Meet Guy

About One Extra Night Travel

Travel planning shaped by experience, not guesswork.

One Extra Night Travel is run by Guy Downes from Alnwick, Northumberland, helping travellers across the UK plan holidays that feel carefully chosen, well organised and worth getting right.


With experience in retail travel, airline contracting, international fares, travel marketing and first-hand travel across more than 30 countries, Guy brings practical travel knowledge to every enquiry.

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Guy Downes, founder of One Extra Night Travel
Founder

Guy Downes

One Extra Night Travel

Helping people choose better flights, hotels, routes, tours and travel arrangements with clear, practical advice.

Travel experience Retail travel background since 1989
Airline knowledge Airline contracting and international fares
First-hand travel Travel across more than 30 countries
Why it matters

Good holidays are built from good decisions.

Flights, hotel location, room choice, tour pace, transfers and timings can all change how a trip feels. One Extra Night Travel helps you make those decisions with more confidence.

Practical travel advice

Not just a list of options. Guy helps narrow things down and explain what fits the trip you actually want.

Airline insight

Experience with airline contracting and international fares helps when comparing routes, timings and value.

Personal planning

You deal with one person who takes time to understand the holiday, not a faceless booking engine.

The story

From travel counters to carefully planned holidays.

Guy began in retail travel in 1989 before moving into airline contracting, where he worked with international fares and travel arrangements from the industry side.


Later, after living and working in New York and building a social media business with travel and hospitality clients, he launched One Extra Night Travel to return to what he enjoys most: helping people plan better trips.

What that means for you

Advice before you book

The aim is simple: to help you avoid endless scrolling and choose travel arrangements that make sense.

That might mean finding the right city break hotel, comparing tour styles, adding a stopover, choosing better flight timings or deciding where it is worth spending a little more.

  • Clearer choices before you commit
  • Flights, hotels, tours and travel arrangements considered together
  • Advice shaped around your budget, comfort level and travel style
  • Support from enquiry through to booking
How OEN works

Advice-led travel planning, not endless scrolling.

The process starts with how you want the holiday to feel, then looks at the practical details: where to fly from, how long to stay, which hotels make sense, whether a tour or cruise is right, and where the money is best spent.

Guy can help with

  • Tailor-made holidays with several moving parts
  • Luxury hotels, upgrades and premium travel options
  • City breaks, flights and carefully chosen hotels
  • Small group tours and solo travel holidays
  • River cruises and longer planned journeys
Ready to start?

Tell Guy what you have in mind.

Whether you already know where you want to go or need help narrowing down the options, One Extra Night Travel can help shape the right holiday from the start.

Let’s Meet Up & Plan Your Trip!

Alnwick, Northumberland

Hours
Monday–Friday
10am–5pm

Phone
07927 126 074