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A red and white train winds through a green Alpine valley at golden hour, mountains beyond.

Byway Trip Designers

What is Trip Design?

  • Support from the start

    Schedule a chat, email, or call our expert full-service team, who’ll design a slow travel trip specifically for you.

  • Complex and custom

    Luxury trips, new routes, complex group trips, accessibility needs, business trips, travel one way - what you need, customised to you.

  • Ask us anything

    Ask us as many questions as you like. We’ll have answers or be able to find them for you.

How Trip Design works

  • 1

    Contact us

    Tell us as many details as possible like people, rooms, places, special needs.

  • 2

    Build

    We’ll make you a custom itinerary, let us know if anything needs changing.

  • 3

    Book

    Book it through a payment link to receive your tickets and full itinerary.

New enquiry?

Call us to schedule a consultation on +44 1692 660808
Opening hours (UK time)

  • Monday to Friday 9am-5pm

  • Saturday 10am-1pm

Or complete the form below and a member of the team will be in touch within 24 hours (or 48 hours over weekends).

Meet our Trip Designers

  • James

    Talk to me about any trip, but I’m especially good at:

    • Central/Eastern Europe including Turkey

    • Sleeper trains

    • Complex train travel

  • Kat

  • Justin

    Talk to me about any trip, but I’m especially good at:

    • Active and mountain trips, including skiing, cycling, hiking and trail running

    • France and Switzerland

  • Beau

Trip Design examples

  • Accessible trip to Italy

    This trip was specially designed for a customer who uses a wheelchair. Information and procedures aren’t always readily available online making this really hard to DIY yourself. After discussing their needs we created this fabulous two-week trip to Lake Garda. The customer booked safe in the knowledge that we’d sorted appropriate rooms, assistance on trains and seating arrangements.

    See trip
  • Honeymooning in the alps

    After a sustainable wedding, this couple wanted a flight-free honeymoon, starting their marriage by living their environmental values. They wanted to stay in a combination of cosy and modern spa hotels during their trip to make it feel both romantic and varied. We found wooden cabins, infinity pools and couples’ massages to make it extra special.

    See trip

Journal

Six of the best cycling trips

Read about six of the best European cycling adventures. Take the train, rent a bike and explore trips designed by Byway Concierge team member, Justin, for climbers, gravel grinders and canal cruisers.

If you’re interested in one of the trips that Justin’s created, get in touch above.

Read the journal
  • “Fantastic, patient service by Bartek to create my ideal travel itinerary for Scandinavia. My (multiple) requests for revisions were promptly accommodated to bring the trip within budget, while still getting me to everything I wanted to see. I am so excited about my trip.”

    - Bunny, April 2024

  • “The cities chosen and the way of traveling to them was ideal and perfect. Traveling by rail really helps you get a better feel of the city and view the gorgeous countrysides. Byway is very thorough and detailed in their communication of what all your journey will entail and gives you all the information you'll need if you run into any sort of issue.”

    - Anthony, May 2024

  • “Byway does just what it promises. Detailed advice and lots of forward information on the itinerary and clear instructions on any digital points. Quick to react when we had a problem and useful advice. So nice that there was someone at the end of a phone or text. I would certainly book with them again.”

    - Linda, May 2024

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