Active and multi activity holiday brochure selection

The essential elements for an Activities Abroad holiday are a positive mental attitude and a smile. Armed with these, you’ll have great fun meeting new friends and enjoying action-packed holidays, all designed to help you make the most of your freetime.

• All activity partners are checked out to ensure they’re qualified
  
• The company is proudly independent, meaning they don’t have shareholders to answer to, only you the customer
  
• No age restrictions – simply choose a hols that matches your activity level

Holidays to Spain, Latin America and Antarctica mixing outdoor activity and relaxation in small, locally owned hotels. Small group, Inn to Inn, Self-Drive and Tailor-Made holidays.

• Surround yourself with some of the most remarkable landscapes, wildlife and people in the world.
  
• Combine active days in amazing places with nights spent in characterful hotels and lodges.
  
• Pura Aventura only offer holidays to places that they know and love, working directly with their own network of local guides, small hotels and other businesses to create an exceptional experience for you and to benefit the places you visit.

Activities Abroad has published what they call a brochure for ‘real family holidays’. There’s no kid’s club, it’s a simple case of all the family having a go at learning something new, trying a new sport and above all, interacting together and having fun!

• Safety is paramount and activities are always led by English-speaking qualified leaders/guides
  
• Challenges and activities help build confidence in children and interaction amongst families
  
• No local payments, all equipment is included in the cost and you choose how many activities you want to do

Explore offers adventures, activities, journeys of discovery into the wildnerness and wildlife, with great culture, encounters and a bit of walking and cycling too. This worldwide brochure invites like-minded people to explore together.

• Travelling responsibly for 27 years, Explore is dedicated to Responsible Tourism
  
• Nearly all tours are led by specially trained Explore Tour Leaders
  
• All tours clearly indicated to show the activity level so you choose the tour most suited to your level of fitness

Dragoman has been taking people on authentic overland experiences for over 40 years. All trips are truck-based, with camping, hotels and homestays. The spirit of Dragoman is that it’s as much about the journey as the final destination.

• Trips are divided into styles with Family, Escape, Discover, Encounter and Ultimate, then profiles from Easy to Extreme
  
• Most travellers are between 18 and 40 – but attitude is what counts!
  
• Loads of activities included from camel rides and white water rafting to treks and cultural exploration

If you and your family have a thirst for discovery, then Explore is the travel company for you! This new brochure is tried and tested, it’s fun and it’s simply called Family Adventures, so take a delve inside and plan your trip.

• Travel is in small groups, with no more than five families to one Explore leader
  
• Itineraries are carefully planned to offer the right balance of active exploration, fun, safety and relaxation
  
• There are now no local payments, so the price you see is the total price you pay

Seeing as travel company Peregrine orginates from Australia, this brochure is all about helping you explore their own back yard with exciting trips to Australia and New Zealand.

As a company who lives and breathes travel, Peregrine is well-placed to show you around all the very best highlights and adventures of exploring ‘Down Under’- all done in comfort.

• All trips are graded according to physical effort/activity level so you can make the right choice for you
  
• Family, friend, clubs and special interest groups can book an exclusively organised trip
  
• There are no local payments and accommodation is included in tour start and finish cities

A chance for families to embark on an adventure holiday that involves a whole lot more than a few rides in a theme park. Exodus offers ‘real life’ adventure voyages to spectacular destinations around the world that neither you nor your children will forget – full of wonder, learning, sensory overload and exhilaration.

• All trips are suitable for children eight years and over, with some right down to two years old
  
• New for this year, there are no local payments. The price quoted is the price you pay
  
• Exodus Tour leaders have an in-depth local knowledge, a passion for where they live and love of working with children

Walk the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu over 4 days, avoiding the crowds.

• Experience the unique feeling of arriving at Machu Picchu on foot.
  
• Visit smaller ruins along the way and enjoy spectacular views of the Andes.
  
• Get the most from colonial Cusco, the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu with your local guide.
  
• Enjoy all of this in comfort: with porters, guides and good hotels.

This brochure is crammed full of useful information with all maps and accommodation lists grouped by geographical area. There are hundreds of properties available each with a detailed description. And properties of every description too – small hotels, touring parks, holiday parks, B&B’s, guest houses, self catering, guest houses, inns, caravans, hostels, bunkhouses & bothies.
Scotland not only offers a great culture and history but also endless opportunities for walking, golfing, adventure and wildlife watching in the great outdoors.

Thomson’s Egypt brochure offers a myriad of things to do – from visiting all those classic ancient monuments and treasures, to lapping up chic seaside resorts and discovering the underwater world of diving.

• Thomson Premier Collection boasts extra luggage allowance, priority transfers and VIP service for that extra bit of luxury
  
• New for 2008 – KidZone at Reef OasisBlue Bay to keep the little ones happy
  
• Pre-allocated flight seats and food created by Aldo Zilli for a better flying experience
  
• Red Sea cruises also available

Budget Expeditions offers just that! Aimed at offering simple, yet safe and well-planned tours for 18 to 35 year-olds, so you can see the world at a price you can afford. The brochure offers tours to all the famous sights as well as those hard to find hidden gems we all dream of.

• The excursions are not included in the price, so you can pick and choose the things you want, according to you budget
  
• Various tour styles are available, from private coach to public transport and camping to cabins and local hotels

Frontier prides itself on being the Canada experts. In fact, they only ‘do’ Canada, so they really know what they’re talking about when it comes to discovering this vast country stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

• Your choice of scheduled or chartered flights to get you there and then once in Canada choose from motorhomes, ferries, sea planes, cars and trains to get you around
  
• The brochure also offers escorted and unescorted tour itineraries
  
• Frontier can arrange your entire holiday as you want it – inc all international travel and stopovers

With this brochure, Exodus invites you to really open your mind and not just take a holiday but embark on a real voyage of discovery and adventure. The brochure offers almost 250 tours across 90 countries and seven continents.

• All trips are graded in terms of level of fitness required so you can accurately gauge your trip
  
• New for 2008 – no local payments. The price you see is the total price you pay
  
• Trips are arranged and offered according to who it is most suitable for, from Adult Group and Single Travellers to Independent Trips and Private Groups

Intrepid Travel has one of the most extensive ranges of tours and independent voyages around, with this brochure packed full of traveller’s delights.

Whether you’re new to Asia or are a bit of a seasoned lover of this continent, there’s bound to be something to catch your eye.

• Great value, with no single supplements if you’re willing to share with a fellow same sex traveller
  
• Loads of styles to choose from: ‘Basix’ to Comfort and min to max Culture Shock and Adventure
  
• Many tours are guaranteed departures, often with very small group numbers