Your school. Your curriculum. Your dates. We build the trip around you — not the other way around. Tell us where you want to take your students and your Tour Advisor will have a day-by-day itinerary in your inbox within 48 hours.
Every custom tour follows the same arc. No hidden stages, no surprise handoffs. Here's the whole thing.
Subject area, grade level, group size, timing, interests, budget range. Twenty minutes on the phone — your Tour Advisor takes it from there.
A day-by-day proposal with specific sites, meal plans, and a line-item price. Have a favorite hotel or restaurant? Tell us — we can usually guarantee requests. Not a brochure — a real plan.
Swap a museum for a workshop, add a day trip, move cities around. Unlimited revisions — this is the part that makes it custom.
We build your enrollment site, payment portal, and parent meeting materials. You bring the families — we handle the paperwork.
A local, multilingual director meets your flight and stays with your group every day. Our 24/7 line is staffed from Worcester.
At our biggest competitors, “custom” usually means picking a catalog itinerary and swapping a hotel. We do that too — but we also do the hard version. About 60% of our business is fully custom, and we don't know of another operator at our scale who runs the process the way we do.
A standalone Custom Tours team in Worcester reads every brief by hand. They sweat details a sales rep wouldn't catch — the right entrance window at the Vatican for an AP cohort, the trattoria that does a real prix fixe instead of a tourist menu, the train route that drops your group closer to the hotel than the bus does. Decades of these decisions stacked up = an itinerary that already feels lived-in on the first draft.
Most custom briefs go through three or four passes; some go through ten. Swap a city. Add a service day. Pull the Salzburg conservatory in if your students would actually use it; pull it back out if you'd rather they had a free afternoon. There's no per-revision charge and no clock running. The trip isn't finished until the group leader says it is.
Once the itinerary is locked, it drops into the same booking system that runs every Passports tour we operate. Each day is a stack of bookable units — coaches, guides, restaurants, hotels, museum entrance windows — sourced through the same suppliers and the same central logistics team that handles the catalog. To us, every catalog tour is booked exactly the way a custom tour is. Which is why a custom 12-day Spain trip runs as reliably as an itinerary we've operated 200 times.
Every itinerary below started as a blank page and a phone call with a group leader who had a specific trip in mind. Not catalog tours — original designs, built and revised with the leader until each day felt right, then run on the same operational backbone as the rest of our catalog.
Going custom isn't about swapping a hotel and calling it bespoke. It changes what your trip is for.
Tell your Tour Advisor what you actually teach. AP Art History trips that walk the syllabus chapter by chapter. AP European History trips that hit Versailles before the Louvre because that's the order students learn it. Conservatory trips with a working music school on the itinerary. The trip lines up with what your students already know — and what they're about to.
Specialty cohorts get specialty trips. Conservatory students. Engineering academies. Future-Educators clubs. AP Spanish honors societies. Catalogs default to a generic mix because they're built for the average group. We start the other way around — from your group's identity outward.
No merged departures, no shared bus with another school, no enforced minimum group size. Set your length, your dates, your traveler count. Pick what's included, what's an optional, how the rewards work. Swap a museum for a workshop. Add a service-learning day. Subtract a city. Every line on the itinerary is one your group chose.
We'd rather be specific up front than have you wonder later. If it's not listed here, ask your Tour Advisor.
One phone call or one short form. Your Tour Advisor drafts a day-by-day itinerary within 48 hours — no cost, no commitment.
