MARTIN RANDALL TRAVEL aims to provide the best planned, best led and altogether the most enjoyable cultural tours available. Here are some of the features which distinguish our tours.

Meticulous planning and special arrangements
The planning of every tour involves thorough research and meticulous attention to detail. Special arrangements with places not normally accessible are a feature of many tours.

First-rate lecturers
All our tours are accompanied by expert lecturers — art historians, archaeologists, musicologists, historians — selected for their scholarship, communication skills and companionability. Their brief is to enlighten and stimulate, not merely to inform, and to appeal both to the well-informed and the less knowledgeable.

Travelling in comfort
The hotels we use are usually rated as 4-star, with a few being 3-star or 5-star. Location, comfort, character and quality of service determine our selection. On many tours the quality of cuisine is high. We use only scheduled flights.

Small groups
The average number of participants on a tour is around 15 or 16. The maximum on most is 22, but some have a lower limit. The Rhine Valley, Austro-Hungarian and Rome Music Festivals are exceptions, with capacities of 110, 150 and 300.

Care for our clients
We aim for faultless administration from your first encounter with us to the end of the tour, with personal service as a hallmark. And if anything does go wrong, we will put it right or compensate appropriately. We want you to come back again and again — as most of our clients do.

Background information
For every tour we provide lists of suggested reading, pages of historical background, information about the destination and detailed itineraries.

Value for money
The price covers nearly everything, including tips and drinks with meals.

Who are our clients?
Participants frequently cite agreeable travelling companions as a reason for continuing to travel with us.

Financial security
In the unlikely event of the company failing, our clients' money would be fully protected by bonds deposited with third parties and supervised by the Civil Aviation Authority and the AITO Trust.