Tell Tale Travel specialises in authentic holidays. If you're looking for a holiday with a difference, we guarantee you will gain plenty of memories and tales to tell when you get home. We offer the chance to get the real insider experience and meet our truly unique network of local people.
We are a UK-based company with headquarters in London and local offices in the countries we offer holidays in. We also have a bookings partner in the USA.
We love to chat to our customers, so do give us a call on freephone 0800 011 2571 or 020 7 060 4571. USA Freephone 1 866 211 5972. From other countries + 44 20 70 60 4571.
Tell Tale Travel, 25a Kensington Church Street, London W8 4LL
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AOL's Top 10 Getaways
Featured in AOL's Top 10 getaways January 2012 "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
2011 Annual awards. Tell Tale Travel named runner up best tour operator.
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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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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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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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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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