I've travelled solo for decades — these adventures offer friendship and freedom
For The i Paper's travel desk, Tracey — editor of 101 Singles Holidays — picked ten group trips built for solo travellers, from Japan's Kyushu backroads to yurt-building in Kyrgyzstan and an Alaska cruise with no single supplement.
Tracey's first solo trip was to Hong Kong aged 23, when a friend backed out — she's been going alone since, and now edits 101 Singles Holidays. For The i Paper she rounded up ten long-haul group tours built for solo travellers: Exodus's 13-day Kyushu-and-Shikoku loop, Jules Verne's Sri Lanka highlights, a Pandaw Mekong cruise with the single supplement waived, an all-inclusive Alaska sailing with Solo Holidays, G Adventures' 26-day Five Stans of the Silk Road, Intrepid's 18-to-35 Central America run, Flash Pack's Kili-to-Crater Tanzania trip, Just You's Canadian Maritimes, One Traveller's Indonesia island-hop, and a shoulder-season Morocco adventure. Explore Worldwide reports a 33% year-on-year jump in solo bookings.