OUR STORY

Founder William Burton led several big-name travel companies before launching Awesome Experiences. Even as a travel CEO, he didn’t have enough holiday time to experience all the fantastic trips he was selling to other people. He found that the detailed itineraries of these trips often had far too many nice-to-do time fillers, and lacked many amazing activities available in the destinations. He took the challenge of seeing whether – by including only true highlights – trips could be condensed into just one week away from work without becoming too rushed. He found that most could, with a fair amount of relaxation time, and some awesome activities too.

He also realised that the process of researching and booking trips of a lifetime was massively inefficient. Typically it took hours on the phone and a huge number of emails to agree an itinerary with a tailor-made tour operator or travel agent. The end result often wasn’t that different from the starting point – although typically far more expensive. So William set about creating expert-designed trips that would meet most busy professionals’ core requirements. These trips have a few options allowing people to tailor trips to their personal needs and can be booked straight off the page. They are priced in advance – so the price you see on the page is the price you’ll pay – and the confirmation process takes a maximum of 48 hours, so the whole process happens in significantly less time than a tailor-made operator.