Walking holidays: A typical week in the UK Arrival: It will be generally recommended that you arrive on the first evening before your walking holiday outdoor days in time to relax before your evening meal. If you arrive earlier in the day you will find your room available from around 2pm (hotels and guest houses do vary slightly in this respect). If you do arrive before your room is ready the hotel will more than likely be pleased to store your luggage while you take a stroll around the area or relax in the lounge or garden. Walking day: The walking holiday activity day will probably begin with a leisurely full English breakfast, which in the UK is normally available from 7.30am (earlier at some hotels and guest houses). After breakfast, unless the day’s walk leaves directly from the hotel, you might be picked up by car at around 9.00am, and taken to the start of the day’s walk. Your operator will have planned the walking itinerary, and the afternoon rendez-vous time to allow for a relaxed pace of walking, a fifteen minute break during the morning and afternoon, a break of around forty minutes to eat a picnic lunch or visit a pub, plus plenty of time to admire views, take photographs, and explore villages so that you can make the most of your walking holiday. The afternoon rendez-vous point, where you will meet the driver for your return to the hotel or guest house, is likely to be a village with a pub or a tearoom where you can shelter if the weather has turned bad. The itinerary will probably allow for a return to the hotel or guesthouse by around 5.00pm - 5.30pm, which will allow plenty of time to change and relax before adjourning to the hotel dining room or venturing out from the guest house to find your evening meal in a local restaurant or pub. On a typical seven-night walking holiday or walking tour there will probably be a free day in the middle of the week to enable you to take a rest or take up your own activities. When the operator sends you your information pack prior to the walking tour it will include some suggestions for places to visit in the area. Most of the hotels and guest houses have information boards and the hotel reception staff or the guest house proprietors will be pleased to help you with information about public transport if needed. Departure day: The walking holiday will probably finish after breakfast on the final morning. If your travel arrangements mean that you need to depart early, let your walking tour operator know, and they will ask the hotel to provide either a continental or a packed breakfast for you to eat in your room or take with you.