PASSPORTS VS. EXPLORICA
Discover why Passports outshines Explorica in educational travel, offering personalized itineraries, premium accommodations, and exceptional customer service. Choose Passports for the ultimate language, history, and culture-focused group tours.
Better Hotels
3-or 4-star, centrally located hotels, right near the sights you came to see. With Explorica, you could stay up to an hour's drive away, wasting hours of sightseeing time per day! Or, you could pay hundreds of dollars to upgrade to the passports standard.
Better Meals
Authentic, satisfying meals at local restaurants. With Explorica, staying an hour away from the city often times means eating familiar American food in your hotel.
Better Flights
Preferential flight routings, getting you to your destination faster so you can enjoy the sights. No adding connections or changing flights last minute to get the cheaper deal, like with Explorica.
Guaranteed Prices
Once a student enrolls with Explorica, their individual program price will not change - but it will increase incrementally for the rest of your group! With passports, your entire group has one, simple, guaranteed price.
Exceptional Tour Directors
The best tour directors want to travel with a high-quality company like Passports, because they know the group will stay in better hotels, eat better food, and simply be happier customers.
More Inclusions
passports provides better quality inclusions, and more of them. Explorica has on-tour "black" optionals - places your tour director will happily bring you, for a price.
Included Insurance
Vital overseas health and accident insurance is included at no extra cost on all Passports tours. Explorica offers an optional protection plan for $12 per tour day.
No Adult Supplements
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.
Unsurpassed Service
You work with one expert passports representative from start to finish, year to year. No getting shuffled between departments.
Family-Owned
passports is family-owned and cares about every client. With huge budget companies like Explorica, it’s easy to get lost in the shuffle.
THE BOTTOM LINE
HIGHER QUALITY TOURS
Passports provides better quality tour services (hotels, meals, etc.), with more inclusions. We cost more than EF, but less than you'd think for what you get in return. Passports is a better value!