Destinations
UK breaks
Overseas, 2021/2022
(Covid permitting)
Welcome to Honeyguide
Coronavirus, various updates: see news.
Welcome to Honeyguide Wildlife Holidays and our 31st season of natural history holidays in very different circumstances to the previous 30 years.
There is no Honeyguide brochure for 2021 on account of the uncertainties due to the coronavirus pandemic, which makes longer-term planning difficult as rules and advice about travel, especially overseas, change on a regular basis.
Therefore, this website becomes the main reference for Honeyguide's holidays. The programme is more limited and changeable than usual, with an added focus on UK short breaks. The breaks noted below, first run or planned for autumn 2020, are up and running for May 2021, following the news that hospitality can re-open on 17 May. Honeyguide's plans for the autumn will come later. Booking quickly is recommended: accommodation providers stress that there is heavy demand for 'staycations'.
Norfolk break NWT Thorpe Marshes |
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North Norfolk Stiffkey |
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Wild Essex Colne Estuary |
Weekly local walks in Norfolk, as run in autumn and December 2020 (see news and Honeyguide blog), have re-started in late March. Please contact us if you'd like to go on the circulation list for these.
| Autumn holiday in the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, with David Collins. 27 September – 4 October 2021 Church Cove |
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We are pleased to help with group holidays – a holiday for (say) six friends could work with rule-of-six from mid-May, or more from late June. Please browse our nature notes too.
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The website's menu on the left hand side lists oversea holidays for 2021 and early 2022. Some holidays originally planned to run in the early part of 2021 are now scheduled for 2022; others may follow this pattern. These are also listed on our calendar page. However for now we are not taking bookings for holidays listed here, in case travel is not possible. There is no sense in taking bookings until we know travel is possible. If things become easier and an appetite for travel overseas returns - about which hearing from you helps a great deal - we'll look at additional holidays.
If you would like an old Honeyguide Wildlife Holidays brochure, please contact us.
Some holidays run in the past are in our archive section, and many of these could return to the programme in a future year.
The Honeyguide Wildlife Charitable Trust remains strong, though inevitably there are far fewer donations to conservation projects in 2020 than usual. This works through a conservation contribution with each overseas holiday of £40, which goes through the Honeyguide Wildlife Charitable Trust.
This idea, still surprisingly rarely copied, remains a simple and effective way of helping to protect the wildlife we enjoy. Donations to conservation projects linked to our holidays in 2020 totalled £2,600 (much less than usual for obvious reasons), and our running total since 1991 is £136,662 (to December 2020). Through the Honeyguide Charity, the taxman tops up our contributions.
Holidays give the typical flights we use, but where practical we can arrange flights from airports near to where you live, or help with other arrangements. Carbon offsets are part of each holiday’s price. Prefer not to fly? We're happy to make that possible, more on our ATOL page.
Rules about selling travel insurance mean if you want Honeyguide’s insurance you need to go straight to our broker rather than buying a policy directly from Honeyguide. Details are on our booking page and there is also help here on how to book parking and hotels at airports.
I hope you’ll want to find out more by exploring this website further.
Chris Durdin
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What does the ATOL logo mean? Read more here > |
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