So Sunday will be the regular timeslot for season 8. Will give MasterChef and The 1% Club UK a run for their money.
Episode 5 Spain and Portugal
Our Guides board a coach tour of two of Europe’s most historic destinations - Spain and Portugal. They’ll tuck into Madrid’s tapas scene, explore the extraordinary Alhambra in Grenada, learn flamenco in Seville, and gobble down Lisbon’s most legendary Portuguese tart.
Sunday 18 May 7pm
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The Tipping Point Travel Guides special now scheduled for Tuesday 27 May.
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Season 9 resumes this Sunday (June 29) at 7pm.
Thailand Budget Buster
Our Guides go bonkers in a budget trip to Thailand. From muay Thai in Bangkok, to the elephants of Chiang Mai, and the beaches of Koh Samui, it’s a holiday to one of Asia’s most diverse destinations.
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SUNDAY, JULY 6 AT 7:00PM ON CHANNEL 9 & 9NOW
San Francisco
It’s a best of both worlds trip, as our Guides explore the famous Californian city of San Francisco - with its steep hills, new-tech and old hippies - before going wild at the gob-smackingly stunning Yosemite National Park.
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SUNDAY, JULY 13 AT 7:00PM ON CHANNEL 9 & 9NOW
Japan
Our Guides jump into super-popular Japan. From bustling Osaka to historical Kyoto, they’ll get a taste for the country’s fantastic food, culture and all-round kookiness, with Jono’s new wife Danielle coming along for the ride for the first time.
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SUNDAY, JULY 20 AT 7:00PM ON CHANNEL 9 & 9NOW
Country NSW
Our Guides enjoy a motorhome road trip through rural NSW. From the rugged beauty of the Blue Mountains, to racing cars around Bathurst’s Mount Panorama, and donning a jumpsuit for the Elvis Festival in Parkes, this trip will have them all shook up.
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What did we think about the sons wife in the Fren family? The parents seem to act different when she’s around. With their own daughter they act like absolute fools!
Travel Guides, one of Australia’s most popular reality shows, has just finished casting a new group to join the Channel 9 production for the first time in two years.
Executive Producer Hugh Brodie said the show, which features a cast of regular people sent around the world to provide travel critiques, had been overwhelmed with the high quality of applicants. More than 3000 people threw their hats into the ring.
“We have got people in their late teens through to people in their 90s who’ve applied,” Brodie said.
Brodie said being real and enthusiastic helped people stand out during casting. The casting process starts with an online application that includes a video. The next stage is a Zoom call and then an in person audition.
According to New Idea, former MAFS contestants Lucinda Light and Andrea Thompson have joined the cast for the new season.
MAFS’ Lucinda Light and Andrea Thompson join Travel Guides 2026 cast
So much for the casting search
2026
After recently winning its fourth consecutive TV Week Logie award for Best Lifestyle Program, Travel Guides is back in 2026 for another lap around the planet, delivering more gobsmacking destinations and belly laughs than ever.
All of our beloved Guides will return, with the Fren Family, Kevin and Janetta, Matt and Brett, Kev, Dorian and Teng, and Karly and Bri bringing their fabulous, funny, unfiltered opinions on all things travel.
And excitingly, they’ll be joined by a cast of Travel Guides newbies, some you will recognise, with fan favourites Lucinda and Andie from MAFS, Eliza and Liberty from The Block, Callum and Mitch from Love Island, and award-winning country music couple Brooke and Adam all packing their bags and hitting the road. There’ll also be some fresh faces grabbing their passports and joining the fray, like best mates Tash and Meryl, and Brisbane mums Nicky and Connie.
Together they’ll visit ten of the most extraordinary destinations across Australia and around the world: grabbing a Guinness in iconic Ireland, living out their Lion King dreams in Tanzania’s Serengeti, partying til dawn in raucous Rio de Janeiro, and donning an Akubra for the Mount Isa rodeo.
From the airlines they fly to the hotels they bunk down in and the wild adventures on their itinerary, our cast’s vastly different perspectives prove time and again that one person’s idea of holiday perfection is another’s idea of total hell.
Narrated by Aussie comedian and actress Denise Scott, Travel Guides is produced by the 9Network.
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Why are there so many guides? Is the idea to cycle between different combinations of them on different trips? Or could some of these be likely to make a 1 episode appearance?
I definitely think the cast needed freshening up so welcome this. Even if some are from other reality shows.
That’s Brooke McClymont and Adam Eckersley, who came third on The Amazing Race Australia last year.
I reckon the couple wants to explore the world even more following their time on the show.