Walking Holiday Baggage Service

Move My Bags during my Walking Holiday

Walking.Holiday Baggage Service

There’s no need to carry a heavy pack during the day. Our Walking.Holiday baggage service takes the weight off your shoulders so that you can enjoy the walk so much more and still look fabulous in the evenings. We can move your bags each day as you walk.

Trails we support:

Thames Path

The Ridgeway

Camino Ingles/St James’ Way

If planning any other walks in the south of England, please contact us as we may be able to help you.

We can move your luggage even if you are not booking accommodation through us. Just email us your itinerary and we will do the rest. Bags can be picked up and dropped off from anywhere reasonably close to the trail. Our season runs from Easter Monday to the end of October.

What you should know

Bags are picked up from 9am and are dropped off before 4pm

We send you text messages once the bags are picked up and again when dropped off. That gives you peace of mind whilst walking.

We charge £25 for one bag and £30 for two bags. This is per move. Bags should be no more than 20kg. For larger groups, additional bags are charged at £5 per bag. There is an additional booking fee of £12.50 regardless of duration or bags.

Bag transfers on the Camino Ingles/St James’ Way come at a higher price of £30 for the first bag and £10 for each additional bag. Special prices apply for groups of 5 or more.

We can also pick up and drop off on travel days. For instance, if you were to arrive in Oxford and plan to walk that day, we will meet you to collect your bags and then deliver it to your hotel later that day. Likewise we can deliver your bags to you in person at a station. There is an additional charge equivalent to one transfer for this “meet and greet” service.

If you need anything extra dropping off with your bags (batteries, phone charger, spare socks, blister pack), just let us know. We are here to help!

London (Thames Path only):

We do pick up and drop off in London. However, traffic moves so slowly here that we have to charge more to cover our time and fuel. Additionally, we incur local government fees for driving in London. We therefore charge an additional £15 for the first bag and a further £5 for each additional bag. For tariff purposes, London starts immediately downstream of Kew and extends all the way to the Thames Barrier.

We no longer take deposits. But we ask for payment in full one month before the start of your walk. Note that, although we are members of ABTOT, there is no financial protection for this service.

Thank you for such a reliable service

Thanks for the reliable service and communication

Thanks so much for the service and updates

Thanks for a faultless service all week!! Really makes a difference when your bag is ready for you at the end of the day.

Thanks very much for your excellent service!

Just a short note to thank you so much for the excellent service you provided with our baggage transfers over the last week. Everything worked like clockwork and the text advices on each day, confirming that our bags had been delivered was a really useful piece of additional information. If you would like me to leave a review, I will be delighted to do so. Thanks again to you and your team.

Just wanted to say thank you for the fast and efficient transfer of our luggage last week. And for the lifts of course! Alice's feet recovered after a couple of days rest and intensive foot care and we were back on the trail on Thursday and managed to complete the final 3 days. We will be back to complete the missing two days at some point so will be contacting you again in the not too distant future.

Thank you Richard for the excellent service you recently provided for luggage transfer along the 3 day section of the Ridgeway - we especially appreciated the updating messages and the prompt delivery.

Thanks for this. Great service.

Thanks again Richard for all your help on our walking trip. Yesterday was the best day of all – magnificent neolithic sites and lovely weather.

Just to say a huge thank you for your brilliant service on the Ridgeway, not only in transporting our luggage but for all the little extras such as giving us a lift occasionally to the start of our walk and collecting my wallet when I left it at the Royal Oak. We chose you because of your competitive rates and would have no hesitation in recommending you to others doing this fantastic hike along one of the most beautiful trails in Britain.

Thank you very much for the great services. It was much appreciated.

I would like to thank you and your team for all the support. This has been a dream come true for me, which I could not have done without your help

Thank you very much for your exemplary service and for taking us to the station. Very kind of you and much appreciated. We will certainly spread the word to any of our friends and colleagues.

We have really enjoyed the walk and your service has been impeccable. Thank you very much for helping is make it happen.

Thank you so much for the excellent service you’ve provided especially dealing with today’s challenge. We plan to do another chunk of the walk next year so we will be in touch again.

Thanks for such a good service. Really made the walk so much more enjoyable!

You’re a star! Thank you for all your help this week! We really appreciate you1 Have a good day!

Thank you for the weeks transfers. Perfect.

(We) would like to both say a big thank you to you for helping to make our Thames Path walk from Oxford to the source so much more enjoyable. Having a reliable moving of bags really allowed us to focus on the walk and our surroundings rather than on how uncomfortable our heavy rucksacks were. We loved our 4 days along the rural Thames and were a tad disappointed when the end came in sight yesterday afternoon. Thank you once again for your helpful and friendly service.

Just to say many thanks for transporting our case this week. We have thoroughly enjoyed our walk and feel an achievement to have walked the Thames from the source to Barrier. We will definitely recommend you to our friends who might follow in our footsteps.

Thank you very much for the excellent baggage transfer service - it made our walk from Cricklade to Oxford, last week, so much more enjoyable not having to carry extra weight! My daughter and I found the text to advise us of its arrival at destination was very reassuring. Richard was more than helpful after one of our prebooked hotels notified us that it was closed for refurbishment only days before we were due to start walking. We're already planning the next leg - see you next year Richard.

Thanks for your excellent baggage service during our Thames Path walk.

Thank you for the efficient and worry free service. It was a pleasure to work with you and your company. We hope to see you again when we do the next segment of the Thames Path soon!

Just a quick email to thank you for your excellent luggage service which you supplied on my recent Thames walk from Kemble to Goring and Streatley. You kept me informed of all pickups and deliveries of luggage for myself and my walking companions. Would definitely recommend your services to other walkers. I would use your services again without reservation.

Just wanted to say thank you so much for the excellent service we received from Walk the Thames. We particularly liked the daily text messages and enjoy reading your interesting newsletter.

I wanted to say what an excellent service you provide. Very many thanks.

We really loved this section of the Thames Path all along the way. The route took us through many locations new to us and we were absolutely lucky to enjoy such fabulous weather. As before the ease of walking was facilitated by your fantastic transportation. Thank you so much for assisting us along the way and accommodating the extra bag, we really appreciated it. We hope to return to walk from Reading to Staines (or a little way further on) next year.

Thanks for looking after us so well all week

Thanks Richard, excellent service from WTT

Thankyou very much for the service. It has been great

Thank you so much for a brilliant service. We made Oxford this afternoon while the sun was still shining. We’ve had an amazing time and thank you for your help and kindness.

Just a quick message to say thank you for the baggage service last week. We will definitely be in contact when we arrange to continue/finish our Thames walk.

Thank you so much for your excellent service over the last week or so. You’ve been brilliant.

Just wanted to say a huge thank you for the excellent service that you have provided over the last 10 days. It has made our holiday much more relaxed and enjoyable. We appreciated the daily texts to update us on luggage collection and delivery - and you never failed to deliver on time. Thanks from us all. We will recommend you to others.

Thank you so much for all your help. Please do let me know where I can leave a review for you

Really enjoyed this. We hope to continue the walk and will be in touch

I just wanted to say thank you so much for all your help. It made all the difference not to have to carry all our stuff. I could tell from the first time I contacted you that you would be efficient and so it proved. It was really useful to get a text every time you picked up or delivered the baggage - so reassuring. We particularly appreciated your help and flexibility when one of the hotels changed its rules about storing baggage. I don’t suppose we will be in need of your services again but I will certainly recommend you if I hear of anyone else planning to walk the Thames Path.

Thanks very much for the excellent service on this week’s walk once again.

Thank you for carrying our bag over the last 4 days. You did a great job. The Porters at St Johns College were amused because I don't think they had received a bag in that manner before. But it all worked smoothly and we will have no hesitation in recommending your service.

I would like to recommend 'Walk the Thames' . I think they are relatively new, but they offer a great service. I tried one of your other (Thames Path National Trail) recommendations on your site and found them to be a taxi service basically, charging different costs per section rather than a consistent per day charge and they were also double the cost of Walk the Thames! Richard at Walk the Thames offers a similar service to Sherpavan, including a very cool website which has a good route planner and accommodation recommendations. He has also set up a Facebook page where people walking the Thames path can report any issues on the path and arrange to meet etc. He was flexible, reliable and accommodating as well as reasonable priced.

Just a quick note to thank you for your efficient service in collecting and transferring the bags - all worked seamlessly. Arrived in Oxford pretty tired but very happy! We are hoping to walk some/all of the Oxford - Windsor stretch a bit later in the year so u will hearing from us again.

We walked the Thames Path from Oxford to Windsor in September 2020. We had a lovely holiday, enhanced by “Walk the Thames” who transported our luggage each day to a new hotel. We were notified when the bags were picked up and when they were delivered, leaving us to enjoy the great weather and the lovely scenery lovely. It is an efficient and value for money service. We have still to walk from the source to Oxford; and from Windsor to the end. We will return for these walks and will most certainly use Walk the Thames again

The Thames Path is all about quiet relaxing walking, rather than seeking a gruelling physical challenge, so a reliable baggage service is essential. Walk the Thames were excellent: very efficient and great value – the texts confirming each time the bags were picked up and dropped off were particularly welcome. They helped to make our first post-Lockdown walk very enjoyable

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