Over the past few years I’ve been building a small travel business, Eileen’s Travel Adventures, where I organize trips to places that I’d love to go to and look for people who “Play well with others” and are flexible who might like to join me on my “travel adventures”.

 

I’ve put together seven trips so far, 3 to Provence/Paris, one to the Greek Islands, a Tanzanian Safari, Egypt, and the latest Greek Islands and Istanbul, with small groups of up to 16 people who love to travel and don’t have a travel companion to take that fabulous trip with.

 

The groups consist of some couples and singles, all age 45 +.   Many of my fellow travelers are married women whose husbands are not eager to travel out of the U.S.   The rest of  the group consists of a few single men and many single women who have always wanted to go somewhere and their friends don’t have the money or don’t want to go on the trip you’d love to take.

 

I pick out the destination that I’d love to travel to and work with a tour operator out of Boston, BellaVista Tours, to customize my trips.    We typically travel in the shoulder seasons.   Occasionally I use large companies for trips like safaris and China.   Go Ahead Tours is organizing my upcoming China trip in 2010.  You usually don’t have to pay a single supplement unless you choose to.  I arrange for people to share rooms.

 

In 2008 there were three trips – January Tanzanian Safari, May/June Provence/Paris and Egypt in November.  In 2009,  September 17th, 2009 to October 1st  was a return trip to the Greek Islands – Santorini, Mykonos and Athens plus 4 nights in Istanbul, Turkey.   .  

 

April 2010 will be an 18-day China & Yangtze River trip plus three extra nights in Hong Kong.  Check the trip out at http://eileenbaker.grouptoursite.com and a return to Provence/Paris in early September.   Tuscany Spa Week will be late September/early October 2010.    Please check out the attached flyers.   I'm hoping to return to Egypt and also Petra, Jordan in November 2010.

 

I'm just looking at trips for 2011 and starting to work on itineraries which will be available in the spring of 2010.

The trips include Morocco in Feb or Mar 2011, Turkey at the end of April/beginning of May 2011, Greek Islands (Crete, Santorini, possibly Naxos and maybe one more) in September of 2011 (the perfect time to be there) and a River Boat Cruise between Budapest and Prague in October of 2011 -- exciting ideas.

If any of these trips interest you contact me at Eileen@EileensTravelAdventures.com.

 

Happy Trails,

Eileen, Travel Addict

Eileen’s Travel Adventures