Unusual vacations guide
In French, they use the word ‘insolite’ to describe an unusual vacation. Which sounds a bit like insolent. Rebelling against the norm.![]()
By their very nature, all vacations are meant to be unusual. They were created out of a relatively modern desire to go in search of ‘the other’. Meaning, the quest for something different from the banality of everyday life. They respond to that desire for a vacation to be a ‘dream come true’. We get that. We also get that staying in a cave in Andalucia might be a dream come true for one person, but hell on earth for another, for whom a week in the Arctic watching polar bears is breaking the humdrum with a bang. Unusual vacations do also go in trends, of course. However, with a collection of vacations and members that can make the impossible possible, this Unusual Vacations guide aims to guide you beyond the trends to a place that truly taps into that ‘other’ you, not the trend setters, have been seeking.
See our Unusual vacations guide for more details.
See our Unusual vacations guide for more details.
Our Unusual vacations guide Vacations
Cameroon 7 day safari vacation
Safari into the wilderness of Faro National Park
From
£1595 to £8195
7 days
ex flights
Chad wildlife vacation in Zakouma NP
Spectacular safari to Africa's most exciting destination
From
£3600
10 days
ex flights
Sao Tome & Principe vacation
A wonderful break on the tropical isles, Sao Tome & Principe
From
£2995
12 days
inc UK flights
Senegal rare wildlife safari
Safari into Senegal's wild Niokolo-Koba National Park
From
£1395 to £3400
8 days
ex flights
Cuba salsa dance vacation
Learn to salsa with the pros in Santiago de Cuba, tuition, day trips and nights out
From
£1650 to £1750
15 days
ex flights
Devon eco lodge accommodation, England
Quirky eco lodges, 1 with Hot Tub, on a Devon nature reserve
From
£205 to £810
per accommodation per week
Responsible Travel, who knew?
Search engines do what they say on the tin. They allow you to search for the unknown. They proffer surprises. They reveal the unexpected. And, in the case of vacations, this is certainly no exception. Which is why we have decided to create this Unusual Vacations guide. Quite simply, people go in search of unusual vacations and then land on our site. So, instead of making you go on a treasure hunt around our garden of exotic wonders, we have put them all into one piñata. Break it open and let a whole world of ‘who knew?’ fall out. Who knew you could watch grizzly bears en masse in Alaska, feasting at the annual salmon run? Who knew you could explore Jordan’s Petra and Wadi Rum on a bike? Tour Lapland by rail? Or drive your own tuk-tuk around Thailand? We also know from experience that one person’s unusual might be another person’s norm. Island hopping in the Adriatic by kayak might be banal for some. But for a family with teenagers, who have done all-inclusive resorts for the last ten years, this is living on the edge. The chances are, of course, once you have ventured into the unusual, there is no looking back.
Our top Unusual vacations guide Vacation
Sao Tome & Principe vacation
A wonderful break on the tropical isles, Sao Tome & Principe
From
£2995
12 days
inc UK flights
Tailor made:
This trip can be tailor made throughout the year to suit your requirements
This trip can be tailor made throughout the year to suit your requirements
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Tales of the Unexpected
The trick is to look beyond the travel guide books when you are book browsing, and go to the shelf marked ‘travel writing’. These are personal accounts of people’s journeys, where they share both joyful and lonely moments. The quirky and the queasy. The wilderness and the wildly exciting. Here are a few of our favourite accounts by those who undertake the unusual.More about Unusual vacations guide
To help you work out how to choose an unusual vacation, we've picked out some favourites that come up on our reviews as total dream come trues.
We love our quirky, fun and unusual places to stay on vacation because accommodations like these are created by people who really care.
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Choosing a top ten unusual vacations list is nigh on impossible, but not when you ask our responsible travel experts to pick their quirky leaders in the field.
This section features lots of unusual vacation travel tips and advice from our expert suppliers who know that what they do is a little bit different.
Unusual vacation destinations are about people who are providing out of the ordinary experiences in places that you might not usually think about visiting.
Take at a look at these European vacations with a difference – unusual tours that offer different perspectives of this much-traversed continent.
