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Mallorca
A Leeds-based firm with a nice website, including great information
and listing self-catering accommodation - villas and apartments
- and hotels, including some small hotels with character,
difficult to find elsewhere on the web. No on-line booking,
but full contact details. They only do flights from the UK,
but non-Brits could do worse than book accommodation here.
Cadogan
Holidays
This company admits that "Cadogan is part of the
Bland Group - a major international company founded in 1810,"
so I do not know how they qualify for membership of AITO.
Their wide range of destinations includes Spain and Portugal
and their islands (as well as North Africa, Malta and Cyprus),
but the site is less than satisfactory and you will have to
order a brochure from them if you want to know prices, for
example.
Destination
Portugal
A bit garish, but a great site with lots of information about
a full range of mid- to upper-range holidays in all the important
Portuguese destinations and activities including golf and
whale watching.
EHS
Travel
An upmarket travel agency offering destinations in Portugal
(including Madeira) and Spain (including Majorca, Minorca
and Tenerife) (as well as the Caribbean, Kenya, Goa... which
should give you an idea of the market they are aiming at).
Expensive hotels and villas, but at least, for once, the information
on prices is more complete than the sales pitch.
The
Individual Traveller Co.
Personally, I could spend hours browsing this aesthetically
dreamy site which offers "villa, cottage and farmhouse
holidays" in five countries, including Spain and Portugal.
It has full information (including photos) on a nice range
of characterful properties and some surprising destinations.
McCabe
Pilgrimages
Most people nowadays who do the Camino
de Santiago, the Way of Saint James, treat it as an extended
walking (or cycling, or horse-riding) holiday. McCabe offers
the chance to do it even more authentically, as a genuine
pilgrimage, though not authentically enough for you to be
entitled to your Compostela at the end of it - three
and four-star hotels are OK, air-conditioned coaches are not.
The
Villa Agency
A very wide range of villas in the Algarve and Lisbon Coast
and a very wide range of prices to go with it, from reasonable
to frankly astronomic. A well made site with full, up-to-date
information.
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