Small Group Tours with Tauck

Tauck know people choose their tours because they want a deeper, more authentic travel experience and they are drawn to the specialist operator’s small group trips.

As with all Tauck experiences, journeys are planned to be seamless and all-inclusive. All the details are taken care of for you and there are no hidden extras. You can just relax and enjoy exclusive, extraordinary moments that are unique to the Tauck experience.

Tauck offers you many ways to travel in a more intimate number of between 20 and 25 guests from select departures of classic land journeys and Tauck Bridges family adventures, to trips designed expressly for small groups, including culturally immersive, hands-on journeys, and popular African safaris. Wherever Tauck travels, you will explore the best of the world’s iconic treasures, learn about people and cultures while you experience extraordinary, life-changing moments.

Tauck’s drivers, local experts and guides are chosen for their professionalism, people skills and destination knowledge. They are problem solvers who take care of everything, including collection and delivery of luggage throughout, so you just have to relax and enjoy an amazing trip without a care in the world.

With relaxed starts you have time for a leisurely breakfast in preparation for the day’s adventure. Throughout the trip, you enjoy a la carte meals, so the choice is yours daily. Tauck small group trips take in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia and will again feature an array of enticing itineraries in 2019 including_

Classic Italy, Small Groups

Tauck’s 14-day Classic Italy, Small Groups is a grand Italian holiday, in their small group style range. Averaging 24 Tauck guests, you stay at small, chic hotels in the heart of Sorrento, Rome, Venice and Florence. Avoid the crowds with a Tauck Exclusive after hours tour in the Vatican Museums and time to really digest Michelangelo’s vast painted drama on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Marvel at the blue expanse of the Mediterranean as you traverse the Amalfi Coast and cruise along the shores of Cinque Terre. In Venice, you will enjoy the lavish halls of the Doge’s Palace before another Tauck exclusive after-hours visit to St. Mark's Basilica. Bypass queues with your pre-paid tickets to explore the haunting ruins of the Colosseum, immerse yourself in the passion of Renaissance scenes in the Uffizi, and revel in the panorama of rolling vineyards from the heights of Orvieto. Wander in your own time through a country village under the Tuscan sun, and savour the first taste of Umbrian cuisine, unhurried and unherded.

In 2019, if you pre-stay or arrive early in Sorrento, Tauck are offering an additional Optional Sightseeing Tour of the Island of Capri on Day 1. This reasonably priced add on to your tour includes a private transfer from Tauck’s hotel to the pier in Sorrento and back, your return transportation by hydrofoil from Sorrento to Capri, a tour of Capri by minibus and funicular and a full day with a local guide. The tour includes visits to the island’s main towns of Anacapri and Capri, lunch and weather permitting, a visit to the Blue Grotto.

Tauck Exclusive Ferragamo Departures are available on selected tours in May, June and September 2019. These special departures include a special evening in Florence featuring a private Ferragamo wine reception on Day 10 in Florence. Hosted by a member of the family of fashion icon Salvatore Ferragamo, this is a Tauck exclusive experience that also features a visit to the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum and a tasting of locally produced Ferragamo wines.

Paradors of Northern Spain

This picturesque journey through Northern Spain has select small group departures from April to October. Travel from Barcelona into the dramatic Pyrenees and along Spain's northern coast, with stays at historic paradors in San Sebastián, Fuente Dé, León, and the incomparable Santiago de Compostela. Be enticed by culinary specialties curated with locally grown produce unique to the region and a history of paradors and pilgrimages that continue today.

Discover an eclectic mix of Gaudí’s whimsical sites and Gothic grandeur in Barcelona, a mountain monastery in Montserrat and medieval menus in La Seu d’Urgell. You will see where the bulls run in Pamplona, the surfers ride in San Sebastian and the eclectic artworks and architecture in Bilboa. Food and wine entice in Oviedo and be drawn by the spiritual stories in Santiago de Compostela.

You will take a drive across the border into Portugal to sample port in Porto and visit Portugal’s oldest university in Coimbra. Explore life and culture in Lisbon before this two-week journey ends.

Along the way you will be treated to Tauck’s special experiences which include a choice of spa treatment or cooking demonstration at El Castell de Ciutat, a 7-course feast set within a medieval castle, a visit to the monastery atop Montserrat, a wine tasting and lunch at a Porto winery and a cruise aboard a Rabelo boat.

Tauck offer a number of small group journeys. From Italy to Spain, Ireland and America, find the tour you have been seeking.