What're Disadvantages Of Package Tours?

The main Disadvantages Of Package Tours are that you have to strictly follow the package tour schedule and you do not have other choices to go.Also you have to pay in advance.

Advantages: No thinking (no planning, research); price (good group rate, the budget is known in advance); tour guide included (no language problem); efficient way to hit all the "must-see" spots (all transportation and accommodations pre-arranged); travel companions (already assembled).

Disadvantages: No thinking (no say in itinerary, schedule); price (you can usually do as well at more interesting sleeping and eating places); no choice in time frame dashing around fixed list of tourist traps; stuck for entire trip with obnoxious or slow fellow travelers.

The choice comes down to whether you are the "I'll pay, just take care of me" kind of tourist or "I want to discover and experience new things, at my own pace. I enjoy surprises and chance encounters with strangers" kind of traveler. To be a sheep herded gently or a hound dog sniffing your way along are equally fine. You are who you are.

There are more advantages than disadvantages in package tours. Because your tour would be preplanned and you need not search for accommodation if you are going to a new place. Everything would be prebooked.

If you're visiting somewhere foreign for the first time, I would do a package tour.  The disadvantages , I've found, are that while they take you to see things, you do not have enough time to explore and take pictures on your own.  For example, I went to Rome with a tour group and was taken to the Colosseum.  We stood outside, our tour didn't include the price or the time to go inside.  Also, tours offer extra excursions that are not offered in the original package.  This can definitely add up fast.  You are at their mercy, must stay on schedule, and go where they have arranged, no deviating.