Hong Kong
Sunday 16 June
Does anyone else feel that the longer this show has gone on its moved more away from being that genuine every day people travel show that it once was? I feel like now it is a lot more filled with product placements or random activities that the average person wouldn’t normally do, focusing less on usual travel sights that tourists would normally see.
The India episode this season was just filled with a lot of weird activities that I didn’t think many people would do. Last night’s episode in Miami heavily focused on the hotel that they were staying at, some weird activities (like a graffiti museum?) and no doubt the cruise was a fully sponsored promotion for the cruise company. More and more in recent seasons they shove the airlines in your face that they are flying and the general commentary by the travelers really hypes up some of those promotional things a lot more too.
I feel like in the earlier seasons it used to show off the locations better. They’ve always had random promo things like “Do you accept currency pass?” as in your face promotions but now it feels like where they go is also more driven by sponsored activities (with less time just wandering around a location or seeing common sites).
They certainly have upped the product placement and sponsorships now, with the Delta Airlines and Currency Pass parts. It used to be all about the adventures in the cities but now it’s weird places and focusing on the accommodation. It’s not as good as the earlier seasons.
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Interesting that Nine chose to reveal the voting for tonight’s episode in the promos with all teams giving 5/5. The show has been rating well enough hat I don’t think that was necessary.
Next week
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There will be an extra new episode on Monday, July 15.
I think the plan is for the current season to finish before the start of the Paris Olympics.
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Sunday 14 July 7:00 pm
Newcastle
The Fren Family, and Matt & Brett show off their hometown of Newcastle, on the NSW coast. Our Guides will surf a beautiful beach and sail the harbour, and visit Maitland gaol and the Hunter Valley before dolphin spotting in Port Stephens.
Monday 15 July 7:30 pm
Northern Tasmania
For the first time ever our Guides are going caravanning, towing their homes on a tour of Northern Tassie. They’ll try caving, visit historic Beaconsfield, and drive up (and mountain bike down!) Australia’s most dangerous road.
Yeah not for everyday families. You know what I would like to see, a travel show where the participants have to organize their own accommodation and activities and see how fun and varied that looks.
RETURNING IN 2025
Travel Guides – the travel series that follows ordinary Aussies on extraordinary adventures around the world – returns for an eighth season in 2025.
Hot on the heels of winning a third consecutive TV Week Logie Award for Best Lifestyle Program, the new series of Travel Guides promises more laughs, shocks and surprises than ever before.
From exploring the urban jungle of New York City to the vast expanse of Kakadu in the Northern Territory, touring Thailand on a budget, and breathing the crisp mountain air of the Swiss Alps, this new series promises entertainment and inspiration in equal measure as our Guides wander the world ticking these holiday bucket lists and many more.
In 2024, the show came to prime time, with a seven o’clock Sunday night timeslot seeing it draw record numbers of viewers to watch our opinionated Guides in action. Each episode they check out the local customs and cuisines, check into world-class accommodation, and enjoy a range of adrenaline-filled activities, all the while sharing their unfiltered reviews of the world’s most epic holidays, proving that one person’s idea of a dream escape can be another’s version of hell.
And while they’ve already enjoyed 65 fun-filled holidays across more than 40 countries, there’s plenty more of the planet to explore when Kevin and Janetta, the Fren family, Matt and Brett, Kev, Dorian and Teng, and Karly and Bri return in 2025 to share their uniquely Aussie perspectives as they embark on more exciting adventures.
Last year saw our first ever perfect holiday – with all Guides scoring the Cook Islands a five out of five stars. Will one of our ten trips in 2025 hit the same rare heights?
Travel Guides is produced by Nine and narrated by beloved Aussie comedian Denise Scott.
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Crowd-pleasers The Hundred with Andy Lee and Travel Guides return around Q2.
“We gave Travel Guides the premier slot on a Sunday, and it went from strength to strength, and now is a really big hit for us. I think it was a show that always delivered big numbers, but Sunday solidified its position and it does a fantastic job for us.”
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Have they been to Japan before? I feel like they have…
In their first ever episode “Tokyo” 2017.
Looks like they’re in Osaka going off the photos.
They could do a Japan trip each season & each trip could be totally different. I would go so far as to say they could do a Tokyo trip each season, and would able to find something different each time as things constantly change there. And Tokyo is massive just on it’s own.
Tipping Point / Travel Guides special
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BRACE YOURSELF FOR THE BIGGEST JOYRIDE YET
TRAVEL GUIDES PREMIERE, EASTER MONDAY
AT 7.30PM ON CHANNEL 9 & 9NOW
Australia’s favourite travellers are back, blazing a trail through the greatest holiday hotspots on the planet, with a new season of the TV Week Logie Award-winning Travel Guides, premiering Monday, April 21, at 7.30pm on Channel 9 and 9Now.
From the bright lights of the sprawling New York City metropolis, to the vast expanse and natural beauty of Kakadu in the Northern Territory, touring Thailand on a budget, breathing the crisp mountain air of the snowy Swiss Alps, to the so-hot-right now Japan and the tropical paradise of Tahiti, no destination is safe as our Travel Guides return in an eighth season of awesome adventures.
Our favourite travel critics are back, with the Fren family, Matt and Brett, Kevin and Janetta, Kev, Dorian and Teng, and Karly and Bri all serving up their uniquely Aussie perspectives on some of the most epic adventures the world has to offer.
The most spectacular season ever begins in New York, where our Travel Guides take a monster-sized bite of the Big Apple. From the neon playground of Times Square and singalong show tunes in the West Village to taking in the sights of Central Park and the Statue of Liberty, as well as finding the perfect pizza in hipster-heaven Brooklyn and making an emotional visit to the 9/11 memorial, our Guides discover this really is the city that never sleeps.
Coming from all different walks of life, our Guides continue to test the theory that one traveller’s dream holiday is another’s nightmare, as they check out local customs and cuisine, check into world-class accommodation, and dive into an array of heart-pumping, adrenaline-filled activities, all the while sharing hilarious, unfiltered views on their destination.
Last year saw our first ever perfect holiday – with all Guides scoring the Cook Islands five out of five stars. Will one of our ten trips in 2025 hit the same lofty heights?
Buckle up and brace for adventure in the biggest season yet.
Travel Guides is produced by Nine, and narrated again by beloved Aussie comedian Denise Scott.
TRAVEL GUIDES RETURNS:
MONDAY, APRIL 21, AT 7.30PM
ON CHANNEL 9 AND 9NOW
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