one vehicle, one guide, and the day starts when you are ready
Private Guided Vacation Packages: Nobody Else Is Booked On It
Private guided vacation packages, which means the vehicle carries your party and nobody else, and the day bends to you rather than to a timetable.
Four trips at this size, from $3,240 per person.
Nothing here counts you and nothing here follows you off the page. One word can be written down, and only the word yes, so this strip stops coming back. What that means in full.
This is the smallest size a trip comes in and the most expensive per head, and the arithmetic behind that is not hidden here. A guide and a driver cost what they cost whether two people or twenty are sitting behind them, so the fewer of you there are, the more of that wage each of you carries.
What the money buys is not luxury. It buys the right to change your mind at ten in the morning, to spend two hours somewhere the group tour allows twenty minutes, and to stop for the afternoon because somebody is tired. On a long trip in a hot country that is worth more than a better room.
It is also the only size where a bad guide has nowhere to hide, which is why the operator is chosen more carefully at this size than at any other, and why the proposal names them before it names a figure.
What this size buys and what it costs you
- One party in the vehicle, and that party is yours
- The day starts when you are ready rather than at a set hour
- The highest cost per head in the catalog, and the arithmetic is shown
The four trips filed here
- Just youJordan, nine nights with your own driver and guideprivate guided, one vehicleDesert, canyon country and the Dead Sea shore, on a route you can rearrange at breakfast.from $4,180per person, 9 nights
Just youKerala, eight nights of backwater and hill estateprivate guided, one vehicle and one boatTwo nights on your own boat, then tea country, with nobody else's timetable in it.from $3,240per person, 8 nights
Just youNamibia, twelve nights driving yourselfself drive, fitted vehicleThe longest trip here and the emptiest. You drive, and the only company is the one you brought.from $5,460per person, 12 nights
Just youThe Sacred Valley, nine nights with a private guideprivate guided, one vehicleAltitude taken slowly on purpose, with the hard day placed where you can move it.from $3,890per person, 9 nights