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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 inside experience, whatever your interests are.

We're a London-based company that loves to chat to our customers 7 days a week. We have a unique network of local people in the countries we operate in, not only does this let us create unforgettable experiences but there's always someone on hand throughout your time away.



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Tell Tale Travel in the Telegraph
The Telegraph - June 2007
"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..." Tell Tale Travel More Information
Tell Tale Travel in the Times
Times Online - April 2007
"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..." Tell Tale Travel More Information
Tell Tale Travel in the Times
The Times - January 2007
"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..."
Tell Tale Travel in the Times
Times Online - December 2006
"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..." Tell Tale Travel More Information
Tell Tale Travel in the Times
Times - August 2006
"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."
Dee Edwards in Revolution Habbo Hotel
Revolution Magazine - June 2006
(Profile of one of our directors)

"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..." Tell Tale Travel More Information
Tell Tale Travel in the Guardian
Guardian Unlimited - April 2006
"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." Tell Tale Travel More Information
Tell Tale Travel in The Times
The Times - March 2006
"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.."
Tell Tale Travel in the Guardian
Guardian Unlimited - March 2006
"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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