Travel Guide 2025: From Farsley to far, far away

Farsley Travel share some holiday inspiration for Leeds travellers this year.

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00:00I'm Karen Rawson and I am Sales Advisor for Farsley Travel. January started off

00:05with a boom really, really busy, enquiries are picking up, footfalls

00:10picking up as well, people we find are coming back to travel agents, not just

00:15booking everything online, but yeah we've been busy and it's a mix of enquiries as

00:20well, people are getting a little bit more adventurous, going a bit further

00:24afield, realising they can get a bit more for the money than there's just the

00:28normal bucket and spade package family holiday to Spain. Greece is an

00:34all-time favourite of mine and that's getting more and more popular for

00:37families. For your couples, Montenegro and Croatia, that's a new sort of up and

00:43coming again, lots more going off there, interesting sightseeing tours. Thailand

00:49is a very popular destination, I've been myself, one of my firm favourites,

00:54been a couple of times and get a lot of enquiries for that now, even for families

00:59as well and even Japan, that's very new up and coming and rather than the normal

01:06Dubai, people are looking towards the capital, towards Abu Dhabi because

01:12there's all sorts there for families now, with the new Warner Brothers Studios,

01:17there's SeaWorld, there's the water parks, it's amazing, so yeah really the world is

01:23your oyster. Jet 2 have got a new flight out of Leeds Brafford to Morocco, so for

01:28Agadir, that's a new winter destination, that's proving popular and Egypt is

01:33making a comeback again, people sort of went off the radar a little bit,

01:37but Egypt is coming back up for a winter destination and obviously you've got

01:41your Caribbean, which you know, for further afield, for November to April,

01:45always a lovely place to go. Cruise is getting more and more popular, obviously

01:49because of the value for money, yeah we do a lot, obviously the flights, regional

01:53flights we can do from Leeds Brafford as well, or we can do the sailing from

01:57Southampton, but yeah cruise is definitely, it's appealing to more

02:02and more people, the bigger ships for the families, adults only, the earlier you book

02:07the better, it's availability and it's supply and demand, so your prices will go

02:12up and up, it's a miss now for your last minute cancellations at the

02:16£99, they're a thing of the past now, but yeah as soon as you know your

02:20dates, where you want to go, we'd always say, always recommend to book. Working

02:25and travel is great, every day is different, you don't know what you're

02:27going to come into every day, and it's exciting, most people are happy because

02:31it's a happy thing to do, people come in and book the holidays, they're generally

02:34happy, and when you get the tickets and you've got that excitement, so yeah it's

02:39really good. I want to do Bali, Lombok and Bali, Malaysia, I've just, not just

02:44that, that is on my bucket list, what else? I've done, I've been very lucky

02:50throughout my career, I've done the safari, I've been to Singapore, I've done

02:53a lot of America, so yeah I think that's the only thing that's sort of on my

02:57bucket list now, Malaysia.