Gary Manners - Travel Counsellors

It's Nice To Meet You

My name is Gary and I would like to welcome you to my personal website at Travel Counsellors.

If you are looking for the very best personal travel specialist, here I am happy to help you. Having worked in the travel industry for 25 years, working in both business and retail travel, you can be safe in the knowledge that you are at the heart of everything I do.

Manchester's very own award-winning personal travel specialist, available to give you the very best in efficient customer service, personal experience and unbiased advice. My holidays includes total financial protection and a level of attention to detail you never get online.

Over many years I have personally built up many close relationships with my customers. The customer testimonials on my website speak for themselves, so please take a look.

I am always on hand and enjoy visiting with my customers at home enabling me to fit around your busy schedule so I am there at a time that's convenient for you. I can be contacted on a local number, by email or via my website.

Manchester Canal Street's Travel Expert and "Go to" Travel Person, and now Regular Guest Travel Specialist and Adviser on "You Tube's" Television Series "Your Manchester" with Michelle Eagleton.

My specialist areas are tailor made travel and cruise holidays and I have been lucky to have cruised the Nile, the Med and have recently returned from cruising the Caribbean on Ventura travelling back home across the Atlantic in style! Everyone should give a cruise holiday a try, it's such a rewarding experience with the added benefit of waking up in a new destination every day. As well as cruises, I have travelled to all corners of the world including Egypt, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Cuba, St Lucia, Antigua, Barbados, Penang, Malaysia Borneo, New York, Singapore, Bali Lombok and Mexico!

I am passionate about customer service and this was my main reason for joining Travel Counsellors, as we both put our customers at the heart of everything we do. I think attention to detail is very important when it comes to travel, including the best financial protection in the industry and a 24 hour worldwide duty office.

I would be delighted to help you with any of your travel plans both leisure and business - be it a one night UK break, family holiday, around the world cruise or help to plan a dream wedding abroad or find the perfect honeymoon!

At Travel Counsellors we don't want to be the biggest - we simply want to be the best!

Contact Me

Whatever your holiday needs I'm here to help you, so please either fill in and send the form below or simply give me a call and I can get things started for you:-

My customer stories

Gary was and has continued to be the most helpful and nice person I have met for a long time. Thanks once again , great job done...

Gary He always Listens to what I want to do and then finds a way for me to do it Thanks once again

Gary you're a treasure for my mum Joyce, you go above and beyond to make your customers happy, she’s always praising you for helping her. Keep up the brilliant work you do, thank you for looking after her.

A brilliant service as always.

Gary was professional from start to finish. He made it a joy for us to book a holiday and the whole travel experience was made easy and enjoyable. He couldn't do enough for us and his personal touches were so thoughtful. He even went as far to write out our luggage tags and send them ahead of time, plus on our wedding anniversary whilst on holiday we got a lovely surprise bouquet and fizz sent from him all the way to our hotel in Santorini. His recommendations for accommodation and location were spot on and we won't be booking with anyone else but Gary from here on in

We have just returned from a two week holiday to Cuba, which included an overnight stay & full day tour in Havana, organised by Gary. I can’t praise Gary enough; from the initial (very limited) holiday brief, booking the Havana tour just a week before going, to being checked in for the flight, Gary took care of everything. He even sent us completed luggage labels! This is the most stress free holiday we have ever had and I will definitely be using Gary next time we go away.

My Sister and I recently went to New York for the first time. Gary took care of everything from arranging flights, a lovely hotel, airport transfers and even all our trips we wanted to do. Also arranging tickets for us to see PINK in concert at Madison Square Gardens. Gary was always available via phone or email to help and give advise about our trip, and nothing was every too much trouble. this holiday could have been very stressful to plan as we had never been before and there was so much we wanted to do during our week there but Gary took care of absolutely everything, making it a hassle free and most importantly a trip my sister and myself will never forget! I would definitely recommend Gary for any trips/holidays you want to plan and will most definitely be using his services in the future. Thankyou again Gary.

Superb service before, during and after the recent trip to Venice. Highly recommended 5 Star...

Paris dream trip, great accommodation. Gary was very polite and attentive right from the start. He was patient which was lovely as I had changed my mind a few times over accommodation. He made me feel confident in him and Travel Counsellors . He reasured me about contacts if a problem arose (which it didnt) so we always felt well looked after. My trip was a personal dream of mine and he made it very special. I liked the personal touches with a card wishing us a good holiday then a postcard on our return.and a phone call to follow up. All very special and personal. Thank you

Gary Manners delivers. Gary's customer service is second to none. Trip to Venice was organised so beautifully from start to finish. Very highly recommended.

Great having a personal travel advisor to answer all the numerous questions. Gary Manners is very knowledgeable having had years of experience.

Having just returned from a brilliant trip to Benidorm old town, I wanted to say a massive thank you to to Gary for the incredible amount of work he put into organising my holiday. My brief was for a quiet relaxing break in a small 5 star hotel and his reccomendation of Villa Venecia was perfect. An amazing hotel in a spectacular location. Brilliant flight times, personalised transfers and liaision with the hotel made this one of the best trips I have made. Fantastic Flowers and Wine , thanks again. Having recently retired I will be making many more trips and am looking forward to working with Gary, in today's internet age it is rare to find such incredible service and attention to detail. I can highly reccomendation Gary's service.

I am really happy with the help i had from Gary. I changed my mind a few times with dates, hotels, and timings. He was always happy to support this and always did his best to reasure me he can change it. He found me a perfect hotel. He understood my reasoning for the trip and totally engaged himself in making sure it will fullfill my memories. Thank you

Appreciate the personal service

Superb service at every stage and so looking forward to my fantastic trip very soon.

My partner and I have just returned from our fantastic Skiing holiday to Austria which was organised by yourself with such care. We really appreciated all the time you put into making our holiday extra special with all the little finishing touches you provide as part of your service. Everything was to a very high standard from the food , Hotel and Ski Resort. We were really impressed. Gary made the whole experience stress free and i will be recommending his services to our family, friends and colleagues in the future. We thorougly enjoyed ourselves and cannot wait for you to start planning our 2019 Ski Holiday !!! thanks again Chloe and Nathan "

10/10 Customer Service Score; You made things so easy Gary and were so lovely in the process. We felt in safe and knowledgable hands with you and also felt you cared about getting us the right holiday. Thank you.

Gary always goes above and beyond helping to get us exactly what we are looking for and never disappoints! 10/10

Congratulations, well deserved , you're amazing for your clients, really go out of your way for them. You help my mum Joyce and auntie Maureen every time. Hats off to you keep up the good work. Thank you from Joyce’s daughter Carole

Many many congratulations Gary. You truly deserve it. You work so hard to please your customers and to meet their individual needs. Please put my testimonial on your website. Well done.

Gary was amazing - took all the hassle out of planning our holiday. I will definitely be using him again!

Gary takes the worry out of travelling I am able to recommend his talents to any discerning traveller

Having used your services on a number of occassions now, I felt compelled to write a small note to say thank you for the fantastic job you do. Starting with the small things like sorting out the luggage labels through to the larger ones you organise, like Champagne on the flight, flowers in the room and even once a room upgrade, your attention to detail is incredible. Combined with the knowledge that through Travel Counsellors should disaster befall the holiday we are covered, every experience we have had through yourself has lead to a stress free perfectioin. I therefore have no hesitation at all in recommending you in the future and will actively do so. Thank you and best regards.

Thanks so much for organising Liz Bull’s and my Italian holiday. The price, flights, hotels, transfers and ferry were perfect. No hiccups and just peace of mind. The wine and fruit were a welcome treat too, thank you so much! To top it all off the weather was fabulous and Naples and Sicily were everything I’d hoped for! Finally, I was delighted with how easy it was to venture further a field from Naples and Palermo on public transport. It was hassle free. Thank you again Gary. You are ace.

Very professional at all times. Went out of his way to search for many different vacations. Received quotes very quickly and he was very informative.

Gary booked flights for an emergency trip abroad for a traveller with a disability. A suitable flight identified with good flight times. Advice given on accessing wheelchair support throughout the journey due to mobility issues of the traveller. Trip completed with no problems. A big thank you to Gary for taking care of everything with added assurance of the protection offered of booking through Travel Counsellers.

Myself and my Mum have just returned from a trip to a Friends Wedding In Rhodes, Greece. We booked this through Gary as we have used him before and trust him to attend to every detail implicitly. We were not disappointed, Gary took care of everything from our check-in details , reserved seats, transfers and itinerary and even hand written luggage tags ... Fantastic. Service was above and beyond an already high expectation. The Fruit and Wine that were waiting in the room on arrival nice and chilled in our room was the icing on the cake, Thank you Gary our Personal Travel Counsellor, we will be booking with you again and will not hesitate in recommending you to others. Melissa and Carol xx

He is very helpful and succeeds what you ask of him. Always looking to add the little extras to ensure the organising of the holiday runs smoothly taking away the stress - thanks once again Gary

10/10 Score - Hi Gary You always deliver a great holiday experience for us both. Cheers Steve & Kathryn

Gary has been fantastic, It wasn’t easy for him as I was very tied to dates and budget. Gary put in so much effort to find me the perfect holiday, meeting all my requirements. I would definitely recommend Gary to all my friends and family.