A tour company is offering 20 per cent winter holiday discounts for tours booked by the end of the month, including Christmas trips to Lapland.
Small group tour specialist Back-Roads Touring is offering the saving on tours including family holidays in Lapland to getaways during the olive harvest in Tuscany.
The group tours have a maximum of 18 people and the company claims to stay away from main roads and motorways. Stays are in boutique accommodation and there’s the chance to take part in exclusive activities, from local cooking classes to private tours of estates and gardens.
Family Christmas in Lapland
Five days was £1,725, now £1,380 per adult £1,156 for children over four (was £1,446) and £836 for children under four (was £1,045)
Finnish Lapland is a magical destination to spend Christmas and this tour, departs on December 23. Guests visit a local reindeer farm, find Christmas trees in snow-covered forests, experience ice-fishing and attend a traditional Christmas morning Lutheran church service.
The tour includes four nights’ accommodation, a tour leader, local Lappish guides, transportation, various entrance fees, a full European breakfast daily as well as four evening meals and winter clothes rental.
Grand European winter getaway
14 days was £2,895, now £2,316
Departing November 26, this tour visits Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary, taking in German Christmas markets, Prague, the former capital of Poland, Krakow, and visit medieval Bratislava before ending the tour in Budapest, one of Europe’s most beautiful cities.
The tour includes 13 nights’ accommodation, a tour leader, transportation, various entrance fees, a full European breakfast daily as well as seven evening meals.
Harvest in Tuscany
Seven days was £1,295, now £1,036
Departing on November 18, this trip takes in the olive harvest in Tuscany – an important social occasion where families get together to pick the olives and press them for the first extra virgin olive oil. Guests will take part in the olive harvest with an Italian family, meet a number of local producers of cheese, wine and balsamic vinegar, learn how to make autumn Tuscan dishes and celebrate the gastronomically precious white truffle at a festival in San Miniato.
The tour includes six nights’ accommodation, a tour leader, transportation, various entrance fees, a full European breakfast daily as well as three evening meals, one Tuscan banquet and a Tuscan cookery class.
