# Bigtime Tour companies besides Abercrombie & Kent?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bigtime-tour-companies-besides-abercrombie-kent/570803>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 9, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bigtime-tour-companies-besides-abercrombie-kent/570803 "2011-02-09T20:50:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![No\_Wikipedia\_Cites](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@No\_Wikipedia\_Cites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_Wikipedia_Cites)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bigtime-tour-companies-besides-abercrombie-kent/570803/1 "2011-02-09T20:50:00Z")

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I’m looking for a tour company that has those all inclusive tours, like Abercrombie & Kent, but are there any companies like them?

They are brutally expensive, anything more middle range? I can’t find any in the spam that is the internets

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bigtime-tour-companies-besides-abercrombie-kent/570803/2 "2011-02-09T21:54:20Z")

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Where do you want to go? The ones I can think of specialize based on location.

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**Author:** ![Disheavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bigtime-tour-companies-besides-abercrombie-kent/570803/3 "2011-02-09T21:55:55Z")

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[Rick Steves](http://tours.ricksteves.com/tours11/)’s primary way of making money is actually his company’s guided tours. Obviously they specialize in Europe but I have heard great things about many of them and never a bad thing.

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**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bigtime-tour-companies-besides-abercrombie-kent/570803/4 "2011-02-09T22:04:22Z")

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Tauck has a fairly full portfolio. Mid Tier. And it isn’t all grey haired ladies.

For families (and some singles) Disney has their Adventures by Disney Line. More expensive than Tauck - and a subset of the Tauck tours. I’ve done an ABD trip and it was wonderful.

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**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bigtime-tour-companies-besides-abercrombie-kent/570803/5 "2011-02-09T22:36:30Z")

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Several of my relatives have had very good experiences with [Grand Circle Tours](http://gct.com). I haven’t priced any of their offerings, but knowing my family, it’s unlikely to be “brutally expensive.”