Your calls always answered within 5 rings.
Zoe and her team are brilliant
Kylie got it spot on again. Never lets us down. Everything we asked for she found and put together a fantastic trip. Great service
Terrific service as always. Wouldn't go anywhere else for flights
Pete always delivers
Fab service. Great contact updates. Great holiday
Even the airlines were on time. Thank you Gavin
Many thanks for Howard’s help
DialAFlight always answer the phone immediately. Very helpful and knowledgeable staff.
Easyjet really is the pits for customer service. My fault as I did ask for a budget flight..
Great service from DialAFlight as always. Been using the company for over 20 years for both personal and business travel/accomodation. Would highly recommend Darren to anyone
Perfect trip, thank you
Very helpful and professional as always.
We were inconvenienced by flight cancellations and appreciate the help of Charlotte who is sorting out our compensation claim.
Excellent hotel in the centre of Seville. Staff were very friendly and helpful Amazing all you can eat breakfast if you are so inclined. Highly recommended holiday.
I have used DialAFlght before and I find them really efficient and above expectations. Lucy Macnab was a real star and I had every confidence that if something had gone wrong she would have sorted it out.
Freddie went above and beyond to help when our flight was delayed by 24 hours
Everything went well after a shaky start with Europcar. There were no problems handing the car back at the end of the holiday.
Had an amazing stay at the Puente Romano. Didn't get the room I wanted and it was a bit noisy but still enjoyed it.
Ivor never disappoints. I book our trips through him and he provides impeccable service every time!
Next time we would ask for the airport transfer on the way home at an earlier time as the traffic was terrible followed by massive queues at the airport. Gareth was amazing and could not have done more for us throughout the whole process.
As usual, everything just perfect. Oliver Orr was so helpful and professional.
Kylie as usual takes care of every detail.
The last couple of times that I have flown have been the first on my own for 17 years. Everything was taken care of for me including check-in which made things a lot easier
Dependable, reliable, no matter the query DialAFlight will quickly deal with everything. Thank you Nicholas
First class support from Darryll Hansford
Big thank you to Gareth and his team for their professionalism and fantastic help and support. We would not go anywhere else
As always excellent service.
Mason was extremely helpful and professional. We would certainly recommend DialAFlight to others and use them again in future.
Great service by Chris and team.
Super service as always - keep up this amazing work
You've heard of parachuting and paragliding and quite probably parascending… but I have just discovered a new and very rewarding experience and it's called paradoring.
It involves driving around Spain and staying in luxurious accommodation in stunning, historic and elegant hotels.
There are 94 paradors in Spain, in extraordinary natural settings, full of history and culture, and including former palaces, ancient convents and medieval castles.
I was familiar with the south of Spain but had never explored the north and the central plains around Madrid, so this was my chance.
You can fly to any of the big cities, pick up a hire car, and plan a parador to parador route of your choice. I began in Santander, on the north coast, and managed to fit in eight on a round trip.
First stop was the parador at Fuente De, in a dramatic setting in the beautiful Picos de Europa mountain range with a backdrop of towering limestone peaks. A nearby cable-car will take you to the top where the views are awesome.
This is great walking country, but it's even better at the wheel of a car and the next day I headed south over the 6,000-ft San Glorio pass in search of parador number two, driving for several memorable hours on roller-coaster, winding, but perfectly maintained mountain roads, where you hardly see another car.
I hadn't planned to stop at Leon, but one look at the parador 'Hostal San Marcos' in the heart of the city and I quickly changed my mind. This former 16th century monastery has been converted into a living museum. If you can tear yourself away from these superb surroundings it's worth taking a tour around the impressive cathedral, which has some of world's best stained glass windows.
Still heading south, my next stop was at the beautiful old town of Salamanca, with its architecturally perfect square. It also has a fascinating Art Nouveau and Art Deco museum rolled into one. The parador here is comparatively new, has been refurbished throughout and is in a great spot on a hill across from the city.
Next was the charming walled town of Avila, where a former 16th century palace would be home for the night. Walking the sandstone ramparts and walls is memorable experience.
The parador at Toledo was also on a hill overlooking the old city, with views across the Tagus River. The huge cathedral is truly mind-blowing and the alcazar is something special.
I was close to Madrid now and took a train into the capital - 30 minutes later I was at the Prado museum.
Visits to several other art galleries dotted along the wide tree-lined avenues followed, before indulging in a boyhood fantasy with a tour of Real Madrid's famous Bernabeu Stadium, alongside hundreds of gelled hair Ronaldo and Bale clones.
I headed back to Toledo for the car and then on to Alcala de Henares and the next parador. This was a super luxury ultra-modern conversion of the magnificent 17th century St Thomas Convent.
After another superb dinner - all paradors are renowned for their imaginative local cuisine - and good night's sleep, I skirted Madrid and headed back north to Segovia and the penultimate parador. This was in another stunning location with great views of the city and its iconic aquaduct and alcazar, said to have inspired Walt Disney's trademark castles.
The drive up to my final stop at Argomaniz was across more picturesque countryside and along quiet roads. Argomaniz is a tiny village with the superb parador dominating the landscape - and I had a good reason for staying there. My teenage fantasies didn't only revolve around Real Madrid - I had always been fascinated by nearby Pamplona's bull-running festival and had promised myself to take part one day.
But as the years went by I had decided that, at my age, it was probably better to do the run without any bulls chasing me along the narrow cobbled streets.
So after a night at Argomaniz I drove the short distance to Pamplona and, with a dog-eared copy of Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon in my pocket, proceeded to run the course from corral to bullring without the risk of being skewered by a raging bull's horn.
After Pamplona I drove up to the pretty north coast, visiting elegant San Sebastian then stylish Bilbao for the must-see Guggenheim Museum experience, before hugging the scenic seaside roads back to Santander.
Taking a road trip and staying at these historic and beautiful paradors is a great way to experience the real Spain and one that will leave you wanting to go back time and again.
And bearing in mind the quality on offer, the great food and the fabulous locations, the Government-owned paradors also represent great value.
First published in the Mail Online - March 2016
More articles below...
Not quite what you're looking for?
We can easily customise an offer to suit your exact requirements