How we calculate all-in prices
Every price on this site is assembled from two real, bookable pieces. This page shows the working — what goes in, what stays out, and why you should still double-check before you pay anyone.
The two ingredients
The tour.Tour prices come from TourRadar's catalogue of guided multi-day tours. When you search, we look up the actual departures of each candidate tour in your travel window and take the cheapest departure's real per-person price — not a "from" price, the price of a specific date you could book today.
The flight.Flight prices are live fares from Kiwi.com, queried at the moment you search. We ask for the cheapest sensible return trip from your airport to the tour's start city: the flight must land on or before the day the tour starts and leave on or after the day it ends. Cheap fares that would make you miss the first two days don't count as sensible, so we filter them out.
How a total is assembled
One person's all-in total = the tour's cheapest matching departure price + the cheapest sensible return flight for those same dates. If a tour starts in one city and ends in another (Rome in, Venice out), we price two one-way tickets instead of a return. If the tour starts somewhere without a commercial airport, we fly you to the nearest one from a built-in list of about 250 international airports and say so on the result.
All the maths happens in euros: Kiwi is queried in EUR and TourRadar's USD prices are converted once, at a fixed rate, before anything is added up. When you see a price in dollars or pounds, it's the same EUR figure converted at an approximate static rate and labelled as such — the partner site confirms the exact amount at checkout, in its own currency.
What's not included
Visas, travel insurance, tips, vaccinations, airport transfers at either end, and any meals or activities the tour itself doesn't include. Tour prices are per person on a double-occupancy basis — if you're travelling solo, many operators charge a single supplement that we can't see and don't add. Checked-bag fees on the flight side depend on the fare you pick at Kiwi.
How fresh the numbers are
Search results are live — the fares are fetched while you wait, which is why a search takes half a minute. Our published data pages are different: they're a snapshot, collected on a stated date by running the same engine and recording what it returned. Each page carries its collection date. Fares move hourly, so treat a dated table as a compass, not a receipt.
If a number couldn't be obtained when we collected — a route with no fares, a provider outage — we leave it out and say so. We never fill a gap with an estimate.
Why we publish this
Because the brochure price is not the trip price. A "$1,899" Japan tour is not a $1,899 holiday once you've crossed the Pacific to reach it, and the flight portion changes a lot depending on which airport you start from. Putting the two numbers together — honestly, with dates on them — is the whole point of this site.
See it in action
Two published snapshots so far: Japan group tours from 8 US airports and Italy group tours from 8 US airports. For how we make money (short version: partner links, no markup), see our disclosure.