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Honeyguide holiday calendar

Below you can see our holiday calendar in one place, check availability and click through to our holiday pages. For prices, look under the 'holiday details' for each holiday. For general booking information, relating mostly to overseas holidays, click here.
Last updated November 2023.

We no longer produce a Honeyguide brochure. Brochures stopped during the the coronavirus pandemic, and it has proved practical to use the Honeyguide website as a complete reference point for holidays. Of course this also had the advantage of being updated regularly, whereas a brochure gets out of date very quickly for various practical reasons.

Honeyguide walks in Norfolk run with information emailed to Honeyguiders and a few others in this area. Highlights of walks to date are on the Honeyguide blog. Please ask if you'd like to be added to the circulation list.

Ricotia cretica
Ricotia cretica in Kourtoliótiko Gorge, Crete.

UK breaks and holidays, 2023

2023
Mull with Ruth Fleming, 26 June – 3 July 2023 holiday successfully completed
North Norfolk, autumn with Rob Lucking, 9 — 13 October 2023 holiday successfully completed

We may add UK breaks for 2024 later: expressions of interest always help, for knowing what to arrange. See right hand column for former UK breaks. A Honeyguide wildlife guide may be available if you are visiting Norfolk: this already happens from time to time, dependent on diaries.

Overseas holidays, autumn 2023

Menorca 4 — 11 October 2023 holiday successfully completed
Algarve and Alentejo 10 — 17 November 2023 holiday successfully completed
The Gambia 5 — 15 December 2023 (10 nights) imminent, please ask

Overseas holidays, 2024

Extremadura 5 — 12 February 2024 two places remain
Valencia 8 —15 March 2024 bookings open
Crete 9 — 17 April 2024 two places remain
Lesvos 17 — 24 April 2024 bookings open
South of Salamanca 6 — 14 May 2024
Danube Delta 27 May — 4 June 2024. Carpathians extension 2—5 June 2024 bookings open
Picos de Europa 11 — 18 June 2024 fully booked.
Bulgaria's Western Rhodopes 27 June — 4 July 2024 bookings open
Falsterbo 1 — 6 September 2024 bookings open
Spanish Pyrenees 1 —8 October 2024 bookings open
The Gambia 3 — 13 December 2024 (10 nights)

2025

Morocco 11 — 18 March 2025 taking expressions of interest
Extremadura March dates TBC


Below are links to friends and partners overseas, namely Geoff Crane in South Africa and Pau Lucio in Spain. We have run many holidays with both Geoff and Pau and they also run their own holidays.

Southern Africa with Honeyguide

Your South Africa helps you to put together a wildlife holiday with dates and an itinerary that suits you. Click here for more. Burchell's zebras lilac-breasted roller

Spain with Pau Lucio

Birdwatching Spain | Wildlife tours in Spain

Old brochures

The last Honeyguide brochure to be posted, for 2020, was sent out in September 2019. There was no brochure for 2021 or since.

Honeyguide has moved holiday information and bookings to being web-based, though we've kept this brochure online for interest. To download or view a PDF of this Honeyguide Wildlife Holidays brochure for 2020, click on the picture of the cover below.

Honeyguide brochure

Brochures for previous years are here, in our archive section.

UK breaks and holidays

Our first UK breaks were initially set up for autumn 2020, then again in spring 2021 (holiday reports here).

These ran in autumn 2021:

Norfolk break with Chris Durdin, 6 - 10 September 2021
North Norfolk, autumn with Rob Lucking, 11 - 15 October 2021
Wild Essex with Chris Gibson, 4 - 8 October 2021
The Lizard, Cornwall, with David Collins 27 September – 4 October 2021

And this was the programme for 2022:

North Norfolk with Rob Lucking, 21 - 25 February 2022
Wild Essex with Chris Gibson, 23 – 27 May 2022 (didn't run)
Lincolnshire Wash with Rob Lucking, 6 – 10 June 2022
Mull with Ruth Fleming, 12 – 19 July 2022
North Norfolk, autumn with Rob Lucking, 10 - 14 October 2022

2023:

Mull with Ruth Fleming, 26 June – 3 July 2023 holiday successfully completed
North Norfolk, autumn with Rob Lucking, 9 — 13 October 2023 holiday successfully completed

Expressions of interest in UK breaks are very welcome and help us to know what to set up.

Crete, autumn

This notes a holiday we set up in the hope of a small group in autumn 2021. In practice, the simplification of rules for international travel did not come in soon enough, and is retained here as a future option.

If this Crete holiday runs in the future, details on the web page will be updated.
Crete 19 — 26 October 2021

Group holidays / archive

Additional group holidays or UK breaks can be arranged.

Destinations from previous years we keep on the website in the archive section.

They may be available for group bookings and others may return in a future programme – especially if we receive requests for them.

South Africa ideas

Burchell's zebras
Wildlife holidays in southern Africa, where and when you would like to go. See Your South Africa.


Gullivers Natural History Holidays

For two years, 2009 and 2010, we sent Honeyguide brochures to those on the former Gullivers mailing list. Some went onto Honeyguide's brochure mailing list and now our email contact list.

If you were with Gullivers - naturally this applies to anyone - and you are not getting the Honeyguide e-newsletter and would like to, please contact us.

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... where there are many holiday photos to enjoy.

Atol protected

The air holidays shown are ATOL Protected by the Civil Aviation Authority. Our ATOL number is ATOL 3253. ATOL Protection extends primarily to customers who book and pay in the United Kingdom. Click on the ATOL logo if you want to know more.

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