Serving over 100,000 travelers annually, UK-based Insight Vacations offers motor coach tours on every continent. Special packages include winter tours of eastern Europe's Christmas markets, Italy, and even Germany's famed Oberammergau Passion Play. Tours can focus on breadth or depth, with excursion stops ranging from an afternoon to 3 or 4 days. Country Roads tours focus on out of the way destinations, while Cruise Tours combine boat and bus travel. Hotel stays, guided tours, and some meals are included in all packages. Tour-takers have some choice over excursions and meal locations.
Insight Vacations, Inc
801 Katella Avenue
Anaheim, CA 92805
1-800-582-8380
[email protected]
insightvacations.com
Archers Direct Platinum Tours offer regular coach and luxury "Platinum Tourer" packages to most destination in Eastern and Western Europe. Tour packages include travel and hotel expenses, knowledgeable tour guides, daily breakfasts, and some dinners. Platinum Tourer buses include complimentary tea and coffee, extra leg-room, and multiple channel TV, DVD, and music systems. Tours range from seven to eleven days Upgrades to Platinum Tours are also available for additional fee.
Prospect House
Prospect Way
London Luton Airport
Luton, Befordshire
LU2 9NU
(011) 0844 573 4806
archersdirect.co.uk
Eurolines bus passes allow for unlimited bus travel between 41 European cities----and with youth rates beginning at under 200 euros (as of 2010) for 15 days, they make for an affordable European bus vacation. Unlike other bus touring companies, Eurolines doesn't arrange for meals or hotel stays, but a Eurolines pass can get travelers discount rates at hotels and hostels throughout Europe. Passes cannot be used for more than two journeys to the same city. Eurolines also runs WorldWide City Sightseeing Buses, which offer twenty-four hour passes to sightseeing buses in most major European cities.
Eurolines (UK)
4 Cardiff Road
Luton
Bedfordshire
LU1 1PP
(011) 08717 818179
eurolines-pass.com