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This is the second post about escorted tours. In our previous post, we explored Trafalgar Tours and identified what makes Trafalgar special. But should you believe it?
Have you considered an escorted tour before? Recently one of our clients booked a Trafalger Tour which featured 10 nights, 14 included meals, visits to 4 cities and one special event all in one escorted tour.
In our post about Alternative suppliers, we mention Silversea. This post discusses Silversea in some depth.
This continues our series on Alternative Suppliers and why you should ask about them. This post describes what an alternative supplier is and what it means. CIE is a great travel supplier that you might not have heard about.
Quality. There's many different travel suppliers - ocean cruise lines, river cruise lines, tour companies, hotels, etc. Once you book a vacation, a lot of your experience rides on their performance. Using a quality travel supplier will go a long way to ensuring a great vacation experience.
Interested in learning about some new cruise destinations? Want to end "been there done that" syndrome? In my 2017 travel trends post here, I identified a growing trend across many suppliers. Here's an excerpt from that post:
This continues our series on Alternative Suppliers and why you should ask about them. This post describes what an alternative supplier is and what it means. In ocean cruises, there are several generic categories that are used to describe various suppliers. There's mass market - think Carnival and Royal Caribbean. There's premium lines like Celebrity, Princess, Holland America. And then there's luxury brands. (Oceania and Azamara would add an additional category between premium and luxury for their brands). Regent is surely a luxury brand.
Every hear of Contiki? They are what I call an alternative travel supplier. In my previous post we provided an overview of what an alternative travel supplier is and why you should be interested. Here's the link in case you missed it.
We've all seen the TV advertisements for Royal Caribbean or Carnival right? If you are a certain age, you're mail box is probably inundated with marketing materials from Viking and Oceania. And if you are looking at Bridal magazines, you're no doubt familiar with Sandals resorts. So as a consumer, the question is - who else is out there and how do you find them? For our purposes we'll use the term "alternative suppliers" as those that don't advertise direct to consumers.