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For clients who want to explore festive markets without missing out on Christmas at home, Leger Holidays’ new five-day Aachen, Koblenz and Bonn Christmas Markets for Solo Travellers coach break departs on December 1 and is priced from £829 per person.
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Kirker Holidays’ five-night Christmas in Paris tour, which reaches the City of Light via Eurostar, is ideal for Francophiles, as it’s led by an art historian and Paris resident. The tour costs from £3,896 and departs December 22.
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Christmas in The Beatles’ Liverpool and Manchester, along with Christmas in Cambridge and Warwickshire, each offering cultural delights as well as champagne brunches and Christmas lunches. Meanwhile, Grand UK Holidays revealed that sales for its autumn and festive programmes are up 37% year on year in 2025, and it has released six festive domestic holidays for November and December this year. They include the popular seaside towns of Bournemouth, Torquay and Llandudno, as well as scenic cities such as Chester and Durham. A four-night Christmas in Tyneside itinerary combines all the festive fun of a Boxing Day pantomime and turkey Christmas lunch with misty Christmas Eve tours of Durham. Lyn Arnold, Grand UK Holidays’ trade manager,
G Adventures’ 10-day Solo-ish South Africa itinerary is new for this year. On Christmas Day, clients will arrive in Johannesburg and enjoy a cooking class and dinner, then they’ll ring in the new year on safari in Kruger National Park. From £2,459 per person, departing December 25.
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says: “For many solo travellers, a domestic adventure over the festive period offers the perfect balance of exploration and connection without the stress of long- haul travel. It particularly appeals to customers who value shared experiences and companionship and the reassurance of travelling with like-minded people, yet
still want the independence of going solo.” Book it: Grand UK Holidays’ Christmas in Tyneside trip costs from £699 per person, half-board. The price includes coach travel, a mulled wine reception, Christmas lunch, one afternoon tea and listed excursions, based on a December 23 departure.
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ADVENTUROUS ADVENT In addition to its new UK trips, Just You has introduced three international tours for 2025: Christmas in Croatia, Christmas in Budapest, and Spirit of India at Christmas. If your clients are keen to spend two weeks of the festive period immersing themselves in another world, then the colours, cultures and cuisines of India could be just the ticket. The tour begins in Delhi, giving clients time to
recover from the long-haul flight and explore the exciting Indian capital, before tackling the Golden Triangle route and tiger-filled Ranthambore National Park in Rajasthan. On Christmas Day, clients head for the lesser-known city of Lucknow, where they can browse for (belated) gifts in the buzzing Mughal- styled bazaar and enjoy a perfumery experience at a family-owned fragrance house. Then, it’s on to spiritual Varanasi, where sacred bathing sites and Hindu and
Buddhist temples line the banks of the Ganges. Book it: Just You’s 13-day Spirit of India at Christmas escorted tour costs from £3,999 per person, half- board. Includes listed excursions, flights, luggage and transfers, based on a December 17 departure.
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CULTURAL CHRISTMAS Agents will also find a batch of new European tours to sate a customer’s Christmas appetite. For no-fly clients, coach operator Just Go Holidays
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