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Menu Home Panama Tour South America Trek of the Americas RV Expedition Photos Drive Yourself Who we are FAQ		Our Philosophy We realize that there are several companies you could choose from to guide you on your journey. In many ways, all the R.V. Caravan operators are similar, but each of us has our strong points and our weak points. There are some people that would rather travel on the type of tour our competitors offer, and if that’s the case, we will not try to sell you on what we offer. In fact, we discourage some potential customers, because we believe that they are not prepared for this type of travel. We’re not just after your money, we want you to travel with us again and tell your friends about the wonderful time you had on your Adventuretour. Let me describe what sets us apart from the rest. Experience: Adventuretours staff has over 20 years experience traveling in Mexico AND Central America. No other company can compare, and that’s a fact! No one else has offered tours to Central America as long as Adventuretours. In fact, we showed the routing to the original staff of the only other company operating a Panama Canal tour! Small 15-unit groups: The smaller your travel group, the more attention we can give everyone. When we first started traveling in Mexico, our group size was limited to 10 units! When we started running tours to Central America, we increased the number of units to 15, and have decided that is the maximum number of units a group can have and still be enjoyable, both for the staff, and the tourmembers. If any of you have been on a tour with 20 or 25 units, you have to admit, there were times when parking would have been less stressful, you would have had a better opportunity to get-to-know your fellow travelers, and the journey would have been more enjoyable. Wagonmasters who stay with the tour group: Some R.V. tour companies actually make their tourleaders run ahead of the group to scout the route before everyone else arrives. This leaves the rest of the travelers to find their own way. One of the reasons you are traveling with a group is to have leadership. Our policy is to scout the entire trip, BEFORE DEPARTURE, so your staff members can stay with you during your travels. There are only a few cases where we travel ahead to check on something that may have changed. Our policy is to travel with our customers, not one hour ahead of them! Non-Regimented Travel: We actually encourage our tourmembers to get out and do their own thing. We try to offer the most complete and varied list of activities, but we are all different. We understand that you may be interested in colonial churches, or bird-watching or another interest and suggest where to go and see these things. This is your tour and we want you to get the most from it. Some companies do not want you to stray from the group. They train their staff members to discourage this - not us. We even ran into another group who had a single lady traveler who wanted to see things away from the group, the tourleader kicked her off the caravan because she wouldn’t stay in the line with everybody else! Is that any way to travel? Be sure to ask for references when shopping for a tour. If you wish, you can “stick-like-glue” with the rest of the group, it’s up to you! We are in the RV tour business: Some R.V. tour companies are in the Insurance business or the Travel Agent business in addition to their RV tour business. We are an R.V. tour company and we concentrate on providing our customers a great tour for a fair price. We don’t divide our efforts among different ventures. You can be rest assured that you will get a quality tour with Adventuretours. The Best Value! Discounts and Rewards for our customers! We have the most attractive Discount and incentive program in the industry. For example, if you are a member of Good Sam Club, Escapees or FMCA, we’ll give you $100 off on several of our tours. If you sign up at least 60 days prior to departure of a tour, we’ll give you another $100 off! And once you travel with us, we reward you by issuing Karavan Kredits. This is our generous “Frequent Traveler” program. On selected tours, we will give you a certificate valued at $.05 per kilometer ($.08 per mile) traveled with Adventuretours. You can get up to $500 off a subsequent tour. Now your probably thinking, “their prices must be higher.” That’s not the case! Compare our prices to the competition, then compare our experience, the amount of tours and activities we offer and you’ll see how much we appreciate your business! What’s all the hype about meals? Most other tour companies main activity is “paid meals” for its members. We have never understood why, but have seen the consequences of this practice. Sometimes catered meals (especially in Latin America) can be a date with disaster. We have been in the same camp with another tour group who had a bad catered meal, and everyone became ill! We would rather give you more interesting sightseeing tours and cultural events instead of “Eating our way” through the trip. That is not to say that we don’t sample the local cuisine. Often we will go out as a group to a local restaurant (one that we know has a good reputation for cleanliness) and have a wonderful time. The food in Latin America is a big part of the experience. This way, everyone can order what they want and it is a much more comfortable situation. A final note! Be a wise shopper - check the company out before signing up. New “Tour” companies are sprouting up everyday. Some of them are ex-tourleaders that want a piece of the pie, others are new companies that copy established operators. There’s even one company that has copied our name, our itineraries, and our tour materials so they would look professional - imagine that! What I’m saying is be careful who you are dealing with - we don’t want your travel experience to be a nightmare by placing your trust in an un-professional and inexperienced tour operator.
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