I am celebrating a special birthday next year and am trying to work out a really great and memorable holiday to do. I've done the JY NZ tour before and have seen Travelsphere have a Grand tour of Australia with a bit of a different NZ add on which appeals.

Has anyone got any views on being a single traveller on a Travelsphere holiday? Good idea? Bad idea?

I might change my mind once the new JY brochure comes out!

Sylvia

Best wishes,

Bob

Hi All

I am celebrating a special birthday next year and am trying to work out a really great and memorable holiday to do. I've done the JY NZ tour before and have seen Travelsphere have a Grand tour of Australia with a bit of a different NZ add on which appeals.

Has anyone got any views on being a single traveller on a Travelsphere holiday? Good idea? Bad idea?

I might change my mind once the new JY brochure comes out!

Sylvia

Hi Sylvia

I am on the San Francisco to Vancouver with Travelsphere,because it is not on JY.

When I paid the balance earlier in the year,I was told there were several other single travellers on the tour.it was a trip I wanted to do and had seen a positive previous review on JY.I had booked about a year ahead.

When I have been to Oregon and Washington,I will have been in 37 states,like you I am looking forward to the new brochure as Alaska was hinted at by Will when new tours were suggested.

Keith

Hi All

I am celebrating a special birthday next year and am trying to work out a really great and memorable holiday to do. I've done the JY NZ tour before and have seen Travelsphere have a Grand tour of Australia with a bit of a different NZ add on which appeals.

Has anyone got any views on being a single traveller on a Travelsphere holiday? Good idea? Bad idea?

I might change my mind once the new JY brochure comes out!

Sylvia

Hi Sylvia,

I have done 3 holidays with Travelsphere as a single traveller (Japan, China and India) with another 2 holidays booked (where I will also be a single traveller). I think Travelsphere allow up to several singles on their tours (in Japan, there were 9 single travellers), so the chances are you won't be the only single traveller. You will get couples on these tours who don't want to mix, but my experience has been that most do want to integrate and get to know their fellow travellers.

I think it works both ways - the larger the group, the more likely you are to find someone else who is also travelling alone. With smaller groups, I have found that everyone tends to mingle more.

I did the NZ holiday with JY in 2013, following on from doing JY's 3 week tour in Australia. I personally wouldn't do NZ again, but I would definitely do Australia again. JY's 3 week Australia tour was incredible (my favourite holiday ever), but Travelsphere's Grand Tour is even better. I would definitely put your name down for that if I were you.

Hope you have a great birthday whatever you do.

John.

Keith, please can you post a review of the TS San Francisco to Vancouver trip when you're back - this is another on my - very long - wish list. I do have this on my list of possible tours to do in October this year (was hoping to do the JY trip including Laos this year but so many of the dates have been removed and I haven't been able to get the remaining dates to work for me). Agree, hope the new brochure has Alaska. My next US trip is the JY Historic East trip in June, and will be doing the walking in the Cote d'Azur trip at the end of this month.

Katy

Hi Sylvia, I'm in the same situation as you (minus a pending big birthday). I've also identified the TS Grand tour of Australia as something I'd really like to do (the standard JY Australia tour seems to fall short in comparison) and am also nervous about being a single traveller on a TS holiday. So am interested to read the comments. But I think I had already decided that I'm just going to have to go for it, maybe next year or the year after if I can't do it next year - don't want to have regrets later because I've been too much of a wimp. Bob and John seem to have got on fine, I'm sure there may be some awkwardness sometimes but that can happen anywhere.

Keith, please can you post a review of the TS San Francisco to Vancouver trip when you're back - this is another on my - very long - wish list. I do have this on my list of possible tours to do in October this year (was hoping to do the JY trip including Laos this year but so many of the dates have been removed and I haven't been able to get the remaining dates to work for me). Agree, hope the new brochure has Alaska. My next US trip is the JY Historic East trip in June, and will be doing the walking in the Cote d'Azur trip at the end of this month.

Katy

Hi Katy,

I will write a review of San Francisco to Vancouver,but,there is one from a couple of years ago by Sussex Downs.If you search under San Francisco to Vancouver and the Oregon Coast under Reviews.

Keith

Hi Sylvia, I'm in the same situation as you (minus a pending big birthday). I've also identified the TS Grand tour of Australia as something I'd really like to do (the standard JY Australia tour seems to fall short in comparison) and am also nervous about being a single traveller on a TS holiday. So am interested to read the comments. But I think I had already decided that I'm just going to have to go for it, maybe next year or the year after if I can't do it next year - don't want to have regrets later because I've been too much of a wimp. Bob and John seem to have got on fine, I'm sure there may be some awkwardness sometimes but that can happen anywhere.

Keith, please can you post a review of the TS San Francisco to Vancouver trip when you're back - this is another on my - very long - wish list. I do have this on my list of possible tours to do in October this year (was hoping to do the JY trip including Laos this year but so many of the dates have been removed and I haven't been able to get the remaining dates to work for me). Agree, hope the new brochure has Alaska. My next US trip is the JY Historic East trip in June, and will be doing the walking in the Cote d'Azur trip at the end of this month.

Katy

Hi Katy,

I will write a review of San Francisco to Vancouver,but,there is one from a couple of years ago by Sussex Downs.If you search under San Francisco to Vancouver and the Oregon Coast under Reviews.

Keith

Great thanks Keith. Will have a look for the review by Sussex Downs but its always good to have an up to date view. Katy

A question for anyone who has been with Travelsphere as a single.... Did you have a full sized room as with JY or were you in a smaller one - bedded room?

Hi Sarah, I went as a single traveller, as did my friend, and we both had full size double rooms just like on a JY holiday. I would say the only time you might get a small single room would be on a TS Europe holiday, as some European hotels still allocate single rooms to single travellers!

Hope this helps,

Bob

celebrate your special birthday in style and go for Travelspheres grand 30 day tour, I was on the same tour OZ with AltyJohn though I didn't do NZ and he is true to his word saying it was the best holiday ever and we had a truly memorable experience in some great company, Peru was also great, you will always get some singles with Travelsphere, we had 8 single travellers on TS's Peru tour, most couples will mix too

Hi Sarah

yes all rooms are BIG in size and I have yet to find myself in a single bedded room, usually two single or two double beds we have had with Travelsphere same as with JY, most rooms nowadays are set to accommodate at least two adults, hope this answers your question

regards

Dave

Thanks for your replies. I'm more or less decided to go with Travelsphere, but still undecided about any add ons! Think I'll probably decide once the new JY brochure arrives.

Regards

Sylvia