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Last minute travel guide

People who dream about travel are often divided into a few different camps. Ones that live out those dreams by spending months planning the trip to the Nth degree. And then those who are spontaneous, like to find a bargain, or take a risk and just go somewhere they haven’t been before, determined to just go with the flow. This last minute travel guide is for the latter. We like to think of it as a buoyancy aid, for helping you go with the flow but also arrive safely and happily.

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Last minute travel guide

HOW TO GO AT SHORT NOTICE

Who doesn’t love to be a little spontaneous? And yet, with schedules and social whirls that seem to just get more and more hectic, many of us are losing an ability to just pack and go. The travel industry doesn’t always make it that easy for us either, with information overkill on the internet when it comes to late availability vacations.

This last minute travel guide aims to awaken that dormant adventure seeker within, and make the get up and go as smooth a journey as possible. There's information on what sort of last minute vacations are available, whether you need a visa or not, what you need to pack, what fits in with the school vacations, and how our travel team at Responsible Travel can help you along the way. We don’t panic when it comes to latecomers to the ball. They are often the coolest travelers of all.

Read our last minute travel guide for more details.

How to go on vacation at the last minute

IT'S AS EASY AS ABC

A - Always call us

We have become so internet focused these days and think that the best way to book a vacation at the last minute is to go online searching until the early hours of the morning, put in our credit card details, which will probably be wrong, because we are so tired searching we’ve forgotten all our passwords, and just press ‘book’. Wrong. We have people who care. Terrie, Tessa, Naomi, Shannon, Simone, Natasa and Alice on our Travel Team, to be precise. They are real people who will be excited about the fact that you want to book at the last minute, and throw themselves into making that work for you. At the end of a phone. Not in a chat room in Outer Mongolia. Although they will do their utmost to send you to Outer Mongolia at the last minute if that is what you’re after.

B - Browse

Before you call Terrie and her Travel Team, do have a browse through our last minute vacation offers. We have no hesitation in boasting about the fact that we are a top site for shopping the world’s best small vacation companies. And small vacation companies are good at late availability, because they are used to working in a bespoke, one to one way.

Small tour operators don’t pre-book things the way mass tourism giants do, who pay hotels and airlines up for the whole season way in advance. So, if they can fit you in on a tour, they will. Small tour operators also offer a lot of small group tours, and if only eight people have booked on a tour which can accommodate ten, there’s your late availability. We also have clear listings of vacations all around the world that are offering late availability. They might not be offering smash and grab last minute deals, as these are small companies with a fair pay for all ethos, but they will have spaces ready to go.

C - Carpe diem

As someone once told the author of this guide, you are never going to lie on your death bed and say to yourself, ‘I really wish I hadn’t taken that last minute vacation to Africa.’ Life is for living. So seize the day, call us, check our Facebook and Twitter updates for late availability offers, sign up for our emails packed with offers and last minute vacation ideas, scroll through the late availability offers on this guide, be inspired by the tempting adventures waiting to be grabbed, and just go.

Written by Catherine Mack

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