On your holiday to the quaint coastal towns of Carmel and Monterey, on California’s Monterey Peninsula, you can expect to find travellers blustery beaches and secluded coves, fascinating local history, indulgent eateries and boutique hotels - all underpinned with a rich cultural heritage and enduring creative vibe.

Seafaring Monterey is known across the globe for its pioneering non-profit aquarium overlooking Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, which helps conserve the dense kelp forests and a vibrant marine ecosystem of seals and sea lions, dolphins and whales. On your holiday to Monterey we recommend you is just the place to board an expedition vessel led by marine biologists and scour the glittering seas for humpbacks, blue whales, long-beaked dolphins and killer whales. Every literature-loving visitor needs to You must tick off the former sardine-packing district of Cannery Row, made famous by local boy John Steinbeck and now populated with hotels, seafood restaurants and quirky boutiques. But we’d steer you towards the charming historic quarter downtown for a slice of small-town Americana, with restored and well-preserved Spanish adobe buildings and 1920s theatres like the legendary Golden State, which has played host to B.B. King and Willie Nelson.

Seafaring Monterey is known across the globe for its pioneering non-profit aquarium overlooking Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, which helps conserve the dense kelp forests and a vibrant marine ecosystem of seals and sea lions, dolphins and whales. On your holiday to Monterey we recommend you is just the place to board an expedition vessel led by marine biologists and scour the glittering seas for humpbacks, blue whales, long-beaked dolphins and killer whales. Every literature-loving visitor needs to You must tick off the former sardine-packing district of Cannery Row, made famous by local boy John Steinbeck and now populated with hotels, seafood restaurants and quirky boutiques. But we’d steer you towards the charming historic quarter downtown for a slice of small-town Americana, with restored and well-preserved Spanish adobe buildings and 1920s theatres like the legendary Golden State, which has played host to B.B. King and Willie Nelson.