The Travel Journal - Harrogate

hannah grabham

We chatted with Ben at The Travel Journal about our holiday thoughts and what we liked to do on holiday as a family. Ben came up with some great recommendations and accommodation suggestions. Ben took time to understand what we wanted and put together a tailored package to suit. It’s a personal service and communication was brilliant throughout. Would highly recommend!

Amanda Newman

I have been booking my own holidays for years, but a few months ago I stopped by The Travel Journal and spoke to Ben for advice on a Northern Lights trip. He was super friendly, very knowledgeable and within a day had come back to me with lots of options and details. I said “Book it!” and everything was sorted with no stress.
I was so impressed by his service that I went back the next month and used his brilliant services again.
He is clearly passionate about his work and puts maximum effort into all communication and service. I can’t recommend him highly enough if you want a fantastic holiday without any booking stress!
We have just returned from our second holiday booked through Ben and it was top class, one of the best hotels we have ever stayed in and perfectly matching the brief we gave him.
Thanks Ben - we will definitely be back for more!

Vivien Colville

Great service from The Travel Journal who arranged our trip to Singapore and Bali. All the details taken care of by Ben who goes the extra mile. Looking forward to our trip to San Francisco.

Simon Bentley-Briscoe

We have relied on Ben to organise a number of holidays for us over the past few years and I can’t recommend him enough. Everything is easy and you can have total confidence that your holiday will be as you expect it to be allowing you the time to really relax and enjoy. Being an independent business really does make the difference to how important your needs are when it comes to getting everything spot on.

Ashley Blackett

We tasked Ben with delivering a holiday of a lifetime to include a safari in the Serengeti, a beach based stay for R&R and flights from our local airport. Oh boy - did he deliver! Flights, transfers and meet and greet was seamless. Our (luxury) camp in north Tanzania near the Mara River was excellent providing superb hospitality, food and accommodation whilst being ideally located to catch the end of the migration and an abundance of wildlife. Our open sided land cruiser was ideal for the terrain and our ranger guide was superb and, although not guaranteed, ensured we saw everything we could have wanted - and then some. The highlight was having a picnic in our vehicle whilst parked under a tree with a leopard lazing on a low branch! Surreal. The week at the beach resort in north east Zanzibar provided everything for us to relax and get our breath back - lovely bedroom, good range of bars, restaurants, swimming pools plus a beach. It'll be hard to top but that's Ben's next task!

Daniel Chaplow

Thank you again for organising our honeymoon, the whole trip was amazing from start to finish and we’re so glad you recommended a few days to relax on the beach at the end. We definitely needed it!

Ben organised local guides which were brilliant, and we were pleasantly surprised by how timely everything was being in Asia. They were always there early and waiting for us when we arrived. An organised holiday like this was new to us, previously we’ve been more DIY, and we were grateful for the organisational prowess.

We also loved the restaurant recommendations in the booklet Ben provided, often opting to go to the more locally places. Our guide in Hanoi was surprised when we told her where we’d eaten on the first night, choosing a ‘bare bones’ local Pho place and I think she took us to some more exotic places on the food tour as we were obviously willing to try things.

A huge thank you again, we’re really grateful!

Hadrian James

We booked our trip to New Zealand , flights, car hire and hotel for return so all the hassle taken care of to get there and back. We were able to select flights from all the possibilities and able to choose what suited us by price and convenience. Car hire included the insurance and Ben sorted the claim for the chip in the windscreen on our return. We had the freedom to booked our own accommodation to build our package. Could not have gone better. Great service.

Andrew Hedley

We booked our honeymoon via Ben at The Travel Journal and it was a superb decision. During our initial meeting, Ben was thorough with talking us through our options within our price range. We were then given a range of options to choose from, all of which were customised to our needs. When we had decided on our package, Ben kept in regular contact and was easily accessible with any questions and queries we had.
The hotels picked were amazing and fully enhanced our honeymoon experience.

I would recommend using The Travel Journal for our future travel plans.