CalellaFest 2010 joins ILOVETOUR.co.uk

5th February 2010

CalellaFest, the longest serving university sports festival available to UK students, has joined the ILOVETOUR series of University Sports Festivals!  The event will now be operated by the team behind ‘Saloufest’, ‘Festival Italia’ and ‘Damfest’ events under the guidance of managing director, Sam Seward.  CalellaFest 2010 will merge with Saloufest 2010 – making this the world’s biggest university sports festival to date.

Teamlink Sports Tours’ managing director, Mark Gardner, believes the merger represents a positive step for both brands going forward.  “We are delighted to be able to work with Sam Seward and his team at ILOVETOUR to offer this amazing opportunity for the two great festivals to join forces in one amazing week!  Naturally this decision was not taken lightly- and changing the venue to Salou for this year’s tour was motivated only by TeamLink & ILOVETOUR’s desire to give you the best possible tour experience- as always.”

The move also represents a huge boost for ILOVETOUR’s selection of events.  ILOVETOUR MD Sam Seward explains: “CalellaFest is a well-loved, much-respected festival and the ILOVETOUR team and I are hugely excited to be getting behind it. We’ve all kinds of brilliant ideas for CalellaFest 2011- but for now we’re devoting all our energy to the massive task of running this year’s combined Calellafest & Saloufest Week 1 event in beautiful Salou! We’ve got some fantastic surprises in store and I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say this event will be bigger and better than any sports fest ever!”

With Calellafest in their portfolio, ILOVETOUR are now indisputably the market leader in student sports festivals with over 10,000 students attending their Easter events alone each year.
Constantly setting the standard in event quality, safety management and wow-factor-  where ILOVETOUR lead, other sports festival organisers follow.

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ILOVETOUR Fancy Dress Themes Announced!!!

3rd February 2010

After much deliberation- we're pleased to announce the following as the 2010 ILOVETOUR official tour nights themes!

There will be a prize for the team/uni with consitantly the best fancy dress effort for the week- decided by the Student Assistance Team- as always.

1.       Geeks vs Superheroes
- Release your inner SpiderMan (or Peter Parker).

2.       Over 60’s Bingo Night (OAP’s)
-  Zimmer frames and incontinence pants time!

3.       Tour Shirts or Your Fancy Dress.
-  Prizegiving night means you can wear your uni colours with pride- or express yourselves with your very own tour theme!!

4.       Rubik’s Cube Night.
- you know the drill by now- pick a colour and get swapping!

Final Balances & Drop Outs

1st February 2010

Please note that the final payment deadlines published are not flexible, unless (as stated in our terms and conditions) your group leader has made contact with us and negotiated an extension.

Online tourists can expect to see their tour places cancelled within 24 hours of the published payment deadline IF they have failed to pay the balance.

Group leaders of offline bookings must contact us if they suspect their cheques/BACS payments will not arrive by the deadline- or they too risk cancellation.

We will always endeavour to be as flexible as possible, however with 10,000 students travelling with us this Easter, it is unfortunately impossible for us to offer the quality of tour our clients expect without completing the bookings/payment process on schedule. We thank you for your understanding!!

Welcome back party people!

16th January 2010

Welcome back and happy new touring year!!

We hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and are raring to go with the new semester- but more importantly are ready for tour. Your preparations should be in full swing given there is only a trifling 70 days or so until the best week of the year!

A reminder to you group leaders that the payment deadlines are nearly upon us:

- If your team are one of the 7,000 or so students heading to Spain, your payment deadline is the 29th January 2010 at 16:00 (that's 4pm in plain speak!).

- For the 2,000 of you going to Italy- your deadline is 1600 on the 5th February!

- Finally, for the hardy 500 Damfest elite, you have until the same time on the 2nd February to get the readies in.

Please don't wait until the last minute and don't miss out!!

IMPORTANT- all group leaders should have received their main pre-tour information letter. If you've not received the PDF (sent by email) and think you should have- contact us now!!

Watch this space for Fancy Dress themes- these will be announced very soon. 

Merry Christmas from ILOVETOUR!!

18th December 2009

The SET Sports Tours/ILOVETOUR office will be closed from 3pm on Christmas eve, 24^th December 2009.

The office will re-open at 08:30 on Monday 4^th January 2010. During this period emails may be sporadically checked but if you have any requests or questions regarding your tour booking or quotation, please contact us as soon as possible.

On behalf of the whole team here at ILOVETOUR, we’d like to wish you a merry Christmas, thank you for your business in 2009 wish you a happy and prosperous new year!!

Today's the day!

4th December 2009

Remember- our deadline for deposit payments is 4pm today! Most sports at both weeks of Saloufest are sold out. Got a late booking? We know you love tour too and we MAY be able to squeeze you in- just give us a call!

If your group already has a booking and you believe your team are going to have issues meeting the deadline- please make sure you get in touch with us ASAP.

We are able to offer extensions until Monday- 12 Noon- for groups requiring a little extra time- please just get in touch and get an extension granted by one of our office team!

Pay your £60 deposits by 16:00 on Monday 23rd November to get 1:20 Free Places!!

22nd November 2009

Please remember to pay your £60 deposit by 16:00 on 23/11/09 to qualify for our double free places (that's 1:20 instead of 1:40) deadline. This has been extended once (from the 10th November) already- so will not be extended again!!

Deposits paid after today will be counted towards the regular free places ratio of 1:40 per person.

Remember all deposits- offline or online need to be paid by the 4th December 2009!

Saloufest- Many sports already sold out both weeks!

3rd November 2009

Saloufest has, again, sold in record time, with many sports, most notably netball, lacrosse, rugby and football at near capacity. Captains/group leaders, if you haven't got online and set your group up yet- do it now! If you'd prefer not to use the online booking tool, you need to email us for a booking form and get the deposits rolling in!

Italia and Damfest still have availability for the above sports, with hockey looking especially fantastic in the Dutch party capital! Don't forget to achieve DOUBLE free places- that's 1:20, you'll need to get your deposits in (£60 per paying passenger) by 4pm on the 23rd November! After that it's just plain 'ol 1:40 free places as usual! 2010 will be a special year for ILOVETOUR and numbers are already looking stronger and lovlier than last year's amazing 8,000 tourists!! So... invite your housemates, old boys and girls and anyone who wants to experience the best week of their lives- and GET ON TOUR!!!!

Graduates looking for work?

10th October 2009

Sports, travel, event management? Your dream job? Maybe! Click on the link below and find out.

We're looking for graduates to join our world class office operations team. Applicants should be organized, motivated and hungry for a real challenge. If you or someone you know is job hunting why not forward them a link to this page? Applications close mid-November- so don't hang around!!

Click here to download

Saloufest FREE PACHA PARTY confirmed!!

28th September 2009

We've done it! The scene is set for the best day of your life!! We're finishing BOTH weeks of Saloufest with a FREE Pacha party!! 5,000 students in one of the world's greatest superclubs!! Watch this space for our DJ's, entertainers, discount drinks promotions and celebrity line up!!

This party is EXCLUSIVELY for Saloufest participants and will be an incredible scene to collect your trophies and prizes and celebrate the end of the best week of your life so far!! This is ILOVETOUR's 10th birthday party and you do no want to miss out!!

Click here to download the flyer

Welcome to the new ILOVETOUR.co.uk

25th September 2009

Hi all! Welcome back! We hope you're having a fantastic Fresher's week. We're very pleased to unveil our new website- complete with our fantastic online booking platform. We're still developing the site and the website but we're happy to say you can begin booking as of today- so go ahead and register as a group leader.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ILOVETOUR.co.uk!!!

12th September 2009

2010 represents TEN glorious years of our running sports tours and we want to celebrate. Our first gift to you, our beloved tourists is FIVE POUNDS. Yes £5 off all our brochure prices for our Easter 2010 tours. In addition to this we are giving you DOUBLE FREE PLACES.

That's one free place for every 20 tourists. All you need to do is have paid your booking deposits by the 10th November 2009!! Easy!! Any bookings received after the 10th November will still benefit from our generous free place ratio of 1 per 40 paying tourists!!! That's TWO birthday pressies for you, our fantastic tourists!