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Quality And Personal Service Throughout Your Performing Tour
Your Tour Manager/Guide Is Always with You
Casterbridge’s personal service and attention to detail do not end once you have booked your tour. Our team of highly trained Concert Tour Coordinators continue to ensure that your tour will meet your expectations in the most thorough and engaging manner possible.
Once you are on tour, you will be in the hands of a very capable Casterbridge Tour Manager/Guide. Each one has attended our unique Guides Training Course. This familiarizes them with the ‘Casterbridge’ approach, which provides a degree of personal attention to the musical and cultural needs of each group that is unequalled in the travel industry.
This is certainly appreciated by group leaders, and the Casterbridge Tour Manager/Guide is often described as the one factor that most distinguishes a Casterbridge Concert Tour from those of our competitors.
24-Hour Presence
The role of a Casterbridge Tour Manager/Guide is very different from that of a regular tour escort or manager/courier because our guides are available to your group 24 hours a day.
From airport arrival until departure, he or she will be with you at all times, no matter how small your group. Their efforts entirely focus on ensuring your tour is an unqualified success. They will stay overnight at your hotel with your group, remain available to back up and support your group leader, and stand ready to organize and lead spare time and evening activities. This will ease the burden on your group leader and allow him or her to also enjoy the tour.
The Personal Touch
As well as being first-class guides, Casterbridge Tour Manager/Guides are renowned for the personal touches they bring to every tour. They will often introduce you to interesting local events and free-time activities that are off the beaten tourist track, making your tour a truly memorable experience.
Efficient Arrival Day
Arrival days are an important part of your touring program. Because your personal guide will meet your group at the airport, you will never wait for other groups to arrive. This will give you time to exchange money and be on your way without undue delay.
Because you will also have your own exclusive coach and driver, we can often include introductory sightseeing en route to your hotel, and we may also be able to include an initial site visit or excursion to get your group accustomed to the country.
We Get Off the Bus
Many concert tours spend a great deal of time in a bus, but microphone descriptions of cities and sites can only provide the briefest of introductions to each destination.
Our philosophy is to get off the bus as much as possible, take walking tours where we can, and encourage longer, in-depth visits to important sites. Your Tour Manager/Guide can then focus on the cultural aspects that are most important to your group.
We also supplement the knowledge of your Tour Manager/Guide with local specialist guides at various locations to ensure that your educational goals are not only met, but exceeded.
Each Day Contains a Variety of Content
As important as the musical focus of a concert tour is, it is equally important that your group enjoy their time abroad and feel they have truly connected with the local culture. We therefore ensure that each day contains a variety of activities, which are complimented by your guide’s local knowledge and expertise.
Educational and Cultural Visits
Your Tour Manager/Guide will accompany your concert tour group on all educational and cultural visits and excursions in order to compliment your goals and add his or her local knowledge and expertise to the activity.
Your guide will also accompany you to artists’ workshops to see how local products are made, or perhaps give you a tour of the local market. He or she may even take part in a cooking or dance class with you, or in any number of other cross-cultural connections.
Free Time & Recreation
We want to ensure that your group stays interested in all your tour activities. Your Tour Manager/Guide will strive to break up each day with free time and recreation (as requested). These may include a river cruise, the ascent of a tower, a coastal walk, or a bike ride around a chateau.
Your group will always have free time to explore or go shopping at lunchtime and in the evenings, and your guide will ensure that your group is in a safe and interesting area when they pursue these activities.
Flexibility on Tour
Your own exclusive Tour Manager/Guide means you will have a great deal of flexibility while on your tour. If you decide you would like to spend more time at one site or to have some additional free time, he or she will help you get the most from your time abroad.
Register to plan a Casterbridge performing tour, either online or by calling 1-800-522-2398. Start planning your performing travel program today!
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