Casterbridge’s Customised Group Tours - Creating Custom Group Tours

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The Customised Group Tour Specialists

Casterbridge’s fundamental mission is to deliver a truly rewarding travel experience for every customised group tour. Because of this, we do not combine groups. In fact, our standard practice of conducting a private tour exclusively for each customised group tour has been a hallmark of our tours for 30 years now.

Casterbridge is one of very few group tour operators exclusively offering private tours with genuine personal service, as well as a customised tour designed specifically for each leader, with as few as 10 participants. So it is no surprise there is more and more demand for the unique educational travel services we offer.

Our Competitors Combine Tour Groups

Most of our competitors are high-volume operators. It is difficult for them to offer any personalised service once a group is on tour. Furthermore, their groups and participants are often combined and tour dates may be changed at the last minute without the group leader’s consent.

Unique Advantages of a Customised Group Tour

There are several unique advantages of a customised group tour:

A private, customised group tour is inherently safer, more educational, more flexible, and more personally satisfying for each participant. It is your tour, your itinerary, and your Tour Manager/Guide.
We can custom design your itinerary to create a touring programme that most ideally suits the personal, educational, cultural, and budgetary requirements of your group.
We can offer flight arrangements that most closely match your group’s preferred travel dates. We will guarantee they are on regularly scheduled flights of major carriers and, whenever possible, will work to accommodate any routing or carrier preferences that you might have. Furthermore, at the time of booking, we will guarantee your travel dates, and we can often hold seats for you (up to 11 months before departure) while you recruit, with our help, the participants on your customised group tour.
Every customised group tour with Casterbridge benefits from its own exclusive Tour Manager/Guide, from your arrival at the airport to your departure; they will have dinner with you each night and will stay in your hotel when touring to ensure 24-hour attention. The tour manager handles all logistics and is always available to advise the group on local activities and to provide the additional peace of mind for which we are known.
We often use the expertise of local specialist guides for in-depth or thematic tours to your requested attractions. These local guides complement our full-time Tour Manager/Guide and we have the flexibility in our planning to allocate these guides to sights or attractions that you might wish to feature or emphasise.
You will not have to accommodate the needs of other groups. Every visit to a site, and every excursion can be tailored to fit your precise educational and cultural requirements.
You can add more educational visits, cultural experiences, or recreational activities to your tour, to fit with your themes and priorities.
The flexibility of a customised tour allows you to go off the beaten track and explore the more unusual aspects of a locale.

Design Your Dream Tour

We appreciate that the customised planning of a group tour requires considerable time and fine-tuning, and our dedicated team of tour coordinators are always available to provide the service and support your tour preparations require.

We relish the challenge of specific requests and always do our utmost to accommodate individual requirements.

After you call our toll free phone number or register online, we will provide a customised group tour quote, complete with a description of the educational travel services included.

Our Educational Tour Coordinators make regular visits to meet with adult and school group tour leaders around the country, and will also give powerpoint presentations to group members, explaining the benefits of a customised group tour and the precise educational travel services we provide.

Our Dedicated Team of Group Tour Coordinators

Our UK Sales Office employs staff members with extensive knowledge of all the options available for adult and school group tours.

The majority of our coordinators are former teachers or adult and school group tour guides who have an intimate familiarity with your preferred destination or particular area of academic expertise. They will work with you to design your ideal customised group tour, and will endeavor to get as many of your desired educational travel services included in your package as possible.

Unlike with many other adult and school group tour operators, our coordinators work year-round in our office, enabling you to maintain one single contact throughout the entire planning process for your customised group tour.

We are always pleased to fine-tune your customised group tour until it meets your educational and budgetary requirements.

Flexibility – It is Your Group Tour!

When designing your customised group tour we can offer total flexibility in your choice of tour components. You can nominate your preferred airline, select hotel classifications, or even specify certain hotels. We are also happy to include specific restaurants and theatres. To help support your educational goals, we can also include extended time at certain sites for study or increase the amount of free time on your customised group tour. We have a wide selection of Cross-Cultural Connections that allow you to be flexible with content and activities, ensuring that your tour matches your group’s interests.

Once you are on tour, your Tour Manager/Guide can assist you further with any flexibility you require. Finally, we can be somewhat flexible on the budget of your customised group tour, working closely with you to ensure that whatever programme you create will be marketable to your group.

With our dedicated and knowledgeable staff to support you, we assure you that your tour with Casterbridge will excellently compliment your educational and budgetary goals.

Group Tours & Custom Programmes with Casterbridge Tours

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