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✈️ Independent Travel Agent | The JLT Group
🏖️ Luxury family holidays
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🎉 Today marks 1 year since I started my training with The JLT Group.  🌏At the time, I had no idea where this journey wou...
16/06/2026

🎉 Today marks 1 year since I started my training with The JLT Group. 🌏

At the time, I had no idea where this journey would take me.

What followed was a huge learning curve - supplier training, destination research, learning new systems, building a business from scratch, juggling family life, celebrating wins, dealing with disappointments, and constantly pushing myself outside my comfort zone.

As much as social media often shows the beautiful hotels, luxury resorts and exciting bookings, there is a huge amount that goes on behind the scenes. Hours of research, comparing options, understanding destinations, managing flight changes, navigating transfer logistics, and constantly learning so I can provide the very best service to my clients.

There have been plenty of lessons along the way, but despite the challenges, joining JLT was one of the best decisions I’ve made.

The support, training, suppliers, systems and community have been incredible, and over the last year I’ve built a business that I genuinely love.

Since properly launching last October, I’ve booked 29 holidays worth £121,000 and helped clients create memories through honeymoons, anniversaries, family holidays, city breaks and girls’ trips.

What I’m most proud of, though, isn’t the figures. It’s the trust people place in me when planning some of their most important memories, and the number of clients who have returned to book again or recommended me to friends and family.

Thank you to everyone who has booked with me, recommended me, shared a post, liked a photo, or simply followed along on the journey. Your support genuinely means more than you know.

Here’s to year two. ✈️🤍

Some beautiful hotels booked this week ✈️☀️From Corfu and Crete to Tenerife and Ibiza, it’s been a busy week helping cli...
12/06/2026

Some beautiful hotels booked this week ✈️☀️

From Corfu and Crete to Tenerife and Ibiza, it’s been a busy week helping clients plan their next getaway, whilst also working on quotes for more Tenerife escapes, city breaks and family holidays in Turkey.

Behind the scenes, I’ve also been getting to grips with our new quote and booking system, which is already helping me showcase holidays in a much more personalised and beautiful way.

And yes… I still haven’t found the time to properly share more from my own Crete trip 😅 but I promise that’s coming very soon!

It’s been a busy but brilliant week, and seeing all these gorgeous hotels has definitely got me itching to book our next holiday… ✈️❤️

Thinking about a summer holiday? It’s not too late - drop me a message and let’s see what we can find….

A lovely review to brighten my week ❤️Thank you so much, Kate, for taking the time to leave such kind feedback following...
11/06/2026

A lovely review to brighten my week ❤️

Thank you so much, Kate, for taking the time to leave such kind feedback following your family holiday to Grecotel Marine Palace & Aqua Park, Crete.

Hearing about the memories made, especially at Agreco Farm, is exactly why I love helping families plan their holidays.

Thank you for trusting me with your family holiday ✈️☀️

Just booked ✨A very special booking for a lovely family - their first holiday with baby. 💙At just 3 months old, this lit...
08/06/2026

Just booked ✨

A very special booking for a lovely family - their first holiday with baby. 💙

At just 3 months old, this little one is officially my youngest client yet! 👶✈️

They’re heading to beautiful Domes of Corfu, a luxury beachfront resort set on one of Corfu’s most stunning sandy beaches. With family-friendly pools, kids’ facilities, relaxed luxury and breathtaking Ionian Sea views, it’s the perfect setting for some quality family time and special first memories together.

Thank you for trusting me with such a special trip. 💙

After an amazing trip to Crete, I’m back home, feeling refreshed and diving straight back into helping families plan the...
01/06/2026

After an amazing trip to Crete, I’m back home, feeling refreshed and diving straight back into helping families plan their next adventures ✈️☀️

The kids are back at school, the washing machine is working overtime and I’m catching up on enquiries, quotes and messages today.

I’ve got quite a few to come back to, so please bear with me whilst I work through everything over the next couple of days.

I’ve returned with plenty of inspiration, hotel recommendations and a few special discoveries from Crete to share over the coming weeks 🇬🇷

For now, it’s coffee, catching up and helping more clients plan their next adventure ☕️🌍

Out of office ✈️☀️On my way to Crete… but before I switch fully into holiday mode, here are a few travel tips I genuinel...
22/05/2026

Out of office ✈️☀️
On my way to Crete… but before I switch fully into holiday mode, here are a few travel tips I genuinely swear by 👀

• Avoid paying airport prices for drinks - take refillable water bottles and use the refillable water stations after security. Mini squash bottles are brilliant for kids too
• Prep plane snacks/lunches before you travel to avoid expensive airport food
• Take photos of passports, insurance & luggage tags
• Don’t forget your GHIC/EHIC card - free and easy to order online - AND travel insurance
• Transparent backpacks are brilliant for kids’ plane toys/snacks
• Download films/shows onto the iPad before you leave
• Hand luggage only can save SO much money, especially with easyJet / Jet2 / TUI. Most airlines also allow 2 free infant items, usually a pushchair + car seat
• I often do a Boots airport click & collect too, so I can pick up toiletries/snacks after security 👀
• If you’re close to the airport, a taxi can work out easier than parking. Further away? Meet & greet is often worth it
• Your iPhone calculator has a built-in currency converter 💡
• Always pay in local currency abroad rather than GBP when given the choice
• Use a travel-friendly card abroad to avoid extra fees
• Anti-bac wipes are a travel essential
• Sun cream, inflatables & pool toys are usually way pricier in resort

Now officially in holiday mode… see you in Crete 🇬🇷🤍

I’ll still be responding to messages and urgent holiday queries/booking requests whilst I’m away, but anything non-urgent I’ll come back to properly on my return ☀️

Travel, properly thought-through 🌎

20/05/2026

Renovated. Relaunched. And I’m there Friday ✈️☀️

Grecotel Creta Palace has just reopened with its new LUXME concept and I honestly can’t wait to experience it properly for myself and share it with you 🤍

Good Morning 😊I’ve been a little quieter on socials lately - life has been LIFE-ing over here lately 🤍A mix of juggling ...
20/05/2026

Good Morning 😊

I’ve been a little quieter on socials lately - life has been LIFE-ing over here lately 🤍

A mix of juggling mum life, football, kids, my husband starting a new job, trying to shift a never-ending cough/cold… and now full holiday packing mode ahead of Crete on Friday ✈️

Work-wise it’s still been busy behind the scenes too:
☀️ checking clients into their Greek holidays
☀️ prepping October quotes
☀️ supplier webinars
☀️ planning site visits in Crete
☀️ testing a new booking/CRM system which should make things much smoother going forward 🙌

Very ready for some sunshine now… and I’ll share some of my own pre-holiday family travel tips later too ✨

And with May half term next week and lots of sunshine apparently on the way ☀️ I hope lots of you have some lovely plans coming up 🤍

✨ Zafiro Palace Palmanova Spotlight ✨Just a 2-hour flight from the UK, with loads of flight options into Palma - making ...
14/05/2026

✨ Zafiro Palace Palmanova Spotlight ✨

Just a 2-hour flight from the UK, with loads of flight options into Palma - making it one of the easiest luxury family getaways out there, especially with little ones 🤍

If you’re looking for a family hotel that genuinely works for everyone, Zafiro Palace Palmanova is hard to beat.

☀️ Stylish spacious suites
☀️ Beautiful swim-up rooms
☀️ Multiple pools, including quieter adults-only areas
☀️ Fantastic food
☀️ A really relaxed luxury feel throughout

…all just a short stroll from the beach.

For our trip, the biggest priority travelling with baby Penny was a swim-up room with a pool warm enough for her to actually enjoy - and it absolutely delivered ✨

The direct pool access made everything so much easier:
🤍 Daytime naps
🤍 Little paddles
🤍 Relaxing in the sunshine
🤍 No constant packing up and trekking to the main pool

And the proof? Penny was so relaxed in the warm water that she actually fell asleep floating in it 🥹

First holiday verdict: approved 🤍

It’s also less than 20 minutes from Palma Airport too - which when you’re travelling with a baby genuinely makes such a difference.

What I love most is that it still feels genuinely luxurious for the adults and grandparents as well.

Everyone gets the holiday they actually want 💫

Running a small business can feel a little daunting at times - but I’m so grateful for all the support Travel by Frances...
13/05/2026

Running a small business can feel a little daunting at times - but I’m so grateful for all the support Travel by Francesca has had so far - Thank You 🤍✈️

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