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Explore the world on tours designed for adults of all ages.
We're part of the EF family, which means you'll enjoy all the perks of EF’s global network, educational heritage, and local expertise–with itineraries and amenities geared toward adult travelers instead.
Travel with family & friends, as a couple, or solo
Curious about exploring the world? Join any of our eye-opening group travel experiences , created for you.
All Go Ahead Tours include:
- Smaller groups, capped at 38 travelers
- Authentic meals, with breakfast included daily
- Handpicked, staff-vetted hotels
- Comfortable transportation
- Tour Director & local guides
Browse all 200+ tours or call us at 1-800-590-1161 .
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Experience the world with your friends or family members—make any trip a private departure with just 9 travelers!
Benefits include:
- Choice of departure date
- Dedicated Tour Director
- A more personalized on-tour experience
- Private Tour with 9 travelers (and your group can be as large as you’d like)
- Free travel! Earn benefits like one spot on tour for every 9 travelers you bring
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You can share your love of travel with friends, family, and neighbors as part of our Group Coordinator program and enjoy the same EF benefits Group Leaders love.
- Free travel! Earn one spot on tour for every 6 travelers you bring with you
- Global Rewards, our industry-leading loyalty program
- Global Points you can spend on travel experiences
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Tour Diaries
Explorica’s unique online Tour Diary allows family and friends of Explorica tour participants to check in on their loved ones and follow along with their tour. This private trip log is maintained by each group’s tour director, an area resident and expert in the local customs and language. Each day, they update the Tour Diary with commentary and one or more photos of the group, so family and friends can get a first-hand account of the unique activities, authentic cuisine and incredible places their loved ones are experiencing.
Have a friend or family member currently traveling with us? Look up their Tour Diary to see how they're doing!
Sample Tour Diaries
Peruse recent Tour Diaries to get a sense for what to expect when your loved one goes on an Explorica tour.
Galápagos Island Adventure (February 16 - February 26, 2017)
Costa Rican Highlights (February 18 - February 26, 2017)
Italian Highlights (March 2 - March 11, 2017)
Germany, Switzerland & Italy (March 9 - March 18, 2017)
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Adult travelers
Our tours are designed with students in mind—from the affordable prices to the active itineraries that maximize educational value. We want to ensure that adults traveling with us have an amazing time, too. In addition to reading through our Help Center's collection of Preparing to Travel and What to Expect on Tour articles, there are a few things for our adult travelers to keep in mind:
Group travel Unless you are traveling as a private group, you’ll be traveling on a shared tour experience with students and adults from other schools. When traveling as a group, staying flexible and having a positive attitude can make a huge difference. Your positivity can be contagious—especially for students. And since you’re traveling as a group and not on your own, it’s important to be punctual. If one person is late, it can cause the whole group to miss a scheduled activity.
Itinerary Our student tours are an introduction to travel and are intended to give young people the confidence to see the world. We design our itineraries to get the most out of each destination, so our Tour Directors and licensed guides focus on showing students iconic sites with the best educational value. While some itineraries have scheduled free time , it's usually limited and travelers must participate in all scheduled activities.
Pace You will typically be on the go all day, leaving your hotel after an early breakfast and often returning after dinner and an evening activity. Your day will often be fast-paced and include a lot of walking, so be sure to bring comfortable walking shoes. There may not be a lot of time to shop, and some lunches may be quick so that students get to see as much as possible..
Hotels You will stay in safe, clean and comfortable hotels. As an adult, you’ll be assigned to a room with two beds. Speak with your Group Leader about designating a roommate. If you do not choose a roommate, you will be assigned to room with another adult of the same gender—either from your group or from one of the other groups you’re traveling with. Read more about rooms and roommates .
Meals Breakfast typically includes a continental buffet with at least two hot items. Lunch is your chance to make local culinary discoveries of your own. Everyone will have the same meal options at dinner, which will be a mix of dishes that appeal to younger travelers’ preferred tastes. Please notify your Group Leader if you have other dietary restrictions and we will do our best to accommodate them. Read more about meals.
Chaperones If your Group Leader designates you as a chaperone on this tour, you may be responsible for a smaller group, which includes ensuring their attendance at all tour activities, managing the travelers’ behavior and doing room checks. Your Group Leader will discuss these and other responsibilities with you before tour.
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Moscow Metro
The Moscow Metro Tour is included in most guided tours’ itineraries. Opened in 1935, under Stalin’s regime, the metro was not only meant to solve transport problems, but also was hailed as “a people’s palace”. Every station you will see during your Moscow metro tour looks like a palace room. There are bright paintings, mosaics, stained glass, bronze statues… Our Moscow metro tour includes the most impressive stations best architects and designers worked at - Ploshchad Revolutsii, Mayakovskaya, Komsomolskaya, Kievskaya, Novoslobodskaya and some others.
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The guide will not only help you navigate the metro, but will also provide you with fascinating background tales for the images you see and a history of each station.
And there some stories to be told during the Moscow metro tour! The deepest station - Park Pobedy - is 84 metres under the ground with the world longest escalator of 140 meters. Parts of the so-called Metro-2, a secret strategic system of underground tunnels, was used for its construction.
During the Second World War the metro itself became a strategic asset: it was turned into the city's biggest bomb-shelter and one of the stations even became a library. 217 children were born here in 1941-1942! The metro is the most effective means of transport in the capital.
There are almost 200 stations 196 at the moment and trains run every 90 seconds! The guide of your Moscow metro tour can explain to you how to buy tickets and find your way if you plan to get around by yourself.
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Experience an Explorica tour. Safety first, and always. ... Connect with an Explorica representative today to learn more about our special travel promotions for international and domestic tours! Let's Chat > 101 Federal Street, Suite 900 Boston, MA 02110 Teachers: (888) 310-7120
We almost exclusively use Explorica for our adult tours. We upgrade rooms, meals and include activities that we would on student tours like winery visits, cooking classes, bar hopping in Ireland etc. We just returned from a customized tour of Portugal and Spain, Will be going on a Customized tour of Scotland and Ireland.
109-76 Days. 50% of all fees + the $99 non-refundable deposit. 75-31 Days. 75% of all fees + the $99 non-refundable deposit. 30 Days or Less. No refund*. * If you notify us of your cancellation in writing at least 24 hours prior to your departure you will receive a $100 refund. All cancellation requests must be submitted in writing by email to ...
A typical posts should be no more than 500-700 words. If your submission is accepted, you will receive an honorarium of $50. across the world. Flexible, value-conscious educational travel on all seven continents with optional add-ons, extensions, and extended stays. Learn more about Explorica student tours today.
Days: 10 - 13. Stand in the shadow of the great Sphinx and wondrous Pyramids at Giza, take an overnight train to Aswan, cruise the Nile River, visit Ancient Egyptian tombs, the Valley of the Kings, and fly to Cairo to explore the exciting chaos of this modern Egyptian city. Prices and customizations. Best of Europe.
The Open Tours Marketplace is a list of Explorica tours that are accepting independent student travelers. Browse the listings and filter results based on where tours leave from by using the drop-down menu below. Click on a listing to read more about a group, and if you find one you want to travel with, send them a message to get more information.
Explorica By WorldStrides, Boston, Massachusetts. 16,918 likes · 28 talking about this · 124 were here. Explorica by WorldStrides creates educational tours full of authentic, interactive learning...
Volunteer Tours. Foster ethical learning journeys that deliver real and lasting impact to the world community. Become part of a greater good and, most importantly, make a difference. Educational tours from Explorica connect teachers and students to cultures, languages and people through authentic learning experiences.
All Go Ahead Tours include: Smaller groups, capped at 38 travelers. Authentic meals, with breakfast included daily. Handpicked, staff-vetted hotels. Comfortable transportation. Tour Director & local guides. Browse all 200+ tours or call us at 1-800-590-1161.
Find an Open Tour in the Open Tours Marketplace or call us for assistance at 1-888-378-8845. With Explorica's Open Tours feature, independent students can still travel by joining a tour group from their area. It's an opportunity to travel and make new friends along the way!
Sharing beds on tour is an educational travel industry standard. The only way to avoid this is by upgrading to twin rooms for all travelers (an additional $45/night). Rooming upgrades like this must be added 65 days before your tour. How are adults roomed on tour? Unlike student rooming, adult rooms can be assigned prior to the trip.
Discover why Passports outshines Explorica Tours in educational travel, offering personalized itineraries, premium accommodations, and exceptional customer service. ... If you are an adult, you don't need to pay extra to join a passports tour. With Explorica, payees 23 or older are charged a $130 fee, plus $35 per night for double rooms.
How it works. Explorica's unique online Tour Diary allows family and friends of Explorica tour participants to check in on their loved ones and follow along with their tour. This private trip log is maintained by each group's tour director, an area resident and expert in the local customs and language. Each day, they update the Tour Diary ...
The adult rooming supplement fee for tours is $45 per night ($70 per night on ferries and cruise ships) and $85 per night for a single room. ... While most optional excursions can be booked during your tour, Explorica recommends that you book them prior to departure to ensure availability. Some excursions, such as the optional Versailles ...
Follow along with Explorica students on tour! View 1st day in Portugal Spain during a 3/23/2024 tour with Explorica.
Adult travelers. Our tours are designed with students in mind—from the affordable prices to the active itineraries that maximize educational value. We want to ensure that adults traveling with us have an amazing time, too. In addition to reading through our Help Center's collection of Preparing to Travel and What to Expect on Tour articles ...
The Moscow Metro is one of the oldest in the world, as well as one of the most beautiful. As a visitor, it can be tricky to know which stations are must-sees, but this guided tour ensures that you see the best. Also, because it's a private tour, you don't need to feel self-conscious of being in a large tour group getting in commuters' way.
Moscow has some of the most well-decorated metro stations in the world but visitors don't always know which are the best to see. This guided tour takes you to the city's most opulent stations, decorated in styles ranging from neoclassicism to art deco and featuring chandeliers and frescoes, and also provides a history of (and guidance on how to use) the Moscow metro system.
While Moscow is beautiful above-ground, it's fascinating underground. On this tour you will visit two of Moscow's most interesting underground attractions: the beautifully decorated Metro system, and the Bunker 42 anti-nuclear facility. Your private guide will tell you all about the history of these places, and answer any questions you might have. You'll see a different side of Moscow on ...
Moscow Metro. The Moscow Metro Tour is included in most guided tours' itineraries. Opened in 1935, under Stalin's regime, the metro was not only meant to solve transport problems, but also was hailed as "a people's palace". Every station you will see during your Moscow metro tour looks like a palace room. There are bright paintings ...