HIGH POINT HOLIDAYS NEWS

23 March 2010

Supporting Myeloma UK

As part of our continued support to Myeloma UK, we are proud to announce a donation to help support this UK cancer charity. The founder of High Point Holidays, Tony Armstrong has suffered twice from Multiple Myeloma, an incurable blood cell cancer that affects the bone marrow. A keen hill walker, Tony credits his quick recovery, after he was first diagnosed in 1996 and treated with a stem cell transplant, to regular exercise – he scaled the 15 peaks in Wales in a single weekend. Now, he wants to help improve treatment and fund research into a cure for the 4,000 people diagnosed annually with the disease in the UK.

Registered as a charity in 1997, Myeloma UK is the only organisation in the UK dealing exclusively with myeloma and its related disorders. Its broad and innovative range of services cover every aspect of myeloma, from information and support to improving standards of treatment and care through education, research, campaigning and raising awareness.

9 March 2010

New date for guided walking holiday in Beaujolais

We are pleased to announce the introduction a new date for our guided walking holiday in the French wine growing region of Beaujolais. Join us from 25th September to 2nd October for a week of moderate walking in a diverse and beautiful region where you’ll receive a warm welcome and enjoy great local cuisine and wine.

New Alpine guided trekking holiday

23 February 2010

We are pleased to announce that we have introduced a new guided trekking holidays in the Alps aimed at those looking for excitement and adventure. The holiday is called "Alpine Trekking Adventure - Peak Bagging in the French and Italian Alps". This week long guided holiday in late July takes place in the Southern Alps in the shadow of the impressive Mont Viso and passes through the beautiful and relatively quiet Queyras regional Park. There will be the chance to summit five amazing alpine peaks above 3000m during the trekking holiday, the highest being almost 3300m, well over 10,000ft. No technical ability or equipment is required, just a good level of fitness, some mountain walking experience and a good head for heights. In addition the region has 300 days of sunshine a year.

12 February 2010

New Self Catering independent walking Holidays

We are delighted to announce the introduction of a range of new walking holidays using self catering rental accommodation. They are designed to offer independent walking and activity based holidays to those people who are looking for maximum flexibility. We will supply customers with information about the area as well as suggested walks. It's then upto you to decide how much walking you wish to do. Our self catering walking holiday pages detail each holiday page by region. For the moment we have walking holidays in the Beaujolais, Tarn in south west France and the Vanoise in the French Alps. Some regions have more than one rental property on offer. These are detailed in the "Accommodation and price" tab.

We have selected some of the best and (sometimes unusual) historic properties (villas, chalets, cottages etc) set in beautiful regions where great walks, activities and sight seeing is all close by. We also offer some good value properties for those looking for a budget walking holiday.