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Barwon Heads Travel Agent

Hello curious one,

A holiday takes planning and time. Contact us for a friendly and professional travel consultant to discuss your thoughts, itinerary and to process your reservations.

Whatever your holiday desires are be it relaxing, snorkelling stunning oceans, cruising on an expedition ship,  tasting delicious local produce, experiencing traditions and cultures of abroad, hiking for natures beauty or another. We hear you!

Whether travelling with a loved one, friends, a generational family or you choose to travel solo or as a small group. It is your holiday and we are here to assist.

Travel With A Difference is Barwon Heads Travel Agency attending to Geelong, SurfCoast and Bellarine clientele, as well as Australia wide.  We provide professional knowledge and our clients are at ease having us create and coordinate holiday itineraries and travel reservations for them.

At Travel With A Difference from discussing and considering your holiday plans, we want the best possible outcome for you; saving time, money and angst.

We are travellers ourselves and understand what a destination can mean to someone.

Take a look and tap around our holiday options, but of course you may have your own thoughts. Remember to give us a call.

Enjoy!

ABOUT US

HOLIDAY OFFERS

A mini getaway to relax or a holiday that allows time so you to explore and experience the surrounds.  Whether you choose to 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 holiday thought or interest, save yourself time and angst and contact our experienced and friend consultants either via phone or email.  Your holiday requirements will be discussed and your reservations coordinated.  Enjoy!

Just Don't Imagine

Experience a John Cleese appearance at Raffles Hotel, listen to Jessica Mauboy at Uluru or delight in a Murder Mystery VIEW DEAL

Outback Spirit

Discover the Top End and Far North QLD in 2025. SAVE and book before 30Sep.. VIEW DEAL

Thermal Explorer

Take 8 days on a self drive journey exploring the natural wonders and beauty of New Zealand VIEW DEAL

Sali Salis - Ningaloo Reef

On a remote stretch of Western Australia's Ningaloo Coast experience Sal Salis. Stay Feb - Nov 2025. Book 6 Months in advance and Save! VIEW DEAL

Club Med

View Club Med's current offers from around the globe. Super Early Bird offers, Sun and Snow destinations and more. VIEW DEAL

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