Educational Trips That Inspire Your Students
Become a memory maker by leading your class on a trip that they will love and remember.
✓ Travel Confidently
✓ Personalized Experiences
✓ Make Memories
Finally, you can love your trips again
Most educational trips are just okay. At GL Travel, we create memorable trips that teachers and their students love.
How Inspiring Trips Are Made
Personalized Planning
New trips for you and your students. Fresh ideas, fresh programs.
Teacher Approved
You ask, we listen. See why teachers love our trips.
Premium Experiences
You get upgraded programs to show your students more.
Trusted by Educational Leaders Like You
With over 15 years of experience providing memorable trips, you can travel confidently.
Browse Tours and Start Your Adventure
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Historic East Coast
Travel inspired in Washington D.C., New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and more.
Visiting the Historic East Coast will be a trip that you will never forget. Students will be inspired by our country’s rich heritage while exploring behind-the-scenes experiences with their classmates.
Grad Nite
Make memories at Disneyland™️, Universal Studios, Magic Mountain, and much more.
Congratulations graduating seniors! The Grad Nite program is a night of celebration with your friends, and the experience is not to be missed.
Trio and College Trips
Explore college visits in Northern California, Southern California, Arizona, and more.
Students experience enrichment activities, campus visits, and imagine the possibilities of the next chapter of their lives.
California Educational Trips
Visit the best of the West Coast: San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles/San Diego, and the Sacramento Gold Rush.
Visit the iconic Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, perform in Los Angeles, and experience the Sacramento Gold Rush. Discover the unique cultures and learn about California’s rich history in our iconic cities.
National Parks
Experience the vast landscapes of Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, and Yosemite.
Discover some of the country’s most beautiful natural landscapes while learning the National Parks’ rich history. While traveling, you will get a chance to marvel at the Giant redwood trees, serene lakes, and unparalleled majesty of the natural world.
How it Works
1
Let’s Talk
We’ll start our call with an open ear, tuned in to hear your trip vision. From there, we’ll chat about how we can help create the perfect memory-making trip for you and your students.
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Receive Itinerary Options
We work behind-the-scenes to build a trip that you and your students will love. Once prepared, we’ll present it to you and make sure it exceeds your expectations. See how your dream trip looks.
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Lead A Memorable Trip
Once you’ve selected your itinerary, you can travel confidently knowing you’ve given your students and their families a premium travel experience. Stop worrying about the details and leave that to us.
A Premium Student Travel Experience
“Our trip keeps getting better for my students because GL listens to and implements my feedback.”
“GL Travel is available and works with me to deliver trips that exceeded my expectations. Fantastic Trip!”
“GL Travel has made the trip planning process simple and created an inspiring trip for me and my students”
About GL Travel
At GL Travel, we know that you want to be a memory making teacher. To do that, you need educational trips that inspire your students. The problem is that most school trips are just okay and fall short of your standards.
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We believe your students deserve better than average. We get it, which is why we started GL Travel and have helped teachers like you make memories with their students for over 15 years.
How to become a memory maker:
- Request a call.
- Receive itinerary options.
- Sign up and travel confidently.
Request a call today by clicking on the "let's talk" button. Stop being underwhelmed, and finally love traveling with your students again. In the meantime, grab our free guide on 7 Keys To Leading A Memory Making Trip..
GL started the day after a teacher led an underwhelming trip with a big tour operator. Over the past 15 years, we have become experts in local areas, and we believe that all teachers and students should take an inspiring trip. Our mission is to create memorable trips that teachers and their students love.
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You’ll receive guidance on:
How to find the right company
How to create your budget
How to plan your itinerary
Frequently Asked Questions
+ What is the pre-trip process?
Step 1: A happy GL Travel sales representative and account manager will work with you to select dates and destinations to create an inspirational trip for your students. Your GL team will host all parent meetings and answer any questions.
Step 2: Spread the word and promote the trip on campus. GL Travel will provide you with all promotional materials and registration forms.
Step 3: GL handles all payments, invoices and bookings so that you can focus on teaching and getting excited for a memory-making trip!
+ What does a trip look like during a tour?
- Upon arrival to your destination city, a GL Travel tour manager will meet your group at the baggage claim and escort your group to the motorcoach.
- We communicate with your hotel to ensure a smooth check-in. When your group arrives, room keys and rooming assignments are ready for easy check in.
- GL Travel tours have night security stationed in the hotel hallways.
- Parents have 24 hour access to our Tour Central and our Emergency Response Center.
- Your tour manager stays overnight with your group, meets with you each morning and evening to review the itinerary, confirms appointments, meal allotments, etc.
- Your tour manager will accompany your group at the airport to assist with a timely departure home
+ What makes GL Travel’s itinerary different?
Teacher feedback is the foundation of what makes GL Travel trips different. When you are on tour, you can feel the difference. GL Travel is always listening and updating our itineraries to ensure that our students and teachers are experiencing the best that each city they visit has to offer. GL Travel has an excellent reputation with our partner vendors which plays a key role in creating memorable experiences for you and your students.
GL Travel’s planning cycle starts over a year in advance of your trip.
After your group trip, we have a post-trip meeting to discuss the trip and plan for next year. It’s effortless; you talk, we listen, you design a trip that inspires the hidden genius in your students.
+ What experience does GL have with school groups, and can you provide references?
GL Travel would be thrilled to provide references to partner teachers who love our trips.
GL Travel was started by a teacher in a classroom. Over the last 15 years of student travel experience, GL Travel has taken thousands of students to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the White House, Mount Vernon, the Empire State Building, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and so many other amazing places. With every trip, we learn new ways to make the next one even better. Our founder started GL Travel for teachers to inspire the hidden genius in their students.
- California Seller of Travel registration number: 2115492-40
- Student Youth Travel Association (SYTA) Member
+ Insurance, fees, and other costs:
GL Travel understands the importance of your financial security. GL Travel offers Travel Protection Plus (TPP) as an optional add-on. With TPP, parents can cancel their child’s tour at any time, for any reason, and receive all trip payments less the cost of the Travel Protection Plus.
Unless otherwise agreed upon, GL Travel covers all meals and entrance fees while traveling. We provide the Group Leader with tickets for all sites and funds for meals before travel. GL Travel prepays most restaurants, but for those who are not, we provide trip leaders with a financial breakdown of distributing the funds to either the students or to the restaurants, depending on the dining arrangements.
Your tour guide will take care of all incidentals along the way. If you happen to pay for incidental expenses along the way, save your receipts (or send GL your statements) for reimbursement.
+ What Safety, Insurance, and Medical Precautions do you take?
GL Travel will never operate a trip if the safety or health of a single participant is compromised.
- Access to a network of urgent care services.
- Tour Central Office for 24-hour access on tour.
- 24-7 Emergency Response Center for students and parents.
- Emergency Contingency Planning in the event of a city-wide emergency.