78% of female solo travellers over 50 cite single supplements as the biggest barrier to booking. Our approach: either match you with a fellow solo traveller at no charge, or book a tour built from the start for people travelling alone.
Rodrigues Island has a population of 43,000 on an island 18km long. You cannot get lost in a crowd because there isn't one. The island's scale means solo travellers are visible, welcomed and never invisible.
Our tours are capped at eight people. Six to eight solo travellers sharing eight days on a remote island develop a different quality of relationship than a group of forty on a coach tour. By day three on Rodrigues, the group has already had conversations that take months elsewhere.
The social dimension of solo travel is something we think about explicitly when designing itineraries — shared meals, an evening of sega tambour music, a market visit where conversation is the point. These are built into the programme, not left to chance.
"As a solo traveller, I was slightly nervous about joining a group. By day three we were sharing meals and making plans for the evenings ourselves."
Patricia L., 68 — Melbourne — Rodrigues Solo
"I've done guided tours where being single felt like an afterthought. This was the opposite — the tour was built around the fact that we were all travelling alone."
Sandra M., 64 — Edinburgh — Rodrigues Solo
Eight days on the most authentic island in the Indian Ocean. No single supplement. Groups matched specifically from solo travellers over 60.
Solo traveller in conversation with local at Port Mathurin market
1000×660px · Candid · Connection · Morning lightTortoise reserve with the ecologist, village walks, lagoon snorkelling at Trou d'Argent, Saturday market, sega tambour evening and a full day on Île aux Cocos. All designed around a group of solo travellers getting to know each other properly.
No single supplement. The price shown is the full price — no hidden room charge for travelling alone.
Most tour operators charge 30–40% extra for solo travellers sharing a double room alone. Here's how we handle it differently.
The solo tour is designed exclusively for single travellers. There is no supplement because the room allocation assumes one person per room from the start.
On other tours, we match solo travellers with a compatible fellow solo guest. If matching isn't possible, the single supplement is waived on request.
Every situation is different. Contact us with your specific tour and dates and we'll tell you exactly what applies — without making you read the small print yourself.
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