Valencia

By K.P. our resident food critic Paella is one of Spain’s national joys (as you probably know) and is hands down the one dish you HAVE to wrap your mouth…

La Tomatina 2020 has been cancelled due to to COVID-19. Plan your 2021 La Tomatina tour with a risk-free €1 deposit. Throw tomatoes in coronavirus’ face!  Obviously at this time…

Your European summer has finally arrived.  Like the absolute sesh savage you are, you’ve booked a few of Stoke’s epic summer packages.  Your suitcase is already stuffed with your cheekiest…

Another fun fiesta/food fight the night before La Tomatina Spain has so many wine regions. There’s the famous La Rioja, the less famous, but better, Priorat; the fortified wine known…

By now you know that this year Stoke Travel is offering Valencia hotel stays for La Tomatina as well as our legendary beachside campsite. Now everybody loves the campsite, because…

With Stoke Travel you can do both! But which one? Well, let’s pit our La Tomatina hotel against our La Tomatina campsite to see which accommodation type is the best…

20 things you need to know about SPAIN’S FAMOUS TOMATO FIGHT.  What is La Tomatina? Spain’s tomato fight festival, the world’s biggest food fight, or a yearly battle fought between…

Hangovers are a part of life! They are the universe’s way of punishing you for having too much fun, and you can and will have hangovers from excessive anything! Too…

La Tomatina is Spain’s famous tomato fight and the world’s biggest food fight. Stoke Travel operates two La Tomatina tour options – either at our beachside party camp, or in…

And here’s why. Hurling tomatoes is consequence free(ish) and extremely cathartic Humans are bred for warfare. For conflict. For battle, for hurling projectiles at each other, be they rocks, spears,…

La Tomatina is coming soon, and with it all of your body’s holes filled with tomato pulp! Glorious! Tomato seeds, tomato juice, tomato skin, all combining and getting deep inside…

Dangerously fun! Are you on the fence about La Tomatina? Does fighting with tomatoes concern you? Well we’re here to get you off that fence and on your way to…

Disclaimer: there’s nothing wrong with regular Stoke Travel trips, in fact they’re already major upgrades on everything else offered out there. A Stoke Travel trip is an upgrade on life!…

We love our camps! All of them, especially the La Tomatina beachside camp, just north of Valencia with its pool, and the playa, and onsite bar and restaurant and the…

Winter is going to be LIT, literally, with these fiery Spanish fiestas…

A statement from Stoke Travel regarding usage of the term “lit” and its applicability to the Las Fallas festival. Following recent reports of one of our 40-year-old marketing executives embarrassingly…

Oi, Oi Stokies! We hear you’re planning on going on a Stoke Travel festival, eh? Damn good choice we say. But how are you going to get there? Well, we…

Always wanted to try something a little foreign and never known how? Our tips will get you well on your sweet-talkin’ way. So you’ve just hit the Spanish leg of…

That’s it! Oktoberfest is wrapped, folded, washed and hung out to dry, and along with it Stoke summer 2017. What a blast! A record-breaking summer of atmospheric highs very often…

Editor’s note: Ryan “The Chosen One” Whitaker just finished up his three months embedded with Stoke Travel, seeing a summer from the perspective of both a traveller and a volunteer….

Editor’s note: over the winter we ran a competition to find the “Chosen One”, a one-of-a-kind, absolutely average, everyday hero who would win our Most Ordinary Extraordinary Job In The…

Some last minute things to check off before summer disappears JOSEPHINE RYAN MURPHY It may be hard to come to terms with, but Europe’s summer is actually coming to an…

Tips to help you pick up in the middle of a tomato fight JOSEPHINE RYAN MURPHY Food fights may seem like a carefree fun idea but anyone who’s experienced a…