Destinations

Autumn/Winter 2020/21

• Norfolk break
• Madeira
• Crete, October
• The Gambia
• Portugal in winter

Pending, 2021
(Covid permitting)

• Serranía de Ronda
• Extremadura (Mar)
• Crete
• Corsica
• Danube Delta
• Iceland
• Falsterbo

Welcome to Honeyguide

Coronavirus: see news.

Welcome to Honeyguide Wildlife Holidays, starting our 31st season of natural history holidays in very different circumstances to the previous 30 years.

There will be 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 overseas change on a regular basis.

Therefore, this website becomes the main reference for Honeyguide's holidays, with a more limited and changeable programme than usual, with UK holidays for the first time.

The website's menu on the left hand side starts with holidays for autumn 2020 and early 2021. That said, realistically none of the overseas holidays this year (2020) are looking likely to run. Time is running out for Madeira bookings; FCO advice has discouraged travel to Crete since this holiday was set up; for The Gambia we are waiting to see developments on coronavirus restrictions.

Below that (and also on our calendar) are plans for 2021. However for now we are not taking bookings for holidays listed here, in case travel is not possible. At the time of writing that especially applies for countries where travel is contrary to FCO advice, such as Spain and France. 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. In the meantime, more plans within the UK are in preparation to follow up our successful Norfolk breaks; Wild Essex is the first of these.

 
Wildlife from Crete in autumn: Chough, often seen in Kourtaliótiko Gorge; autumn squill Scilla autumnalis;Cretan grayling.

If you would like an old Honeyguide Wildlife Holidays brochure, please contact us.

We are pleased to help with group holidays – a holiday for (say) five friends could work with current restrictions. Please browse our nature notes too.

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 2019 totalled £6,840, and our running total since 1991 is £136,412 (to April 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

Advice from FCO:

What does the ATOL logo mean? Read more here >

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PDF of Honeyguide's brochure for 2020 on our holiday calendar page, plus availability updates.