Hike Slovakia's Tatras Mountains

On the first night of the trip, you'll stay in a locally owned 3-star hotel in the town of Banska Bystrica.

You’ll stay in the remote Chata Pod Borisovom mountain hut beneath Borisov Mountain. This is one of your host's favourite places to stay in Slovakia due to its peaceful setting. There is no electricity and no showers, just tranquillity and epic views.

You'll stay at Granit Hotel in Smrekovica; a comfortable mountain lodge with a Finnish sauna to help soothe your tired limbs after a couple of days hiking.

You'll stay at Hotel Strachanovka in Liptovsky Jan, a traditional Slovakian mountain Chalet. There’s another Finnish sauna, steam room and Jacuzzi- perfect to wind down at the end of the day.

You’ll spend your final night of the trip at a centrally located 3-star hotel in Bratislava.

For solo travellers looking for their own space, an optional private room in the hotels can be booked for an extra charge: see Optional Extras for prices. It is not possible to have a private room on Night 2 in the Mountain Hut. Please request this at the time of booking (this is subject to availability)

We partner with the World Land Trust to ensure this trip achieves Net-Zero emissions. We also support their Buy an Acre programme, helping local communities to buy and protect natural habitats in perpetuity.

What's the number?
It works out on average at 254kg of CO2 emissions per person, including all local transport, accommodation, food, activities, guides, staff and office operations.

The only thing it doesn’t include right now is flights and travel to the destination. We do make an overall estimate across all our customers separately, but as we don’t book flights, have customers from all corners of the world, and no way of reliably knowing their travel plans, we simply can’t include an individual number in the figure on display here. We’ve got a goal to fix that, so that when you book, there is a way to measure and mitigate the carbon emitted by your flight too.

But what does the number mean?
Yep, hard to picture eh? To give you an idea:

• Driving 1000 miles/1609km would be approximately 281kg of CO2 in an average car (or 140.5kg per person, if there were two of you in it).
• A return economy class flight between London and New York would be approximately 1619kg (1.66 tonnes) per person.
• 10 trees in a temperate forest are estimated to remove approximately 250kg of CO2 from the air in a period of 5-10 years.

What are we doing about it?
Our trips are relatively low-carbon by design, and we're working with all our hosts to develop long term carbon reduction plans. We partner with the World Land Trust to ensure this trip achieves Net-Zero emissions. We also support their Buy an Acre programme, helping local communities to buy and protect natural habitats in perpetuity, ensuring the protection of the reserve and its wildlife.

Want to know more?
Amazingly, no international travel company has ever publicly published their carbon measurements before, as far as we know. We believe that must change, quickly. So we’re openly sharing the method we used in the hope that other companies will be able to more easily follow suit and build on what we've done so far. You'll find it all here.