Real People, Real Advice

Unlike a faceless booking engine, we’re real people who are able to give you straight unbiased advice to find the perfect island and lodge to match your needs and budget.

Let’s face it - making a travel booking these days can be a potential minefield. Take for example the big automated booking engines: sure, they’ll indicate a price for a lodge, but will they be able to give you the useful advice you need to ensure that you choose the island and lodge that’s right for your specific needs – things like visa requirements, climate or medical requirements? The short answer to that is “no”.

Our consultants will give you their impartial forthright advice and opinions as to what they believe are the lodges best suited to your needs!

Derek & Rosie Palframan
Barefoot Breaks Owners

Or if you go through to the lodge directly, well of course they’re always going to talk up their property as being the perfect choice for you. But the reality is that there are often other lodges that would be far better suited to your specific needs and wants – which is where we come in…

One of our major tasks is to try to guide our clients towards the specific island destinations and lodges that we believe will give YOU the best possible experience. Our consultants will give you their impartial forthright advice and opinions as to what they believe are the places best suited to your needs!

How are we Different?

The major tour operators in South Africa today invariably feature only large “rack ‘em, pack ‘em and stack ‘em” type resorts – Barefoot Breaks instead focuses on smaller, more intimate and more exclusive retreats.
We don't work through travel agents but instead deal direct with our customers. Nothing personal against travel agents, but they sell such a vast array of products that they cannot even hope to give truly expert advice to clients. Instead, as specialists dealing with customers direct, Barefoot Breaks give you truly expert and in-depth insights into our range of destinations and lodges.
While they may be using the Internet to do their research, people still largely want to deal with people, not machines, when booking their holiday - so call or e-mail us and we'll give you the dedicated and truly personal service you need.
By selling direct and with no travel agents and as few intermediaries as possible, we are able to offer the best possible prices to our customers.
Barefoot Breaks will not simply sell every lodge or resort on every island – instead we've hand-picked the best; those properties that we feel offer the best value and experience to our clients and which we are totally comfortable selling.
This Barefoot Breaks website is designed to give you all the useful and relevant information so often lacking on other websites – you’ll find our personal opinions and loads of images, enabling you to choose the lodge or resort that's right for you.

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