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About Our Walking Tours
Getting Started When you have narrowed your choice of tours, give us a call on our toll free number 1-800-800-1775. We will be happy to discuss them with you.
When you have selected your trip, simply call us or send in the registration form found on this Web Site via mail or fax. It is wise to register as early as possible.
Groups We can tailor any of our trips to meet your group needs. If your group is ten or more, you can select your own departure date and alter the itinerary to your liking. We would enjoy working with you in planning your dream vacation.
Guided or Self-guided If this is your first walking tour in a country foreign to you or if you prefer to be with the supportive services of a great tour leader who knows the area, then our traditional guided tours are probably for you.
Self-Guided tours offer several advantages including a more affordable price and the freedom to leave at anytime you choose and maintain your own pace. You may stop wherever the your interest or the mood dictates and enjoy each day your way...
Guided Walking Tours WorldVentures Guided Walking Tours are not led by WorldVentures staff members. We have partnered with local tour companies in the region of the walk and they operate these tours with their own regional guides. Walking tours are much more intimate than bicycle tours and, we feel, require someone who lives in the area to really give a feel for the fauna and creatures who share the living space. These guides are all fluent in English and you may find people from many nations on the tour - hopefully, your new found friends.
Self-Guided If you are comfortable on your own in a country with or without knowledge of the language (English gets you almost everywhere these days), then you may want to consider a self-guided tour. The savings are great and they leave almost anytime you want to go. The trails in Europe are well marked and the tour packet contains detailed directions and maps. Your luggage is transported to the next hotel each day so all that you carry is your lunch, water and a few snacks along the way. You must be willing to walk on rainy days.Because this type of tour demands that some
local back up be in the area from March through October, we have
partnered with European walking tour companies who are experts in
their own areas of operation. After sorting through many
possibilities, we selected partners capable of delivering the same
kind of travel experiences our friends have come to expect
on our trips. They are all small to medium size companies who have
specialized in these tours for many years. We have left the tour
descriptions in their own vernacular to retain the charm and
enthusiasm in describing their region. Until now they have served
only the European market; with clients principally from
These tours provide neither a tour guide nor a support vehicle. Your luggage is transported to the next hotel each day.
Half Board Option Some of our trips offer half board on an optional basis at an extra charge. Half board includes dinner at the specified hotels day. Our trips include all breakfasts. The half board option will provide dinner at the hotel on the balance of the nights. It is a good way to insure an all inclusive price for your trip. The half board price does not include beverages. Some of our hotels do not offer this feature and on those trips only a limited number of dinners may be available or the option may not be offered.
Your Hotels Your hotel each night will be a fitting finale to a day well spent. An oasis of solitude, comfort and service carefully selected for its cultural ambiance
Your accommodations will be in comfortable hotels and cozy country inns, which often are family owned and managed. We try to select inns with character that typify the region and present an ambiance of peacefulness and comfort, more often that not they include an excellent restaurant serving the cuisine of the countryside.
On each trip we try to arrange a variety of accommodations to include in your experience all that an area might offer. We plan two people to a room. Single rooms are available at extra charge. We always request our rooms with a shower but if you prefer a tub to soak those tired legs at night - we can arrange it for you.
Dining With World Ventures - The Cuisine AAAHH... the food! The taste of it!... The look of it The smell of it! Fresh ingredients from fields about the town., olive oil from nearby groves.., wine from local vineyards.., and all most elegantly served Dinners long savored.., and picnics that will float in your memory for months.
It has been said, “Food defines the culture of a country and it's close to the truth. Each country is special—the afternoon tea and scones of England. served with a rich dollop of cream and jams,.. the elegant and formal French dinners that take hours each night... the rich assortment of Italian fare the Austrian and Swiss sausages and pastries.., the seafood of the Pacific interwoven with the various asian cooking styles. Needless to say, a great part of the day is spent indulging yourself and cycling it off.
We feel the cuisine of a country is at least as important as its monuments and arts.., and one of the richest experiences of travel.
Each of our trips includes breakfasts and dinners as specified. The breakfasts are in the tradition of the region ranging from the well known continental breakfasts of France and Italy to the full English breakfast and the sausage and cheese laden buffets of Switzerland and Austria. It always includes coffee or tea or hot chocolate and usually there is something to carry away and tuck into your knapsack for a late morning snack.
The dinners are well-served and include the specialties of the region ranging from plain country cooking to the lighter fare of nouvelle cuisine— sometimes dining in a neighborhood restaurant with the locals and sometimes in a Michelin-starred event. On free nights its always fun to roam the streets going from restaurant to restaurant in small groups - reading the menus (they are all posted outside) - and then deciding what the night will bring.
Lunch is always an evolving mystery. It seems to just happen each day. Sometimes a sidewalk cafe.., or a seaside promenade... but the best is the impromptu picnic! Wandering from shop to shop — butcher to baker to green-grocer to wine shop — assembling the stuff great feasts are made of... then the quest for the perfect spot — alongside a castle or a river or a vineyard or a seashore or other magical place.
Always good food, good wine, good talk, good friends.., all along the way.
About the Walking We do not rate our trips with regard to difficulty because it so subjective. What may seem to be an enormous hill in the spring of the year (if your training has been hampered by snow!) may seem no more than a bump in the road come autumn after a season of walking. We have had both first timers and experts on all of our trips and all are quite comfortable. Many a novice has finished one of our trips as a committed trekker and returned with us year after year.
We encourage a slow pace to take it all in — smell the flowers, feel the wind in your face, enjoy the colors, stop for a picnic, sample the stuff of patisseries, stop for refreshments at a sidewalk cafe, never - ever - pass a gelato stand without a sample, take a swim or stroll on a deserted beach — and so the days go by... it's no wonder that over the years we have earned a reputation for laid-back trips.., where each day gets lazier, where neckties seldom leave the suitcase and minds can't recall the date — and don't care...
Whats Included
HAPPY WORRY-FREE TOURING
General Information
(Pertains to all walking tours)
TRIP INFORMATION Upon confirming your reservation, we will send you our Bon Voyage kit. It contains many useful bits of travel information including what to expect on the tour! how to get and keep in shape, passport and visa requirements, a suggested list of clothing and things to pack, hints from previous tour members, a guide to road signs and other information. About thirty days prior to departure you will receive an overnight itinerary of hotels complete with their address, phone and fax numbers so the folks back home can keep in touch.
REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT You may register for the trip of your choice by printing and returning the reservation form on this Web site by mail or fax or by phoning 1-800-800-1775 toll free. A deposit of $300 in U.S. dollars per person is required. The balance will be due sixty days prior to departure.
WHAT’S INCLUDED You will receive a packet of information spelling out in detail which anticipated items of expense are included in the price of your trip and which are not. We want your trip to be a thoroughly enjoyable experience and prefer to detail expenses in advance in order to avoid discouraging surprises later
Generally speaking each trip includes: Hotels each night Dinners as specified All breakfasts Support Vehicle on guided tours Trip leaders on guided tours Maps and directions Bon Voyage Kit All transportation by land sea or air that is incurred between the first and last nights of the trip.
AIR TRANSPORTATION Airfare Is not included in the price of the trip.
RESERVATIONS BEFORE AND AFTER THE TOUR If you plan to arrive before your trip or to stay on for a few days after, we can make reservations for you at our first or last nights hotel.
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