New adventure trips with Rayburn Tours

The school trip tour operator will officially launch these trips in September, with teachers able to book for 2025 onwards. Destinations will include the Azores, Iceland, Costa Brava, Sicily, and an option in the UK at Derbyshire’s Mount Cook Adventure Centre, with more locations set to be released. 

All trips come as a full package experience – everything from a tailor-made itinerary full of activities to full-board accommodation, transportation, insurance, a travel app and more. All visits focus on personal development and creating fun memories. 

In Costa Brava there is a focus on water sports with activities like sailing, kayaking and stand-up paddleboarding on offer, while in Iceland, pupils will venture beneath caves, hike across glaciers and try Icelandic horse riding and snorkelling.

Tracey Nichols, head of product for Rayburn Tours, said: “We’ve cherry-picked destinations that we already know and love – well-established and always proving popular, and we’ve taken it up a notch.

“These trips are all about personal development – key skills outside of academic learning that nurture students’ confidence, resilience, problem solving, communication, creativity… The list goes on.”

Rayburn Tours is a family-run business that has been offering school trips for almost 60 years. These new adventure trips are said to add to the tour operator’s enriching educational experiences, sports tours, concert tours and ski getaways.

Tracey added:  “We’re so excited to offer these adventures to groups for 2025 and beyond – these experiences are once in a lifetime.”

Rayburn promises to set tour goals with every school, competitive pricing, continuous support from start to finish and a tailor-made itinerary to suit the needs of the group. The new Adventure Trips are aimed primarily at secondary school students.