Just to make my day, Contiki has cancelled my 34 day tour of Europe...just what I need while trying to study for exams!!! So now I need help trying to find a new tour. I would like a tour because I am travelling alone and this is my first major trip overseas. I'm 19 so I would prefer a tour with a younger target range. Any suggestions???

Cassandra--ther is a cosmos tour that has a multicountry European 30 day tour--they are budget tours and would be in the price range of Contiki--they are not a young 18-25 yr group but lots of singles go on them. Contact you travel agent and pick up a brochure--hope this helps--why did Contiki cancel-I was just in Florence 2 weeks ago and ther were 6 of their buses lined up and kids everywhere.

Cassandra-just found a website-I know nothing about this but try to contact them thru email--do NOT give them a credit card online-get an 800 no. and call and ask for catalog--they have a 37 days tour-says 18-25 year old--- <BR> http://member.aol.com/europetvl/yth.htm <BR> Hope this helps

Andy, thanks for that, I just checked out Cosmos site and requested a brochure, hopefully they might have something to suit. Contiki cited operational reasons for cancelling ie. not enough people booked. it was the last tour of the summer season so i guess it could have been foreseeable. my problem now is that i am locked in due to airfares and hotel bookings...

Hi Cassandra <BR> <BR>I dont know if this company cover Europe but my sister is currently away on a trip with them to South America, all for younger people <BR> <BR>Kumuka <BR>

Cassandra. I am really sorry to hear about the tour being cancelled. I hope there was some kind of compensation. <BR> <BR>I had gone into a student oriented travel agencyh to pick up some brochures for my niece. <BR>Their website is www.counciltravel.com. I am in no way affiliated with them and have not used them either so I cannot give a personal recommendation. But as your gae group is their focust I thought you may be able to check into it and see if you can find anything sutiable. They are in a very student oriented area in Philadelphia,near a number of colleges (Villanova, Bryn Mawr, Haverford.) Good luck and hope something works out. Usually things turn out for the best.

Cassandra: How awful!! <BR> <BR>I know that Trafalgar has a whole series of "under 35" tours. Call AAA or keyword Trafalgar on the Web. <BR> <BR>

Cassandra <BR> <BR>Try www.busabout.com. Have heard good things about it and my 22 year old son is planning to use them for a month in Europe this summer. <BR> <BR>Good Luck!

Just spoke to a friend- she said to try Council Tours.com---she said they are harder to deal with than COntiki as you have to send them proof that you are a student(ie.copy of student id etc) and have to jump thru lot of hoops but that they DO specialize in college kids to Europe---Good luck.