How to find an organization that offers semi-guided tours?
I am looking for an organization that offers tours, that are close to an individual travel experience.
The organization should:
+ organize the lodging
+ organize the travel from site to site
+ be able to provide tips and help
+ maybe offer some guided elements.
- But the tour should have plenty of time for individual exploring
- and no tourist style sight-seeing marathons
The closest I've found to this is: Shoestring Travel. They have trips through various countries in various difficulties (light travel <-> difficult journey). Their tours take you to multiple destinations and an english-speaking, local guide travels with the group. Unfortunately my travel time and their tours don't match.
Are there (other) organizations or companies that offer such semi-guided tours? Or how can I find them? (Googling doesn't help here as there are far to many "tourist style" travel companies that appear for the relevant search terms.)
Best Answer
I think that there are a multitude of organisations offering this. It is what old-fashioned travel agents do these days. With so many different travel resources, like travel.se, tripadvisor, airbnb, etc doing it all yourself is the adagium these days. Just to survive city center based travel agents aim at individual package journeys. I know at least two organisations (Riksja travel and Joker travel, that seems to offer what you want. Both websites are in Dutch only, sort of proving that these type of organizations aim at only a select geographical region.
I am not aware of the situation in Germany regarding travel agents, but for individual travel packages I visit different travel agents in the city center. My favorite outdoor store in Germany Globetrotter, seems to have a travelshop. I would assume that, given the gear they sell, they would also offer individual travel packages.
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