A family business with a full-time staff in Athens, Homeric Tours specializes in Greece tours, the Mediterranean, as well as Eastern Europe tours and cruises. Since 1969, Homeric has been hand-crafting tours and cruises to Greece, Italy, Egypt, Cyprus, Morocco, Central & Eastern Europe, Jordan, Turkey and Israel.
They offer a variety of reasonably-priced (some trips under $1000, with many between $1000-2000) escorted itineraries, semi-escorted, and independent tours, as well as hand-crafted customized vacations. Many of their Greece and Italy tours include short (3-4 days) Mediterranean cruises as part of the itinerary or for travelers to Egypt, Nile River cruises!
Travelers have a choice of either Independent Hosted tours, Escorted tours, or Partially Escorted tours. On Independent tours, you will be traveling mostly on your own but with the security of the Homeric staff “behind the scenes” ensuring that everything runs smoothly. On Escorted tours, guests will travel via motorcoach with a Tour Guide for the entire trip. On Partially Escorted tours, travelers enjoy a mix between Escorted and Independent.
For over 75 years, this family-run company based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has specialized in fully escorted Europe tours to Europe’s most popular destinations. In addition to their signature Heart of Europe® Circle tour, they currently offer 9 other Europe tours including their World War II Memorial tour, Treasures of Italy tour, Heart of the British Isles tour, London, Paris, & Rome tour, and several others.
Their popular Heart of Europe tour is a 15-day adventure featuring the historic and cultural highlights of Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and France. Designed to take in as much as possible while maintaining a comfortable pace (via deluxe motor coach), free time is available during stops and there are also optional excursions. Optional excursions, such as boat rides or evening entertainment, are usually between $25-$95 and booked with your Tour Manager while on your trip.
The average time spent on the motor coach between stops is usually less than two hours and most nights are spent at family-run hotels with a true European feel. While all of their Tour Managers are fluent in English, they are native Europeans committed to showing you ‘their’ Europe. Image Tours is also happy to book trip extensions if you would like to stay an extra few days in your tour hotel at the end of your trip.
For over 84 years, CIE Tours has specialized in high quality Ireland and Britain tours. CIE has built a solid reputation by delivering excellent vacations with state-of-the-art luxury coaches, prompt and pleasant customer service, the best hotels, and carefully chosen cultural attractions and entertainment.
For a royal experience, CIE offers Deluxe Tours where guests stay in 5-star historic properties, including Ashford Castle or Dromoland Castle. In fact, many of CIE’s tours include stays at 4-star castle hotels such as Clontarf, Cabra or Kilronan Castle, giving travelers a similar experience for a more moderate cost. Trips feature Bunratty, Knappogue or Cardiff Castle Banquets on a number of tours and all itineraries visit plenty of castles throughout Ireland and Britain.
Escorted tours are fully inclusive with no optional extras to purchase at your destination, allowing tour directors to focus solely on your enjoyment. Most group tours average about 35 guests, but their motorcoaches can accommodate 48 passengers. They include airport transfers, daily sightseeing programs and excursions (with prepaid admission fees), full breakfasts, table d’hote dinners, medieval banquets and cabarets – everything to make your vacation memorable. CIE promises balanced and varied days of sightseeing with plenty of stops for taking photos, shopping, lunch, snacks and bathrooms, and that you will never travel for longer than two hours without getting off the coach.
From the moment you land in Ireland or Britain, your Tour Director is there to welcome you, handle your luggage, drive you from place to place, and give you a daily commentary. CIE’s professional local Tour Directors make history and culture come alive with daily doses of humor, information and assistance.
For those who prefer to travel independently, CIE also offers self-drive and chauffeur-drive programs for Ireland with a wide range of hotel accommodations, including popular B&Bs, which can be booked in advance.
Enchanted France specializes in unique, hand-crafted France tours and other popular Europe destinations, with an emphasis on theme tours and special interests. Because no two travelers are alike, owner Yolande Kamins believes in customizing each journey to ensure authentic, unique and memorable travel experiences. A sampling of their unique tours include: Women’s Parisian Adventure, A Grand Tour of Bordeaux Vineyards, Cooking Classes in a Provencal Village, From Cezanne to Picasso, Burgandy Discovery Bike Tours, Castles and Garden Tours of Ireland and Scotland, Biking Tour of Tuscany, and many more!
Having grown up in France, Yolande is able to share her knowledge of France and other favorite European gems such as Tuscany, the Amalfi Coast, Umbria, Andalusia, Costa del Sol, the Algarve, the Greek Isles, Mainland Greece, and the Irish countryside. Enchanted France offers a wide range of special interest tours including golf/spa tours, wine tours, culinary tours, biking/hiking, religious pilgrimages, romance/honeymoon, canal/river cruises and more.
In addition, they specialize in booking travelers in quality charming hotels and bed and breakfast establishments, including luxurious châteaus, manor houses, farmhouses, or perhaps a converted mill or family hotel — all places full of charm, coziness and personal attention.
They can also design customized tours and itineraries with an emphasis on your personal interests or special occasions such as honeymoon/anniversaries, family friendly, educational groups, religious, Kosher/Jewish heritage and more. Their self-guided itineraries throughout France’s countryside can be self-drive or use rail passes or a combination of both. For larger groups they will organize minibus transportation escorted or self guided.
From wine tours and cooking vacations, to hiking and biking tours, self-drive or chauffeur driven tours, rail packages, luxury villa rentals, boutique hotels, and European beach vacations — they truly have something for everyone!
Established in 1994, Discover France Adventures has become a leader in self-guided cycling tours to France and Italy, and now Northern and Eastern Europe.
Self-guided means you choose the dates of your travel; you travel with your own small group, typically 2 to 10 travelers; your route and lodging are meticulously planned by their staff; all plans can be customized according to your interests; you have a choice of hotel options to fit your budget; they arrange all of your luggage transfers!
On your first day, you’ll be met by a Discover France representative who will help you get started. Should any issues arise, you have 24-hour access to a Discover France person through their local support hotline, and if you are unable to finish the day’s ride, they will send a support van.
They also offer multisport tours, mountain biking, canoe/kayak, via ferrata, canyoning, and special activities such as cooking classes, wine education, aromatherapy and yoga.
Established in 1994, Discover France Adventures has become a leader in self-guided cycling tours to France, Italy, Northern and Eastern Europe. Their self-guided cycling tours allow you to choose the dates of your travel; you travel with your own small group, typically 2 to 10 travelers; your route and lodging are meticulously planned by their staff; all plans can be customized according to your interests; you have a choice of hotel options to fit your budget, and they arrange all of your luggage transfers.
On your first day, you’ll be met by a Discover France representative who will help you get started. Should any issues arise, you have 24-hour access to a Discover France person through their local support hotline, and if you are unable to finish the day’s ride, they will send a support van.
They also offer multisport tours, mountain biking, canoe/kayak, via ferrata, canyoning, and special activities such as cooking classes, wine education, aromatherapy and yoga.
Founded in 1967, Isramworld is one of America’s largest tour operators and is known for Israel tours and travel packages. Over the years they have expanded their inventory to include the Mediterranean with tours to Greece, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Jordan and Egypt.
For Europe tours, their EuropeToo brand offers group and individual travel experiences in Central Europe and Russia, including escorted group tours, river cruises, deluxe touring by private car, and more. They also offer special interest tours featuring Eastern Europe’s Jewish heritage, and spa experiences. Numerous specialty tours include tours just for women, and for upscale travelers, The Elite Travel Collection.
Kutrubes specializes in offering a large number of Eastern Europe small group tours, including Greece, Croatia, and the Balkans (Albania, Macedonia, Kosova, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia) as well as Eastern Europe, including Russia.
Their unique Europe tours include wine and culinary tours, historical tours, archeological tours, hiking, cycling and multi-sport tours, self-drive tours, several Jewish heritage tours, Holy land tours, Germany Christmas market tours, Adriatic cruises and more!
For over a century, this family-owned business has specialized in off-the-beaten-track individual and small-group tours to satisfy the most curious and discriminating traveler, creating adventure travel vacations to the less-traveled parts of the world. They also offer tours to India, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.
Kutrubes also offer customized vacations where they will arrange any class hotel in the destinations of your choice, combine different types of transport and guides, arrange attractions that are to your interest, and cover as much of the country as you want. An independent tour offers the flexibility, the sense of adventure and the level of enjoyment that no group tour can.
Aside from their tours to more popular destinations, their niche has been finding that magical window when post-conflict destinations are newly opened to tourism and the locals welcome newcomers, but the crowds have yet to arrive.
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