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Travel Trade Gazette, August 2024 Tell Tale Travel's 'Real Thailand' featured in an article about places newly-named as UNESCO world heritage sites.
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The Times, October 2023 Thailand expert, Hannah Summer, picks Lemongrass Trail as her no 3 top trip in Thailand.
"There's much more to Thai cuisine than green curry and pad Thai. This private cooking tour for two takes you on a culinary journey of the country, starting in Bangkok, where you'll learn the basic principles at the Baipai Cooking School. Then you'll head to Isan, near Laos, where you will pluck organic veg, herbs and berries from a forest, and learn about this region's cooking traditions and Laotian influence. Visits to night markets on the coast near Krabi, lessons in countryside cooking, meals in small villages, and seafood and dessert workshops are all on the menu, as is time for swimming and sightseeing."
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The Times Tell Tale Travel's cooking tours in Thailand including the private tour for 2, the Lemongrass Trail, featured in the Times.
"If you'd like to explore the country while learning to do justice to its culinary traditions, Tell Tale Travel organises tours that are, basically, foodie master classes on the move. You'll be taught family recipes in working kitchens, visit organic farms, go fishing and learn how to forage. The Lemongrass Trail is the tour to beat all tours, covering Bangkok, the central plains, the northeast and the Andaman Coast."
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The Telegraph
Tell Tale Travel's small group tour, Tamarind and Spice, is one of the Telegraph's top 10 best food holidays in Asia. (It's also previously been one of the Telegraph's top 10 holidays for solo travellers)
"There are many complexities in Thai cuisine and mastering the range of dishes takes skill and practice. Participants can upgrade their recipe book on this two-week cooking tour of Thailand, stopping at Bangkok, Ayutthaya, Chiang Mai and Krabi, with time to explore the Andaman Sea on a boat. The colourful food and culture quest includes instruction on a stable of classic Thai dishes such as tom kha gai. There is a mix of fragrant market tours, formal cookery schools and cosy home cooking groups."
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Wanderlust Magazine
In Wanderlust magazine's round of the world's most mouth-watering foodie trips "Pack your chef's hat and take The Lemongrass Trail with Tell Tale Travel to Thailand..Learn the secrets behind sticky rice and som tam (papaya salad) in north-eastern Isan and make the catch of the day yours on the Andaman coast."
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Sunday Times Travel Magazine, February 2017
"Tracking jaguars in the wild..on a 16-day trip with Tell Tale Travel"
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Wanderlust Magazine
In at number 8 of Wanderlust magazine's top 50 trips "Journey to remote parts of the Brazilian wetlands in search of big cats on Tell Tale Travel's Jaguars, the Pantanal and Iguacu Falls".
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TTG
The travel agents' bible, TTG, recommends agents book their clients onto Tell Tale Travel's Tamarind & Spice cookery tour to Thailand in "Straight to the sauce: Top holidays that help clients cook up a storm".
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Moneywise
In Moneywise's feature for families and foreign holidays, Tell Tale director Dee Edwards offered this gem of a top tip: "Start your trip in the first few days in July if you can. On a trip to Thailand, it would save a minimum of £800 on a family of four to start a trip in early July rather than late July." Talk to us for other tips!
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MSN Travel
"Really get to know the country with Tell Tale Travel." One of our family adventure holidays in Thailand was featured in a roundup of school summer holidays getaways on the MSN travel portal. That's what happens when your family can have your very own private family adventure tour with Tell Tale Travel.
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The National
The National, Abu Dhabi's English-language newspaper, named our Tamarind & Spice small group cookery tour to Thailand as number 3 in its Delicious destinations — 10 tastiest trips feature.
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All About You
"Experience the best in Sri Lanka," said online women's magazine allaboutyou.com in their Ten Ways to Travel Solo feature. How do they suggest you do that? On Tell Tale's special small group departure to Sri Lanka.
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Woman Magazine
Elaine Hutchinson of Scotland reflects back on her very first Tell Tale trip, as part of Woman Magazine's "My First Time..." feature. (she's been on a few since then!)
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Wanderlust Magazine
Wanderlust magazine features our Tamarind and Spice Thai cooking holiday as one of "the world's most delicious departures." (One of our occasional small group departures).
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BBC Travel
"Gibbons whistle and whoop in the trees all year round; forest elephants leave deep round footprints on the jungle paths; clouded leopards stalk the trails at
night; and on the high slopes, where hornbills nest and bear cats loll in the trees, there are dozens of endemic orchids." Links to the BBC Travel website, sadly will not be readable if you live in the UK (should be accessible from all other countries).
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Choice Magazine
We had a nice surprise when we received this magazine in the post. Unbeknown to us, one of our customers, Neil Patrick of Peterborough is a retired magazine editor who keeps his hand in. He wrote all about the Walk on the Wild Side he and his wife Linda took to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
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Daily Mail
One of our occasional small group departures featured in the newspaper "Those once-in-a-lifetime safari-style trips make fantastic honeymoons. But if you don't have the excuse of a wedding, there's no need to miss out. Tell Tale Travel has a trip to Thailand to celebrate the Surin Elephant Festival. You visit two of the country's leading elephant sanctuaries, as well as tracking the creatures in a vast wildlife reserve. Designed as a group trip of solo travellers, it is the perfect chance for wildlife buffs to share their binoculars and get back to nature."
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Travel & Leisure Magazine
Rio, Recife and Olinda (our favourite) carnivals in Brazil make the no 1 slot in Travel & Leisure magazine's worldwide carnivals round up - with recommended trips from Tell Tale Travel.
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Food & Travel
"Tell Tale Travel (020 7060 4571, http://telltaletravel.co.uk) runs a 15-day Real Thailand tour taking in lesser-known areas, including Isan."
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AOL's Top Ten Getaways
One of our nature tours (private tour for two) in Thailand makes AOL's Top 10 "Tell Tale Travel's Gardens of Paradise takes in private gardens, world-renowned botanical gardens, a nature walk with an orchid expert and a visit to the Ratchaphruek exhibition."
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Featured in Footprints Travel Guides
Tell Tale Travel recommended in Footprint Travel Guides. Footprint have been publishing travel guidebooks since 1921, all of which are written by genuine experts and aimed at independently-minded travellers looking to get off the beaten track (sound familiar?).
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Sunday Times Travel Magazine, Value for Money Awards
Tell Tale Travel named runner up best tour operator. "Its website alone reveals everything you need to know about Tell Tale's breezy brand of service. There are insider travel tips, a gratis e-newsletter offering exclusive deals and a free advice line (0800 011 2571), 12 hours a day, 7 days a week"
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AOL's Ten Best Cookery Holidays
"Unique cooking holiday that's perfect for couples, Tell Tale Travel offers the Lemongrass Trail in Thailand where you'll have a two-week private tour feasting on local delicacies, learning from local people and picking and catching produce before you cook it. From Bangkok to the Central Plains and Isan to Krabi, you'll travel across Thailand on a real foodie trail."
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Sunday Times
Tell Tale Travel featured in the Sunday Times's travel guide to Rio de Janeiro.
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More than Mushrooms (vegetarian food & lifestyle magazine)
"Discover Thailand through its food on a gourmet holiday..this trip takes in four different areas of Thailand, where you'll learn to shop in local markets & pick your own at an organic farm.."
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Wanderlust Magazine
"I felt like a guest rather than a customer, a visitor rather than a traveller.."
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Ham and High
"This was the first time I'd been on any kind of cooking course, let alone one based in Thailand..a remarkable trip which would be hard to equal for sheer diversity of experience.."
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Wanderlust Magazine
Cover story of the February issue of Wanderlust magazine, based on a Tell Tale Travel trip. Southern Thailand, beaches, trains, tiger-haunted jungles and more.
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Food & Travel
"It's the wealth of raw materials, their treatment and a passion for eating verging on obsessive that makes Thai food sumptuous. If it's alive and they can catch it, they eat it. If it grows and doesn't poison them, they eat it. 'The saltiness comes from fish sauce, the sweetness from raw palm or coconut sugar, the sourness from tamarind from India, and the hotness from chillies..'"
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Avantoure
"Following the 'Lemongrass Trail' on a tour offered by the British company Tell Tale Travel, you can mesh with Thai culture through its cuisine; spending time with local families, learning how to shop at markets, catching seafood and mixing spices on a holiday revelling in the power of food, that respects and supports Thailand's culture and communities.."
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The Telegraph
"This is day one of the "lemongrass trail", a tailor-made cooking (and eating) tour of Thailand, and I'm already a fully fledged convert to Thai cuisine..Following a few days in Bangkok I would be driven to a country retreat in the north-eastern region of Isan for open-air cookery classes and massages. From there we would move on to the rice-rich Central Plains to sample gastronomic life in a canal-side village, and I would finish off with a plane hop down to Krabi to feast on fish from the Andaman Sea.."
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Times Online
"Picking the right holiday in the first place needs to press all the right buttons and at Tell Tale Travel one of the family holidays is an eco trip including a chance to care for elephants: how could any teenager resist that?..Tell Tale Travel..takes special care with the teen family market.."
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The Times
"The Lemon Grass Route is the fragrant title of a new independent two-week cookery tour for Thai food fans. And it's serious stuff - with the first three days spent at the Blue Elephant cookery school in Bangkok before heading off to the provinces to bone up on regional specialities"
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Times Online
"The holiday was one of the most relaxing and rewarding I've had..We started our trip on an island..where there are no cars, no massage houses and no bars..Between the island villages - collections of flimsy bamboo and brick houses - rich green vegetation is peppered with lurid hibiscus, iris and lotus flowers..As fishing preoccupies most of the island's men, fresh fish is plentiful.."
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The Times
"A feast of festivals is guaranteed on Tell Tale Travel's tour to Thailand in November. First visit is to Chiang Mai, with the celebrations for Loy Krathong on a full-moon night when the locals release hot-air paper balloons into the sky and launch a candle-lit boat to bring them luck..Tell Tale Travel will also get you in on events such as the elephant buffet, when bamboo platforms are piled high with elephant treats."
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Guardian Unlimited
"Doors opened into a language and culture I realised I had barely scratched the surface of during a month backpacking in the country seven years ago." Tell Tale Travel holidays "will suit anyone with an open mind (and open palette) who wants to experience travel as enriching for themselves as for those they are visiting."
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The Times
"In the province of Nakorn Ratchasima, a foodie couple will take you to pick herbs and mushrooms on an organic plantation. You can meet green-fingered Thais on Gardens of Paradise tours.."
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Guardian Unlimited
"For something completely different, the world's biggest water fight will take place in Bangkok between April 13 and 15 in celebration of the Thai new year (Songkran)..Tell Tale Travel is organising..holidays where you can stay as a guest of local people"
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Revolution Magazine
(Profile of one of our directors, Dee Edwards)
"Tell Tale Travel [offers] tourists authentic and eco-friendly experiences during the space of an average holiday, beginning in Thailand.
'We all love to get the inside track and do things that others haven't done. Travel is not just about the destinations any more - it's the experiences..' says Edwards.."
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