About Us

Real Gap has enlarged the original idea of “life-changing” travel opportunities, and our portfolio of projects with hundreds of gap year travel possibilities has increased to over forty countries. Our offices and cooperating partners worldwide have evolved a large variety of programmes so that you can make the most of your career break or gap year. Explore this website to see the opportunities that could await you on a Real Gap programme.

Taking a year out to travel and see the world can be a life-affirming prospect, so we hope by viewing our website that you become inspired to take your own career break and gap year with us soon.

The Real Gap Team

At present our team at our Tunbridge Wells office boasts about forty highly experienced travellers. All of our staff have taken their own gap years, so they know all the essential details that need to be planned to make your time as enjoyable and rewarding as possible.

Each area of the globe has its own dedicated Real Gap travel advisors who have extensively travelled in that region, meaning that the information we send you and the arrangements we make for you are precisely the ones you will need. We actively encourage our travel advisors to travel the regions regularly so they can keep up to date with issues and topics that occur in the areas.

Why Choose Real Gap?

We specialise in developing what we call 'life changing travel'. Our team are totally dedicated to it and do it very well!

• All of our travel advisers are experienced travellers who have taken year out on a gap year or career break and understand what it is like to plan and embark on one.
• We give onsite support from our UK base and our teams overseas aim to satisfy the expectations and needs of our travellers.
• We are financially secure and your money is safely looked after. We hold ATOL licence 6527. We also provide you with an individual financial security insurance certificate.
• We can offer a wide-ranging choice of projects and programmes in over 40 countries and we are constantly sourcing and developing new destinations and new programmes for gap year travel.
• We can tailor make a gap-year/career break trip just for you.
• If you experience any problems while overseas, we have an emergency contact hotline so someone is available to speak to you 24/7, every day of the year.