Barwon Heads Travel Agent

Hello curious one,

Travel With A Difference is where a friendly professional travel consultant can discuss your holiday thoughts, travel itinerary and coordinate your reservations.

Established in 2001, we have assisted clients with holidays ranging from a relaxing time-out stay at resorts, ocean holidays that entail snorkelling, surfing and diving, to amazing destinations on expedition ships and others. Where the holiday experience can entail local cuisine, cultural traditions, arts of the area and not forgetting the beauty of nature, just to mention a few.

Travelling with a loved one or friends, a family generational holiday or solo, things need to be considered.   It is your holiday and we are here to assist….we hear you and know the options!

“Thank you so much for your swift and efficient service.  Your knowledge always makes it feel like the holiday starts with the phone call” ~ Morgan, VIC

Travel With A Difference is a Barwon Heads Travel Agency attending to Geelong, SurfCoast and Bellarine clientele, as well as Australia wide.  Our years of knowledge and service gives our clients peace of mind, as we create and coordinate holiday itineraries and travel reservations.

We’ve travelled ourselves and understand what a destination can mean to someone.  Above are desired holiday destinations that maybe of interest to you…

  • Galle, Sri Lanka ~ history, architure and shop for gems
  • A spendid wine tasting ~ for the food and wine curious
  • Vomo Island, Fiji ~ gather your family and relax
  • El Questro ~ amazing landscape and stories to be heard

Otherwise take a look and tap around our holiday options, of course there are more and no doubt you may have your own thoughts. So, relax and simply give us a call.

Enjoy!

ABOUT US

HOLIDAY OFFERS

A mini getaway to relax or a holiday where you explore and experience the surrounds or an adventure that takes you behind the regular.

Whether you holiday in Australia or aboard, it is nice to have that element of excitement once all is booked.  Our holiday OFFERS change regularly, but if you have a desired holiday thought, interest or destination, save yourself time and angst and contact us.  We’re experienced and friendly consultants that will discuss your holiday requirements and coordinate your reservations.  Enjoy!

Timeless Mekong - Vietnam & Cambodia

Book before 30SEP & Save on a 15 Day itinerary exploring intriguing Vietnam and Cambodia and cruising the Mekong VIEW OFFER

Sali Salis - Ningaloo Reef

A stunning eco-wilderness holiday with a Stay / Pay OFFER. Expiring soon... VIEW OFFER

Rovos Rail

Luxury rail journey through South Africa with amazing experiences and OFFERS for 2025 VIEW OFFER

Hayman Island

Stay - Pay OFFER - discover relaxation, luxury and adventure at the frontier to The Great Barrier Reef. VIEW OFFER

Exprience Natural Beauty

HX - Hurtigruten Expedition Cruises - Book and save up to $8,000 before 30SEP - Explore Antartica, Galagagos, Greenland, Alaska or beyond... VIEW OFFER

TRAVEL EXPERIENCES

A holiday can enhance your life, hence why we have Must Do and Calendar events that feature amazing experiences.   The array of holidays can all be enhanced with pre and post stays and additional activities.

Recent Stories

A Viking Star…

When my carefully planned and much anticipated Arctic cruise and Iceland self drive was cancelled in 2020 thanks to the pandemic, my travelling companion and I started to look at ways to achieve that dream but for a couple of years after the pandemic.  We chose to do a 29 Day cruise with Viking Star […]

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In Memory…

Now, I don’t want to be morbid with all this, as we all have a different take on the year that 2022 was.  But for me, it was a year of many deaths. The first was in January, when a fond friend from my young adult years sadly died.  Then March, Taylor Hawkins the drummer […]

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WHAT'S SAID

Karen, provided us with excellent service and advice and saved us extra expenditure. ~ Spence, VIC

What a fantastic company to book through! Nothing is a hassle and the service is spot on. ~ Tricarico, VIC

Karen went the extra mile to sort out our travel plans and provided great options for travelling with kids, made visiting Borneo easy. ~ Wilson, VIC

The experience of bookign my holiday with Travel With A Difference could not have been better! The price and some suggestions really made my trip and incredible experience, I have already recommended TWAD to family and friends and will continue to do so! ~ Dale, VIC

Friendly and accessible and prompt service – recommended! ~ Wood, VIC

Travel With A Difference offers a personal down to earth service. They always listen to what we want and deliver. ~ Allen, VIC

Hi Karen, just like to thank you for the card, we all had a fantastic time in Bali. The hotel was great, everything went really smoothly thanks to you and we will be in contact when we have our next holiday. ~ Dixons, VIC

You are my first email, we are extremely grateful for your attention with our booking. The Peninsula staff went way beyond for my birthday, thank to you. It was the best trip ever, we were blown away by the hotel and its attention to detail. ~ Carson-Cashman, VIC

We found Karen to be very customer orientated and worked hard to get the best outcome for our holiday. ~ Spence, VIC

Thanks for the fantastic organisation of our trip, we really appreciated the work you did for us. It was a wonderful trip! ~ Halnon, VIC 

A wonderful holiday with everything going to plan. Great organisational ability with a smile. Thanks Karen. ~ Rush, VIC

A holiday with everything we had wished for. ~ Lawes, QLD

TWAD’s attention to details was great and Karen was so helpful in organising our adventure in paradise! ~ Flett, VIC

Karen, our holiday was amazing, thanks for everything you did to make it work so well. ~ Halnon, VIC

Our recent travels to Vietnam were wonderful and we found Karen at TWAD, so professional and helpful…can’t wait to book another holiday with TWAD. ~ Ashcroft, Vic

We appreciate how efficient and professional Karen was in organising everything we needed for our trip. ~ Vallance, VIC

The advice we received on where to stay, how long to stay and how to travel between stops was flawless. The day tours that were booked in advance for us were excellent. ¬ Pearson, VIC

We had a great holiday using Travel With A Difference, our accommodation, transfers and private tours were fantastic. ~ Lawes, QLD

Absolutely fantastic, 11/10 for the assistance on planning the trip, the travel plans, the bookings etc etc Everything went like clockwork perfect, the holiday of a lifetime. ¬ Carruthers, VIC

Organising the holiday was easy and our consultant Karen was a pleasure to work with. ~ Perdrisat, VIC

Am now home safe and sound after a wonderful time-away. Thanks so much for all you did in arranging the holiday and being there when the plane was cancelled, organising the next flight and overnight accommodation. ~ Rush, VIC

Fantastic service, we received travel options within a day of making an enquiry and everything was great. ~ Tomkinson, VIC

Travel With A Difference as always was a delight to deal with and the service was 10 out 10. ~ Spence, VIC

Karen is amazing, and personally tailors your travel needs and wishes, nothing is too difficult for her. ~ Halnon, VIC

A very quick note on our checkout day to say what a wonderful family holiday this has been. The Fijians are so lovely and friendly. So, a huge thank you for finding us this great spot. ~ Spry, VIC

Great friendly service, Karen really paid attention to our requirements ensuring a hassle free and fabulous holiday. ~ Parratt & Bradley, VIC

I just want to say thank you for your planning and ticketing for this amazing holiday, Lucca was beautiful, the retreat fabulous, such a great location….love this country. ¬ Coady, NSW

The service has been very professional, prompt and meeting my needs – always trying to get the best deal, not the cheapest but the safest airline with great reputations. ~ Tim Nelson, Director, Golf Kids

Each time Travel With A Difference was able to meet all of our needs and requirements, any changes we requested to our itinerary were met with a friendly and accommodating style. ~ Ritchie Fort, General Manager, Prestige Jayco

Once again Karen, you took the time to work through ALL of my requirements, everything was done as expected no request unfilled.  This was such a memorable and wonderful time away for so many reasons.  ¬ Stickland, VIC

Thank you Karen for the effort you put in getting our European trip organised. ¬ Beaumont, VIC

Anne, I’ve been thinking about you lots – everything is going along fantastically, we haven’t had one hiccup. ~ Hughes, VIC

Travel With A Difference made booking our holiday so easy and Karen’s suggestions for places to stay and locations to visit were excellent. ~ Cunningham family, VIC

Thanks so much again for all your assistance. Time to start saving for our next adventure! ~ Bishop, VIC

Travel With a Difference were awesome, we told them our requirements and they took care of everything! ~ Macdonald, TAS

Once again, thank you so much for all the hard work you put in to make our holiday special. ~ Simpson, VIC

Once again Karen, you took the time to work through ALL of my requirements, everything was done as expected no request unfilled. ~ Stickland, VIC

Another fabulous holiday, benefitted as usual from excellent suggestions and assistance. ~ Robinson & Keith – VIC

Nothing is too difficult when dealing with TWAD. Karen is a wealth of travel knowledge and delightful to deal with. ~ Pritchard, VIC

Professional and understood our plans beautifully. Karen really understood the nature of our holiday and provided great options. ~ Cardell, VIC

We couldn’t have planned this if we tried.  Karen certainly listened to what we had in mind and planned accordingly. ~ Deller – VIC

All worked out and we had the best time!  Singapore was fab and the explorer pass was well worth it.  Thanks so much again for all your assistance. Time to start saving for our next adventure! ~ Bishop, VIC

Thank you for the excellent organisation of Kath’s Hunter Valley adventure.  We enjoyed it immensely. ~ Sands, QLD

Travel With A Difference has been incredible ensuring my family had a needed holiday during COVID.  Karen persevered, she deserves a medal! ~ Todd, VIC

Karen was fantastic to work with, knowledge, responsive, kind and helpful.  Highly recommend. ~ Foley, VIC

Karen always goes above and beyond with her attention to detail and follow through. She is truly amazing ~ Orman, QLD

Our holiday was fantastic which was greatly attributed to the advice and help from Karen. Thanks for all your help. ~ Mansfield, VIC

I enthusiastically recommend TWAD if you want a well organised, seamless, high quality, fantastic adventure. Wonderful! ~ Todd, VIC

Karen is incredibly helpful and goes out of her way to ensure that all detail is covered, so our holiday to central Australia was seamless. ~ Cunningham, VIC

Karen at TWAD made everything easy  when destinations, flights etc had to be changed due to Covid.  Problems were just sorted! ~ Busch, VIC

Thank you so much. Thoroughly recommend Australia’s secret tropical escape in the Indian Ocean. West Australians discovered it during Covid and are trying to keep it secret! We will definitely return here.  Snorkelling beyond belief. The locals leave their surf boards in a shack at the break. $2.50 ferry to the other islands. Way beyond […]

My holiday to France and Italy was life changing and the best time of my life and everything done by Travel With A Difference. ~ Lewis, VIC

I travelled to Europe this year for a month, and Karen and Travel with a Difference made ALL the difference to my trip.  Karen’s knowledge, expertise and enthusiasm was so appreciated.  From flights, destination advice, rail bookings – the attention to detail made my trip so much more enjoyable and relaxing.  I felt looked after […]

Karen is best to deal with and knowledgeable . Guaranteed to help you find the best experience for your dream trip. ~ Brudan ,VIC

Karen was magnificent organizing multiple travel itineraries, I cannot imagine booking travel in a different manner! ~ Carbune, VIC

Karen is very professional, provides great suggestions and options. Karen takes all the headaches out holiday bookings. ~ Cunningham, VIC

TWAD goes above and beyond to ensure all our trips are seamless and of high quality. Once again, Karen was put under last minute pressure at the last minute to make considerable changes due to ill health of my travelling companion. She managed it all and always was positive, helpful and cheerful. ~ Todd, VIC

Karen was brilliant in organizing my travel itinerary, suggesting flights and hotels aligned to my budget and requirements. I appreciated Karen providing comprehensive advice related to visa and insurance and sending a copy of all documentation closer to the travel dates. ~ Carbune, VIC

Thank you once again Karen, for putting this amazing group adventure together. ~ Orman, QLD

What a great  trip we had in Hobart and on the Bruny Island walk! The accommodation was great and the locations suited us just fine for getting picked up for day trips and for walking to explore the Hobart Waterfront,  to locate restaurants and to make contact with the  people we needed to. Thank you […]

Hight recommend Travel With A Difference; informative, efficient, insightful and nothing was too much trouble. ~ Rebekah, VIC

Karen from “Travel With A Difference” provided exceptional service in booking our flight tickets and accommodation. From start to finish her service was exceptional. She was incredibly attentive to our needs, offering personalised recommendations that made our trip seamless. Her attention to detail ensured that every aspect of our travel was covered well. ~ Noor, […]

We had an excellent cruise to Antarctica with Scenic sailing on Scenic Eclipse. Our suite was fantastic. The crew were so friendly and went out of their way to make sure everyone was having a good time. The weather was perfect the whole trip. My husbands paddle boarding experience was one of the best things […]

Karen was absolutely fantastic to work with from start to finish. She handled every detail of our trip with professionalism and care, making the entire process smooth and stress-free. ~ Allender, VIC

A billion thanks for the amazing travel experience organizing and booking for us.  I had an absolute blast and I wouldn’t have been able to relax and just enjoy had it not been for your phenomenal service. ~ Millar, USA