Mexico specialists - The Rickshaw Travel team

About Mexico Travel Plan

Mexico Travel Plan is a small specialist internet based tour operator, offering you a unique way of travelling around Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. Our Mexico travel specialists will help you build your own trip, handing you complete control of your holiday. We pride ourselves on providing excellent service levels which continue throughout the life of your booking. 

Mexico Travel Plan is part of Rickshaw Travel, an online adventure tour operator made by travellers for travellers. It is born out of the idea that there are hardly any independent travel options available for more adventurous travellers.

Our trips are very individual, so we're able to use small-scale, authentic accommodation with local character and warm welcomes. With Rickshaw Travel, you won't find large group coach tours but instead you'll travel by trains, buses, private car, planes, and sometimes minibus. Flexibility and independence are fundamental, which is why we organise as much or as little as our clients wish.

We also like to give something back to local communities, which is why we sponsor various charity projects. See our responsible travel page for more information.

We're able to keep our prices low because we don't produce flashy brochures or run luxury shops. However you're more than welcome to visit our Mexico travel specialists during your itinerary planning! We are based in Brighton, on the South Coast and we're the sister company of round the world specialists, Travel Nation.
 

Your financial protection

Mexico Travel Plan is part of Rickshaw Travel Ltd which is a fully licensed and bonded tour operator.

We hold an Air Travel Organisers License (ATOL number 9728) issued by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). This means that in the unlikely event of our insolvency, any holiday arrangements made with us in conjunction with flights from the U.K. are 100% protected.

In addition we are also members of ABTA (ABTA number Y0484). This means that in the unlikely event of our insolvency, any land only trips are 100% protected(i.e. where international flights haven't been booked through us).
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ATOL 9728
ABTA Y0484

Staff Profiles

Mexico travel specialists - Kieran Maartens

Kieran Maartens

Mexico Travel Specialist

Before I visited central America, it always seemed a distant place of dense jungles, palm-fringed beaches and Tequila slammers. After spending a month travelling Mexico, Guatemala and Belize, I can safely say it exceeded all my expectations.

The day my shoes melted climbing a Guatemalan volcano I fell in love with the place. Where else in the world can you walk on an active lava flow, explore ancient Mayan ruins buried deep in tropical jungles, and relax on beaches washed by the turquoise waters of the Caribbean? I almost don’t feel like I need to mention the bustling markets of Chichicastenango, the chilled out mountain hideaway of San Cristobal De Las Casas, or the island paradise that is Caye Caulker...

Jim Faulkner

Mexico Travel Specialist

A month in Mexico in 1998 was my first taste of Latin America, and although I haven't been able to return yet, the memories of my time there have stuck with me. Flying into Mexico City at dusk is staggering, the city lights just go on and on...

After some time in Mexico city seeing Teotihuacan, I travelled down to the wonderful city of Oaxaca, and the amazing  ruins of Monte Alban. Staying mainly on the Pacific side of Mexico, I hopped down through a few beach towns, and ended up in the mountainous town of San Cristobal, and it's feel of by-gone eras.
 
Having not seen the Yucatan peninsula, this gives me the perfect excuse to go back to Mexico another day...if only I could find the time!

Mexico travel specialists - Jim Faulkner
Mexico travel specialists - Haydn Wrath

Haydn Wrath

Manager

Mexico Travel Plan is run by Haydn Wrath.

I left the University of East Anglia in 1984 and escaped what seemed a very grim England by spending the rest of the 1980s travelling independently and working myself round the world. During this time I put in some usual stints as an English teacher in Tokyo, a landscape gardener in Sydney and a tarmac layer's assistant in Alaska. In 1990, I joined Bridge the World Travel Centre in London as manager of the World-wide department, where I was able to put my degree in Politics and Philosophy to good use.

I fulfilled my ambition to set up a specialist travel company in 2001 when I founded Travel Nation, and later in 2007 set up Rickshaw Travel and Mexico Travel Plan.

Rickshaw Travel

Rickshaw Travel is the holding company for Mexico Travel Plan, and also operates in a number of other countries. Our range of travel destinations is continuously growing. At the moment we offer pre-arranged independent travel options in the following destinations:

Asia:
Thailand Travel Plan
Vietnam Travel Plan
Cambodia Travel Plan
Laos Travel Plan
China Travel Plan
India Travel Plan
Nepal Travel Plan
Indonesia Travel Plan
Malaysia Travel Plan
Africa:
Morocco Travel Plan
South Africa Travel Plan
Kenya & Tanzania Travel Plan
Egypt Travel Plan

Americas:
Peru Travel Plan
Cuba Travel Plan

Oceania:
Australia Travel Plan
Mexico travel specialists - Part of Rickshaw Travel

Mexico Travel Plan: Work for us

Mexico Travel Plan is part of Rickshaw Travel, a fast-growing internet based travel company employing dedicated travel specialists, over a variety of countries. We are continuously looking for well travelled, customer-focused staff with in-depth knowledge of the countries in which we work.

We work in a busy and friendly environment in Brighton, where you will be encouraged to develop your product knowledge and service skills to their full potential. If you are interested in joining our team of Mexico travel specialists, please send a covering letter and an up-to-date CV to mailto: careers@mexicotravelplan.co.uk

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