Expressions Holidays - luxury tailor-made hotel vacations to Europe – for visitors from the US to Europe
We are pleased to welcome you to our vacations. This page has been designed to give you a few pointers about how we work, how we arrange holidays and vacations in Europe for US visitors and who we are with all the benefits this brings you. Then you have the world of our website available for browsing. It is an excellent time to plan your vacation to Europe for 2019 or 2020. Many of our most popular hotels are small, luxury properties and they can get booked up pretty early on, so if there is somewhere in particular you are thinking of visiting, let us know and we can start to make the arrangements for you.
30 years' experience
Expressions Holidays has 30 years’ experience in arranging tailor-made luxury hotel holidays and vacations in Europe. Our company dates from 1989 and we specialise in luxury bespoke holidays and vacations for individuals with some tours for small groups in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland and the central and eastern European countries of Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary and Slovenia.
We specialise in country destinations and special interest holidays
In addition to these country destinations, Expressions Holidays offers tours of Italian villas and gardens for small groups of up to 14 people, wine tours of Italy for up to 14 people per group, cookery course holidays in Italy, France and Spain and rail holidays to France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Switzerland.
Personally-selected luxury hotels
A special feature of our holidays is the combination of stays in personally-selected luxury hotels in each country, which might be grand hotels, boutique hotels or rustic country hotels with local activities according to your interests with wine-tasting, cookery, truffle hunting, olive oil tasting, garden visits, cycling, walking, golf, spa, opera and music festivals and local feasts and festivals that offer a fascinating insight into the life of the country and region you are visiting.
Touring and multi-centre holidays
We also provide a wide range of touring holidays and multi-centre holidays for individuals which are the sort of thing most of our Australian clients want to do. With these we pre-book hotels for a tour for you to do by hire-car or by rail or a mixture, we give you directions and can include cultural activities such as theatre or opera tickets, pre-booked dinner reservations, entrances to museums and galleries and private guided tours. These itineraries, also by rail, are for individuals and you do not join a group. The only group ones we operate are the garden tours and cookery holidays (although even some of the cookery courses can be arranged for a minimum of 2 people).
Benefit from our personal knowledge and experience
With Expressions Holidays you benefit from our 25 years plus experience of putting together tailor-made holidays staying in luxury hotels in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Switzerland. We know the landscape, we know the driving times or rail timetables, and we know the best places to stay. Our holidays for individuals are entirely flexible in that there are no set departure dates; you choose to travel when you want and you can either follow one of our suggested itineraries or you can ask us to adapt one and add in nights or places to suit your interests. We are based in the UK (we were in London for 20 years and now we are based in the university city of Exeter in Devon) but our staff are Italian, French, Portuguese, German and Spanish speakers who have a great deal of knowledge of these countries from studying, living and working there over the years.
We offer travel-inclusive from the UK or land arrangements only
Our holidays can be travel-inclusive from the UK, including flights from the UK into France, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Switzerland. Or we can include the Eurostar service from London to Lille or Paris and then onward train travel from there.
Or, alternatively, we can offer you land-only arrangements in the country destination of your choice, combining hotel stays, activities, excursions, transfers and local transport.
Last updated 21 January 2019