How do you find tours and activities when you are traveling?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you need so many tours? Do you need all that hand-holding when you walk around a city? It's not that hard, watch a few youtube videos and join some facebook groups and you'll save yourself a ton of money.

Sure, go walk around Soweto yourself. Report back.

[Anonymous]

Websites I use to prepare a rough itinerary and/or select tours:

TripAdvisor
Toursbylocals.com
Urbanadventures.com
DCUM

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do you need so many tours? Do you need all that hand-holding when you walk around a city? It's not that hard, watch a few youtube videos and join some facebook groups and you'll save yourself a ton of money.

Sure, go walk around Soweto yourself. Report back.

Op is likely going somewhere touristy in Europe, not South Africa or the Congo 🙄

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Websites I use to prepare a rough itinerary and/or select tours:

TripAdvisor
Toursbylocals.com
Urbanadventures.com
DCUM

Never heard of the middle two so its good to know. I'm currently looking at tours on tiquets, viator, tripadvisor and getyourguide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Viator and Trip Advisor here

+1. If it’s a big important trip I might join a FB group specific to the destination.

[Anonymous]

I do look at viator. But find it not that helpful. I also check trip advisor. Cruise critic forums can actually be great if it’s a port city—those people travel at lot and often have repeat experience with tour operators in specific cities.

I do think there’s just too much information and too many reviews. It’s hard to filter out the meaningful reviews.

[Anonymous]

Sometimes I look at itineraries for big bus tours of the country I am traveling in. Or, if my kids are going, I look at the educational trips that can be booked for school groups. This helps me find age appropriate ideas that might not pop up on a first search.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes I look at itineraries for big bus tours of the country I am traveling in. Or, if my kids are going, I look at the educational trips that can be booked for school groups. This helps me find age appropriate ideas that might not pop up on a first search.

I find the disney adventure itineraries really helpful for this. I’ve also looked at Austin adventures but those are often really outdoorsy so can be harder to just slot in.

[Anonymous]

I just used a Reddit thread to find recommendations for a scuba dive operator in a specific city. I was surprised but it was the only place I could find reviews.

[Anonymous]

We work with a travel advisor who plans everything for us.