You’d like to be Tom Cruise, but you don’t have the time for all that training. Also, you’re tired of regular package holidays where you're expected to enjoy a walk around the old town before visiting an atmospheric tourist trattoria. Fear not. At Pelorus Travel, who specialise in "designing truly remarkable experiences”, they’ve heard you. And have come up with nothing less than a personal Mission Impossible – an extreme adventure over nine days in the wilder parts of Norway. This is your mission, should you choose to accept it... and have the cash.
If Tom Cruise has trained us to expect the unexpected, Pelorus Travel have certainly been watching the right movies. Promised is tactical instruction by an actual ex Special Forces officer. He'll meet you in Stavanger in south west Norway with a full brief of what’s ahead: including supercars, parachuting and stunt choreography. There’s more at stake here than the morning dash to get a towel on a poolside sunlounger.
“This is your mission, should you choose to accept it - a nine-day, no-expense-spared plunge into Norway’s wildest landscapes, complete with tactical briefings, helicopters and a very serious bill.”
Piling your plate at the all you can eat breakfast buffet? Probably not on this trip. Because the following days include a race by RIB boats across a fjord, climbing up a sheer cliff featured in Mission Impossible 7, abseiling down a dam wall, a race with supercars or superbikes - and an expedition yacht ready to navigate between the ice in search of polar bears. And there was us thinking that this might be the moment for a little sunbathing on deck.
Happily there are high-end creature comforts after all these adventures. Pelorus Travel are promising at least one night at the mansion where Tom Cruise stayed while filming in this part of the world. That’s after you’ve admired the work of the professional stunt team employed by the Mission Impossible franchise and realising you were probably right not to tick the box that would have involved you joining them. There are naturally helicopters too - what is Mission Impossible without the helicopters - and weapons handling. You’ll be in good hands: Chief Executive Geordie Mackay-Lewis is both a former British Army captain in the elite reconnaissance regiment and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Exhausted and yet curiously exhilarated? You will be.
“Forget piling your plate at the breakfast buffet; the days ahead involve racing RIB boats across icy water and scaling the sheer cliff face made famous by Mission Impossible 7.”
This is going to cost a little more than the average package holiday in Magaluf, lovely though that is at this time of year. Pelorus Travel are aiming their extraordinary experiences - you could also trek across northern India, be a Traitor in a Scottish castle or travel at speed around Portugal by motorcycle - at those with money but with a certain world weariness. The Norway Assignment - excluding international flights and Tom Cruise, though no guarantee he’ll turn up anyway - starts at £125,000 per person. We’ll use the cash to buy the latest Range Rover and meet you for cocktails somewhere impossibly secret.
