The Globetrotters Club, The Travel Club For Travellers - share travelogues, travel information, experiences, hospitality and friendship.

Welcome to the Globetrotters Club website

The Globetrotters Club is the travel club for independent travellers & travel enthusiasts of all ages and has been active for over sixty years. Club members share travelogues, travel information & experiences, hospitality and friendship. If you are looking for the ultimate travel experience, wishing to plan from first hand information, interested in travelling off the beaten track, wanting reassurance before your big trip, requiring that little push to get you started or even just daydreaming of far-flung shores, then we are sure Globetrotters is for you. Our highlights include:-

450-500 members located worldwide
Globe newsletter posted to all members six times a year
eNewsletter emailed to 11000+ subscribers once a month
No commercial affiliations but excellent discounts available to members
Information and advice from members
Local branch meetings in London and Toronto

Latest News

(New) The London meetings programme for 2010 has been updated for meeting from September onwards. See http://www.globetrotters.co.uk/meetings/lon11it.html for further details.
(New) CHESTER GLOBETROTTERS, Chester's very own group, Details of the September 2010 Meeting http://www.globetrotters.co.uk/meetings/sept-chester-meeting.html

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The website

The web site is divided into the main sections as seen in the navigation bar found on the left of each page. This enables you to return here or to any section index page by simply clicking on the relevant link.

About The Club

Find out what the Globetrotters Club is all about, what we do, who we are and how much it costs to join.

Membership

Thinking of joining - There are three easy ways to join:

Take a trial membership and receive a sample copy of Globe delivered to your door
Join us online by paying by credit or debit card.
Print out a form filled out ready to mail in.

Local Group Meetings

Come along to a local group meeting, meet other members and like minded people, share your experiences and make new friends

If there is not a local group in your area why not start one there are many people willing to offer advice and assistance on how to do it.

History Of The Club

It all started over 50 years ago in 1944, at the end of the Second World War, find out how it came about, by reading the stories original published in our 50th anniversary issue of Globe, by the Clubs Founder and other long standing members.

Globe Magazine

Read some of the stories form the last fifty years of Globe magazine in our archives and brows through some more current issues

Mutual Aid

Planning a trip ask an expert.

The best sources of information are not Guidebooks but someone who has been there recently. Members of the club are a mine of information on independent travel and about the places they have been travelling in.

Post a question on our bulletin board or help another independent traveller with information on a place you have been to
Contact one of our members willing to give advice (Full Members Only)
Join our e-mail discussion forum (Full Members Only)