Season 4 premieres on Tuesday, January 26 at 7.30pm according to the show’s Facebook page.
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Travel Guides take off with homegrown adventures
Returning for a special Aussie event series, the hilariously entertaining Travel Guides premieres Tuesday, January 26, at 7.30pm on Nine and 9Now.
Five very different groups of Aussie travellers will again be offering their funny and distinctive perspective for holiday reviews as they journey around our great nation critiquing and exploring new destinations.
Look out, ’Straya, when our Guides take an active wellness holiday in Byron Bay, an Outback adventure through the Red Centre, go on a water wonderland holiday in the tropical Whitsundays, and embark on an action-packed trip around wintry Tasmania.
Two fresh faces are added to the Travel Guides cast for 2021: travel addicts and longtime couple Matt and Brett from Newcastle, NSW.
Matt and Brett join the returning Guides: The Fren family, twin cowgirls Stack and Mel, travel snobs Kevin and Janetta, and best mates Kev, Dorian and Teng.
Each group will travel to the same location and experience the same week-long holiday, reviewing the cuisine, accommodation, activities and local sights.
Their hilarious adventures will inspire you to travel around this great continent and make you laugh out loud as our Guides tell it how they see it and rate each holiday out of five stars.
This is the cast for the new Aussie event series of Travel Guides:
Matt (45) and Brett (51)
This couple, bona fide travel addicts from Newcastle, NSW, are new to the Travel Guides experience. Matt and Brett are seasoned travellers who have shared many adventures on holidays together. Whilst they describe themselves as high-end travellers, they also love a bargain and a discount rate.
Their travels must always include a good shopping spree and dining experience.
Kevin (63) and Janetta (69)
Self-professed “holiday snobs” Kevin and Janetta return to seek out the best accommodation, food and wine. Married for over three decades, these jet-setting retirees hate settling for anything second-rate.
This discerning duo expect the best when on holiday, and if the quality or service isn’t up to scratch, they will not hesitate to make a complaint. “We don’t suffer in silence” is their catchphrase.
The Fren Family: Mark (59), Catherine (57), Victoria (27) and Jonathon (29)
These endearing bargain hunters from Newcastle, NSW, are well equipped to cope with stressful family situations and can always find the funny side of any holiday disaster.
The Frens will stop at nothing to bag an upgrade. They are willing to try anything at least once, and they are never afraid to speak their mind.
Stack (31) and Mel (31)
These identical twin cowgirls from country NSW are a little wary when it comes to venturing anywhere beyond the Outback, but they are willing to give anything a crack.
They are competitive rodeo ropers used to roughing it and not easily impressed by fancy holidays. The girls also love a hearty meal, but if there’s no decent tucker on the menu, watch out!
Kev (28), Teng (25) and Dorian (24)
The trio of suburban Millennials used to work together at Target. They are budget travellers who are ready to leave the comforts of life at home with their parents to explore the world.
They are always quick to make fun of each other and their ideal holiday involves adrenaline-fuelled adventures (except for Dorian), hanging out in bars and eating plenty of greasy food.
Narrated by popular Aussie comedian Denise Scott, Travel Guides is produced by Nine.
We may never see them. Even if it is end of the year / early next year that we are back to travel it will be weird seeing people travelling pre-covid. It will just feel outdated not only cos it was filmed a couple of years earlier but everything that’s happened in the world some of the locations might be very different post the pandemic.
Do we know how many episodes are in the new season? I’m thinking it will be short with a couple episodes plucked from the season they had already filmed (as they often have a couple of Aussie locations) and then probably recently filmed a couple more.
There are 4 Australian locations listed in the opening episode.
The first 2 locations in the new schedule are Byron Bay and Red Centre.
That leaves, Whitsundays and Tasmania.
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Q&A with Matt and Brett in The Age Green Guide (out tomorrow).
I’m a fan of Travel Guides and am finding this series of Australian destinations interesting. Visiting some very familiar places, where I’ve travelled myself, it makes it really obvious how much this show is driven by promotion of the various destination products. It is really clear why Nine held back showing the series until interstate travel was easier.
It’s also clear that many of the activities chosen for our ordinary Australian travel critics are not at all typical of what an ordinary tourist would visit and don’t give you a real idea of what a typical visit to the destination would be like.
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Look out for brief appearance in tonight’s episode by Tasmanian Truffles’s Henry Terry currently seen on 10’s Left Off the Map.
Pretty sure they aired a promo for the new season in tonight’s episode? Saw various countries flash up on the screen like Turkey but thats all I caught. Did anyone capture it? They must have decided to air the remaining filmed episodes.
It’s crazy not to screen them. International travel could be realistically impossible for another couple of years so stupid to wait for the tie-ins for potential travellers.
They should have just aired them last year then. Now that they’ve left it so long some viewers might not even realise they are new episodes, given the cast clearly couldn’t have travelled for the past year.
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Returns Wednesday 14 April
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A bit too early in my opinion. They just aired the Aussie one about 2 months ago.
How is this new? How did they travel outside of Australia?
He means a new season.
Yeah im talking about the promo.it said Mexico
Season 4 was supposed to air in 2019 but Nine held it back because of COVID. The show is bankrolled by commercial arrangements with the places they travel to, and this obviously would not work with Australians unable to travel overseas.
Earlier this this year Nine showed the Australian episodes of the season and now it looks like they aren’t going to wait any longer to show the unaired overseas episodes.
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I hope they make this clear at the start of each episode (that it was filmed pre-pandemic) because I think the majority of people will be wondering the same thing. It’s only going to confuse viewers or make them think they are repeats.
Unfortunately Travel Guides return has been bumped from Nine’s schedule.