• Travelling with the world’s most recognised touring companies
• First and Premium class touring
• Always travelling in style... coaches, trains, ships, hotels
• What's included?
• Sightseeing and excursions
• Our Tour Directors make all the difference
• Included dining and speciality menus

All you have to do is decide where you want to go,when you want to go and for how long. Milestones goes out its way to design every itinerary to make the most of each destination. Just read our itineraries and select the holiday that is perfect for you. With all our experience you can rest assured that you will be travelling in ultimate comfort.

Travelling with the world’s most recognised touring companies

Milestones has carefully selected itineraries perfect for the UK market. Our tours are operated by our sister companies, Trafalgar, Insight Vacations, AAT Kings, Brendan Vacations and Thompson’s Africa. Through this we offer the very best in award-winning escorted touring itineraries. Worldwide, these touring brands combine to create undoubtedly the largest and most comprehensive programme of first and premium class tours, bringing you all of the benefits that such a vast buying power can offer. Milestones also includes those small, extra, unique touches that our customers will enjoy.

First and Premium class touring

The Milestones sister company with which you will be travelling is clearly identified on each tour itinerary enabling your ideal choice of holiday. Please look for the symbols below in the Travel Highlights section of each tour.

Trafalgar is the most experienced and popular escorted touring company with an impressive 98% average customer satisfaction rating. Its wide range of first-class escorted tours includes top-class hotels, comprehensive itineraries, luxury transportation, delicious meal plans and knowledgeable tour directors.

With Insight Vacations’ premium escorted tours, you’ll stay in the finest hotels, enjoying enhanced meal plans and touring on luxury coaches with fewer seats meaning more legroom and unique itinerarie due to the smaller group size.

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 upto-date luxurious coaches available.

In Australia and New Zealand, our tours are run in conjunction with AAT Kings, Australia’s most respected and well-known travel company providing specialist,premium quality touring holidays.

Thompson’s Africa offers excellent first class escorted tours. They are Southern Africa’s finest tour operator running smaller groups up to 18 passengers per group touring in air-conditioned micro-buses for a more intimate approach.

Always travelling in style... coaches, trains, ships, hotels

With Milestones there are a number of ways for you to enjoy an escorted tour, each selected based on the particular nuances of the destination. With us you will travel by road, rail or water, selected to ensure that you will experience inspirational journeys through breathtaking scenery in comfort and style. Our fleet of modern, air-conditioned, luxury coaches are always of the highest standards with state-of-the-art sound systems. We ensure that you never travel for more than a few hours at a time. By rail, we offer out-of-this-world journeys on board the Rocky Mountaineer or VIA Rail’s legendary art-deco ‘The Canadian’. In Europe you can experience the wonderful scenery of Switzerland or Italy and, in South America, what better way than by train to travel through the Land of the Inca, Peru, to Machu Picchu? Other destinations include cruising and river cruising, which are currently more popular than ever. We offer the very best of both, such as a wonderful Alaska cruise through the famed Inside Passage or leisurely journeys along Egypt’s Nile or China’s mighty Yangtze.

What's included?

A Milestones escorted tour is always the perfect balance of inclusions and free time. This will vary by duration and destination of your tour. On each itinerary we clearly detail the extensive range of included Sightseeing and Dining Highlights and the services that you will receive when travelling with us. You will also always find the appropriate amount of free time to allow you to explore at leisure.

We know that you expect the essential sights and attractions to be included in your tour price and, unlike some other operators, these are included with us. On tour you will also be able to choose optional highlights that will enable you to customise your tour. And because of our perfectly located hotels you can always be sure that you will be right on the doorstep of the sights and attractions you have travelled to enjoy, rather than having to spend precious time journeying from your base to get to them.

Sightseeing and excursions

Our included programmes of sightseeing highlights, excursions and attraction entrances are designed to fully enhance your touring experience, capturing all the essential stops en route, as well as local gems that only we are aware of, meaning that you won’t miss a thing. All the time you will be accompanied by your Tour Director and, where beneficial, a local guide, to offer expert commentaries and entertaining and fascinating insights.

Because of our history of organising tours, we know the best routes to take, not necessarily always following the well-worn tourist tracks, but often venturing ‘off-piste’ to make your journey one of discovery and justly rewarding, all the while including some fantastic excursions. In California, for example, take a scenic drive through Napa Valley and enjoy a winery tour and tasting, enjoy a Great Barrier Reef cruise and underwater viewing in a semi-submersible in Australia or get close to nature on an open-vehicle safari in South Africa at Kruger National Park. We also created our exclusive programme of leisurely-paced walking tours designed to show you the ‘Hidden Treasures’ of the world’s great cities, not normally seen on group tours.

Your Tour Director will also offer you the chance to customise your tour and enjoy some additional excursions and activities, entirely at your discretion, to further enhance your visit. Why not experience the thrill of a flight over the Grand Canyon or ride the gondola to the summit of Grouse Mountain and visit Capilano Suspension Bridge in Vancouver?

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.

Included dining and speciality menus

Every continent and every country has its own distinctive dining traditions and signature dishes and no holiday would be complete without the opportunity for you to enjoy some of these great culinary experiences. We believe that an escorted tour should be as inclusive as possible, but also leave a certain amount of room for you to make your own discoveries. With this in mind we have created perfectly balanced meal plans for each tour. Where possible, and certainly in the vast majority of cases, breakfast is included, as well as a selection of many tempting lunches and dinners.