Winner of Tripoutgaytravel.com's Award for Best LGBT Tour Operator, and Consecutive Winner of Out Traveler's Reader’s Choice Award for Best Small Gay Tour Provider!
Whether it's cooking in the private home of a famous Brazilian chef, getting blessed by a real Inka shaman in a temple of Machu Picchu, or entering a private African Party on the banks of the Zambezi River by elephant back, Zoom Vacations® brings unmatched experiences, showing our travelers more than just a good time.
Zoom creates global vacations that feed the hearts, souls, and minds of our travelers.
Our travelers truly live the destination, while enjoying multi-sensory over-the-top events and excursions. Anyone can hop on a plane and visit the typical tourist attractions. That's not how we do things.
Our travelers join our tours because they want something more than the typical trip. They want to be inspired.
And of course, we research each aspect of our vacation packages to insure that every hotel, meal, excursion, and tour we provide is something that truly energizes and expands the imaginations of our guests, while providing camaraderie and connection to the destination and those around them.
Please click the "group trips" drop-down button above for a complete listing of our gay tours.
Scandinavia: Sweden, Finland, and Russia
December 30, 2011 to January 8, 2012
Zoom Scandinavia transports our guests to an ethereal world, limited only by one's imagination. Some will instantly think of Santa Claus, as we take to Reindeer sledding. Others will delight as some of their wildest, pampering spa fantasies come to life. This is the birthplace of the sauna, afterall. Read more about this trip...
Rio de Janeiro: Carnaval
February 17-22, 2012
Every year thousands of people zoom to Rio to celebrate the world’s greatest celebration of dance, culture, good times, and good will.
Join us for Carnaval, and see why we are in love with the Cidade Maravilhosa (Marvelous City). Read more about this trip...
Australia: Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
March 1-9, 2012
Especially since we have added a visit to world-famous Ayers rock to this tour, there has never been a better time to join us for Mardi Gras! Plus, you will round out your stay with our trip to the Blue Mountains and the great barrier reef. Read more about this trip...
Gay Travel
Gay travel has seen remarkable changes and growth in the past decade. As a gay tour operator, this change has led to amazing opportunities in the kinds of lesbian and gay vacations that we are able to provide. For instance, lesbian and gay travel is now embraced in destinations and hotels where it wasn't just 10 years ago. All gay group tours and vacations can now offer the same (or perhaps even better) quality and breadth of experiences as our straight counterparts.
Zoom Vacations® offers fun, luxurious, affordable lesbian and all gay tours to the hottest destinations in the world. We understand that successful gay tours must entail personalized, sincere attention at every step of the journey, and getting to know our travelers is one of our favorite aspects of what we do. While we use the phrase gay vacations throughout this site, it may be more accurate to say that we provide gay-friendly travel (specifically gay-friendly tours). We encourage the friends and families of our gay travelers to come along, and we are always happy to assist gay-friendly travelers in any way we can.
As global prejudice continues to fall, lesbian and gay travel, and certainly travel in general, is evolving in exciting, powerful ways. Zoom Vacations® is poised to meet this evolution, providing the most modern, fun, stylish gay and lesbian vacations possible.
Our travelers say our trips are "over-the-top", "magical" and "the best trip I ever had". We create experiences unique to Zoom Vacations® that you simply won't find any place else. It's as if you are traveling with a best friend who lives in the destination you are visiting, and who is inviting you to the hottest events, taking you on the most incredible excursions, and introducing you to the best restaurants. When you travel with Zoom Vacations®, you leave all prior notions of touring behind, and prepare yourself for something truly magical.
A Few Testimonials from Some of Our Travelers
Each trip was packed full with a variety of experiences that exceeded our expectations. They were very different trips, and we came away with friends we still keep in touch with today and memories to last a lifetime.
James and Mark, Dallas, TX
I have to say, this was the best time I have ever had in my life. Every day was a new adventure.
Troy, Washington, DC
I've been traveling alone for the past couple of years; it was delightful to meet new people and make good friends. It was a trip of a lifetime.
Antay, Minneapolis, MN
We are definitely hooked on Zoom Vacations®......We had the opportunity to come in contact with a fascinating culture, food and an extremely harmonious group of people. For all of that and more, THANK YOU. We can't wait to book another trip, the problem is deciding where... Decision, Decisions..... Thanks again
Leonel and Adrian, San Bernardino, CA
After several weeks I still feel every part of this trip was worth every dime. And it truly did change me.
Patrick, N. Minneapolis, MN
In a world where so many companies over-promise and under-deliver, it is refreshing to find one that greatly over-delivers. Thank you so much for all the extra work you put in to make this vacation special for all of us.
Chad, Chicago, IL
Top ten reasons why I miss Zoom Vacations®
#1 I'm working full time again
#2 Nobody is waiting on me hand and foot at home
#3 The food is not as good back home
#4 The sun doesn't shine everyday
#5 They speak the same language in Jersey
#6 I need a new necklace
#7 Seeing my friends in the hot tub :)~
#8 I've only been on 8 trips
#9 I miss my friends
#10 I love the cab rides :) (private joke)
