Small-group sea kayaking journeys
Your group, our experience on the water
Bringing friends together, running a sea kayaking club, or designing trips for your clients? Voyage Kayak can help you find the right way to travel: take places on an existing departure, arrange a private version of a proven itinerary, or develop a journey around your group.
Since 2011, our independent travel agency has specialised exclusively in sea kayaking trips. You speak directly with Julien Burellier, a French state-certified sea kayak instructor who has guided on the sea since 1998 and personally leads most departures.
Who is this for?
Travel together
Friends, families and other pre-formed groups can explore a private departure on dates that work for them. If you would rather join a wider group, we can also check the places available on a scheduled trip.
A journey for your members
You know your members’ experience and are looking for a coherent route, sound logistics and professional guiding. We can work with your club organiser to define the destination, pace, equipment and needs of the group.
A specialist on the ground
Would you like to offer your clients a genuine sea kayaking journey? We can explore cooperation around a trip from our catalogue or a specific brief. Scope of services, responsibilities and commercial terms are agreed in writing for each project.
Two ways to put a departure together
Join or adapt an existing trip
Start with our scheduled departures or an itinerary already featured on the site. Depending on available places, group size and logistics, we can look at booking several people onto an open departure, opening another date or arranging a private version.
Develop your own project
Have a region, season, pace or objective in mind? We assess feasibility before proposing a programme: paddling levels, season, regulations, access, accommodation, equipment, local partners, transport and budget. It may build on a known route or require fresh research and reconnaissance.
A private departure does not mean a fixed route at sea: the guide may adapt the stages to weather, sea state, local rules and safety requirements.
One approach, different ways to travel
Depending on the destination, your group might travel self-supported with loaded kayaks and nights in tents, paddle between locally run accommodation, or return each evening to a support vessel: a catamaran in the Mediterranean, a traditional boat in some tropical archipelagos, or an expedition ship in polar regions. The format follows the place and your aims.
We usually work with small groups, often four to eight travellers. Actual capacity depends on the kayaks, accommodation, any support vessel, participants’ experience, guides and local rules. Single or tandem kayaks, equipment and guiding language are specified in each proposal.
What we define together
- Destination, possible dates and duration.
- Group size and participants’ experience.
- Distances, intensity and trip objectives.
- Accommodation and any support vessel.
- Kayaks, included equipment and logistics.
- Guiding language and particular needs.
- Inclusions, exclusions and transfers.
- Budget, booking terms and professional arrangements.
From the first conversation to launch day
- Tell us about your group and your idea, even if it is still taking shape.
- We assess feasibility: experience, season, availability, guiding and logistics.
- We prepare a proposal with an indicative route, services and pricing for your project.
- We finalise the details with your group organiser before bookings and participant preparation.
All proposals are subject to availability and a review of participants’ paddling experience. A catalogue trip’s public price is not automatically the price of a private departure or a professional partnership.
Let’s talk about your group
For an initial discussion, tell us who you represent, your preferred destination (or the kind of journey you have in mind), possible dates, approximate group size, sea kayaking experience and indicative budget. Clubs and tour operators can also tell us their role in organising the trip and which services they would like Voyage Kayak to provide.