Europe luxury vacations for US visitors

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
 

Expressions Holidays is an independent specialist tour operator which was established in 1989 and offers tailor-made luxury hotel holidays to selected destinations around the world, providing personal service with a professional approach.

We pride ourselves on interpreting your demands and requirements to create a solution for you which provides the holiday that you want, ensuring a successful match between client and holiday.

Personal and professional service
We know personally the majority of the hotels that we feature, and we put together our holidays with our clients in mind. Contact with Expressions Holidays means contact with the people who know the holidays, who will share their knowledge and experience with you. Our team of sales consultants know the countries and their culture very well, and operate a concierge service that helps you to explore every aspect of special interest or activity that fits with your holiday.
All aspects of your holiday are personalised, from the itinerary to your holiday confirmation and documentation which provides you with information that is relevant to you. From the point of initial contact with us, you will deal with the same sales consultant, who will handle all aspects of your booking and ticketing.
We approach your holiday in a way that offers you the arrangements you want, not to slot you in to pre-existing arrangements. This might mean juggling dates, securing the last available room at a hotel or tailoring a complex itinerary involving numerous components. Your holiday is as individually fashioned and tailor-made as you want it to be.
How we price your holiday
All prices mentioned on our website and in our brochure are simply guides, as there are many variations that might affect the price including exchange rates, flight costs and special offers. To find out exact prices for the holiday that you are interested in, contact us for a tailor-made quotation.
All our holiday arrangements have been designed to afford you maximum flexibility and freedom of choice. We include travel arrangements, whether it be flight, ferry or tunnel crossing or rail travel as well as many nights' hotel accommodation as you want, in as many different places.
Our Price Guarantee
We guarantee that once you have made a firm booking with a deposit payment, there will be no increases in the price of your holiday due to currency movements. If, for any reason, there have been changes in the price of the holiday you want, you will be advised at the time of booking.
Full Financial Protection
Full financial protection is offered when you book a holiday with us. Our air holidays are ATOL protected, and we are a member of the Association of Bonded Travel Organisers Trust Limited to protect non-flight packages. We are also members of ABTA and AITO (the Association of Independent Tour Operators), an organisation of some of Britain’s best specialist tour operators.