Passports Educational Travel has taken American teachers and their students to Europe since 1992. You bring the group and the curriculum. We build the itinerary, carry the logistics, and put a full-time Tour Director with your students, gate to gate.
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Plenty of companies sell school trips to Europe. Here is what changes when the trip is built for your class and run by a family company that has been doing this for more than thirty years.
Tell us what your class is studying and the itinerary lines up with it: AP European History that hits Versailles before the Louvre, because that's the order students learn it, or a language trip where your native-speaking Tour Director leans into French, Spanish, German or Italian.
City-center 3 & 4-star hotels, walking distance from the sights you came to see, and three-course dinners at local restaurants. Budget operators stay an hour out and burn two hours of every day on a coach.
Airfare, hotels, breakfast and dinner, entrances, overseas medical and all tipping are in the quote. No adult supplement, and no on-tour upselling: our Tour Directors are told not to sell excursions.
One office in Worcester, Massachusetts, not a call center and not private-equity-owned. One Tour Advisor works with you from your first call to your post-trip review.
47 ready-made Europe itineraries in our catalog, from one country in depth to multi-country routes. Pick one and we tailor it to your group, or start from a blank page: about 60% of our groups go fully custom.
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17 toursThe day-one quote already has these in it: no adult supplement (travelers 24+ who aren't leading the group pay a per-night double-room charge) and no on-tour upselling.
Not included: passport fees, lunches, optional excursions, personal spending money, and travel to your departure airport.
Airfare is the biggest single piece of the price, and it costs the same whether you stay 8 days or 12. Spain and Greece tend to be the lower-cost anchors; Italy, France and UK/Ireland routes sit mid-to-high; multi-country routes run above the median.
Working ranges from our published 2026 Cost Report, not a quote. Your Tour Advisor prices your actual trip, line by line, within 48 hours, with no deposit to see it. See the ranges by destination
You're responsible for a group of teenagers in another country. Here is everything standing behind you, included on every Passports tour.
A full-time, local, multilingual Tour Director meets your flight and stays with the group every day, not a guide-of-the-day who hands off at each city. Most of our Tour Directors have 20+ years of experience and have led hundreds of tours with us.
Real people at our Worcester office, reachable in the PassportsGo app or by phone, around the clock.
PassportsCare covers every student and adult for emergency medical, evacuation and trip interruption. It's included in the price, not an add-on someone forgot to buy.
Each family enrolls with and pays Passports directly, which keeps the school and the Group Leader out of the liability chain that organization-sponsored models create.
Hotels we've slept in, walking distance from where the day happens: central, secure, and never an hour out of town to shave a few dollars.
Raise-hand roll call, live group locations, geofenced meeting points, and one-tap local emergency numbers in 24 countries.
Most groups go from first conversation to signed contract in about two weeks. New to leading a trip? See how student group travel works.
Send a short brief or call us. A twenty-minute planning call covers your group, your curriculum, your dates and any destinations you've already considered.
Named hotels, specific sites, meal notes and a line-item price, not a brochure. Revise it as many times as you need. No deposit until it's right.
We build your enrollment site, parent-meeting deck and flyers. Each family enrolls and pays Passports directly online, so you never collect a check.
Your Tour Director meets the group at the airport and runs every day on the ground, with our Worcester office on call 24/7.
That's every review in our company's history. Compare us with the big operators, head to head.
For 2026 departures, a typical 9-day all-inclusive student tour to Europe costs $4,300–$5,200 per student, with a working median of about $4,800. That price includes round-trip airfare, city-center hotels, daily breakfast and dinner, ground transport, guided sightseeing with entrances, a full-time Tour Director, overseas medical coverage and tipping. Spain and Greece tend to be the lower-cost anchors; Italy, France and UK/Ireland routes sit mid-to-high; multi-country routes cost more. Families also budget $200–$350 for lunches and pocket money. These are working ranges from our 2026 Cost Report, not a quote: every tour is priced for your group, line by line, within 48 hours, with no deposit to see it.
Included: international airfare, city-center hotels, breakfast and most dinners, all ground transport, guided sightseeing and entrance fees, a full-time Tour Director, overseas medical (PassportsCare), 24/7 support, all tipping, the PassportsGo app, and your recruitment materials. Not included: passport fees, lunches, optional excursions, personal spending money, and travel to your departure airport. There's no adult supplement; travelers 24 and older who aren't leading the group pay a per-night double-room charge.
A full-time, local, multilingual Tour Director is with the group every day, gate to gate. Our Worcester office is reachable 24/7 by phone or in the PassportsGo app, which also gives you a raise-hand head count, live group locations, geofenced meeting points and one-tap local emergency numbers in 24 countries. PassportsCare overseas medical covers every student and adult, hotels are central and vetted by our own staff, and each family enrolls with Passports directly.
France, Italy, the UK and Ireland, Spain, Germany and Greece, plus Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Portugal and beyond. Start from one of our ready-made Europe itineraries and tailor it, or design a route from a blank page: about 60% of our groups go fully custom. One country in depth usually costs less than three, because every border crossing adds rail, flights and transit days.
Six paying travelers is the minimum for a tour to run, and if your group doesn't reach six, every dollar is refunded. There's no enforced upper limit; the average group is around 18 travelers. Parents and chaperones are welcome and pay the same tour price as students, with no adult supplement (travelers 24 and older who aren't leading the group pay a per-night double-room charge). As Group Leader, you travel free, with a single room.
Twelve months out is ideal for international travel, nine is comfortable, and six is tight but doable. Starting early also helps the price: group airfare prices best 10–14 months out, and enrolling early stretches the payment plan and the fundraising runway. About a third of the Group Leaders we work with each year are first-timers, and your Tour Advisor walks you through recruitment, payments and parent meetings.
We're family-owned and second-generation, with one office in Worcester, Massachusetts, not a call center and not private-equity-owned. You get one Tour Advisor from your first call to your post-trip review, an all-in price with no adult supplement and no on-tour upselling, included overseas medical for every traveler, and a 4.9★ Trustpilot rating: 99.5% of every review in our company's history is 4 or 5 stars. Our buyer's guide to the best student travel companies compares all five, line by line.
One short brief or one phone call. Your Tour Advisor drafts a day-by-day Europe itinerary within 48 hours of your planning call: no cost, no deposit, no commitment.
