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About Laos Travel Plan

Laos Travel Plan is a small specialist internet based tour operator, offering you a unique way of travelling around Laos and Indochina. Travel exactly how you want to, when you want to. Our Laos travel specialists will help you build your own Laos holiday using our range of bite-sized Laos tours, handing you complete control of your holiday. We pride ourselves on providing excellent service levels which continue throughout the life of your booking. 

Laos Travel Plan is part of Rickshaw Travel, an online adventure tour operator made by travellers for travellers. It is born out of the idea that there are hardly any independent travel options available for more adventurous travellers.

Our trips are very individual, so we're able to use small-scale, authentic accommodation with local character and warm welcomes. With Rickshaw Travel, you won't find large group coach tours but instead you'll travel by trains, buses, private car, planes, and sometimes minibus. Flexibility and independence are fundamental, which is why our Laos travel specialists organise as much or as little as our clients wish.

We also like to give something back to local communities, which is why we sponsor various charity projects. See our responsible travel page for more information.

We're able to keep our prices low because we don't produce flashy brochures or run luxury shops. However you're more than welcome to visit our Laos travel specialists during your travel planning! We are based in Brighton, on the South Coast and we're the sister company of round the world specialists, Travel Nation.

Your financial security:

Laos Travel Plan is part of Rickshaw Travel Ltd which is a fully licensed and bonded tour operator.

We hold an Air Travel Organisers License (ATOL number 9728) issued by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). This means that in the unlikely event of our insolvency, any holiday arrangements made with us in conjunction with flights from the U.K. are 100% protected.

In addition we are also members of ABTA (ABTA number Y0484). This means that in the unlikely event of our insolvency, any land only trips (i.e. where international flights haven't been booked through us) are 100% protected.
Laos travel specialist - ATOL member 9728 : ABTA member Y0484
Laos travel specialists - Our travel specialist, Jen

Jennifer Parker

Laos Travel Supervisor & Product Specialist

Laos has to be my favourite country in South-East Asia. The laid-back attitude of the local people is unrivalled and very refreshing when coming from Thailand or Vietnam!

Almost every stop has something to offer; Luang Namtha with its tiny villages, Luang Prabang for the amazing cuisine, Vang Vieng's stunning karst mountain scenery and Phonsovan with its enigmatic Plain of Jars and haunting history of America's secret war.

This definitely is South-East Asia's most relaxing destination!

 

Alex Castle

Laos Travel Specialist

Laos is such an amazing country. Arriving by overnight train from Bangkok and leaving on a Lao Airlines flight were both unique and memorable experiences. The landscape and scenery that Laos has to offer is well worth the effort. One highlight for me was taking a car trip between Vang Vieng and Luang Prabang where the countryside is absolutely breath-taking.

Luang Prabang has a serenity to it that is a great contrast to the many busy cities in Asia. I found I could easily spend a week here getting to know the locals, trying the different restaurants and browsing at the night markets. I loved mixing things up with a day trip to the Kuang Si Waterfalls and attempting the rope swing!
Laos travel specialists - Our travel specialist, Alex
Laos travel specialists - Our travel specialist, Jemma

Jemma Dicks

Laos Travel Specialist

Of all the South –East Asian countries that I have visited, Laos is the one that left a lasting impression. The second the plane touched down in Luang Prabang and I caught a glimpse of the tiny airport, I fell in love with the place. Flying through the trees by rope swing into the thundering Kwang Si falls, bathing an elephant armed with bucket and brush in the Nam Kham river, and strolling around the night market of Luang Prabang are just a few of the memories I have of Laos.

Haydn Wrath

Manager

Laos Travel Plan is run by Haydn Wrath.

I left the University of East Anglia in 1984 and escaped what seemed a very grim England by spending the rest of the 1980s travelling independently and working myself round the world. During this time I put in some usual stints as an English teacher in Tokyo, a landscape gardener in Sydney and a tarmac layer's assistant in Alaska. In 1990, I joined Bridge the World Travel Centre in London as manager of the World-wide department, where I was able to put my degree in Politics and Philosophy to good use.

I fulfilled my ambition to set up a specialist travel company in 2001 when I founded Travel Nation, and later in 2007 set up Rickshaw Travel and Laos Travel Plan.

Laos travel specialists - Manager Haydn Wrath

Laos Travel Plan, part of Rickshaw Travel Plan

Laos Travel Plan is part of Rickshaw Travel. Rickshaw Travel is a UK based ABTA / ATOL bonded tour operator. We specialise in providing solutions for holiday makers who want to travel independently, taking in the highlights of a country, but with arrangements made in advance. Our travel style is to use comfortable, but smaller scale accommodation that has an authentic feel. We promote responsible tourism and also sponsor a number of community projects in the countries in which we operate.

We also operate in the following 10 other countries in Asia and Latin America, where we offer trips of a similar style:

Asia:South America:
Thailand Travel PlanPeru Travel Plan
Vietnam Travel PlanArgentina Travel Plan
India Travel PlanBrazil Travel Plan
China Travel Plan 
Indonesia Travel Plan 
Malaysia Travel Plan 
Cambodia Travel Plan 
Laos travel specialists - Part of Rickshaw Travel

Work for us

We're a growing company and we're on the lookout for customer-focused people who have an in depth knowledge of Laos and other South East Asian countries.

We work in a busy and friendly environment in Brighton, where you will be encouraged to develop your product knowledge and service skills to their full potential.
Please send a covering letter and your C.V. to careers@laostravelplan.co.uk
 

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