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Andrew Earles Holidays turns 'flooding disaster' into a new start in just nine weeks

Agents
Rob Gill
4 December 2025

Andrew Earles Holidays has bounced back from the brink of potential "disaster" after relocating to a new premises with a target to more than double its sales – just nine weeks after the agency's home of more than 30 years was badly flooded.

Andrew Earles Holidays has relocated to new, larger premises in Hull
(Credit: Andrew Earle)

Andrew Earles Holidays has relocated to new, larger premises in Hull (Credit: Andrew Earle)

Earle, who has run the business since 1993, told TTG how he and his team raced to turn the crisis into an opportunity after parts of East Yorkshire and Humberside were hit by several days of heavy rain in late-September.

"We had damage to the basement storage area and were reduced from six working desks to two,” he recalled. “We faced being closed for six weeks for the repairs.”

However, just two months later, the business has successfully relocated to a larger shop “literally 40 yards” from the agency’s previous home – one Earle believes will allow the business to more than double its sales over the coming years.