These are UK-based tour operators and travel agencies specialising in single holidays for single travellers and single parent families. |
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| Archers Direct |
0870 4603894 |
Archers have launched (Aug 04) a programme of escorted 'Solotours' to destinations in Europe and North America, designed especially for single travellers. |
| Cosmos Holidays |
0870 44 28 601 |
Cosmos feature singles-holidays, mainly in Mediterranean destinations, in their 'Golden Times' brochure. |
| Events Together |
020 8241 2907 |
Activity weekends and holidays for singles. Everything from sailing, mountain-biking and caving to walking, climbing and white water rafting, mostly in the UK. They say they are open to any age although most participants are between 30 and 45. |
| Friendship Travel |
02894 462211 |
 A range of holidays for single travellers including city breaks, cruises, ski holidays, and spa breaks, in mainly European destinations but also the Caribbean. |
| Just You |
0870 252 8080 |
New tour operator launched Oct 05 by the Travelsphere group, which specialises in fully-escorted tours worldwide, owns Page & Moy, and has been creating holidays for single travellers since 1999. Just You is aimed at older travellers who don't want to feel they are going on holiday with a dating agency. It is not exclusively for singles. One in five of their guests is not single. Just You is a direct sell operator, with no sales through travel agents. |
| Kindred Spirits |
020 7431 3727 |
Launched in Dec 02 offering 'house party' style holidays for groups of up to twenty in luxury hotels. The programme of scheduled breaks concentrates on European cities - eg. Tallinn, Venice, Budapest, Athens, St Petersburg, etc - with one or two long haul destinations such as Hong Kong, Bangkok. KS normally base their holidays at 5-star hotels, with some 4-star. |
| Mango |
01902 373410 |
Mango was set up in 2003 to run holidays for single parents and their kids. They've organised small group holidays in Pembrokeshire, The Brecon Beacons, North Devon, Mallorca and skiing in Romania. They may not be a big operator, but they have their own ATOL license, and that makes them more 'grown up' than many larger specialist operators who are really agencies using other people's ATOLs . |
| Minster Travel Service |
0161 969 5603 |
Summer & winter activity holidays in the Wilden Kaiser-Brixental area of the Austrian Tirol with selected dates set aside for singles. Activities include cycling, walking, mountaineering, white water rafting, skiing etc. |
| One Parent Family Holidays |
0845 2301975 |
The OPF Association, headed up by Colin Chatfield, has been taking groups of single parent families to destinations all over the world since 1975. |
| Saga Holidays |
0800 096 0074 |
Saga has a dedicated brochure of escorted holidays reserved exclusively for singles. They also feature two hotels reserved exclusively for single travellers in Spain. |
| Singular Travel |
01483 548540 |
Specialist agency website (...actually rather stylish website) set up in June 06 by former air hostess Suzy Cooper who has negotiated special deals for single travellers, friends travelling together, and single parents, with 30+ travel companies. |
| Small Families |
01767 650312 |
Launched in 2002, Small Families provide fully escorted holidays exclusively for single parent families. Their programme - operated during school holidays - regularly features Majorca, Croatia, Tunisia, Morocco and Lapland for skiing, adventure and santa holidays. |
| Solitair |
0161 234 0080 |
Single's holidays in Greece, Italy, Barbados, India, Turkey, Spain, Thailand, Morocco, plus a selection of worldwide city breaks and party weekends in the UK. |
| Solo's |
08700 720 700 |
Solo's are probably the best-known specialist in the UK. They have been organising holidays exclusively for single people for over 20 years. They offer a range of UK, short-haul, & long-haul destinations and events. For example diving in Sharm El Sheikh, desert safaris in Morocco, Christmas in the Caribbean, Wild West USA, Skiing in Lake Louise and Costa Rica Explorer. Solo's also offer age-banded holidays. |
| SpeedBreaks |
0845 838 2605 |
City breaks, ski and activity weekends for single young professionals. SpeedBreaks has been set up SpeedDater Ltd. Although, unlike the speed dating events, there's no formal pressure to date! |
| Travel One |
0870 757 2488 |
Holidays for singles in a range of mainly Mediterranean destinations. |
| Voyages Jules Verne |
020 7616 1000 |
VJV don't have operate tours especially for singles but a number of their tours to worldwide destinations are 'singles-friendly' in that they feature no singles supplements on selected departure dates. |
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