Guided Tours – The Best Way To See The World, By Far

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Published 3 March 2022


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Tours provide all the exciting locations, activities and attractions that come with a holiday. Our types of tours make it even easier to find a tour that suits your travel style, from luxury to adventure and more. Pack your next holiday with fun and excitement on a coach tour! Coach touring can take you to an endless array of global destinations conveniently and comfortably.

With tour packages tailored specifically for travellers like you, you’ll be sure to see some amazing new places while making new friends along the way. With Flight Centre, we can help you choose the ultimate holiday that fits your budget and style. Even adventure needs a little direction, especially if you want to experience the best parts of any place. Taking an adventure tour with experienced guides will ensure every moment is a highlight. 

Below we highlight our best tried and tested escorted touring specialists and what they offer: 

COSTSAVER 

 

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Lasting travel memories don’t have to cost the earth. With Costsaver tours all your essentials are covered while providing you with the building block to tailor your dream holiday. Every tour is carefully crafted with our guests in mind, so you can just get going without the hassle of logistics. 

We ensure you have all you need so that you can just focus on enhancing your tour, your way. You choose from our carefully selected optional experiences and tour extensions, or simply create your own adventures.Costsaver is all about value and that life is all about the choices you make.

Choose Fun. Choose Active. Choose Relax. Choose what you want from your perfect holiday, and we’ll take care of the details.

77 trips. 56 countries. 5 continents. All waiting to be explored, your way.

Get going with ease knowing that all your holiday essentials have been vetted and organised by our travel experts. Costaver boasts 101 years of destination expertise ensuring that you have the very best inclusions to create an unforgettable adventure. Simply select your trip, pack your bags and they’ll take care of the rest.

Choose to enhance your trip with a curated selection of over 550 tried and tested Choice Optional Experiences, booked and paid for as you travel, all organised by Flight Centre through Costsver’s wide selection of offerings. Their Travel Director’s extensive local knowledge will guide you to something you’ve dreamed of.

No two journeys are the same. Get inspired on what you could choose. With Costsaver travel you get unmatched knowledge and personal service thanks to an expert global network spanning 7 continents.  Just by travelling with us, you’re choosing to make a difference. Costsaver supports the TreadRight foundation which commits to supporting the wildlife, people, and places you’ll visit. 

INSIGHT VACATIONS (The art of travelling in style)

 

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Delve into an incredible variety of over 100 included Insight Experiences, meet fascinating people and step into their homes and their lives. Learn about the history and pioneering projects, or maybe take a cooking class or learn to dance. Discovery Journeys are the ideal tour style for first-time travellers, showing the very best of a region - Europe, Britain, USA and more - has to offer. Insight Vacations will introduce you to multiple countries in one comprehensive journey. A variety of Insight Experiences immerses you in the destination and its people. 

Travel deeper by picking one place that you’ve always longed to visit.  

Their Regional Journeys are carefully planned to let you explore one region or country in depth, to really know its people, traditions and culture, or perhaps choose to get off the well-trodden tourist path and visit hidden retreats, meet amazing locals and enjoy Farm-to-Table dining.

Country Roads journeys are the perfect choice for travellers who have already travelled with us or have already seen the iconic tourist sites in a destination. A fabulous and enriching experience.

On our collection of Easy Pace journeys, you will have more time to explore destinations at your own pace. In each destination, you can settle into your hotel by enjoying a minimum 3-night stay, experience more free time with additional Relaxed Starts built into your itinerary and delight in days at leisure at select points on your tour.

Every year Insight Vacations create a series of Special Interest Tours to complement their collection of premium guided tours; whether it is celebrating your love of European art, exploring the famous Chelsea Flower Show or experiencing the once-in-a-lifetime performance of the Passion Play in Oberammergau. Special Interest Tours let you explore your passion with like-minded travellers that allow you to truly immerse yourself in what you love most. These various tours cater for a wide variety of age groups.

TRAFALGAR 

 

Dream holidays without the stress of the 'what ifs', is what we do best. They design their tours so that you can experience the world differently. Trafalgar provides the personal service, attention to detail and ease you are looking for while enjoying the unmissable experiences you've always dreamed of.  

Have peace of mind knowing that they’re by your side, taking care of everything on a journey where your wellbeing comes first.

Get the very best of every place you visit. Every one of Trafalgar’s tours is designed with a depth of culture, ticking all your ‘must-see’ boxes and giving you privileged local access to communities and people around the world. Their connections in every destination, and the importance that they place on making a positive impact on the places to visit, are all part of what choosing to Tour Differently, is all about.

You'll enjoy privileged local access in every destination, including more than 100 one-of-a-kind Be My Guest experiences, exclusive to Trafalgar. Immersive, local and enriching, they are a rare chance to connect with locals in their homes and businesses to meet the characters that bring to life the places we visit.

Family-run and operated, the world’s leading tour company provides unmatched knowledge and personal service thanks to an expert global network spanning 72 countries in seven continents. 

Trafalgar’s extensive range of various tours caters for a wide variety of age groups.

 Indeed, travel the world differently. Your solution to worry-free travel starts right here.

CONTIKI 

 

This isn’t just group travel - this is social travel. Welcome to social travel designed exclusively for the 18-35 age group.

Contiki does not just do it for the places, they believe in creating shared moments. Moments that widen eyes.

Moments that fill up digital memory cards with hundreds of photos or cram your Instagram feed and cell phone’s gallery. Do it for the memories. The memory of dancing until the sun came up, laughing until you couldn’t breathe, sharing a part of yourself with the world, and yes, got so, so much more in return. Do it for a community you’ll be a part of for life.

A Contiki tour is an organised, cultural embracing trip led by expert guides, where travellers get to explore new and interesting places and make friends from all over the world, with zero hassle, delicious meals included and multiple travel styles from which to choose, turning your shy hellos into tearful goodbyes.

Offering tours that typically vary between one and two weeks in duration, that are cost-effective (under R16,000-00 for example) but best of all, trips consist of small groups of people (usually 10 travellers or fewer).

Travel with the confidence of knowing your trip is in the best possible hands as part of The Travel Corporation (TTC). TTC’s story is over 100 years in the making, and 100% family-owned and operated.

Speak to one of our Travel Experts today to find out more about how you can have the world at your feet by exploring with TTC.

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