Independent Tours in Europe – What Are The Benefits
On a traditional guided tour, the traveler typically stays with a group of 30 or more while visiting the sights with travel on a preset schedule, but with Independent Travel you pick the days that you wish to travel to each destination on the tour, the only planning required in advance is the date you arrive in the country and the date you wish to leave. Locations throughout the tour are preset, but each traveler decides how long they wish to stay at any destination and can notify the tour operator of any changes. This allows much more flexibility during your vacation while ensuring the benefit of an experienced travel guide to get you from one place to the next and share interesting facts about each location visited. Another benefit of traveling with a tour is that the operators are local and speak the language of the countries visited.
Three Independent tour specialists that were evaluated for this review were Monograms Travel, Insight Vacations (with Insight Select,) and Brendan Tours. All three companies offer a wonderful variety of independent europe tours. Upon arrival you have transportation to and from the airport, breakfast daily, an orientation tour so you don’t miss out on any of the ‘must see’ sights, and luxury touring coaches, trains, ferries or air travel between destinations. You can add on additional sightseeing if you’d like, or explore on your own. These vacations are ideal for the independent traveller. They are stylish, hassle free, flexible and great value – a vacation as you would have planned it yourself.
Independent tours in Europe offer flexibility alongside expert itinerary planning. Our advisors’ Common Mistakes to Avoid When Traveling to Europe guide covers how to get the most from independent European travel.
