What is the difference between your private tours and group tours?

What is the best way to travel Yunnan-private tours or group tours? Generally, the private tours and group tours have the advantages respectively, which aims to different people. Then, what is the difference between your private tours and group tours? Let Yunnan Exploration introduce the major differences between private tours and group tours, which can help you choose the best travel way according to your requirements.

What is a Private Tour

A private tour, also known tailor-made tour and customized tour, is completely tailored for tourists, which has a tailored car service and a specialized tour guide. Tourists can arrange their own travel time and stay in the hotels favored by them, take the cars they love, go anywhere they want, eat anything they want and play whatever they want. As long as the tourists have ideas, a private tour can meet their requirements as far as possible. A private or custom tour is one where the tour is run exclusively for you. Whether you want a honeymoon for you and your spouse, quality time with your family, a few fun days with business partners or anything between we are here to plan it for you.

Advantages of a Private Tour

  • You can take a tour with people you like. When you go some places where you can’t wait to part with them? Then, the traditional group tours will not meet your requirements. A private tour can meet your requirements. With a private tour, you travel with the only people you know and love. After all, it’s an important trip. Why not make it your very own journey!
  • You can have the best Yunnan Travel experience and enjoy the happiness from Yunnan Travel. Yunnan Private Tours will provide Personalized Itinerary, Hand-Picked Hotels & Restaurants, Private Local Guides, Private Vehicle & Driver, Affordable Price, Worry-Free Vacation. What’s more, a private tour guide will let you know more about the place you visit, such as you can interact with real local residents, ask the questions you want to know, learn the respective culture and  traditions. Some even become lifelong friends after this very unique experience.
  • You can anywhere you want to go and go when you want to go. Taking a private tour, you can decide how to spend your time and where to go. For example, if you are tired and you want to end the tour earlier on any given day. It is completely ok. In a group tour, your experience is positively confined to some predefined schedule and at the mercy of other travelers -you simply travel as a group and “go with the flow”. However, in a private tour, you can enjoy yourself and will leave a deep impression on the places where you visited. A private tour can be regarded as the true travel, which will give tourists the best travel experience.

What is a Group Tour

A group tour is designed for the people who are budget tourists and want to visit the highlights of Yunnan with other people. Compared with a private tour, a group tour is the tour with fixed dates, fixed price, well-planned itineraries and travel by van or small bus with the best drivers available. Of course, a group tour is cheaper than a private tour.

Advantages of a Group Tour

Travelling with a group has a number of advantages. First, everything is arranged in advance with no worries about planning things like accommodation, sightseeing and possibly where to eat or what to see. Secondly, you usually travel with like minded people with whom you may well continue a friendship long after the tour has ended. Thirdly, there is tour escort or guide who can help with any emergencies and be of general assistance.

A Private Tour vs a Group Tour

The Difference on Tour Guides

  • A Private Tour: A private tour is more like a small team, and people among them know each other. What’s more, the tour guide who can communicate like a friend can provide the best travel experience and he/she will not bring you to shop unless the tourists have the shopping needs.
  • A Group Tour: A group often has many people, so the tour guide will not talk too much with one person. Generally, the tour guide will bring the tourists to shop. What’s more, tourists cannot appreciate the attractions according to their will.

The Difference on Accommodation

  • A Private Tour: It is generally a hand-picked 4 star 5 star hotel according to the level and decoration style. From the choice of geographical location, it is generally a characteristic place in a city. In the evening, tourists can go out for a club, go walking, shoot the night scene, and enjoy the local customs.
  • A Group Tour: It is generally 3 star or below. And the position is not good, such as nearby airport, or somewhere is distant from the downtown. After lunch, tourists cannot go walking, not to mention other activities.

The Difference on Dining

  • A Private Tour: Yunnan Exploration always chooses the most distinctive local restaurant with distinctive taste, characteristic environment. All food is not intended to fill the stomach, and it must be a wholehearted enjoyment. What’s more, tourists are satisfied with the food.
  • A Group Tour: The restaurant is fixed point team restaurant and the food is only for filling the stomach. The tourists cannot have the opportunities to eat the local dishes in local restaurants.

The Difference on Itineraries

  • A Private Tour: The senior business car is arranged for a private tour. Therefore, it is very comfortable for tourists. The exclusive tour guide and experienced driver will serve you all the time. Tourists can deeply understand the attractions and know the local culture and historical development, which will leave a deep impression on tourists The whole itinerary is based on the rhythm of the guests. Moreover, the items in the itinerary are usually formulated according to the requirements of the customers.
  • A Group Tour: The main transportation is the long-distance bus. Generally, the itinerary is the ordinary routine, such as the classic routine-Kunming-Dali-Lijiang-Shangri-La. Of course, you can not have any additional requirements. Travel in Yunnan is more like a task that needs to be finished. Maybe you cannot feel the happiness during the travel and what you can feel is endless tired. In addition, the tour guide will bring you to shop. At the end, you buy something that you do not need.

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Edited by Cloudy Fu/付云