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Recommended Travel Companies for Women

We women know we don't have to stay home just because we don't have a travel companion! After all, it's become acceptable to take a trip with other women, away from the family. We can head to the wilderness to hike, bike, camp or kayak, stay in chateaux in France or walk in the Cotswold’s with a group of fun-loving women. Here are a few travel companies that arrange women-only adventure tours.

Northwest Women's Surf Camps & Retreats offer Day Camps, Weekenders and Immersion Week Retreats, held on the Island of Kauai in April and the Pacific NW Coast in August. Customized Girlfriend Getaway camps, for groups of 4 to 12 women, can be booked to celebrate friendships, bachlorette parties or reunions. The women specific events are "all inclusive" with morning beach yoga, hours of on-beach and in-water surf coaching by their experienced, certified lifeguard instructors, catered organic lunch & beverages, all surfing equipment, and luxury bus transportation. Week Retreats immerse women into the connection, personal empowerment and transformation which lies within the discovery of surfing! Season begins in April and runs through September.

NW Women's Surf Camps & Retreats
P.O. Box 425
Seaside, OR 97138
(503) 440 5782
www.nwwomenssurfcamps.com

Wild Mountain Time
, an Adventure Travel Company located in Eagle Point, Oregon, is dedicated to giving WOMEN OVER 40 the adventures of their youth!! Offering Alaska Sea Kayaking, Baja Sea Kayaking, Llama Trekking in the Tetons of Wyoming and more, these trips are for women over 40 who are active, healthy, have an adventurous spirit and love camping in the wilderness. On these trips, you'll find like minded women to enjoy these activities and you'll get into the backcountry without carrying all the heavy gear.

Wild Mountain Time

547 Vista Park Drive
Eagle Point, Oregon
97524 (541) 840-2173
WildMountainTime@charter.net

Canadian Woman Traveler
offers the camaraderie and security of small group travel for women of all ages who share common interests. Our carefully selected programs to Europe, Asia, North America and Cuba explore many themes including food & wine, painting, walking, shopping, yoga, and spa retreats. Personal attention; fully escorted. Rediscover yourself in the company of other women!

Canadian Woman Traveller

758 Bath Road, Kingston
Ontario, Canada K7M 4Y2
1-888-830-5324
info@cwtraveller.ca

Adventure Associates
, an ecologically sensitive adventure-based travel company established in 1987, specializes in small-group, women-only and international and domestic programs. They offer trips to kayak the rich marine waters of the San Juan Islands, sail the turquoise coast of the Mediterranean, cruise Alaska's Inside Passage, trek the Peruvian Andes to Machu Picchu, or hike to spectacular peaks in the rugged North West.

Adventure Associates

PO Box 16304
Seattle, WA 98116
(206)932-8352
(888)532-8352
info@adventureassociates.net

The Women's Travel Network
is a Canadian company arranging trips for women only. Destinations are varied and offer a mixture of activities. Tours include a weeklong Fitness Challenge in the Caribbean, exciting and informative Weekend Retreats, 8 day European wine and culinary tours, Rejuvenation at a world-renowned Spa and Wellness Centre, Golf weekend, Horseback riding at a working cattle ranch in the Canadian Rockies. Group sizes range from 10 to 20 participants. Prices are in Canadian dollars and include airfare.

The Women's Travel Network

8990 Yonge St.
Richmond Hill, On L4C 6Z7
905-771-8338
1-888-419-0118
info@womenstravelnetwork.ca

Gutsy Women Travel offers mini retreats and week-long tips in three major categories: Culture, Gourmet and Soft Adventures to destinations in the USA, Europe, Asia, Mexico, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. If you are celebrating that special milestone event – a promotion, birthday or personal victory. Participants travel alone, or come with a friend, or a group of friends, a sister, mother, or daughter. Gutsy Women Travel guarantees that our group size will never exceed 15-20. Guests stay at quaint inns, resorts and spas in the heart of the destination and have free time to explore and shop. Included in these unique vacation packages are: Arrival/departure transfers from designated points, local guides/naturalists/historians who know the area intimately, breakfast daily and most other meals, comprehensive sightseeing, special events, entertainment, cooking classes, all entrance fees and most of the tipping.

Gutsy Women Travel
10650 W. Charleston Blvd.
Summerlin, NV 89135-1014
1-866-IM GUTSY

 

AdventureWomen, often called the "Grande Dame" of women's adventure travel, has been a pioneer in vacations for women and adventure travel since 1982. The oldest adventure travel company for active women over 30, its adventure vacations are for women traveling solo, or with sisters, mothers, daughters, and friends. Offering small, congenial, non-smoking groups for all ability levels, each vacation is carefully researched and designed, and combines the best in women's travel with safety and comfort, luxury and adventure. Trip length is 6 to 18 days, and group size averages 14 women.

AdventureWomen, Inc.

300 Running Horse Trail
Bozeman, MT 59715 
800-804-8686/406-587-3883(outside the U.S.)
advwomen@aol.com

The Women's Travel Club specializes in group travel in the USA and Europe.
21401 N.E. 38th Avenue
Aventura, Fl. 33180
800-480-4448
www.womenstravelclub.com

Canyon Calling
offers affordable, well-planned multi-activity adventure trips for women over 30 to some of the most beautiful places in the world. No experience is necessary to hike, bike, raft and kayak. Trips are designed to suit moderately-fit women who want to enjoy the outdoors without the hardship. Canyon Calling finds the special places to see and the quiet ways of enjoying them. They are specialists in the Southwest and New Zealand and also lead adventures in Switzerland, Greece, Hawaii, Maine and Wyoming.

Canyon Calling Tours

200 Carol Canyon Drive
Sedona, AZ 86336
800-664-8922
520-282-0916
funtrips@canyoncalling.com


Adventures in Good Company
offers high quality, affordable outdoor and wilderness trips for women. Trips range from a Grand Canyon Backpack trip to hut-hopping in the Austrian Alps. Accommodations may include hotels, campgrounds or wildness camping.

Goodadventure.com

5913 Brackenridge Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21212
877-439-4042
trips@goodadventure.com

Mariah Wilderness Expeditions
, which was the first women-owned and operated whitewater rafting and wilderness adventure company in the U.S., offers multi-activity outdoor trips in the U.S., Baja, Costa Rica, Belize, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Ecuador. Activities include rafting, river kayaking, hiking, sea kayaking, biking and horseback riding. Now in its 19th year, Mariah Expeditions provides adventure to women of all ages and degrees of experience.

Mariah Wilderness Expeditions

P.O. Box 70248
Pt. Richmond, CA 94807
800- 462-7424
rafting@mariahwe.com

Women Tours
specializes in personalized, inn-to-inn road tours that offer unique opportunities for adventure and camaraderie to women of varied backgrounds, lifestyles, ages and cycling experience. The company offers approximately 28 trips a year, ranging from a cross-country, three-month bike tour to a seven-day flat, gently rolling terrain trip. Bike tours are offered in Vermont, New York, Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi, Kentucky, Missouri, the Rocky Mountains, Utah, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Canada, France and New Zealand. Tour leaders are between 46 and 61 years old.

Women Tours

P.O. Box 68
Coleman Falls, VA 24536
800-247-1444

Sheri Griffith Expeditions
offers Southeast Utah river journeys on the Colorado River, Green River, Yampa and Dolores River. They provide top quality tents, sleeping bags, pads and superb outdoor meals.

Sheri Griffith Expeditions

P.O. Box 1324
Moab, Utah 84532
800-332-2439
classriver@aol.com

Call of the Wild
features backpacking and light hiking wilderness trips for women in California, Hawaii, Alaska, Arizona and Utah.

Call of the Wild

2519 Cedar Street
Berkeley, CA 94708
888-378-1978
trips@callwild.com

Women Travel New Zealand
offers information on accommodation, adventures, retreats and other essential information for the woman traveler to New Zealand.

Women Travel New Zealand

Massey Road
R D 2 Waipu
Aotearoa/New Zealand
Phone: +64 9 432-1234

Women Traveling Together
offers a wide variety of travel and retreat options.

 

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