ShellSeekers – Holiday Makers

Shellseekers design holidays tailor-made for you and to suit your budget. We believe that your holiday should be precisely what you want, not a pre-packaged compromise, and provide lasting memories that are uniquely yours. Each Shellseekers journey is tailored solely to your requirements, with no restriction on where your imagination can take you.

Founded over 25 years ago, Shellseekers is built on providing exemplary personal service for private clients and helping them to discover this planet’s endless wonders. Our level of repeat business is our best recommendation, with our first ever client still booking with us regularly.

All photos on this website were taken on Shellseekers journeys.

Destinations

The world is truly your oyster with Shellseekers, but there are certain pearls that shine brighter for us. While we can cater to most global destinations, we have deep, specialised experience of locations across South and South East Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe – and we are always discovering new and wonderful places!

We have long-standing, trusted, and knowledgeable partners all over the world. These are people who completely understand our ethos of personal service, and they are there to make sure that wherever you travel you are ‘independent but not alone’. We also have many special places – hotels, lodges, unique one-off properties – which we know and love, and recommend with complete confidence.

How we work

Acting as your personal travel advisors, we focus purely on you and your holiday wishes, and ensure each client receives all the dedicated support they require.

Tailor-made does not need to mean more expensive, just more suited to you and your budget. As a small team that values quality and client satisfaction over quantity our client list is not ever-expanding.

We are always happy to receive enquiries and discuss your travel requirements, and ensure each client receives dedicated support at each stage of their journey, from planning, to departure, to return. We do not sell flights, but work with you to choose those best suited to your holiday. If you would like to discuss becoming a Shellseekers client, please do get in touch.

We reserve the right to charge a consultancy fee for new clients.

Kay Franklin, Managing Director

Having lived across four continents, Kay has spent a lifetime travelling personally and professionally, and remains endlessly curious about destinations, cultures, and people. She delights in creating journeys that allow clients to share in her wanderlust.

“When I founded Shellseekers over 25 years ago, it was due to a desire to help people travel deeper, to experience more and enjoy unforgettable moments on their journeys. There are so many fascinating and curious places to visit in this world, yet many require insider knowledge and a little bit of creativity to discover! We delight in working with our wonderful clients – many of whom have been with us from the beginning – to build trips that are truly tailored to them.”

What our clients have to say

“We are always amazed by the personalised service that Shellseekers provide, and communication is always prompt and helpful. Their specialists create tailored holidays based on getting to know our preferences over the years. We love that the planning is always detailed but with room for flexibility, with accommodation and trips being carefully chosen to include little gems that we would never have found on our own.

We are always impressed by how knowledgeable and helpful the local guides are, which makes the holidays even more special. It is difficult to choose a favourite holiday but our recent trip to Sri Lanka is very near the top.

“Kay has converted me from the fly & flop holidays I was used to. Now the adventure starts from the first email with an itinerary of all the wonderful places Shellseekers has suggested. Having now been to various places other than my usual I can highly recommend Kay & Shellseekers for an amazing holiday.”

“So hard to sum up all that Kay has done to help give us wonderful holidays over the years Shellseekers has been operating. South Africa, Borneo, Sri Lanka and Canada to name a few. Always giving us what we’ve asked for and coming up with other ideas, she makes the travelling seamless. Thank you, Kay, you are as I always say, a superstar.”

“Over a decade of specialist holidays sought out by Shellseekers and not one that hasn't been guided by superb, expert, knowledgeable guidance, that we have thoroughly enjoyed. We believe that Shellseekers’ personal expertise just couldn't be bettered - totally trusted.”

“We have been on several holidays organised by Shellseekers. These have included both long-haul holiday destinations and European breaks. Shellseekers have organised all required connections, the accommodation, sight-seeing with very knowledgeable guides, and always taken our ideas and suggestions into account while also in-putting the company’s wide and in-depth knowledge of the area selected for the visit.

Shellseekers are a caring and thoughtful bespoke holiday company that specialises in providing what you, the customer, is looking for. We have absolutely no reservations in wholeheartedly recommending them.”

Our holidays with Shellseekers have included; Northern India, Myanmar, Moscow / St Petersburg, Vienna and Prague and the Seychelles.

“We have immense admiration for Shellseekers. They have always looked after us and our families extremely well, as we have enjoyed our frequent travels to many far-off and exotic destinations.

Shellseekers invariably exceed our expectations not only on the quality and price of their offers, but also in consistently delivering that difficult to define ‘wow’ factor wherever we have gone. Quite simply, we would recommend them without reservation for any travel challenge, no matter how daunting. They will come up trumps every time!”