Our second trip through Holiday Architects. This time, 23 days touring Japan. Emma did a wonderful job; helping to plan our trip, listening to our ideas and giving her suggestions. We stayed in 10... See more
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Since launching in 2010 Holiday Architects has set out to really listen to our clients – we get to know you, we get to know your travel needs and we design the perfect holiday to match. By operating in this manner, and avoiding the standard off-the-shelf packages offered by many other travel companies, we’ve become one of the fastest-growing and most-trusted tour operators in the UK. Underpinning all of this is the expertise of our team: each committed to servicing their specialist destination, backed up with a dedicated country website packed full of unique hotels, quirky excursions and engaging holiday suggestions. Every one of our team has visited their destination many times (often even lived there), has many years’ experience in the travel industry and is carefully chosen to fit with our friendly and helpful team culture. This means when discussing your travel plans, you’ll have the peace of mind that you’re not only speaking to a genuine expert but a real person who cares about you and your holiday. We believe we are better than anyone else at listening to your travel aspirations and turning them into perfectly designed holidays, but of course that is not always easy to substantiate, which is why we were extremely proud in 2019 to be named Wanderlust magazine’s ‘Top Tour Operator of the Year’, for the second year running, gaining a 100% satisfaction rating from their readers. Competition at these awards is fierce, so winning brings us a great deal of pleasure and pride as it means we have lots of very happy clients!
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Star Lodge, Montpellier Drive, GL50 1TY, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
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From start to finish the holiday…
From start to finish the holiday process was very good. Fenton's advice helped tailor our holiday to what we really wanted. The holiday itself was amazing and we wouldn't change anything at all. Can't recommend Holiday Architects and Fenton enough. Absolutely fantastic!
Arigato gozaimasu
We had an amazing holiday in Morocco
Emma booked us an amazing holiday in Morocco, and really listened to what was important to us. We travelled extensively, staying in local riads to maximise the true feel of the country and what it has to offer. It was a fantastic trip. All the local staff were friendly and helpful. Although we set the itinerary beforehand, one tip worth mentioning is to make sure you confirm with your driver exactly where you want to visit during that day- they will be used to their routine stops which may not coincide with your plans! I would definitely use Holiday Architects again.
Fantastic
Wow, our holiday was tip top from start to finish, Louise Mumford you are a real star.
We wanted to see wildlife and boy did we.
A most beautiful unspoilt country with wonderful people .
Cannot praise Holiday Architects enough could not improve in any way.

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Brilliant planning again by our expert Fenton …
Brilliant planning by our expert advisor Fenton. It is the 3rd time we have used Holiday Architects and there is a reason for this. If you want to create a fabulous experience and really get under the skin of a Country and its culture you need experts that really know what they are talking about. We had a fabulous trip to Japan taking 3 weeks to explore the country using trains and boats using over 18 different tickets pre-booked and planned meticulously in our itinerary by Fenton and his team. They organised expert guides for us and organised some unique experiences for us all based on the prior chats we had about what we wanted to do and see. We will go back in a few years for sure and wont hesitate using Fenton and his team again.

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A truly superb experience!
Emma planned our trip to Japan with us expertly. We explored Tohoku and had some wonderful guides. The travel, the hotels, and the advice and support we were given was just what we had hoped for. The adventure was truly memorable and totally enjoyable. A truly superb experience. Thank you!

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Great service throughout.
From initial approach, through negotiation, Louise was superb. She took our initial concept based on visiting Peru and trekking to Machu Picchu and architected a very comprehensive holiday from beginning to end, that fully met our expectations and ensured we were looked after throughout. Well recommended.

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Amazing Holiday in Morocco
Thank you to Holiday Architects for creating us an itinerary which enabled us to immerse ourselves within Moroccan culture. From the Atlas Mountains, to the Desert and finally to the city, the holiday exceeded our expectations and blew us away.
Many thanks to Emma, you have been fantastic! From your quick responses to our questions and your knowledge of Morocco and the areas we were visiting was invaluable to us. We have no doubt that you helped make our holiday and memories of it, as fantastic as they are.. Having you plan our holiday was like a good friend planning our holiday for us.

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Japan Holiday
This was the second time we had a holiday planned with Holiday Architects.
Fenton planned our Japan holiday and we can't thank him enough! Great communication throughout the process, providing valuable tips and ensuring everything is up to our holiday style.
Would highly recommend Holiday Architects to anyone who wants to have an amazing and memorable holiday!
We will definitely trust the team to plan our next holiday destination!
Eliza & Jack

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Perfect holiday to Morocco
Rebecca at Holiday Architects really listened to me when I described the sort of holiday I wanted. It was truly tailor made for us. We had a fabulous time on our expertly planned multi destination holiday to Morocco and all the arrangements and transfers were seamless. Charming people too - I can't recommend this company highly enough and I wouldn't hesitate to use them again.

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This was a ronseal holiday
This was a ronseal holiday - Holiday Architects did everything it said on the tin and more. From the first initial conversation discussing the sort of holiday we had in mind to the sad moment when we landed back at Heathrow at the end of the amazing holiday, everything was perfect. We found the team at HA - reliable, patient, efficient, incredibly friendly and incredibly knowledgeable. Recommend without reservation

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Everything worked a treat.
Our trip to Japan was perfectly organised. Everything worked a treat – the wonderful guides, the hotel and train bookings, the general advice and tips. Fenton responded to all our requests, made suggestions of his own and tailored the holiday just as we wanted it. It was the right balance of pre-planning and freedom to explore as the mood took us.

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Return to Sri Lanka with Holiday Architects
We had an opportunity to return to Sri Lanka and didn't hesitate to contact Holiday Architects to arrange our trip. We had a good idea of what we wanted from this trip and Rebecca and the HA team certainly delivered!
The small boutique hotels are all amazing and the scenery breathtaking. The hotel staff are always friendly and attentive, the guides on the various tours were always excellent and good company.
In our two week adventure, we trekked in the high tea country, through a rain forest. We cycled and kyaked, we saw elephants galore along with monkeys, crocodile, we even spotted a leopard!
Sri Lanka has so much to offer and I'm sure we will return again. We will definitely recommend Holiday Architects to anyone looking for a truly special and unique experience where ever they choose to go.

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Japan, a revelation
Japan was our second trip arranged by Holiday Architects and like the first was a huge success, Emma helped us organise a wonderful three week itinerary, eight stops all connected by trains, Japans trains are a revelation and run perfectly.
Everything from hotels, which were well located and comfortable, our well planned tours and excellent tour guides and Japan and the Japanese people made for a wonderful memorable trip.

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Trip to Jordan April/May 2025
HA came highly recommended from a friend, and having just had an excellent experience of a fully organised trip to Jordan we can see why. This was our first experience of a bespoke trip, we have always travelled independently and made all our own arrangements. We talked about a plan with Ian at HA, the proposed itinerary arrived the following day - no tweeks required as it ticked all our boxes. Couldn’t have been more straightforward and would highly recommend HA for every aspect of the service, the whole thing went on rails. As an aside, anyone concerned with visiting Jordan at this point in time shouldn’t worry, it is a very safe country with extremely warm and welcoming people.

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Everything taken care off
Very well planned and balance trip to Borneo. If we had organised it ourselves we may have missed the wonderful Danum Valley. All connections, and there were many, went without a hitch. Would highly recommend

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Vietnam is a fabulous country !
People in the West are not familiar with the Vietmanese people, mainly because of the propaganda propounded by the USA in their war against Communism. Vietmanese people are warm, welcoming and kind.
The holiday was very well organised by Holiday Architects so we had not worries about our hotels and travel. All very good !

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Amazing tour around Vietnam & Cambodia
Usually book our own holidays but the trip we wanted to Vietnam and Cambodia was far too complicated, Lisa was excellent from start to finish, the arrangements were seamless. Guides and drivers were amazing, hotels were perfectly located to allow us to walk and explore. Food walking tours were great and the tuk tuk tour fantastic. We covered everything we wanted and more including the blessings by the Buddhist monk, climbing inside the cu chi tunnels and cocktails in Raffles. Couldn’t recommend Lisa and HA any more fantastic service

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Massively exceeded expectations
Really impressed with the service from Holiday Architects. We came to them with some must-haves and some nice-to-haves for our Namibia holiday, and Kirsty helped us put together a perfect itinerary. She also found us some terrific accommodation options and helped us map out a good balance of self-drive and fly-in.
Excellent service from the ground agents in Namibia too; we had virtually no problems, but the few that we did have were sorted quickly and cheerfully
We usually organise our trips ourselves, but this was truly the holiday of a lifetime and too expensive to mess up. It was strange at first not to have to do anything, but we soon relaxed into it and would definitely use HA again. Really took the stress out of things

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An amazing trip
An amazing trip, brilliantly planned.
Emma from HA was fantastic. She understood what we were looking for from the start and planned us an unforgettable trip which kept both adults and teenagers happy, as well as exposed us to a huge expanse of Morocco in just two weeks.
Adil, our local driver and guide was wonderful!
The trip to the Sahara was the highlight. A memory which will last forever.
Highly recommend HA and will definitely ask them to help with future trips.

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Japan adventure
I could not have planned such a memorable adventure to Japan with my 19 year old son without Emma’s extensive and invaluable knowledge. She really listened to my brief, with the end result that we had a trip of a lifetime. We felt we were experiencing Race Across the World but in a good way and armed with all the information we needed. The App was brilliant which detailed our itinerary day by day including train times and local information. Excellent.

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