You don’t have to ski to enjoy mountain life in Chamonix – with Inghams you can enjoy stunning Mont Blanc mountainscapes, explore glacier ice caves, ride aboard the most scenic of railways and relax in the ‘sound baths’ and ‘cinema saunas’ of a top end spa. For outdoor adventure lovers, it ticks all the boxes with white-water rafting, and guided hiking and fat-tyred e-biking as options.

Perfect peace and quiet with only birdsong as the soundtrack to your day – with
Forest Holidays you can get close to nature and away from the bustle of modern life like nowhere else. Cuddle up in a Golden Oak hideaway for two complete with log-burning stove and hot tub, or opt for a Treehouse cabin for 10. With a choice of 11 woodland locations across the UK, this is staycationing in style.

Walking off by day what cruising puts on each evening – doesn’t that sound like a great way to holiday? With Ramblers Cruise and Walk Holidays, you can enjoy a cruise aboard Fred. Olsen’s friendly ships to the full – including their delicious dining – by combining it with a choice of proper guided walks that will keep you feeling fighting fit as well as giving you new perspectives on each destination.

No company has more first-hand knowledge of its subject than Journey Latin America. So if a combination of Chilean vineyards, lake districts, penguin colonies, soaring condors and the Torres del Paine National Park appeals, they are the specialists to make it happen. Patagonia has so much to offer – wildlife, glaciers – and, curiously enough, Welsh tearooms.

Classic Collection Holidays pride themselves in identifying beautiful, luxury boutique hotels in Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Morocco and the Caribbean that will have particular appeal to discerning British travellers. With fewer rooms everything feels more personal, backed up a wonderful design aesthetic, bags of personality and unobtrusive attention to detail.

Cruise the Mekong and you never know quite what you will encounter. Floating markets, houses on stilts, early morning fishermen yes, – but how about a 7am Buddhist wedding celebration! Between Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam and Siem Reap in Cambodia, this traveller’s big birthday trip with Scenic combined sights, insights and inspiring opportunities to meet local people along the way.