This one’s for the solo travellers. The ones who book their own tables for one without a second thought, who’ve mastered the art of the self-timer photograph, and who know, better than anyone, that the best conversations you’ll ever have on holiday are the ones with complete strangers. We see you and we’ve built something just for you.
The Single Supplement. The Two Most Frustrating Words in Travel.
Let’s talk about the single supplement, shall we? Because if you’ve been travelling solo for any length of time, you’ll know the particular, deeply irritating experience of finding the perfect trip – the right destination, the right dates, the right itinerary – only to discover that you’ll be paying somewhere between 20% and 100% extra simply because you’re not sharing a room with someone.
It’s one of the great injustices of the travel industry, and we are the first to admit it. The logic, of course, is straightforward enough – hotels charge per room, not per person, and a solo traveller occupying a double room costs the same as two people sharing it. But understanding why the single supplement exists doesn’t make it sting any less when you’re the one paying it. You’re already doing the brave, brilliant, liberating thing of travelling the world on your own terms. The last thing you need is to be financially penalised for it.
We’ve been listening to our solo travelling community for a long time now, and the message has been consistent and clear: you want great trips to extraordinary destinations, you want fair pricing, and you want to connect with like-minded travellers without it being forced or awkward. So we’ve done something about it.
Introducing the Untravelled Paths Solo Traveller Newsletter
We are absolutely delighted to announce the launch of our brand new solo traveller newsletter – a dedicated, regular update designed entirely around the needs, priorities, and (let’s be honest) the budgets of people who travel alone.
This isn’t a generic travel newsletter with a token “solo travel” tag bolted on. This is a resource built from the ground up for solo travellers, with offers, options, and information that are genuinely relevant to the way you travel. Here’s what you can expect:
Room Sharing: Travel Together, Save Together
One of the features we’re most excited about is our room-sharing matching service. If you’d like to avoid the single supplement altogether, we’ll give you the option to be matched with a fellow solo traveller of the same sex to share a twin room. It’s entirely optional, completely straightforward, and, for many of our travellers, the beginning of a genuine friendship.
We know what you might be thinking: sharing a room with a stranger sounds like a recipe for awkwardness at best and a travel nightmare at worst. But here’s what we’ve found, time and again, from the solo travellers in our community: a shared room with a carefully matched fellow traveller almost always works out brilliantly. You’re both there for the destination, not the room. You’re both independent, self-sufficient people who’ve chosen to travel alone. And you both, presumably, have a reasonable approach to bathroom timings.
The result? A significantly reduced cost, a built-in travel companion for the moments when you fancy some company, and very often, a friendship that outlasts the trip itself.
Single Supplement Waivers: Because Sometimes We Can Just Fix It
On selected trips and departures, we’re also able to heavily reduce or even waive the single supplement entirely, meaning you pay exactly the same price as someone in a couple or group, for your own private room, with no sharing required. These deals are genuinely brilliant when they come up, and our solo traveller newsletter subscribers will be the first, and sometimes the only, people to hear about them.
These opportunities arise for various reasons: group departures where numbers work in our favour, special arrangements with particular hotels and operators, or trips specifically designed with solo travellers in mind from the outset. Whatever the reason, the result is the same: solo travel at its absolute fairest.
Last Minute Deals: For the Spontaneous Solo Traveller
One of the great, underappreciated advantages of travelling solo is that you answer to nobody. You don’t need to negotiate annual leave with a partner, synchronise schedules with a friend, or convince anyone else that yes, two weeks in Georgia is an entirely reasonable idea. If a brilliant deal appears on a Tuesday afternoon for a departure on Saturday, you can say yes. Right then. No committee required.
Our solo traveller newsletter will bring you last minute deals on an ongoing basis, trips where availability has opened up, prices have dropped, or departures are looking for a few more adventurous souls to fill them out. If you’re the kind of traveller who thrives on spontaneity and loves the particular thrill of a brilliant last-minute bargain, this section of the newsletter alone will be worth signing up for.
Early Bird Offers: For the Planners Among You
Of course, not every solo traveller is a spontaneous last-minute booker. Some of you are planners, the ones with colour-coded spreadsheets, carefully researched packing lists, and a trip already forming in your imagination for next autumn. We see you too, and we have something for you as well.
Our newsletter will also feature early bird offers on upcoming departures, discounted rates for solo travellers who book well in advance, often with the added bonus of the best room allocations, the widest choice of optional activities, and the peace of mind of knowing it’s sorted. Early bird pricing on solo travel can make a genuinely significant difference to the overall cost of a trip, and our subscribers will always have first access.
Discounted Trips: Great Destinations, Honest Prices
Beyond the last minute and early bird categories, we’ll also be featuring a rolling selection of discounted trips specifically curated for solo travellers. These will span a wide range of destinations, styles, and budgets – from short European breaks to longer haul adventures, from active trekking holidays to more leisurely cultural escapes. The common thread will be quality, value, and the knowledge that every trip on the list has been chosen with the solo traveller’s experience specifically in mind.
A Word on Travelling Solo – From Those of Us Who Get It
Solo travel is one of the most rewarding, liberating, and genuinely life-enriching things a person can do. It teaches you things about yourself that group travel simply can’t – how resourceful you are, how adaptable, how capable of navigating the unexpected with grace and good humour. It gives you complete freedom: to go where you want, when you want, at whatever pace suits you on a given day. To linger over a lunch for two hours because the wine is good and the view is better. To change your plans entirely because you’ve just met someone fascinating on a train platform.
But we also know it has its frustrations. The single supplement is the obvious one, but there’s also the occasional pang of loneliness that even the most committed solo traveller feels sometimes, usually at a particularly beautiful sunset or over an especially good meal that deserves to be shared. There’s the gentle social pressure from well-meaning friends and family who can’t quite understand why you’d choose to go alone. And there’s the practical reality that some of the world’s most extraordinary experiences – multi-day treks, small-group tours, certain styles of accommodation – are simply designed around the assumption that you’ll be travelling in pairs.
Our solo traveller newsletter is our way of addressing all of this – not with platitudes, but with practical solutions, genuine value, and a community of like-minded people who understand exactly what it means to travel the world on your own terms.
Who Is This Newsletter For?
In short: anyone who travels solo, is considering travelling solo, or is solo-curious (it’s a thing, we promise). Whether you’re a seasoned solo adventurer who has been navigating the world independently for decades, or someone who has recently found themselves travelling alone for the first time and is working out what that means for them — this newsletter is for you.
It’s for the solo traveller who is perfectly happy in their own company but wouldn’t say no to a like-minded travel companion on the right trip. It’s for the one who loves spontaneous last-minute adventures and the one who plans meticulously six months in advance. It’s for the budget-conscious traveller who is thoroughly fed up with paying more than their fair share, and for the one who simply wants to know that someone out there in the travel industry is thinking about their specific needs.
We are. We genuinely are.
Sign Up Today — It’s Free, It’s Friendly, and It’s Just for You
Signing up to the Untravelled Paths Solo Traveller Newsletter is completely free and all it takes is a few clicks of a button. You’ll receive regular updates with the latest solo travel deals, room-sharing opportunities, single supplement waivers, last minute offers, early bird discounts, and destination inspiration — all chosen specifically with solo travellers in mind.
You can unsubscribe at any time, we will never share your details with third parties, and we promise to keep every email genuinely useful, genuinely relevant, and genuinely worth opening.
The world is full of extraordinary places waiting to be explored. The single supplement is not a good enough reason to miss them. Sign up to our solo traveller newsletter today and let’s find your next untravelled path together.
👉 Please Add me to the Solo Traveller Newsletter
Are you a solo traveller with thoughts, questions, or experiences you’d like to share? We’d love to hear from you in the comments below. And if you know a fellow solo traveller who’d benefit from this newsletter, please do pass it on – the more the merrier. Figuratively speaking, of course. You’re still very much in charge of your own itinerary.
Written by James Chisnall
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