City Breaks, Skiing, the Grand Canyon: Every Solo-Friendly Holiday Spice Runs
People often find Spice Escapes through one kind of trip — a walking week, say, or a city break — and are surprised how much else they run. Spice is a full-range operator for solo travellers, with well over a thousand trips organised across four decades. Here's the lay of the land, so you can see the whole map rather than one corner of it. (Exact departures and dates change through the year, so treat this as the shape of what's on offer and check Spice for what's bookable now.)
Sunshine and chillout
The relax-and-recharge end: all-inclusive weeks in the sun in places like Fuerteventura, Crete, Kos, Cyprus and Croatia. Company when you want it, a lounger and a book when you don't.
City breaks
Short, sociable trips to Europe's great cities — Lisbon, Barcelona, Paris, Berlin, Budapest, Kraków, Athens, Venice — with a host who knows where to go and other solo travellers to explore with.
River and ocean cruises
The Danube, the Adriatic by tall ship, the Croatian coast, festive Caribbean sailings, even the Lower Ganges in India. Cruising is a natural fit for solo travellers, and Spice hosts the sociable side of it.
Walking holidays
Run with the walking specialists Walkwise, across Menorca, Northern Spain (including here at Casa Agara), Spanish Catalonia and Andalucía, Gran Canaria in winter, and Italy's Rhaetian Alps. Small groups, real routes, and the meals taken care of: here that means breakfast, a picnic lunch on the hill and dinner when you get back.
Skiing
Solo ski weeks with a group — one of the friendliest ways to hit the slopes when you don't have a ready-made ski gang.
Culture, opera and Christmas markets
Opera in Verona, the Barber of Seville, festive market trips to Budapest and Berlin — the trips for people who travel for the experience as much as the postcard.
Long-haul adventures
The big ones: Japan, Sri Lanka, the gorillas and chimps of Uganda, Indian rail journeys, Iceland, the Grand Canyon, Lapland and the Northern Lights, the Land of the Midnight Sun. Bucket-list travel, made easy to do on your own.
The common thread
Whatever the trip, the model is the same: hosted (you're never alone), designed for solo travellers (couples and friends welcome), ATOL-protected on flight-inclusive packages (licence 9046), and no forced single supplement (twin-share, or an optional room of your own). That consistency is why people who start with one Spice trip tend to book the next.
Browse the current Spice Escapes line-up →. Fancy the Green Spain one? It runs here at Casa Agara — ask us and we'll sort it.