Affordable group holidays designed for seniors
Affordable group holidays designed especially for seniors.
Join a welcoming tour group and enjoy carefully planned local and international holidays where the transport, accommodation, activities and arrangements are taken care of for you.
With TLE Travel, our packages are built around what matters most to senior travellers — affordability, safety, comfort, companionship and memorable experiences. Enjoy the reassurance of travelling as part of a group, including home-cooked meals on selected trips, while creating once-in-a-lifetime memories together.
Where we go
Where we travel, and the resorts we use. Pricing depends on the season, the resort and how long you stay, so tell us which appeals and we will quote you in writing — no obligation.
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Duration4 nights, travel included
Log fires, mountain air and resorts built around sitting still. Gentle valley drives, and nothing that asks anyone to climb.
Includes Coach transport · dinner, bed & breakfast · sightseeing transport
Duration3 nights, travel included
Green hills, still water and craft stops along the Meander. The easiest few days away from Durban we run.
Includes Coach transport · dinner, bed & breakfast · sightseeing transport
Duration5 nights, travel included
Warm Indian Ocean, flat promenades and a hotel a short walk from the sand. Popular with travellers who would rather not fly.
Includes Coach transport · dinner, bed & breakfast · sightseeing transport
Duration5 nights, travel included
Hazyview as a base for the Panorama Route and the Kruger gates. Morning outings, afternoons at leisure.
Includes Coach transport · dinner, bed & breakfast · sightseeing transport
Duration4 nights, travel included
Mineral hot springs, bushveld shade and a pace that suits sore joints. A favourite for repeat travellers.
Includes Coach transport · dinner, bed & breakfast · sightseeing transport
Duration4 nights, travel included
The Valley of Waves, the gardens and the entertainment centre, with lifts and shuttles throughout the resort.
Includes Coach transport · dinner, bed & breakfast · sightseeing transport
Duration7 nights, travel included
The Wild Coast arch, then west along the Garden Route. No day on the coach runs longer than three hours.
Includes Coach transport · dinner, bed & breakfast · sightseeing transport
Duration8 nights, travel included
West Coast lagoons and fishing villages, timed for the spring flowers when the season allows. Our longest local tour.
Includes Coach transport · dinner, bed & breakfast · sightseeing transport
Duration4 nights, travel included
Turquoise water a few hours up the coast, reached by road rather than by air. Passports needed, no visa for South Africans.
Includes Coach or air travel · bed & breakfast · sightseeing transport
Duration5 nights, travel included
River cruises among the largest elephant herds in Africa, watched from a boat rather than a bumpy vehicle.
Includes Coach or air travel · bed & breakfast · sightseeing transport
Duration4 nights, travel included
One of the great sights, with a paved rainforest path and viewpoints reachable without a climb.
Includes Coach or air travel · bed & breakfast · sightseeing transport
Duration7 nights, travel included
A short flight from Johannesburg to white sand and warm sea, with Stone Town and the spice farms alongside.
Includes Coach or air travel · bed & breakfast · sightseeing transport
Duration12 nights, travel included
The trip we are asked for most often. Vegetarian and Halaal catering arranged throughout as standard.
Includes Flights & transfers · bed & breakfast · dinner and tours where specified
Duration10 nights, travel included
Tea terraces, temples and a gentle coastline, on a scenic train where the walking would otherwise be long.
Includes Flights & transfers · bed & breakfast · dinner and tours where specified
Duration9 nights, travel included
Rice terraces, temple gates and warm sea. Resorts chosen at sea level, with lifts and short transfers.
Includes Flights & transfers · bed & breakfast · dinner and tours where specified
Duration6 nights, travel included
Short flight, no jet lag worth mentioning, and a city built entirely around lifts and air conditioning.
Includes Flights & transfers · bed & breakfast · dinner and tours where specified
Duration9 nights, travel included
Mosques, markets and a ferry across the Bosphorus. Cappadocia can be added for those who want the balloons.
Includes Flights & transfers · bed & breakfast · dinner and tours where specified
Duration10 nights, travel included
Whitewashed villages and cobalt sea. Island hopping by ferry, with a mainland base so nobody repacks every night.
Includes Flights & transfers · bed & breakfast · dinner and tours where specified
Duration9 nights, travel included
Trams, tiled facades and river valleys. Easy walking cities with good public lifts up the hills.
Includes Flights & transfers · bed & breakfast · dinner and tours where specified
Duration10 nights, travel included
Andalusian courtyards, orange trees and the Alhambra, at a pace that leaves afternoons free.
Includes Flights & transfers · bed & breakfast · dinner and tours where specified
Duration11 nights, travel included
The Wall, the Forbidden City and Hong Kong harbour, with a guide alongside the group throughout.
Includes Flights & transfers · bed & breakfast · dinner and tours where specified
Duration9 nights, travel included
Temples in the morning, the beach for the rest of it. Sea-level hotels and no long transfers.
Includes Flights & transfers · bed & breakfast · dinner and tours where specified
Duration12 nights, travel included
Sugarloaf, Copacabana and the falls. Our longest-haul journey, and worth the flight for anyone who has always wanted it.
Includes Flights & transfers · bed & breakfast · dinner and tours where specified
Duration4 nights, travel included
The easiest holiday there is. Unpack once, eat well, and let the ship do the travelling. Port charges are extra.
Includes Full board on board · entertainment · port charges extra
Duration3 nights, travel included
A good first cruise, short enough to try. Flights from your city can be added to the package.
Includes Full board on board · entertainment · port charges extra
Nothing matches that combination just yet. Tell us what you are looking for — most of our trips started as somebody's request.
What the price covers
Different kinds of trip include different things. Here it is in full, so there are no surprises at the hotel desk.
Cruise fares are full board on board and exclude port charges, mandatory service fees and insurance. All pricing is per person sharing and subject to season, availability and exchange rates. You receive a written quotation with the final amount and full inclusions before you commit; a non-refundable deposit confirms the booking and the balance is due by the date shown.
Why people travel with us
The flights, the transfers, the check-ins, the queues. We deal with that so the holiday starts when you leave the house, not when you finally reach the hotel.
A TLE host travels with every group. Airports, transfers, check-ins and anything that goes sideways are ours to sort out, not yours.
Later starts, time to sit with a coffee, and no itinerary that marches you past the thing you came to see.
You travel with people at the same stage of life, with time to spend and stories to tell. Many of our travellers met on a trip and now book together every year.
Long walks or short ones, spice or no spice, a room to yourself or company at dinner. We ask before you book, not after.
How it works
Let us know where you are interested in going, either one of our packages or an enquiry for a group tour.
Flights, transfers, hotel and meals, with what is included and what is not. No obligation, nothing payable yet.
A non-refundable deposit payment confirms the booking. You get the itinerary, the host’s number, and nothing left to arrange.
Common questions
The questions we are asked most. There are more on the About page.
Plenty of our travellers do. Prices are per person sharing, so we can pair you with another single traveller of the same gender, or arrange a room of your own if you would rather have the space. A room of your own is at an additional cost.
Vegetarian and Halaal requirements are arranged as a matter of course — hotels, airlines and the ship, all confirmed in advance.
Tell us when you book. Allergies should be in writing so we can pass them on formally to every supplier on the itinerary.
It depends on the trip. Local packages include coach transport, dinner, bed and breakfast, and transport to the sights. Trips to neighbouring countries include coach or air travel, bed and breakfast, and transport to the sights. International trips include flights and transfers, bed and breakfast, plus dinner and tours where specified.
Entry fees at attractions are excluded where they apply. On international trips, visa costs, travel insurance, tourist levies and gratuities are excluded. The full list is set out below and repeated in your quotation.
Enquire first and we send a written quotation with the final price and everything it includes. Nothing is payable at that stage and you are under no obligation.
A non-refundable deposit confirms the booking and holds your place. The balance is due by the date shown on your quotation and must be settled before departure. Where a quotation shows no deposit, the full amount confirms the booking.
We do not offer payment plans, and the deposit is not refundable if you cancel — which is what travel insurance is for.
Prices can move after booking if an airline, hotel or operator raises its costs. If that happens we tell you straight away in writing; it may mean a top-up payment. It is uncommon, but we would rather you heard it from us now than at the airport.
The invoice can be made out to whoever is paying, so if the family is clubbing together that is no trouble.
What our travellers say
Every review here was left by someone who travelled with us. We check each one before it appears, but we do not edit them.
We had convinced ourselves this was beyond us now. It absolutely was not. The paths were manageable, nobody rushed us, and we have already put our names down for Zanzibar.
Victoria Falls
I asked about Halaal meals expecting a whole negotiation. It was arranged before I had finished the sentence — every hotel, and on the flight.
India
I was nervous about travelling on my own. By the second morning we were a table of eight at breakfast. I have booked the next one already.
MSC from Durban
Well organised and the resort was better than I expected. One of the travelling days was long — they did warn us, to be fair.
Western Cape & the Daisies
Twenty years of organising everyone else’s holidays and this is the first one where I just got on the bus. The host handled the lot.
Drakensberg
Booked this for my parents and the quote came back that afternoon, itemised. No hidden extras when they arrived, which is exactly what I had been wary of.
Sun City & Dikhololo
Travelled with us?
It helps the next person decide. Reviews appear once we have checked them, usually within a day.