Self-guided holidays give you the freedom to do this, to walk at your speed, to stop for breaks when you want and to explore the villages, towns and historical sights along the trail - all at your own pace and under your control. For those with free spirit the satisfaction of planning, walking and finding your way independently should not be understated - it's all part of the adventure. We are walkers here too so we understand the real joy and satifisfaction of discovering the trail for ourselves, finding our own way and experiencing the areas we pass through at our pace and under our own steam.
Encounter Walking is the only company operating these trips who will go through the accommodation options with you and provide you with full details and websites to look at
Read more about the benefits of booking a self guided holiday with Encounter Walking Holidays at
which provide superb and comparatively unknown walking routes giving our walkers quality alternative options to areas like Cornwall and Devon which can suffer from a severe lack of available accommodation at peak times.
We are often asked by our regular customers about walks in other regions such as the North, the Cotswolds and Scotland and about well- known routes like the Coast to Coast and Hadrian's Wall Path. However we are very careful about only providing walking holidays in areas we have researched in detail and have walked in full, often several times, so our expansion is steady and controlled from the South West routes through Wales. Whilst we do increase the portfolio of options every year, we won't offer to arrange a walk in an area in which we do not feel we have expertise.
As a result of this policy, in the South West and coastal Wales we have more options and more expertise than any other organisation and for several years now we have been the largest provider of self guided walking holidays in the region. It is an immense source of pride for those of us that work at Encounter Walking Holidays to state confidently that we know we are the most experienced operator at what we do.
We became a limited company around 4 years ago and have enjoyed hosting a big rise in overseas walkers in the last few years, particularly from areas such as Scandinavia, America and mainland Europe.
Where we are
It's probably clear by now that we provide Self Guided Walking Holidays (!) but for those who want to know more about what that means visit the
We don't provide any other services but we do spend a lot of time providing general tourist information and will always give free help and advice to anyone who
with questions about walking in the region... whether they book with us or not. We are a group of walkers and as such we are always ready to help other walkers who are stuck and need our expertise.
