adventure tours, eco tours, self-drive programmes, and escorted coach tours. |
| Quest Worldwide |
0870 442 3513 |
Tailor-made long-haul specialists with a wide range of classic escorted coach tours and tailor-made itineraries & components. Especially strong on Queensland (their Australia product manager, Mandy Parker, is a native Australian and that's her patch). They launched their first ever dedicated Australia brochure in Feb 04 - before they included Australia & New Zealand together. Tours include a day trip by air over the Blue Mountains to visit to a working outback sheep & cattle station plus a wine-tasting and deer farm visit; a guided day tour through Queensland's World Heritage Rainforest; an Ayers Rock Motorcycle Tour on the back of a Harley Davidson; and ski Trips to Mt Buller. |
| Real World Travel |
0870 736 4757 |
Escorted group tours, independent tours and treks. Also tailormade. |
| Tailor Made Travel |
0845 456 8006 |
Tailor-made. That's what they're called. That's what they do! |
| Thomson |
0870 060 3313 |
Thomson's programme features a range of accommodation from eco-friendly cabins in Tasmania to luxurious resorts in the Whitsunday Island group. There's also an extensive range of outdoor activities and excursions such as sailing, diving, four-wheel driving, and wildlife tours. |
| Tradewinds |
0870 751 0003 |
Tailor-made touring all over Australia. |
| TrailFinders |
020 7938 3939 |
Mega-agency that originally started out as a flight-only specialist. Over the years more and more travellers have bought cheap long-haul flights 'down-under' from them, plus accommodation and other travel components. In 2003, a staggering 20% of all travellers from the UK to Australia made their travel arrangements through Trailfinders according to The Australian Tourist Commission. The company operates out of 18 travel centres across the UK, Ireland and Australia, selling everything from hotels to car hire, tours to cruises. |
| Travel Australia |
01603 488664 |
Tailor-made travel arrangements throughout Australia. |
| Travelbag |
0870 890 1456 |
Tailormade programmes and component parts (ie hotels, flights, car hire) or escorted tours to the classic sights (ie Ayers Rock, Sydney harbour, Great Barrier Reef, etc), and train journeys (ie the Ghan, the Overlander, etc). |
| TravelMood |
08700 66 45 66 |
Tailor-made travel to Australia |
| Travel Portfolio |
01284 762255 |
Australia and NZ specialists in tailormade holidays. Plus cricket & rugby supporters tours. |
| Travelsphere |
01858 410818 |
Classic tours of Australia from a 22-day air & coach tour visiting Sydney, Melbourne, Ayers Rock, Perth and a selection of destinations in between, to combined Australia-New Zealand programmes. Travelsphere specialise in fully-escorted worldwide tours out of the UK. |
| Truly Australia |
01435 872666 |
Self-assembly holidays for independent travellers with a selection of unusual and interesting ground tours, cruises, excursions and experiences. Among them, the Ozback Explorer, a private train that offers 'rail cruising'. It travels at night, arriving each day at a new destination where you can take minibus excursions (the minibuses are their own. They travel on flatbed trucks with the train) or do your own thing, before the train departs again in the evening. (If you are trying to find it on their website, look under the 'cruise' section, not the 'rail' section!) |
| Unijet |
08706 008 009 |
Fly-drive itineraries all over Australia. |
| Virgin Holidays |
0870 220 2464 |
Beach stays, escorted tours, fly-drives, motor homes, city stays, rail tours and mini-tours, plus a wide range of accommodation from rainforest lodges to boutique hotels. |
| Visit ANZ |
01424 722 304 |
Tailor-made specialists with city break tours to Alice Springs, Adelaide, Brisbane, Cairns, Darwin, Kimberleys, Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney. |
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