Destinations

UK breaks

• Lizard, Cornwall
• Norfolk break
• North Norfolk
• Wild Essex

Overseas, 2022
(Covid permitting)

• Portugal in winter
• Serranía de Ronda
• Morocco
• Extremadura (Mar)
• Crete
• Corsica
• Picos de Europa
• Iceland
• Falsterbo

Welcome to Honeyguide

Coronavirus and various travel updates: see news.

Welcome to Honeyguide Wildlife Holidays. Our 32nd season of natural history holidays is running in more changing circumstances than the first 30 years.

There is no Honeyguide brochure for 2021 or 2022, which is related to the coronavirus pandemic, initially the difficulties of international travel, now changing rules and opportunities. Therefore, this website becomes the main reference for Honeyguide's holidays.

The simplification of rules for overseas travel announced on 17 September that came into effect during October means that our wildlife holiday packages become much easier for double-vaccinated travellers. There are notes about getting the NHS Covid pass, and about insurance and the EHIC/GHIC on our news page.

We are taking bookings now for the overseas holidays in this website's main menu (the list on the left). That includes Corsica, which now has a new plan for flights there, noted on the holiday's web page.

These are holidays currently planned for 2022, mostly rolled forward from 2021. They are also listed on our calendar page. We may add more holidays later, if these prove popular.

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Honeyguide's programme also has an added focus on UK breaks. All four listed in this website's main navigation for autumn 2021 (Norfolk break, the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, Wild Essex and North Norfolk) have been successfully completed. Future plans for these, for example for spring/summer 2022, are undecided: expressions of interest are very welcome and help us to know what to set up.

We also run local walks in Norfolk (see news and Honeyguide blog). Please contact us if you'd like to go on the circulation list for these.

We are pleased to help with group holidays – a holiday for a group of friends along the lines of our UK breaks above could work well. Or you can book Chris Durdin as a guide in Norfolk. The Honeyguide blog gives ideas of the kind of places we could visit.

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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. There's plenty to browse in our nature notes, too.

The Honeyguide Wildlife Charitable Trust remains strong, though inevitably there are far fewer donations to conservation projects in 2020 and 2021 than usual. This works through a conservation contribution with each 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

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.