I have been in the travel industry since 1987 as a tour leader, travel advisor, traveler visiting the globe, and now Owner Operator of House of Travel Dunedin City.
My travels have encompassed over 100 countries (many on several occasions) initially using all forms of transport from a double decker bus around Europe to rickshaws in Asia to horses in the Middle East and dugout canoes in Central Africa with camels, elephants, donkeys and bicycles in-between.
I am more than willing to travel in a lot more comfort these days visiting the Pacific, Myanmar, India, Vietnam, Ireland, China, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Japan and USA in recent years.
I believe the transition is similar for people of my generation who still yearn to visit anywhere and everywhere but enjoy a bit, or a lot, more luxury. As such I have developed an in-depth knowledge of the whole spectrum of travel options and regularly come up with solutions to the most complex of travel plans.
Tony
Whatever your travel dreams, I will work with you to create the best holiday possible. The holidays I specialise in include:
AFRICA: Algeria | Benin | Botswana/Namibia | Burkina Faso | Burundi | Cameroon | Central African Republic | Côte d'Ivoire | Democratic Republic of Congo | Eritrea | Eswatini | Ethiopia | Ghana | Kenya | Lesotho | Libya | Malawi | Mali | Mauritania | Morocco |Serengeti | South Africa | Sudan | South Sudan | Tanzania | Togo | Tunisia | Uganda/Rwanda | Western Sahara | Zimbabwe/Zambia/Mozambique
ASIA: Cambodia | China | Hong Kong | India/Nepal/Bhutan | Iran | Israel | Japan | Malaysia/Borneo | Myanmar | Macau | Palestine | Pakistan | Singapore | Syria | Thailand | Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos
AUSTRALIA: Brisbane | Gold Coast | Sydney, New South Wales
MIDDLE EAST:
Dubai, UAE | Egypt/Jordan | Turkey
NORTH AMERICA: Belize | Canada | Costa Rica | Guatemala | Honduras | Hawai`i | Mexico | Nicaragua | Panama | USA
OCEANIA: American Samoa
SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina | Bolivia | Brazil | Chile | Columbia | Equador | Paraguay | Peru | Uruguay | Venezuela
SOUTH PACIFIC: Fiji | New Caledonia | Samoa | Tonga | Vanuatu
UK/EUROPE: Austria | Belgium | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bulgaria | Croatia | Czech Republic | Germany | Gibraltar | Hungary | Lichtenstein | Luxembourg | Ireland | England | France | Italy | Greece | Monaco | Montenegro | North Macedonia | Netherlands | Scotland | Spain/Portugal | Slovakia | Slovenia | Serbia | Switzerland | Romania | Turkey | Vatican City | Wales
I had been wanting to take my boys somewhere extraordinary for ages. We have previously traveled as a family well worn routes through North America and Australia but now my wife and I thought it was time to challenge everything they thought they knew about the world. We decided on Vietnam in the hope it would provide a physical, emotional and sensory experience the boys would never forget. Our journey would take us firstly to Singapore for a gentle introduction to Asia then from the north of Vietnam near the Chinese border south to the Mekong Delta.
I love India. It wasn't an instant love affair. First impressions after crossing the Nepali border in 1989 weren't great. Seventeen years on from that journey Kath and I now had the opportunity to revisit with our two boys Alex (13) and Liam (11) in tow. This time we would head south to the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
I think travelling to the Caribbean from New Zealand used to be regarded as quite a difficult and expensive area of the world to get to. Happily this is no longer the case with several carriers opening up alternative routes across the US accessing the Caribbean is no more difficult than travelling to the US East Coast and similarly priced.
I recently had the immense good fortune to visit the magnificent
Victoria Falls and several game parks in Zimbabwe staying at what are loosely
described as camps and travelling between them by light aircraft.