Award-winning special interest holiday company Andante Travels (01722 713800, www.andantetravels.co.uk) has unveiled its 2nd edition brochure for 2022/23. View it now by clicking here. 

Savings of up to £500pp with a limited-time special offer
To welcome its guests back to the ancient world in 2022, Andante is offering a chance to save up to £500pp on tours booked before 31st October. For guests who pay in full at the time of booking, they could save an additional £250pp. These offers exclude Study Days. 

Book a 2022 tour 100% risk-free
Guests can book with complete confidence, safe in the knowledge that they can transfer or cancel without any penalty up to 10 weeks prior to departure. If they have already booked a tour for 2022, they will automatically be eligible for this offer. 

Save up to £300 by booking back-to-back tours
For anyone wishing to make the most of their return to travel, they can book a selection of Andante's 2022/23 tours back-to-back and enjoy money off if they book them in the same transaction. There's a £150pp discount off the total for two tour bookings, a £300pp discount for three-tour combinations booked back-to-back and guests will only pay one deposit. A minimum spend of £1,500pp applies to this offer, which has no time limit.

Zero single supplement places for solo travellers
Following a recent guest survey that saw respondents comment on single supplements, Andante negotiated hundreds of places across of a selection of tours departing in both 2022 and 2023 at zero single supplement. These places are available on 19 itineraries and 53 departures, and are limited to between three and 10 spaces per departure, so guests are advised to book early if they want to take advantage of this initiative. 

Full river and ocean cruise programme
The new brochure includes a full expert-led cruise programme for 2022/23, which includes both river and ocean itineraries in destinations around Europe as well as Egypt. Rivers explored on Andante's new cruises include the Rhine, Rhône, Moselle, Nile, Guadiana and the Guadalquivir. Highlights range from an exploration of the natural Camargue region in France to the 12th century Cochem Castle in Germany, and from a felucca boat tour in Egypt to the incomparable Alhambra in Spain. Ocean cruises include the eight-day Treasures of the Dalmatian Coast and the nine-day Antiquity of the Aegean itinerary. Highlights from these range from a full day on the Greek island of Delos, which is filled with archaeological wonders, to a discovery of the verdant Mljet National Park in Croatia. View the dedicated cruise supplement, which is included with the brochure, here: https://issuu.com/specialistjourneys/docs/andante_cruise_2022

A brand new tour of Pakistan for 2023
Andante is particularly excited to launch its new Pakistan itinerary, a tour that will depart in March and October 2023. Both departures will be led by expert Guide Lecturer Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi, a Research Associate in the Department of the History of Art & Archaeology at SOAS, University of London. Over 12 days, guests will explore sites that reveal its rich ancient history in spectacular style, from the world's largest necropolis at Makli to the site of the Battle of the Hydaspes, where Alexander the Great faced an army of war elephants. 

Richard Tarrant, New Product Development and Marketing Director, said of Andante's new Pakistan tour: “With extraordinary Indus Valley Civilisation cities, battlefields of Alexander the Great, sublime Islamic mausolea and sprawling medieval necropolises, Pakistan is one of the most historically fascinating destinations in the world, yet rarely visited on special interest tours. Here at Andante Travels, we are delighted to be adding Pakistan to our tour portfolio, inviting discerning guests to join us on a journey around the country's archaeological and cultural highlights in the company of an acclaimed expert Guide Lecturer.” 

Expert Guide Lecturers leading tours in 2022/23
Andante's roster of Guide Lecturers is second to none. Some of the experts leading tours next year include award-winning author Professor Suzannah Lipscomb, historian and writer Giles MacDonogh, and Dr Paul Bahn ­– the leading expert on prehistoric rock art worldwide. 

New for 2022
There are a few Pilgrimages on offer for 2022, which tell the stories of early Christianity and appreciate the majesty of art and architecture inspired by faith. The tours in this category include Druids to Saints, Wales & its Gods, The Camino de Santiago, Oberammergau & the Way of St. James, and Rome & Assisi: Centres of Devotion. Andante is also offering two gentle explorations of the UK shores next year, which combine archaeology with wildlife on Archaeology & Wildlife of the Pembrokeshire Coast and Archaeology & Wildlife of East Anglia. For fans of walking, Andante has a selection of itineraries that explore fascinating destinations on foot. These tours include Walks Along the Thames, Walking the Lycian Way, Walking Ancient Wessex, and the best-selling Walking Hadrian's Wall itinerary. 

Biggest-ever range of Study Days
During these day-long experience, guests will be part of a small group and they will enjoy special access to museums, galleries and archaeological sites that are otherwise closed to the general public. They will encounter lectures, handle artefacts and learn more about their chosen subject, which could be anything from ancient rock art to military history. View the dedicated Study Days 2022 mini-brochure here: https://issuu.com/specialistjourneys/docs/andante_travels_-_2022_study_days

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For more information, call Andante Travels on 01722 713800 or visit https://www.andantetravels.co.uk/

For further media information, contact: Martha Whatley, Content Marketing and PR Executive, martha@specialistjourneys.com 

Notes to editors 

Founded in 1985, Andante Travels – part of the Specialist Journeys group – has grown to become one of the UK's leading specialist tour operators. The company has previously won the 'Best Small Holiday Company for Customer Service' title at the prestigious British Travel Awards, and thanks to the wonderful support of its travellers, it won the Best Special Interest Holiday and Best Holiday Company to the Italian Peninsula & Malta categories at the 2018 British Travel Awards, and was also shortlisted for the Best Cultural Tour Operator in the 2018 Silver Travel Awards. In 2019, Andante made the shortlist for the Marketing Excellence prize at the South Wilts Business of the Year Awards. It won two prizes at the Luxury Lifestyle Magazine Readers' Travel Awards and, most recently, the company won silver for Best Special Interest Holiday Company and bronze for Best Holiday Company to the Italian Peninsula at the 2019 British Travel Awards.

Andante's tours have been named 'Trips of a Lifetime' by the National Geographic Traveler on five occasions and in 2018 it appointed Jackie Willis as its new CEO, who brought with her over 35 years of touring and travel experience. Over the years, the company has introduced thousands of people to the wonders of the ancient world. Its tours are all designed and led by renowned experts, who bring a unique, special insight to each site visited in every corner of the globe, and every one of its itineraries boasts exclusive access to either a museum or venue, a specific archaeological site or to a workshop. Andante's tours are peppered with hands-on, immersive experiences that offer an authentic taste of each destination and leave the guest with memories that will last long after they return home.