We’ve been on plenty of organised tours all over the world, including Europe, and have never once experienced dreadful food, “all families”, or needing a holiday afterwards - they’ve all been fabulous, we’ve seen so much more with excellent local guides than we have on any of our independent holidays, and we’ve been spared the planning and admin. You rarely get a child on an organised tour, and I speak as one who worked in a school, so always travelled in school holidays.
We’ve used Cosmos a lot over the years, and I’d recommend them highly. As it happens they have some hefty discounts on offer at the moment for last minute breaks.
Saying that, our last tour was with Saga, a fortnight in Croatia staying in three very different areas, and again we’d recommend them. We got a really good last minute discount for that tour as well, and a big advantage for us was that we were chauffeur driven down to Gatwick from Yorkshire and back on our return, which was a very civilised start and end to the holiday.
Whatever you decide, OP, I hope you have a lovely break.
