Escorted Trips - ATG Oxford

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Highest quality Escorted walking tours in Europe

ATG Escorted trips, researched and developed since 1979, offer a range of high-quality, original travel experiences that provide unique insights in the areas visited with a variety of travel styles to suit.

Journeys on Foot – continuous routes with moderate to challenging walking

Journeys of Discovery – outstanding sightseeing combined with moderate walking

Inspirations & Insights – special interest trips with easy to moderate walking

Trips based at ATG’s Pieve a Castello – easy walking in beautiful Tuscan countryside with a wide range of interests and local visits.

Escorted Trip types

Journeys on Foot

Journeys of Discovery

Inspirations & Insights

Pieve a Castello: A Tuscan Retreat

What’s included?

Trips escorted by trained ATG Tour Leaders and Managers
Trip itineraries from 8-15 days.
Small, compatible groups, up to a maximum of 16 people
Everything is included: all accommodation; all meals and wines; all transfers; all specified excursions and visits; and all tips en route.
Hotels and restaurants, many of them renowned, are always the best and most characteristic available on each itinerary. Many of them have been welcoming ATG clients for decades!
Every level of walking from easy and relaxing to challenging and momentous. Each trip has an air-conditioned minibus (or two), so you can walk as much or as little as you like.
Transport of luggage en route.
Celebrated ATG picnics. The Tour Manager will meet you at lunchtime each day with an ATG picnic lunch.
In true ATG style, the atmosphere of each trip is friendly and relaxed.
These interesting itineraries attract like-minded people – who like each other!
And what’s not included? Transport to/from the beginning/end of the trip, as our clients come from all over the world…

Your Tour Leader & Manager

On ATG Escorted trips you will be accompanied by two of ATG’s Tour Consultants, from the moment they welcome you at the airport, through to the end-of trip airport transfer.

The Tour Leader will lead each day’s walk and/or activities… and provide two-minute ‘sound bites’ now and again at points of interest. If you want to know more, you only need to ask. After dinner each evening the Tour Leader will tell you about the following day’s itinerary.

The Tour Manager looks after the practical side of the trip. He or she will meet you each day at lunch with a renowned ATG picnic, move your luggage to the next hotel, offer optional drop-offs and pick-ups, and organise evening meals and wines.

They will ensure that ‘everything is taken care of’ throughout the trip, so you are free to relax and enjoy.

Walking to Eat

One of the greatest pleasures of travelling is enjoying a range of different regional cuisines. Part of the ATG experience is discovering the diversity of local ingredients and culinary traditions of the particular methods of cooking, and styles of restaurant.

We tend to eat in the best and most interesting restaurants available, which serve traditional local dishes as well as regional classics and excellent regional wines.

To ensure that we enjoy the best that the area has to offer, the Tour Manager, with his/her specialist knowledge and experience, will have worked closely with the chef in advance, selecting the most interesting and characteristic menu possible.

This not only ensures that we eat far better than people who ‘come in off the street’, but enables us to enjoy a very wide range of local specialities during the trip, and also to cater imaginatively for those with special dietary needs.

ATG's Celebrated Picnic Lunches

ATG picnic lunches in Europe are renowned! ‘Happening upon’ an ATG picnic in an idyllic location punctuates each day’s walk. Picnics are colourful, varied and nutritious. Buffet-style, there is a choice of meats, cheeses, substantial salads, bread and fruit…and pudding.

If it is cold there will be a hot dish. Many salads are ‘exclusive’ to ATG and some of these original recipes are in the ATG ‘Table of Moveable Feasts’ which raises funds for the ATG Trust (please contact the ATG office if you are interested in purchasing a copy).

After being greeted with mineral water and a starter, followed by wine and an abundant lunch of local organic produce and specialities, there’s usually time for a siesta! Where there is a particularly spectacular and remote picnic spot, we may occasionally carry packed lunches.

ATG Hotels

ATG selects the best and most characteristic hotels available for its Escorted programme, conveniently situated for travellers on foot.

You should expect successive hotels to differ in character – part of the adventure of travel – accommodation ranges from 5-star luxury hotels to converted historic monuments; characterful boutique hotels to comfortable family-run hotels; and world-famous city hotels.

Because groups are small (maximum 16 clients) ATG is accepted by many exclusive hotels that do not usually work with travel companies.

Private Escorted Groups

Any of our Escorted trips can be booked as a private departure

Featured Escorted Trips

Explore a selection of Escorted trips offered by ATG

San Gimignano Walking Tour Tuscany Italy

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Pieve a Castello: Photography & Yoga - Escorted

All abilities are welcome on this trip combining daily photography tuition with optional yoga sessions, all based at ATG’s tranquil Tuscan residence, Pieve a Castello.

From £3,640 per person

Sardinia coastline Escorted walking tour Sardinia Italy

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Unknown Sardinia - Escorted

Walk ancient shepherds’ paths to discover the spectacular beauty of Sardinia’s interior and fascination of its remote pre-historic sites.

From £3,640 per person

Isaac Rejecting Esau by Giotto di Bondone Escorted walking tour Tuscany Italy

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A Fresco Trail - Escorted

Insight into the lives and works of some of the greatest artists of the Renaissance and their frescos still in their idyllic original locations.

From £3,760 per person