Tell Tale Travel specialises holidays with a difference which are lovingly-created as overall experiences. We guarantee you will go home with plenty of memories to cherish and tales to tell for years to come.
We are a UK-based company, in London, with local offices in the countries we offer holidays in. We also have a bookings partner in the USA.
Dee and Chris started the company in 2005 as they could not find the type of holidays they wanted to take. We still believe there is nothing else quite like it. Why take our word for it, have a look at some of the many
testimonials from Tell Tale travellers or see what the papers say below.
We love to chat, so do give us a call freephone 0800 011 2571 or 020 7 060 4571 (UK only). USA Freephone 1 866 211 5972. From other countries + 44 20 70 60 4571. We're even here till 9pm, 7 days a week.
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Wanderlust Magazine
Some tasty press coverage from Wanderlust magazine, featuring our Tamarind and Spice Thai cooking holiday as one of "the world's most delicious departures."
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BBC Travel
"Gibbons whistle and whoop in the trees all year round; forest elephants leave deep round footprints on the jungle paths; clouded leopards stalk the trails at
night; and on the high slopes, where hornbills nest and bear cats loll in the trees, there are dozens of endemic orchids." Links to the BBC Travel website, sadly will not be readable if you live in the UK, it should be accessible from all other countries.
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Choice Magazine
We had a nice surprise to receive a copy of this magazine. A Tell Tale traveller, Neil Patrick, turned out to be a retired magazine editor who keeps his hand in. Read his account about the private Walk on the Wild Side he took his wife on to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
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Daily Mail
One of our occasional group departures for solo travellers featured in the newspaper "Those once-in-a-lifetime safari-style trips make fantastic honeymoons. But if you don't have the excuse of a wedding, there's no need to miss out. Tell Tale Travel has a trip to Thailand to celebrate the Surin Elephant Festival. You visit two of the country's leading elephant sanctuaries, as well as tracking the creatures in a vast wildlife reserve. Designed as a group trip of solo travellers, it is the perfect chance for wildlife buffs to share their binoculars and get back to nature."
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Travel & Leisure Magazine
Rio, Recife and Olinda (our favourite) carnivals in Brazil make the no 1 slot in Travel & Leisure magazine's worldwide carnivals round up - with recommended trips from Tell Tale Travel.
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AOL's Top Ten Getaways
One of our nature tours (private tour for two) in Thailand makes AOL's Top 10 "Tell Tale Travel's Gardens of Paradise takes in private gardens, world-renowned botanical gardens, a nature walk with an orchid expert and a visit to the Ratchaphruek exhibition."
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Featured in Footprints Travel Guides
Tell Tale Travel is proud to be recommended in Footprint Travel Guides. Footprint have been publishing travel guidebooks since 1921, all of which are written by genuine experts and aimed at independently-minded travellers looking to get off the beaten track (sound familiar?).
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Sunday Times Travel Magazine, VFM Awards
Tell Tale Travel named runner up best tour operator in the 2011 awards.
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AOL's Ten Best Cookery Holidays
"Unique cooking holiday that's perfect for couples, Tell Tale Travel offers the Lemongrass Trail in Thailand where you'll have a two-week private tour feasting on local delicacies, learning from local people and picking and catching produce before you cook it. From Bangkok to the Central Plains and Isan to Krabi, you'll travel across Thailand on a real foodie trail."
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More than Mushrooms (vegetarian food & lifestyle magazine)
"Discover Thailand through its food on a gourmet holiday..this trip takes in four different areas of Thailand, where you'll learn to shop in local markets & pick your own at an organic farm.."
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Wanderlust Magazine
"I felt like a guest rather than a customer, a visitor rather than a traveller.."
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Ham and High
"This was the first time I'd been on any kind of cooking course, let alone one based in Thailand..a remarkable trip which would be hard to equal for sheer diversity of experience.."
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Wanderlust Magazine
Cover story of the February issue of Wanderlust magazine, based on a Tell Tale Travel trip. Southern Thailand, beaches, trains, tiger-haunted jungles and more.
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Food & Travel
"It's the wealth of raw materials, their treatment and a passion for eating verging on obsessive that makes Thai food sumptuous. If it's alive and they can catch it, they eat it. If it grows and doesn't poison them, they eat it. 'The saltiness comes from fish sauce, the sweetness from raw palm or coconut sugar, the sourness from tamarind from India, and the hotness from chillies..'"
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Avantoure
"Following the 'Lemongrass Trail' on a tour offered by the British company Tell Tale Travel, you can mesh with Thai culture through its cuisine; spending time with local families, learning how to shop at markets, catching seafood and mixing spices on a holiday revelling in the power of food, that respects and supports Thailand's culture and communities.."
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The Telegraph
"This is day one of the "lemongrass trail", a tailor-made cooking (and eating) tour of Thailand, and I'm already a fully fledged convert to Thai cuisine..Following a few days in Bangkok I would be driven to a country retreat in the north-eastern region of Isan for open-air cookery classes and massages. From there we would move on to the rice-rich Central Plains to sample gastronomic life in a canal-side village, and I would finish off with a plane hop down to Krabi to feast on fish from the Andaman Sea.."
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Times Online
"Picking the right holiday in the first place needs to press all the right buttons and at Tell Tale Travel one of the family holidays is an eco trip including a chance to care for elephants: how could any teenager resist that?..Tell Tale Travel..takes special care with the teen family market.."
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The Times
"The Lemon Grass Route is the fragrant title of a new independent two-week cookery tour for Thai food fans. And it's serious stuff - with the first three days spent at the Blue Elephant cookery school in Bangkok before heading off to the provinces to bone up on regional specialities"
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Times Online
"The holiday was one of the most relaxing and rewarding I've had..We started our trip on an island..where there are no cars, no massage houses and no bars..Between the island villages - collections of flimsy bamboo and brick houses - rich green vegetation is peppered with lurid hibiscus, iris and lotus flowers..As fishing preoccupies most of the island's men, fresh fish is plentiful.."
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The Times
"A feast of festivals is guaranteed on Tell Tale Travel's tour to Thailand in November. First visit is to Chiang Mai, with the celebrations for Loy Krathong on a full-moon night when the locals release hot-air paper balloons into the sky and launch a candle-lit boat to bring them luck..Tell Tale Travel will also get you in on events such as the elephant buffet, when bamboo platforms are piled high with elephant treats."
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Guardian Unlimited
"Doors opened into a language and culture I realised I had barely scratched the surface of during a month backpacking in the country seven years ago." Tell Tale Travel holidays "will suit anyone with an open mind (and open palette) who wants to experience travel as enriching for themselves as for those they are visiting."
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The Times
"In the province of Nakorn Ratchasima, a foodie couple will take you to pick herbs and mushrooms on an organic plantation. You can meet green-fingered Thais on Gardens of Paradise tours.."
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Guardian Unlimited
"For something completely different, the world's biggest water fight will take place in Bangkok between April 13 and 15 in celebration of the Thai new year (Songkran)..Tell Tale Travel is organising..holidays where you can stay as a guest of local people"
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Revolution Magazine
(Profile of one of our directors, Dee Edwards)
"Tell Tale Travel [offers] tourists authentic and eco-friendly experiences during the space of an average holiday, beginning in Thailand.
'We all love to get the inside track and do things that others haven't done. Travel is not just about the destinations any more - it's the experiences..' says Edwards.."
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