Originally Posted by
birvine
This site is more about the former than the latter. Just the same, I am curious. When I tour I use a rough rule of thumb at $100 per day for a tour. Thus, a three-week tour will cost me about $2100. Depending on various factors this may or may not include airfare. For fun, I just perused one company's tours and I found one that sounded interesting... for 7 days it was about $4200... or $600 per day. No airfare included. How often do you do the organized thing? What do you pay compared to when you go indie?
Brent
I did a 43?-day self-supported tour w/ ACA and it was something like $2600, or a bit over $60/day. Not cheap, but nowhere near $100. This was self-supported west coast, canadian to mexican borders.
I've only done ~ 5-day trips independently, so I don't really have a good point of comparison.