One of Australia's most respected travel businesses, Explore Holidays is a company of passionate travellers who have created perfect holiday experiences for Australians for nearly 25 years. We believe that travel is about more than just getting from A to B. It’s about new sights, new friends, new foods and new memories. That’s why, at Explore Holida
ys, we dig deeper, look harder and explore further to ensure that we provide you with a holiday that doesn’t just scratch the surface, but delivers a real experience.Your holidays, the way you like them.
Explore Holidays is powered by one of the world’s biggest travel companies so we benefit from big business buying power, relationships and technology. We are as a business, however, small and nimble enough to offer real service, expertise and to seek out the best possible deals and deliver them to you in the quickest time possible.
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Explore Holidays’ mission is not just to plonk you in front of world famous landmarks so you can take a picture to show your friends. Sure, the Eiffel Towers of the world are important and are often the catalyst for a trip of a lifetime, but we take great pleasure in bringing destinations to life with our hand-picked experiences. Whether it’s a Literary Pub Crawl in Dublin, a quirky 2CV Tour of Paris, descending a Hawaiian volcano by bicycle, or a luxury trans-continental rail crossing, we have the perfect ingredients to add unforgettable experiences to any holiday.
With full passports, countless air miles, rail journeys, road trips, hotel nights and quality hours by resort pools under our belts, our combined experience means we know what goes into creating perfect holiday experiences. From our exceptional reservations experts, right through our marketing and procurement teams to the Executive team, we are a company of people with a simple common interest: exploring the planet and seeking out essential travel experiences. We’ve been nearly everywhere, tasted just about everything, inspected our hotels and had some fun along the way.
You will have seen our “Only at your travel agent” logo on our homepage. Explore Holidays does not take bookings directly from consumers as we firmly believe that travel agents play an essential role in the delivery of a perfect holiday. Not only can doing everything yourself be time-consuming, potentially risky and often confusing, but you really are making yourself responsible for every part of your holiday itinerary. Your flight’s delayed and you missed a connection? A simple call to your agent should be able to sort it out and ensure that every piece of rest of your holiday falls into place as it should.
With their expertise across all facets of a holiday booking including visa requirements, multi-sector flight itineraries, minimum connection times at airports, documentation, insurance, destinations, not to mention their well-established relationships with airlines and suppliers, travel agents bring value, financial protection and service to the table.
Explore Holidays recommends you always deal with an Australian Federation of Travel Agents (AFTA) agent.
In spite of our heritage and pedigree, we concede that Explore Holidays can only provide so much expertise, content and experience to your holiday arrangements, and that sometimes magic just happens on your travels. We believe it is these, often simple, experiences that evoke the strongest memories of the places we’ve been.
Here is a handful of real experiences cherished by Explore Holidays staff that we think can provide as much inspiration to visit a place as an Eiffel Tower, a Tower Bridge or a Grand Canyon: