4 May, 2024 @ 17:00
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Travel trend sees agencies choose a destination for you before revealing it 48 hours before departure – but could YOU handle the surprise?

DO you love a worry-free holiday? This trend has taken it to the extreme with travellers not even knowing where they are going until 48 hours before departure. 

Most people say they go on holiday so they can ‘let it all go’, but most of the time, they’re referring to sinking pints in a sunlounger without having to worry about tomorrow’s hangover. 

But now, a growing travel trend sees holiday makers give up all planning and control of their vacations, opting for a ‘mystery holiday’. 

Travellers only have to choose the date and what to pack, the rest is up to their travel agent. 

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You could be sent to Amsterdam on a Drumwit holiday.
Photo: Drumwit

While Wowcher’s £99 mystery holidays have gone viral in the UK, Drumwit is bringing the trend to Spain. 

According to founder, Alex Juan Mehlert, not knowing where you are going until 48 hours before your holiday ‘wakes up your intrigue’. 

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Other Drumwit users have been sent to Paris.
Photo: Cordon Press

“We have a reservation team full of well-seasoned travellers. 

“They book based on the dates and what the client wants just 48 hours before the destination is revealed.”

Planners beware, this travel style is for the ‘flexible’ and ‘open minded.’ 

Drumit is not the only company in Spain offering surprise getaways, but most of the time they include everything you could need such as your flights and hotel. 

So far the company has sent happy travellers all over Europe from Budapest to Berlin.

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Yzabelle Bostyn

Yzabelle Bostyn is an NCTJ trained journalist who started her journalistic career at the Olive Press in 2023.
Before moving to Spain, she studied for a BA in English Literature and Hispanic Studies at the University of Sheffield.
After graduating she moved to the university’s journalism department, one of the best in the UK.
Throughout the past few years, she has taken on many roles including social media marketing, copywriting and radio presenting.
She then took a year out to travel Latin America, scaling volcanoes in Guatemala and swimming with sharks in Belize.
Then, she came to the Olive Press last year where she has honed her travel writing skills and reported on many fantastic experiences such as the Al Andalus luxury train.
She has also undertaken many investigations, looking into complex issues like Spain’s rental crisis and rising cancer rates.
Always willing to help, she has exposed many frauds and scams, working alongside victims to achieve justice.
She is most proud of her work on Nolotil, a drug linked to the deaths of many Brits in Spain.
A campaign launched by Yzabelle has received considerable support and her coverage has been by the UK and Spanish media alike.
Her writing has featured on many UK news outlets from the Sun to the Mail Online, who contracted her to report for them in Tenerife on growing tourism issues.
Recently, she has appeared on Times Radio covering deadly flooding in Valencia.

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