Welcome to Milestones, the escorted tour specialist

Part of The Travel Corporation

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Milestones Tours is a member of the Travel Corporation, a family-owned group of companies.

The Travel Corporation is a highly successful international travel group with over 25 award-winning brands. The company's guiding principle is one of providing the most enjoyable, enriching travel experience for its customers across the globe.

The Group maintains an uncompromising commitment to offering the highest standards of product integrity and is renowned and trusted for its outstanding quality, service, value, reliability and financial stability.

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Why We're The Best

Our team of experts source the very best possible hotels in the most ideal locations, creating fantastic sightseeing trips and unearthing exclusive hidden treasures just for you. We carefully select the best touring options and mode of transport that will give you the ultimate travelling experience and allow you to see each destination to its best advantage. We do all the hard work with one aim, to give you the very best holiday experience.

Please compare us to the rest and you will discover that Milestones offers the finest collection of escorted tours worldwide.

  • Milestones is backed by The Travel Corporation, trusted and renowned for over 60 years for its outstanding quality, service, reliability and financial stability.
  • Milestones are both ABTA and ATOL bonded meaning that your holiday and flights and any money paid are completely protected.
  • Each itinerary is perfectly planned to make the most of each destination, providing a hassle-free holiday to fulfil your travel dreams.
  • Private-car door to door UK airport transfers.
  • A perfect balance between included meals, highlight dinners and speciality dining.
  • Excursions and entrances included in the tour price along with delightful Hidden Treasures.
  • The highest standards of hotels available, situated in perfect locations.
  • The finest Tour Directors - your historian, guide, interpreter and a good friend - and expert local guides.
  • The most up-to-date transportation throughout your tour.
  • A fascinating mix of like-minded English-speaking companions from around the world.
  • Fine tuning of our tours with an in-depth knowledge of our destinations and valuable feedback from our customers to ensure that the itinerary meets your travel desires.
  • Your own dedicated Personal Travel Consultant providing the very best in customer service.
  • Great early booking discounts available to all customers.

Luxurious transport, first-class hotels and included sightseeing

We ensure that we have the perfect way for you to travel to your destination. Our coaches are the latest fuel efficient vehicles, designed for ultimate safety and a smooth, quiet journey. Daily seat-rotation allows you to experience the passing sights and scenery from different perspectives and to get to know your fellow passengers.

Our hotels are all perfectly located, exactly where you would want them to be. We choose prestigious top-name properties offering the highest standards of personal service. This means that you are always certain of an excellent choice of nearby dining, entertainment and shopping. When out of town, we stay right in the centre of the National Parks, perhaps in a charming lodge, or in historic monument hotels. When you compare our hotels with properties contracted by other escorted tour operators you will notice that we insist on using the very best hotels available, with daily breakfasts and many other meals included to offer the complete holiday experience.

Hotel Key

D = Deluxe

MD = Moderate Deluxe

SFC = Superior First Class

FC = First Class

MFC = Moderate First Class

NP = National Park/Lodge Setting

Our carefully researched itineraries include in the price programmes of sightseeing and excursions ensuring that you experience all of the essential attractions, entrances and sights as well as delightful Hidden Treasures that characterise the area visited. Your Tour Director is often joined by a qualified local guide to add that little bit of extra knowledge.

Private car UK airport transfers

Your holiday should begin in real comfort and style. That is why we include our truly unrivalled exclusive door to door airport transfers on all air-inclusive holidays, from your front door to your choice of departure airport in a private executive saloon car. There will be no need for time consuming stops to collect other passengers and, on your return journey, we'll meet you at your arrival airport and drive you straight home.

Our Tour Directors make all the difference

Your Tour Director's knowledge, experience and friendliness will be the success of your Milestones tour. As an historian, guide, interpreter, concierge and, after only a few hours, a good friend, they will take pride in offering you advice on the best places for you to eat, shop and visit in your free time, often recommending hidden gems that only an expert would know to show you. They will assist with all hotel check-ins and make sure that every little detail is catered for.

And to compliment our Tour Directors, sightseeing excursions and city tours are often conducted by qualified local guides who will gladly share their knowledge with you, revealing the colourful history and entertaining anecdotes of the areas that they love and know so well.

Your own personal travel consultant

When you first get in touch, you'll meet your Personal Travel Consultant who will remain your contact throughout your time as a Milestones customer. With an individual direct dial telephone number allocated to you, you can always be sure that you'll get straight through to the person who knows all of the details regarding your bookings and who will be able to answer any queries that you may have.

Our extensive, on going training ensures that your friendly and professional Travel Consultant is an expert on all areas that our tours visit. They are justly proud of their attention to detail and focus on providing you with the best possible service, as well as the confidence to know that your holiday arrangements are in safe hands.

Worldwide award-winning holidays

In all of the markets where we operate our tours, we have been the recipients of multiple prestigious awards including an unprecedented eight years in a row as Canada's Best Coach Operator. We invite you today to come and experience our knowledge and expertise and to come and see for yourself how Milestones are the very best escorted tour operator available.







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Tour pace:

For each itinerary we have created this simple guide to clearly illustrate the nature of your tour from a gentle, leisurely pace to a more lively experience.

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Tour experience:

For each itinerary we have created this simple guide to clearly illustrate your touring experience, from the scenic delights of the world's natural wonders to city chic with included excursions and entrances, or a comfortable blend of both.

Trafalgar Tours

Trafalgar Tours:

Trafalgar Tours offer a range of first-class escorted tours including top-class hotels, comprehensive itineraries, luxury transportation, delicious meal plans and knowledgeable tour directors, often joined by experienced local guides.

Insight Vacations

Insight Vacations:

Insight Vacations provides premium-class escorted tours, enabling you to stay in the very best hotels where available, enjoying enhanced meal plans and touring on luxury coaches with fewer seats resulting in extra legroom.

Thompson's Africa

Thompson's Africa:

Thompson's Africa offers excellent first-class escorted tours but with smaller groups ranging from only 2 passengers to 18 per group and touring in air-conditioned micro-buses for a more intimate approach.

AAT Kings

AAT Kings:

AAT Kings, one of Australia's most respected travel companies, provides a range of first-class escorted tours in Australia and New Zealand which include top-class hotels, comprehensive itineraries, luxury transportation, delicious meal plans and knowledgeable tour directors, often joined by experienced local guides.

Brendan Vacations

Brendan Vacations:

When you travel to South America with Brendan, you can expect first class hotels in convenient locations that provide the highest standard of service and the most up-to-date luxurious coaches available

Milestones Tours

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City and Resort Breaks that allow for a more independent holiday while still matched with Milestones' unrivalled levels of service.

Uniworld River Cruises

Uniworld River Cruises

On board a Uniworld Boutique River Cruise ship, guests can enjoy an intimate, luxurious experience with five-star inclusions. With an average capacity of just over 130 guests and one crew member for every three guests, Uniworld's Premium Class award-winning services are recognised as the world's best.

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First Class:

For over 60 years, our award-winning First Class tours have been providing incredible value escorted tours, not only showing you the major sites and attractions that you would expect to see but also surprising you with exclusive Hidden Gems along the way, that only a true expert would know. Enjoy the comfort of first-class hotels, travelling by air-conditioned coach with reclining seats and restroom, included meal plans and the services of our professional Tour Directors.
From exclusive Be My Guest dining experiences to in-depth insights provided by expert local guides, our First Class tours offer an enriching travel experience where you come away with a wealth of local knowledge and a photo album packed with memories.

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Premium Class:

On a Premium Class escorted tour you'll be travelling with a smaller, more personal group of like-minded travellers (maximum 40 guests on board) on coaches featuring business-class-like legroom and spacious comfort.
And you'll be staying in superior quality hotels in the heart of every destination. We select only premium brands of major hotel groups. Your expert Tour Director will act as your 'personal concierge' throughout and will be assisted by local guides, passionate on the life and history of their own city. We include many special dining evenings such as authentic local lunches, Highlight Dinners and our unique Dine-Around experiences featuring smallgroup dining at a choice of restaurants.

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At Leisure:

At Leisure is an inspiring new style of travel offering the best expertly planned escorted tours combined with more opportunity for in-depth, authentic experiences and more freedom to go your own way than ever before. With average hotel stays of two or three nights, spend minimal time unpacking andmore time soaking up the ambience of each amazing place. You'll also enjoy a leisurely start each day with departures never earlier than 9am on travel days. At Leisure provides free time to explore each destination on your own, including complimentary hop-on/hop-off city sightseeing passes where available. Plus you'll enjoy sightseeing in major cities with a local guide assigned to more intimate groups.

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Premium Gold:

Premium Gold is an exclusive collection of deluxe tours, each celebrating the fine art of luxury travel. All of the luxury hotels exude elegance and style, with many being members of the Leading Hotels of the World or other internationally recognised upmarket hotel associations. Premium Gold itineraries are leisurely-paced with relaxed stays in the most sought-after locations and with ample free time for personal exploration.
You will delight in sumptuous, authentic dining with four-course hotel dining and superb a la carte menus in some of the best gourmet restaurants. Premium Gold features smaller group sizes on tour and includes Premium Highlight sightseeing often including private tours with VIP entrances.

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Cost Saver:

We have introduced a new collection of touring holidays known as 'Cost Saver', a new and exciting programme of tours offering you fantastic European experiences at an unbeatable price.
The new selection of tours cover destinations such as Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The perfectly balanced itineraries combine plenty of free time to explore along with First Class touches including unique Hidden Treasures.